Hey everybody, I'm brand new to the boards and Three's Company is my favorite show of all time. Sorry if this question has been asked a million times, but I was just wanting to know how it was watching the show when it originally aired? Was it very popular, kinda like how Seinfeld and Friends were back in their hey day?

I was only about a year and a half old when it started, and by the time I was old enough to watch tv I didn't really watch a lot of sitcoms. I mostly stuck to the after school cartoons, such as Transformers, He-Man, Voltron, etc....

I never really got into the show till I caught it in re-runs back in the mid 80's. I remember it was being shown on like 3 or 4 different networks back then. It was kinda funny because there were some girls that lived down the street who were about the same ages as me. My cousin also lived down the street. We were all fans of the show and every day we'd watch it and then meet afterwards and act out the show! I was always Jack of course. My cousin was always Larry, but he also doubled as Mr. Furley or any other guest star that was on the show. I know it sounds cheesy, but hey, we were young, and didn't have anything better to do! Man, those were the days!

Hey everybody, I'm brand new to the boards and Three's Company is my favorite show of all time. Sorry if this question has been asked a million times, but I was just wanting to know how it was watching the show when it originally aired? Was it very popular, kinda like how Seinfeld and Friends were back in their hey day?

I was only about a year and a half old when it started, and by the time I was old enough to watch tv I didn't really watch a lot of sitcoms. I mostly stuck to the after school cartoons, such as Transformers, He-Man, Voltron, etc....

I never really got into the show till I caught it in re-runs back in the mid 80's. I remember it was being shown on like 3 or 4 different networks back then. It was kinda funny because there were some girls that lived down the street who were about the same ages as me. My cousin also lived down the street. We were all fans of the show and every day we'd watch it and then meet afterwards and act out the show! I was always Jack of course. My cousin was always Larry, but he also doubled as Mr. Furley or any other guest star that was on the show. I know it sounds cheesy, but hey, we were young, and didn't have anything better to do! Man, those were the days!

I watched it in the original airings (in Canada, on CBC, Tuesday nights 9:00pm) from around 1982-83 onwards. Sometime during the seventh season, although I might have seen several episodes earlier, possibly even in the second season, but it's all a bit fuzzy.

It was in early '83, I guess, that I really became a fan of the show (I had just turned 14). I particularly remember the sequence of episodes with the boxing match, Janet's date with Furley's nephew, and Jack's mustache. The new episodes were broadcast at the same time as on ABC, and the older ones weekday afternoons at 5:30. -- The reruns hooked me, around the time they were cycling through season 4.

I think by the time I got hooked, it had passed its peak of popularity. Keep in mind I'm not in the USA... The fact that CBC had purchased the rights to it, though, despite a Canadian-content policy (it's government-owned, after all) shows how popular it must have been at some point in Canada.

I understood the depth of its popular-culture significance a little later: in the early nineties, TC references were de rigeur among the urban slackers.

Way before Seinfeld or Friends had made any impression.

Hey everybody, I'm brand new to the boards and Three's Company is my favorite show of all time. Sorry if this question has been asked a million times, but I was just wanting to know how it was watching the show when it originally aired? Was it very popular, kinda like how Seinfeld and Friends were back in their hey day?

I was only about a year and a half old when it started, and by the time I was old enough to watch tv I didn't really watch a lot of sitcoms. I mostly stuck to the after school cartoons, such as Transformers, He-Man, Voltron, etc....

I never really got into the show till I caught it in re-runs back in the mid 80's. I remember it was being shown on like 3 or 4 different networks back then. It was kinda funny because there were some girls that lived down the street who were about the same ages as me. My cousin also lived down the street. We were all fans of the show and every day we'd watch it and then meet afterwards and act out the show! I was always Jack of course. My cousin was always Larry, but he also doubled as Mr. Furley or any other guest star that was on the show. I know it sounds cheesy, but hey, we were young, and didn't have anything better to do! Man, those were the days!



