Recap / Three's Company

Season 1

Episode 1. "A Man About the House"

Janet and Chrissy find Jack passed out in the bathtub the morning after Eleanor's moving-away party. After having no success finding a new roommate and realizing they can't even cook toast, they convince their old-fashioned landlord Stanley Roper that Jack is gay to allow him to live with them.

Episode 2. "And Mother Makes Four"

Chrissy's mother pops in for a surprise overnight visit, but Chrissy hasn't broken the news to her parents that Jack's moving into the apartment. So the girls try to keep Jack hidden from Mrs. Snow until she leaves.

Episode 3. "Roper's Niece"

Episode 4. "No Children, No Dogs"

Jack's friend Larry gives him a puppy. But the apartment building has a strict "no pets" policy, so the roommates have to keep the puppy hidden from the Ropers while they're trying to find the little dog a new home. (This is the first appearance of Richard Kline as Larry Dallas.)

Episode 5. "Jack The Giant Killer"

Episode 6. "It's Only Money"

Season 2

Episode 1. "Ground Rules"

Episode 2. "Jack Looks For a Job"

Jack signs up for a well-paying modelling gig in a desperate attempt to find a job that will fit his school schedule. After he arrives and learns it requires him to pose nude, he turns down the opportunity and leaves. He finds a new job selling encyclopedia's, but a botched sale leaves him purchasing a set of books from himself. He resigns in an effort to get off the hook, and the girls later come across a magazine of a nude model resembling Jack. The model's face isn't shown, but it is implied Jack did pose for the photographer after all.

Episode 3. "Janet's Promotion"

Episode 4. "Strange Bedfellows"

Jack throws a rager when the girls go out of town. When Mr. Roper comes upstairs to complain about the noise, he is reluctantly convinced by Jack to join the festivities. The next morning, he wakes up in Jack's bed with no memory of what happened prior. After his attempt to exit the room without being observed by the girls fails, he is left struggling to explain how he ended up staying the night.

Episode 5. "Chrissy's Date"

Jack and Janet head to the Regal Beagle so Chrissy can entertain an older gentleman, Lloyd Cross (Dick Sargent), for the evening. While there, they bump into Mr. and Mrs. Roper. While Mr. Roper tries to get the roommates to consider buying his old clunker of a car, Mrs. Roper tells the two a startling bit of information about Chrissy's date.

Episode 6. "Alone Together"

Mr. Roper is going out of town for one night to check out a real estate investment opportunity. Afraid of being alone, Mrs. Roper asks Janet to stay overnight with her. Janet's nervous because Jack and Chrissy have never been alone together all night before, and she's afraid Jack might try something. The next day, Chrissy acts disappointed and thinks she's losing her sex appeal, because Jack didn't make a play for her!

Episode 7. "Roper's Car"

Mr. Roper promises to sell his decrepit car to a used car dealer, but sells it to the trio instead after they offer him $12.16 more than the dealer does. When the dealer mentions that the junk car's model year makes it highly desired by collectors and he would have increased his offer, Mr. Roper tries to buy the car back. As the trio realizes that the car will cost more to repair than they can afford, they quickly agree. Afterwards, the car dealer discovers the car was not the model year he thought it was and is worthless, leaving Mr. Roper stuck with the car once again.

Episode 8. "Cyrano De Tripper"

Episode 9. "Chrissy's Night Out"

Episode 10. "Stanley Casanova"

Episode 11. "Jack Looks For a Job"

Episode 12. "Janet's High School Sweetheart"

Episode 13. "Jack's Uncle"

Episode 14. "Helen's Job"

Episode 15. "Three's Christmas"

Episode 16. "The Gift"

Episode 13. "The Rivals"

Episode 14. "The Babysitters"

Episode 15. "Home Movies"

Episode 16. "Jack In The Flower Shop"

Episode 15. "Jack's Navy Pal"

Episode 16. "Will The Real Jack Tripper..."

