At first I was going to criticize Joyce Dewiitt for this statement but then I thought - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TVFactFan · 08-19-2012, 08:16 PM

that she may have had a good point, She took pleasure into the fact that Three's a Crowd failed and was cancelled after one season by saying this on the "true hollywood story"

"That's what happens when you build your house on sand"

But after working with on a show for so many years with John Ritter I;m sure she didn't want to see Three's a Crowd have a similar run as Three's Company while she was home with no gig

So she probably did feel good when it was cancelled as evil as that may sound but I guess since they did her so dirty she had no choice but to celebrate the failure of the show

Priscilla Barnes and Don Knotts didn't care since that wasn't there from the beginning like Joyce and John

Mr. Television · 08-19-2012, 09:08 PM

She had every right to be hurt. I never understood why all the secrecy was necessary. Priscilla tried to get out of the show soon after she joined so she didn't care. Don Knotts had been around Hollywood for years. He knew how the game was played and Richard was offered a role in the show which he declined. I think Joyce would have been ok with it if they would have been upfront with her from the beginning.

TVFactFan · 08-19-2012, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Stuck In The '70's

She had every right to be hurt. I never understood why all the secrecy was necessary. Priscilla tried to get out of the show soon after she joined so she didn't care. Don Knotts had been around Hollywood for years. He knew how the game was played and Richard was offered a role in the show which he declined. I think Joyce would have been ok with it if they would have been upfront with her from the beginning.

Yeah that was dirty, since she was there from Day 1. The producers should have just ended the show when the ABC execs said the show was getting stale. The producers had no intentions on spinning Jack off but came up with the idea once they felt pressure to make changes

Big3sCompanyFan · 08-20-2012, 12:21 AM

I thought this thread was gonna be about how Joyce revealed John had affairs with guest stars during her reunion with Suzanne!

TVFactFan · 08-20-2012, 12:25 AM

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I thought this thread was gonna be about how Joyce revealed John had affairs with guest stars during her reunion with Suzanne!

Why did she bring that up? Was she mad because he wasn't having sex with her?

Big3sCompanyFan · 08-20-2012, 08:29 AM

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Why did she bring that up? Was she mad because he wasn't having sex with her?

I don't know why but as a TC fan I'm glad to know. There were so many hot female guests can you blame John? John is only human and NOT gay IRL!

sunshinefizzy · 08-21-2012, 11:11 AM

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Why did she bring that up? Was she mad because he wasn't having sex with her?

She brought it up because Suzanne said that was one of the questions the audience members had for her; so therefore Joyce answered.

Maybe they did have sex? Maybe not. Even if they did, Joyce would be the kind of woman who would take it to the grave with her.

Yong Fang · 08-21-2012, 12:28 PM

Several years ago in China I bought the first season of Three's Company from a small stall. I have not see the show in decades and was never a big fan of the series.

The pilot episode where the girls found Jack (or John Ritter) sleeping in the bathtub, I sort of went, "Damn, Joyce Dewitt was fine!" watching her walking around in her shorts and sleeping clothes. Dark hair, brown eyes, and tan Italian skin wins everytime. Suzanne Somers to me was a horse face with big 70's hair and big boobs.

For whatever reason, Joyce Dewitt literally stopped acting in anything after this show went off. Nothing, not even a community center skit. My guess is that she hated Hollywood and the BS. She made her money and then some, and hanging out in Hollywood was not worth it for her to do guest roles in other shows.

That's what I would do perhaps. Hollywood would kill me.

Yong Fang · 08-21-2012, 12:28 PM

DOUBLE POST (and I was sober too!)

TVFactFan · 08-21-2012, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Yong Fang

Several years ago in China I bought the first season of Three's Company from a small stall. I have not see the show in decades and was never a big fan of the series.

The pilot episode where the girls found Jack (or John Ritter) sleeping in the bathtub, I sort of went, "Damn, Joyce Dewitt was fine!" watching her walking around in her shorts and sleeping clothes. Dark hair, brown eyes, and tan Italian skin wins everytime. Suzanne Somers to me was a horse face with big 70's hair and big boobs.

For whatever reason, Joyce Dewitt literally stopped acting in anything after this show went off. Nothing, not even a community center skit. My guess is that she hated Hollywood and the BS. She made her money and then some, and hanging out in Hollywood was not worth it for her to do guest roles in other shows.

That's what I would do perhaps. Hollywood would kill me.

That's because the phone wasn't ringing

Big3sCompanyFan · 08-21-2012, 06:45 PM

Joyce did guest star on the Love Boat and other shows but maybe that was during TC.

