How many watched it when it originally aired?

[JackTripper25]

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!

[vtunie]

Originally Posted by JackTripper25

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.

[BarneyFife]

Originally Posted by JackTripper25

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!

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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[catlover79]

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!

[AB]

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.

[janet42]

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".

[TVFactFan]

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

[comedyfreak]

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.

[Fleet]

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.

[Austin Tripper]

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

[Chocolate Moose]

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

[70s show watcher]

Originally Posted by Austin Tripper

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

[70s show watcher]

Originally Posted by Fleet

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

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by 70s show watcher

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

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.

[TeeVeeCloset]

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!