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This show was popular from the get go. I fell in love with it from the very first episode and watched It through out It's run. There will never be another Three's Company.
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I was born in 1979, so I never saw it when it was on the first time. I only saw it in syndication. Welcome to the boards! :wave:

I watched many of the episodes when it originally aired but not all. We also didn't have a vcr to record it back then when it first aired.

I don't remember watching the first season of the show, but I remember watching the second season and most of the following seasons of the show. Because it came after "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley". :)

I watched the last season on ABC at the age of 8 years old. One episode I remember watching on ABC was the one when larry and jack took the girls up to the cabin and Larry falling in the lake

I was born in '62 and I watched the show during its original run. I loved the show from the first episode and so did my parents we watched the show together. I have all eight seasons on dvd and met Joyce Dewitt and Priscilla Barnes in person at the Hollywood collector's show last October.

I was going through the channels on my (black & white) TV in April, 1977 and happened to see a scene of some guy waking up in a bathtub. It looked interesting so I watched the rest of the episode and was hooked from then on; I became a weekly viewer.

I was born in 1971... so when the show came on really it was one of the first tv shows I saw from day one to the end! To this day it is still my favorite tv shows of all time :)

Born in '64, also saw it way back when.

I was born in 1971... so when the show came on really it was one of the first tv shows I saw from day one to the end! To this day it is still my favorite tv shows of all time :)i was born in 1971 also and i remember seening it from the begnning and thinking it was funny

I was going through the channels on my (black & white) TV in April, 1977 and happened to see a scene of some guy waking up in a bathtub. It looked interesting so I watched the rest of the episode and was hooked from then on; I became a weekly viewer.you got me thinking i dont remember if i first watched it on a black and white or color set boy we must seem old to some of the kids out here at so:lol:

you got me thinking i dont remember if i first watched it on a black and white or color set boy we must seem old to some of the kids out here at so:lol:
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Well, a black & white set was better than no set at all. And I had my own bedroom and my own TV so I can't complain.

Being born in 1963 I watched the show from episode 1 and continued right through the very underrated (I don't mean in ratings) and enjoyable "Three's A Crowd". I had a severe crush on Susanne (still have the poster somewhere in the black bathing suit). I was very fortunate to have had Richard Kline & Norman Fell together (very rare) on a local talk show I produced in the 1990's. They were so gracious and both extremely funny, Norman had such a wonderful dry sense of humor! As they explained on the show during the interview "Three's Company" was an extreme success right from the beginning and skyrocketed to #1 in recordbreaking timing. Also during the episode Norman explained his side of being forced and railroaded off the show for the spin-off series "The Ropers" and being told he was not welcome back when it failed. I would recommend watching the often aired NBC Unauthorized movie, Behind The Camera, the Come and knock on our door book by author chris mann and of course visit Pav's amazing website "Jacks Bistro"! Hope all that gives you some perspective!

Born in '70, I watched whenever I could when it originally aired...I watched it even more after seeing Hero At Large when it first came out.

I did more than just watch "Three's Company" when it was on Prime Time.... my parents tried to take me to a taping of "Three's Company" in LA, and we waited in line literally for hours to get in. We were stopped at the door and were told by management that I wasn't allowed because I was under 16! Apparently, they don't like kids being in those shows because of the stuff that goes on in-between the tapings!:crazy:

Andrea

I watched Three's Company during it's original run in the 1983-84 season at the age of 8


One ep I remember watching over all the others was the one when the girls and Jack and Larry went to the Cabin.

I did more than just watch "Three's Company" when it was on Prime Time.... my parents tried to take me to a taping of "Three's Company" in LA, and we waited in line literally for hours to get in. We were stopped at the door and were told by management that I wasn't allowed because I was under 16! Apparently, they don't like kids being in those shows because of the stuff that goes on in-between the tapings!:crazy:

Andrea

God, that must have bummed you out!!! I know it's beyond my control but I'm sorry you couldn't get in.