Episode 17. "Days of Beer and Weeds"

Episode 18. "Chrissy Come Home"

Episode 19. "Bird Song"

Episode 20. "Coffee, Tea, or Jack"

Season 3

Episode 1. "Double Date"

Episode 2. "Good Old Reliable Janet"

Episode 3. "The Love Diary"

Episode 4. "The Fast"

Episode 5. "Helen's Rendezvous"

Episode 6. "My Sister's Keeper"

Episode 7. "Chrissy and the Guru"

Episode 8. "Larry's Bride"

Episode 9. "Chrissy's New Boss"

Episode 10. "The Crush"

Episode 11. "The Kleptomaniac"

Episode 12. "The Party's Over"

Episode 13. "Eleanor's Return"

Episode 14. "The Older Woman"

Episode 15. "Stanley's Hotline"

When Mr. Roper removes a portion of the drain pipe under the bathroom sink in his unit, he discovers he can hear the upstairs tenants' conversations through the exposed pipe in the wall. After overhearing Chrissy's distress over developing a wart, he mistakenly assumes that Chrissy is pregnant and planning to have an abortion. When Helen goes upstairs to console Chrissy (without realizing how her husband came to that conclusion), Jack deduces that he has been eavesdropping on their conversations through the building's plumbing. They stage a conversation to confirm their suspicions and use the situation to convince Mr. Roper to discount their rent payment for that month by the amount that they were short.

Episode 15. "Jack Moves Out"

Episode 16. "The Catered Affair"

Episode 17. "The Best Laid Plans"

Episode 18. "The Harder They Fall"

Episode 19. "The Bake-Off"

Episode 20. "An Anniversary Surprise"

Episode 21. "Jack Moves Out"

Episode 22. "Triangle Troubles"

Season 4

Episode 1. "Jack on the Lam"

Episode 2. "Love Thy Neighbor"

Episode 3. "The New Landlord"

After the girls meet Mr. Furley for the first time at the Regal Beagle, they dump their drinks on him believing him to be a Stalker with a Crush. Back at the apartment, they are horrified to discover that he is their new landlord, and that the garage full of items Jack sold to a junk dealer under the presumption they were unwanted items left behind by the Ropers was actually the furniture Mr. Furley moved in with. When Jack reveals he didn't learn the name of the dealer and has no way to retrieve Mr. Furley's belongings, he evicts them.

Jack convinces Lana to have dinner with Mr. Furley in an effort to save their tenancy, but Mr. Furley gets annoyed when Lana refuses to get romantic with him and Jack sits down to eat with them. After a number of mishaps, Mr. Furley gets so drunk that he thinks he had an enjoyable evening and doesn't remember the events the next day. Jack takes advantage of the opportunity to bill Mr. Furley for the food and liquor he consumed, which cancels out the rent they owed for that month.

Episode 4. "Snow Job"

Episode 5. "Jack the Ripper"

Episode 6. "The Lifesaver"

Episode 7. "Old Folks at Home"

Episode 8. "A-Camping We Will Go"

Episode 9. "Chrissy's Hospitality"

Episode 10. "The Loan Shark"

Episode 11. "The Love Barge"

Episode 12. "Ralph's Rival"

Episode 13. "A Black Letter Day"

Episode 14. "The Reverend Steps Out"

Episode 15. "Larry Loves Janet"

Episode 16. "Mighty Mouth"

Episode 17. "The Love Lesson"

Episode 18. "Handcuffed"

After the police respond to a noise complaint at the protagonists' apartment, Chrissy discovers that the attending officer, Jay Garfield, is a relative of hers. When he leaves without realizing that he dropped his handcuffs, Chrissy and Jack handcuff themselves together as a joke without realizing they don't have the key. Jack attempts to keep a date at the Regal Beagle by passing off Chrissy as a stranger sitting at an adjacent table, but his date storms off after noticing the handcuffs and another officer's suspicions are aroused.

Not wanting Chrissy's cousin to get in trouble with his department ^note He is already on probation for losing his patrol car, they enlist Mr. Furley's assistance in removing the handcuffs. But when Mr. Furley's locksmithing tools turn out to be in a locked case and his solution is to cut the cuffs off with a blowtorch, they decline his help and try to avoid the investigating cop until Jay can return with the key.

Episode 19. "And Baby Makes Two"

Episode 20. "Jack's Bad Boy"

Episode 21. "Lee Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

Episode 22. "The Root of All Evil"

Episode 23. "Secret Admirer"

Episode 24. "The Goodbye Guy"

Episode 25. "Jack's Graduation"

Season 5

Episode 1. "Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs"

Episode 2. "...And Justice for Jack"

Episode 3. "A Hundred Dollars a What?"

Episode 4. "Downhill Chaser"

Episode 5. "A Crowded Romance"

Episode 6. "Room at the Bottom"

Episode 7. "Chrissy's Cousin"

Episode 8. "Jack to the Rescue"

Episode 9. "The Not-So-Great Imposter"

Episode 10. "Jack's Other Mother"

Episode 11. "Make Room for Daddy"

Episode 12. "Janet's Secret"

Episode 13. "Father of the Bride"

Episode 14. "Furley vs. Furley"

When Mr. Furley consistently refuses to make repairs to their unit, Jack decides to complain to Mr. Furley's brother, Bart— the owner of the building. Instead of providing Mr. Furley with the funds needed to make the repairs, Bart fires Mr. Furley from his position as manager. When Jack speaks to Bart in person in an effort to clear up the misunderstanding, he hires Jack as the new manager before Jack has the opportunity to make his case.

