The more I think about it....

[JSP]

Maybe Three's A Crowd could have worked with Jack married to Janet.

I was just thinking that the last two seasons of Three's Company are lacking because Priscilla Barnes just isn't a comedian. I don't care what anybody says. She's just the type that should be doing straight roles.

I'm just thinking I really enjoyed the Season 5 episodes when Suzanne was holding out and not showing up and before Cindy was written on. The show really was funnier when it was just Jack and Janet as a comedy team as opposed to having Jack, Janet, and Terri together.

So yeah, maybe Three's A Crowd could have worked with Jack being in a relationship with Janet.

Conversely, if were Joyce that was holding out in Season 5 and it was just Jack and Suzanne as a comedy team together it wouldn't have worked. Then Jack would have had to play the straight to Chrissy, and who wants to see a straight Jack? Chrissy was too far gone in Season 5 to have returned to her former Seasons 1-2 self to be played straight. Joyce was the second-most important cast member after John.

[BigManMike]

He couldn't marry Janet. That's not the way the original British shows Man About the House and Robin's Nest were done. The guy from those shows Robin lived with then married someone else, not one of his roommates so Three's a Crowd had to do it that way.

[JackJanetChrissy]

While agree that Janet was really important, one of the things I love about TC is that they resisted marrying off the main characters to each other. Seems like that's all you ever see on today's shows---The Office, Friends, Frasier, etc.

It remains one of the few shows that ever aired where opposite-sex friends remained just that--friends. That's one of the reasons I love TC. It didn't fall into the cliche "oh gee, we have opposite-sex people, obviously at some point they have to get together." It showed that the trio was really a family unit, and you generally don't date your sister or brother.

[JackJanetChrissy]

Forgot to mention...a show with just Janet and Jack would've been too similar to Three's Company, for the reasons you stated about season 5. Jack and Janet carried that show for a while. Not that I would have minded....

[Dianne3]

Originally Posted by thebigcookie

He couldn't marry Janet. That's not the way the original British shows Man About the House and Robin's Nest were done. The guy from those shows Robin lived with then married someone else, not one of his roommates so Three's a Crowd had to do it that way.

Just because the British series didn't do it that way, it didn't mean TC had to copy everything.

[TVFactFan]

And it wouldn't have been TAC, instead the 9th season of Three's Company

[JackJanetChrissy]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

And it wouldn't have been TAC, instead the 9th season of Three's Company

Yeah, it would've been tough to sell a Jack/Janet spinoff as anything other than Three's Company. I mean, we have SEEN Jack and Janet together without a third roommate, so another show with that same setup wouldn't be something new.

It may have been cool to have Janet/Larry/Furley drop by on the spinoff to remind the audience where it came from and to update us about their whereabouts. Weird that Larry made one or two appearances of TAC but nobody else.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by JackJanetChrissy

Yeah, it would've been tough to sell a Jack/Janet spinoff as anything other than Three's Company. I mean, we have SEEN Jack and Janet together without a third roommate, so another show with that same setup wouldn't be something new.

It may have been cool to have Janet/Larry/Furley drop by on the spinoff to remind the audience where it came from and to update us about their whereabouts. Weird that Larry made one or two appearances of TAC but nobody else.

I know why Joyce Dewitt and Priscilla Barnes didn't make an appearance on TAC but not sure why the actors below didn't


Jenilee Harrison
Don Knotts

[JSP]

Originally Posted by JackJanetChrissy

While agree that Janet was really important, one of the things I love about TC is that they resisted marrying off the main characters to each other. Seems like that's all you ever see on today's shows---The Office, Friends, Frasier, etc.

It remains one of the few shows that ever aired where opposite-sex friends remained just that--friends. That's one of the reasons I love TC. It didn't fall into the cliche "oh gee, we have opposite-sex people, obviously at some point they have to get together." It showed that the trio was really a family unit, and you generally don't date your sister or brother.

Okay, you win, I agree. It's for the best they didn't get married. The goal of the show was to show that unrelated people of the opposite sex can live together platonically, and they stuck with it.

If I could take back a thread I posted it would be this one.

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by JackJanetChrissy

Yeah, it would've been tough to sell a Jack/Janet spinoff as anything other than Three's Company. I mean, we have SEEN Jack and Janet together without a third roommate, so another show with that same setup wouldn't be something new.

It may have been cool to have Janet/Larry/Furley drop by on the spinoff to remind the audience where it came from and to update us about their whereabouts. Weird that Larry made one or two appearances of TAC but nobody else.

Bingo. I really don't know why people are quick to pair the roomies up. The show worked well this well. I always considered Jack and Janet more like brother and sister. Besides the failure of TAC had more to do with the A team on NBC more than anything else.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Stuck In The '70's

Bingo. I really don't know why people are quick to pair the roomies up. The show worked well this well. I always considered Jack and Janet more like brother and sister. Besides the failure of TAC had more to do with the A team on NBC more than anything else.

And that was confirmed when they was on a date in season 6 and realized they were not compatible