TVFactFan · 08-21-2012, 07:02 PM

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Joyce did guest star on the Love Boat and other shows but maybe that was during TC.

She guest starred on Living Single in 1996

Big3sCompanyFan · 08-22-2012, 09:46 AM

Joyce probably figured she's made enough money in show business plus she was pretty disgusted at the way she was dissed eventhough she was very loyal to TC.

Yong Fang · 09-04-2012, 09:01 AM

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That's because the phone wasn't ringing

I don't think so. She was on a successful, even legendary and groundbreaking series after 10 years (or however on it was on, but it was on for parts of two decades). I do not think after the show was over that she could not get any other parts, she just had enough of Hollywood, made a lot of money, probably beyond her expectations and wanted to go back to being a "regular person" and not a celebrity.

An actor named Avery Brooks is another example. Brooks first "famous" role was in Spencer for Hire playing someone named Hawk. Hawk even got his own series for a brief period of time. Then he got probably his most famous role as Captain Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (which has been voted by countless Trekkers as the best of all the series, including TOS* and TNG*), which lasted for seven years.

Then Brooks was in a film called American X, and a Robert Dinero film which was successful and then after that was semi retired doing bit parts and voice overs for extra money and decided to be a professor of fine arts in Oberin College and Case Western University in Ohio. He probably could have made more films and made more money, but he has made what he needed to be comfortable and does what he wants.

Not every successful person in Hollywood stays there from their teen years until retirement. Some get tired of it and leaves. I think there is a fair share of average, normal people who do it for awhile and get tired of the partying, the fake people, the hustle and everything else in Hollywood.

Big3sCompanyFan · 09-04-2012, 11:27 AM

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She brought it up because Suzanne said that was one of the questions the audience members had for her; so therefore Joyce answered.

Maybe they did have sex? Maybe not. Even if they did, Joyce would be the kind of woman who would take it to the grave with her.

Joyce never said anything about her having sex with John. I don't think Joyce has ever said that nor did she say that during her reunion with Suzanne.

Joyce said that John had affairs with some of the guest stars but not her!

08-19-2012, 08:16 PM	#1
TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 99,018	At first I was going to criticize Joyce Dewiitt for this statement but then I thought that she may have had a good point, She took pleasure into the fact that Three's a Crowd failed and was cancelled after one season by saying this on the "true hollywood story" "That's what happens when you build your house on sand" But after working with on a show for so many years with John Ritter I;m sure she didn't want to see Three's a Crowd have a similar run as Three's Company while she was home with no gig So she probably did feel good when it was cancelled as evil as that may sound but I guess since they did her so dirty she had no choice but to celebrate the failure of the show Priscilla Barnes and Don Knotts didn't care since that wasn't there from the beginning like Joyce and John

08-19-2012, 09:08 PM	#2
Mr. Television 22 Years at Sitcoms Online Forum Icon Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Location: Somewhere you're Not Posts: 62,128	She had every right to be hurt. I never understood why all the secrecy was necessary. Priscilla tried to get out of the show soon after she joined so she didn't care. Don Knotts had been around Hollywood for years. He knew how the game was played and Richard was offered a role in the show which he declined. I think Joyce would have been ok with it if they would have been upfront with her from the beginning.
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08-20-2012, 12:21 AM	#4
Big3sCompanyFan Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 2,493	I thought this thread was gonna be about how Joyce revealed John had affairs with guest stars during her reunion with Suzanne!

08-21-2012, 12:28 PM	#8
Yong Fang Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 04, 2009 Location: Memphis Tennessee Posts: 3,073	Several years ago in China I bought the first season of Three's Company from a small stall. I have not see the show in decades and was never a big fan of the series. The pilot episode where the girls found Jack (or John Ritter) sleeping in the bathtub, I sort of went, "Damn, Joyce Dewitt was fine!" watching her walking around in her shorts and sleeping clothes. Dark hair, brown eyes, and tan Italian skin wins everytime. Suzanne Somers to me was a horse face with big 70's hair and big boobs. For whatever reason, Joyce Dewitt literally stopped acting in anything after this show went off. Nothing, not even a community center skit. My guess is that she hated Hollywood and the BS. She made her money and then some, and hanging out in Hollywood was not worth it for her to do guest roles in other shows. That's what I would do perhaps. Hollywood would kill me.

08-21-2012, 06:45 PM	#11
Big3sCompanyFan Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 2,493	Joyce did guest star on the Love Boat and other shows but maybe that was during TC.

08-22-2012, 09:46 AM	#13
Big3sCompanyFan Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 2,493	Joyce probably figured she's made enough money in show business plus she was pretty disgusted at the way she was dissed eventhough she was very loyal to TC.