Having lost his apartment (which was a benefit of his employment), Mr. Furley moves in with the protagonists. Jack devises a plan to force Bart into reinstating Mr. Furley by trapping him in an elevator, which he was scared of in his youth. The plan fails when Bart reveals he attended therapy to overcome his fear, and he evicts them all from the building. Mr. Furley resolves the situation by threatening to report the building's numerous code violations to the city, which would cost Bart a fortune in fines and repairs.

Episode 15. "In Like Larry"

Episode 16. "Teacher's Pet"

Episode 17. "And Baby Makes Four"

Episode 18. "Night of the Ropers"

Episode 19. "Double Trouble"

Episode 20. "Dying to Meet You"

Episode 21. "The Case of the Missing Blonde"

Episode 22. "Honest Jack Tripper"

Season 6

Episode 1/2. "Jack Bares All"

Episode 3. "Terri Makes Her Move"

Episode 4. "Professor Jack"

Episode 5. "Some of That Jazz"

Episode 6. "Lies My Roommate Told Me"

Episode 7. "Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Episode 8. "Eyewitness Blues"

Episode 9. "Boy Meets Dummy"

Episode 10. "Dates of Wrath"

Episode 11. "Macho Man"

Episode 12. "Strangers In the Night"

Episode 13. "The Matchbreakers"

Mr. Furley is seduced by, and falls in love with, a woman whom the trio believes is a gold-digger— they are convinced she only "loves" him because he claimed to own the apartment building. (In reality, Mr. Furley only manages the building for his brother, Bart, the true owner.) Afraid that Mr. Furley will be heartbroken when the woman eventually learns the truth and dumps him, the trio devises a Zany Scheme to convince the woman that Mr. Furley has an ex-wife who holds the real title to the building.

After the woman ends the relationship, the Mr. Furley becomes despondent. The group regrets meddling in his personal life, and Jack reconnects them by explaining to the woman that the ex-wife story was only a sham. Immediately after, Larry finds out that the woman is a real estate developer who intends to purchase the building from Mr. Furley to bulldoze it and build condominiums on the land. The group devises a second Zany Scheme to separate them again, but in a way that won't leave Mr. Furley feeling overly upset.

Episode 14. "Oh, Nun"

Episode 15. "Maid to Order"

Episode 16. "Hearts and Flowers"

Episode 17. "Urban Plowboy"

Episode 18. "A Friend in Need"

Episode 19. "Jack's 10"

Episode 20. "Doctor in the House"

Jack's grandfather makes a surprise visit to celebrate his recovery from a condition expected to be terminal. Previously, Jack told his grandfather he was a doctor to Let Them Die Happy, not expecting he would recover from the condition. After Terri fabricates a backstory where Jack works at the same hospital as her, his grandfather insists on seeing him at work.

Jack guilts Terri into letting him take over an empty office to provide a brief tour to his grandfather, but matters become complicated after real patients start showing up and a resident physician expects to observe Jack examine them. Jack's cover is finally blown when Mr. Furley arrives to see a doctor about his bad back.

Episode 21. "Critic's Choice"

Episode 22. "Paradise Lost"

Mr. Furley becomes unreasonably hostile towards the tenants over making accidental noise. After Jack saves a man from choking at a restaurant he works at, the man offers to reward Jack and his roommates with a penthouse suite in his luxury condominium, Paradise Towers— on the condition he prepares a meal for him that night. When Mr. Furley evicts the trio over the noise grievance, they see this as a solution to their housing issues.
As the man gobbles down food while avoiding any mention of Paradise Towers, Terri discovers that the guest is a Con Man who pretends to choke in expensive restaurants to avoid paying the bill. They find out that the penthouse was only a ruse to get a free meal from Jack. The trio is horrified as they have been taunting Mr. Furley over the eviction with the belief that they had already secured housing to move into.

Immediately after the con artist leaves, the group goes downstairs to try to make amends with Mr. Furley. He tells them that he has resigned from his position as manager and told off his brother/employer, Bart, as a man outside hired him as the manager of Paradise Towers as a reward for helping him up after falling down the stairs. Jack calls Bart and pretends to be a doctor to convince Bart that the insulting call he received was a prank, and that there's no way Mr. Furley could have made it because he has laryngitis.