I did more than just watch "Three's Company" when it was on Prime Time.... my parents tried to take me to a taping of "Three's Company" in LA, and we waited in line literally for hours to get in. We were stopped at the door and were told by management that I wasn't allowed because I was under 16! Apparently, they don't like kids being in those shows because of the stuff that goes on in-between the tapings!:crazy:

Andrea
Awwww...:( The same thing happened to my brother when our family took a trip to California, Nevada and Arizona in 1998. We went to Burbank to tour the NBC studios and see a taping of Jay Leno. My brother was only 14, so he couldn't get in. Our mom decided to stay out in the lobby with him. He was bummed. :(

I did more than just watch "Three's Company" when it was on Prime Time.... my parents tried to take me to a taping of "Three's Company" in LA, and we waited in line literally for hours to get in. We were stopped at the door and were told by management that I wasn't allowed because I was under 16! Apparently, they don't like kids being in those shows because of the stuff that goes on in-between the tapings!:crazy:

Andrea

Bummer! That would be cool to be in the studio audience of a big time show like Three's Company. It's ashame you waited in line so long only to be turned down.

Bummer! That would be cool to be in the studio audience of a big time show like Three's Company. It's ashame you waited in line so long only to be turned down.

Thanks for the sympathetic notes everyone! ;)

That was so completely stupid that they used that lame excuse after making us stand in line for hours. I finally did get to see a couple of things being filmed. I sure people remember "Match Game PM" (the game show). I can barely remember anything about it, but it was very cool to be on in the audience.

One I remember clearly was back in 1985. My dad and I went to this taping of a Saturday morning cartoon special. It sounds weird but you'll see why it was so cool. They used to have these specials that would air in late August to promote the new cartoons that were premiring for the school year. This particular show had a "King" character and a TON (and I mean a TON) of guest stars: Patti LaBelle, Pee Wee Herman and CYNDI LAUPER to name a few. They would come out and do skits and stuff in between showing the previews for the cartoons. Cyndi Lauper didn't sing, but I think Patti LaBelle did. Pee Wee Herman was hysterical.

So during the show the camera panned the audience and I saw myself on the monitor! How cool is that?! Then the coolest part of all.... After the show we all went outside and Cyndi Lauper was absolutely MOBBED with fans! I had brought a piece of paper and I literally stuck my hand in between this mob of people and got an autograph! AWESOME!

However, I am truly jinxed when it comes to these tapings because on the air date, I was at a choir sleepover at my church. I had asked my mom to tape it for me and of course I told practically everyone in the world that I was going to be on TV. So after it was "over" I called my mom to ask if it taped and get this....
THEY SHOWED A TENNIS MATCH INSTEAD!:mad: :livid: :wallbang

Oh well.... at least I got Cyndi Lauper's autograph! However I would LOVE to find out if that show is available anywhere at all! Even on Youtube!:confused:

Andrea

I was born in 1957 and I remember watching it all the time when it aired as part of ABCs tuesday night lineup in the 70s and 80s! (right after "HAPPY DAYS" & "LAVERNE & SHIRLEY" followed by "TAXI" then they replaced that with, I think, "MORK & MINDY").

In fact, I remember when it started in the summer of 1977, I had a dentist appoitment one day, and the light that the dentist had over his chair was made by a company called RITTER. I can remeber, it had the companys name on it, and I just remember looking up and seeing it and thinking "Ritter...I wonder if that's that guy John Ritter from that new show, what's it called...THREE'S COMPANY , that's it".:lol: :lol:

But, I remenber, I started to tire of it right before Suzanne Somers left, and Chrissys dumbness started to get irrating, so I stopped watching it.

Hey everybody, I'm brand new to the boards and Three's Company is my favorite show of all time. Sorry if this question has been asked a million times, but I was just wanting to know how it was watching the show when it originally aired? Was it very popular, kinda like how Seinfeld and Friends were back in their hey day?

I was only about a year and a half old when it started, and by the time I was old enough to watch tv I didn't really watch a lot of sitcoms. I mostly stuck to the after school cartoons, such as Transformers, He-Man, Voltron, etc....

