The Three's Company Finale Still Bothers Fans To This Day

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Originally Posted by ClarenceAlabama

It always shocked me that considering how big Three's Company was, there was never a reunion movie.

In 1986, they were planning to bring back The Ropers in an all new sitcom called "Three Apartments" with John Ritter, Joyce Dewiit, Richard Kline, and Don Knotts guest starring. So the cast were all willing to come back and portray their old characters again.

After the way they messed up the finale, you would think they would eventually do a proper send off for the fans and maybe have the movie end with a Jack and Janet wedding.

Considering how big the sitcom Three's Company (1977-84) was, why was there never a reunion movie or show? After the way they messed up the finale, you would think they would eventually do a proper send off for the fans.

[BestTVever]

It really was not a send off but a transition to the new show. Everyone always hates the final episode on successful sitcoms. I cannot think of one (Maybe Newhart) where fans loved the final show. Janet getting married was rushed but it still was a final curtain call for these lost wanderers to move on.

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Originally Posted by ClarenceAlabama

It always shocked me that considering how big Three's Company was, there was never a reunion movie.

In 1986, they were planning to bring back The Ropers in an all new sitcom called "Three Apartments" with John Ritter, Joyce Dewiit, Richard Kline, and Don Knotts guest starring. So the cast were all willing to come back and portray their old characters again.

After the way they messed up the finale, you would think they would eventually do a proper send off for the fans and maybe have the movie end with a Jack and Janet wedding.

To tell you the truth, the thought never really occurred to me until now, about why there was never a Three's Company reunion movie or limited run revival series. I agree that when John Ritter passed away in 2003, that pretty much ended any hope for a formal reunion.

Plus, I don't even know if Joyce DeWitt wanted to go back to doing television full-time after Three's Company, especially after the way that she was treated towards the end. Plus, Priscilla Barnes had gone on record in saying that her time working on Three's Company was the worst time in her career.

If there was a reunion project proposed, then we still would have to deal with the backstage controversies with Suzanne Somers. So that was probably another thing that I doubt that they would want to revisit.

I'm guessing that Three's a Crowd and its short-run, kind of gave the higher ups the impression that we already had a glimpse of Jack Tripper's life out of Apartment 201, since they flat out "rejected" it, it wouldn't be worth the trouble or time to go further.

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Has Joyce and/or Priscilla ever specifically addressed the series finale and the arguable way that their characters were marginalized (and maybe even, to a certain extent, character assassinated) as a means so promoting Three's a Crowd? I'm sure that they did at some point or another. Like, has Joyce ever said anything about them just randomly marrying Janet off to some bland, random guy that she had only recently met. Or what about Priscilla's character, only getting maybe, a brief, offhand mention about her moving to Hawaii?