View Full Version : 'The Ropers' Christmas TV Special That Never Was


Brian Damage
08-29-2010, 11:55 AM
In October 14th, 1979, Audra Lindlay And Norman Fell did an interview promoting their spinoff series, "The Ropers." What I found interesting was a little blurb about what to expect from the series in the upcoming season. Audra reveals that they were planning to do a Christmas crossover special with the cast of Three's Company. For whatever reason, that special obviously never happened....

Pavan
08-29-2010, 12:40 PM
What interview was this? Interesting.

Brian Damage
08-29-2010, 12:44 PM
What interview was this? Interesting.


Hey Pav!

It was an AP interview I found after a Goggle search. I believe the newspaper that printed it was the Toledo Blade.

TVFactFan
08-29-2010, 02:51 PM
It did happen, it was called-"christmas at the Ropers" and aired on 12/18/79 and Jack fell into the Ropers Christmas Tree and all the balls and lights hit the floor. Then the girls were trying to untangle Jack from the Christmas Lights while Stanley, Helen, and the other couple just stood there shaking their head at how clumsy Jack was-lo


I have it on DVD with original commercialsl

snowpeck
08-30-2010, 04:12 PM
It did happen, it was called-"christmas at the Ropers" and aired on 12/18/79 and Jack fell into the Ropers Christmas Tree and all the balls and lights hit the floor. Then the girls were trying to untangle Jack from the Christmas Lights while Stanley, Helen, and the other couple just stood there shaking their head at how clumsy Jack was-lo


I have it on DVD with original commercialsl


Do you get your jollies just by posting completely false information and then seeing how many people fall for it?

TVFactFan
08-30-2010, 04:19 PM
Do you get your jollies just by posting completely false information and then seeing how many people fall for it?


Excuse Me????

McGillicuddy
08-30-2010, 05:51 PM
Actually Jack, Janet & Chrissy (John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt & Suzanne Somers) crossed over to The Ropers one time in the episode "The Party" which aired Sept 15, 1979, according to episodeguides.com. This would not have been a Christmas episode.

TVFactFan
08-30-2010, 06:19 PM
Actually Jack, Janet & Chrissy (John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt & Suzanne Somers) crossed over to The Ropers one time in the episode "The Party" which aired Sept 15, 1979, according to episodeguides.com. This would not have been a Christmas episode.

Well we already know about that crossover and this interview was after this crossover

McGillicuddy
08-30-2010, 07:48 PM
Well we already know about that crossover and this interview was after this crossover
I know, but my point was there is no episode called "Christmas at the Ropers" , and this is the only time J J & C crossed over to The Ropers so I'm not understanding what aired on 12/18/79. :confused:

TVFactFan
08-30-2010, 08:15 PM
I know, but my point was there is no episode called "Christmas at the Ropers" , and this is the only time J J & C crossed over to The Ropers so I'm not understanding what aired on 12/18/79. :confused:


Do you want a DVD copy or not?

snowpeck
08-31-2010, 08:29 PM
I know, but my point was there is no episode called "Christmas at the Ropers" , and this is the only time J J & C crossed over to The Ropers so I'm not understanding what aired on 12/18/79. :confused:

Nothing did. The Ropers wasn't even on that night, and the Three's Company episode that did air was "The Reverend Steps Out." (The one where Chrissy's father is up for a promotion at the church, but Chrissy has to move out for him to get it.)

Pavan
08-31-2010, 11:54 PM
Solomon, what are you saying? Is this a joke?

TVFactFan
09-01-2010, 12:01 AM
Solomon, what are you saying? Is this a joke?

I was waiting for you or brian to respond but yall never did-lol I was trying to say that if it happened in real life i could see jack doing something like that