I never really got into the show till I caught it in re-runs back in the mid 80's. I remember it was being shown on like 3 or 4 different networks back then. It was kinda funny because there were some girls that lived down the street who were about the same ages as me. My cousin also lived down the street. We were all fans of the show and every day we'd watch it and then meet afterwards and act out the show! I was always Jack of course. My cousin was always Larry, but he also doubled as Mr. Furley or any other guest star that was on the show. I know it sounds cheesy, but hey, we were young, and didn't have anything better to do! Man, those were the days!


I was in grade school when it started, 8th grade and it was very much must see tv, especially with us guys haha. Some of my friends parents wouldnt let thier kids watch it, which looking back I guess was cool idk. But yeah we would talk about it quite a bit at lunch or between classes. Suzanne Somers was usually the subject talked about the most

I wasn't even born until 1991, so I obviously couldn't have watched Three's Company in its original run. In fact, I think where I live, Man About The House was more popular, going by the fact that you can buy most or all of MATH on DVD where I live, whereas you can only buy the first 2 seasons of TC, which are inferior to the US pressings of the DVDs.

I first heard of TC when I was 13, I used to catch the closing credits whilst waiting for Home Improvement, one of my favourite shows back then (and still a fan of now) to start. I may have watched some of TC back then, but it looked too dated for my liking back then.

A few years later, when I was 17, having already become a fan of other classic favourites such as All In The Family, Laverne & Shirley and Family Ties, I was researching more old favourites (this is how I got into most "old" shows, by reading about them), I discovered Three's Company, and was like "Hang on, haven't I seen bits of this before?" My claims were correct, and curious to see what the show was actually like, I took the plunge and got the first 2 seasons on DVD. Season 1 was a bit sluggish, but Season 2 really hit the mark. I now own all the seasons on DVD and am part way watching Season 8 (yes I know it's taken me a while to watch them all).

And so I became a fan of TC, which if you ask me, is a lot better than most of today's TV, and I think the Ropers inspired two of my all-time favourite TV characters, namely Al and Peggy Bundy :D.

To all those who watched it in its original run: You may not have had the Internet or high-tech video games, but you had some great shows on TV!

Hey everybody, I'm brand new to the boards and Three's Company is my favorite show of all time. Sorry if this question has been asked a million times, but I was just wanting to know how it was watching the show when it originally aired? Was it very popular, kinda like how Seinfeld and Friends were back in their hey day?

I was only about a year and a half old when it started, and by the time I was old enough to watch tv I didn't really watch a lot of sitcoms. I mostly stuck to the after school cartoons, such as Transformers, He-Man, Voltron, etc....

I never really got into the show till I caught it in re-runs back in the mid 80's. I remember it was being shown on like 3 or 4 different networks back then. It was kinda funny because there were some girls that lived down the street who were about the same ages as me. My cousin also lived down the street. We were all fans of the show and every day we'd watch it and then meet afterwards and act out the show! I was always Jack of course. My cousin was always Larry, but he also doubled as Mr. Furley or any other guest star that was on the show. I know it sounds cheesy, but hey, we were young, and didn't have anything better to do! Man, those were the days!
My parents and I watched every week it was our favorite show at the time andb I was 14 when the show first aired.

My parents and I watched every week it was our favorite show at the time andb I was 14 when the show first aired.

Wow, your parents were very lenient! From what I've read, TC was quite a shock for many adults, especially those 40 and over, could you please correct me if I'm wrong?

Wow, your parents were very lenient! From what I've read, TC was quite a shock for many adults, especially those 40 and over, could you please correct me if I'm wrong?

Yes quite a few parents wouldnt let the kids watch it, at least from the kids I knew at my school. My parents were cool though, I even watched Benny Hill with my dad when I was in highschool haha. Laugh-In as well ( was in grade school when that was on). But amongst my close friends at school, they were all allowed to watch TC.:)