Episode 23. "And Now Here's Jack"

Jack is invited to represent his employer, Mr. Angelino, on a live television talk show by presenting one of his recipes . After struggling to remember his lines while rehearsing the show at home, Larry suggests hiding cue cards around the set. To enhance the presentation, Jack recruits Janet and Terri to appear on the show with him.

After a producer rearranges the set and displaces the concealed cue cards, Jack flubs all of his lines. Due to stage fright, the girls fail to deliver their portion of the dialog and don't execute the directions they agreed upon, turning the show into a disaster. When Jack becomes startled and accidentally kicks a cart through a wall of the set, the host ends the demonstration prematurely and Mr. Angelino terminates Jack's employment.

Episode 24. "Janet Wigs Out"

Episode 25. "Up in the Air"

Episode 26. "Mate for Each Other"

Episode 27/28. "The Best of Three's Company"

Season 7

Episode 1. "A Night Not to Remember"

Janet insists Jack accompany her on an outing with an unpleasant man from work she is required to take out for dinner. Jack gets extremely drunk and refuses to go to sleep in his room once they get home— instead barging into Janet's room and trying to fool around. Eventually, he breaks Janet's family heirloom, a Priceless Ming Vase, leaving her furious.

Jack doesn't remember what happened the next morning, but Janet's allusions cause him to conclude that it was her virginity that he broke. He begins to pack up and move out, to which the other girls tell him that is an overreaction to damaging a vase.

Episode 2. "Jack Goes to the Dentist"

Episode 3. "Diamond Jack"

A wrong number phone call causes Jack to mistake a jewel thief for his blind date. Believing Jack to be the fence they are rendezvousing with, she discreetly slips a satchel of stolen diamonds to him, with the expectation that he will take them home to appraise.

When the robbers come to the apartment to demand payment, the trio attempts to stall while come up with an escape plan. After inadvertently throwing their Bedsheet Ladder out the window because they forgot to tie it to the bed, Janet hands the gang an empty briefcase— but the thieves discover the ruse when they look inside. Finally, the police raid the apartment and detain all parties until they can find out what is going on.

Episode 4. "Extra, Extra"

Episode 5. "Jack Gets His"

Episode 6. "Opening Night"

Episode 7. "Cousin, Cuisine"

Episode 8. "An Affair to Forget"

Episode 9. "The Brunch"

Episode 10. "The Impossible Dream"

Episode 11. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

Episode 12. "Larry's Sister"

Episode 13. "Bob and Carol & Larry and Terri"

Episode 14. "Going to Pot"

A corrupt health inspector threatens to shut down Jack's Bistro over a technicality unless he receives a bribe. Jack invites the inspector to the apartment while wearing a Hidden Wire to discuss the deal. However, when Jack passes the recording to the police, the cassette tape is cued to a recording of him asking Mr. Furley to purchase a cooking pot, which was made while Jack was testing the machine. This causes the police to believe that Jack is trying to catch Mr. Furley for trafficking cannabis.

Episode 15. "Star Struck"

Episode 16. "Jack Goes the Distance"

Episode 17. "Jack's Double Date"

Episode 18. "Janet's Little Helper"

Episode 19. "The Apartment"

Episode 20. "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"

Episode 21. "Navy Blues"

Episode 22. "Borrowing Trouble"

Season 8

Episode 1. "Jack, Be Quick"

Episode 2. "She Loves Me; She Loves Me Not"

Episode 3. "The Money Machine"

Episode 4. "Out on a Limb"

Episode 5. "Alias Jack Tripper"

Episode 6. "Hearing Is Believing"

Episode 7. "Grandma Jack"

Episode 8. "Like Father, Like Son"

Episode 9. "The Odd Couples"

Episode 10. "Now You See It, Now You Don't"

Episode 11. "The Charming Stranger"

Episode 12. "Janet Shapes Up"

Episode 13. "Itching for Trouble"

Episode 14. "Baby, It's Cold Inside"

Episode 15. "Look What I Found"

Episode 16. "Jack's Tattoo"

Jack gets a tattoo in a bout of Alcohol-Induced Idiocy, and intends to get it surgically removed the next day. Janet, however, becomes convinced that the surgical procedure he is intending to have is a vasectomy, and tries to talk him out of the operation.

Episode 17. "Jack Takes Off"

Episode 18. "Forget Me Not"

Episode 19. "The Heiress"

Episode 20. "Cupid Works Overtime"

Episode 21/22. "Friends and Lovers"