John Ritter & Joyce DeWitt on CBS' "The Early Show" circa 2001

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[ClarenceAlabama]

This was from 2001. I remember watching it live.

It's so sad that we never got a real reunion with the whole cast.

[Lyverbe]

I had already seen this but it was fun to watch again. I find it unfortunate that John wants too hard to be funny all the time.

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Originally Posted by ClarenceAlabama

This was from 2001. I remember watching it live.

It's so sad that we never got a real reunion with the whole cast.

We should have.

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Originally Posted by ClarenceAlabama

This was from 2001. I remember watching it live.

It's so sad that we never got a real reunion with the whole cast.

I wonder if this photo was the closest that we ever got to seeing a "full blown" cast reunion after Three's Company went off the air in 1984. Obviously, John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Audra Lindley, and Jenilee Harrison aren't present here. But we did get something that we never got on the series, Priscilla Barnes interacting with Norman Fell.

[ClarenceAlabama]

Originally Posted by TMC

I wonder if this photo was the closest that we ever got to seeing a "full blown" cast reunion after Three's Company went off the air in 1984. Obviously, John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Audra Lindley, Jenilee Harrison aren't present here. But we did get something that we never got on the series, Priscilla Barnes interacting with Norman Fell.

Wow. I've never this before. It's good to see Roper and Furley together.

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A screengrab of John & Joyce from an interview that they did on CBS's The Early Show on 3/15/2001, which was 24 years after Three's Company premiered on 3/15/1977. This interview is on YouTube. This may have been the last time both of them were interviewed together.

Two On Three's Company

By CBSNews.com staff CBSNews.com staff
March 15, 2001 / 10:01 AM EST / CBS

Starting in 1977, a trio of roommates — Jack, Janet and Chrissy — came into American living rooms each week and kept TV viewers laughing with their sexually charged brand of slapstick. The popular sitcom Three's Company lasted for eight seasons with John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt as the show's comic cornerstones.

The show premiered exactly 24 year ago, and to celebrate the anniversary John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt reminisced with CBS News Early Show Co-Anchor Jane Clayson.

Reruns of the show are still a hit on Nick At Nite, which, like CBSNews.com, is part of the Viacom family.

"It is amazing how people remember it so clearly," said DeWitt. "People stop us on the street and will practically quote half of an episode. Everybody has their favorites. It is amazing what they remember, way more than I can remember."

Three's Company was based on a British show called Man About the House. Ritter played the male roommate, Jack Tripper, who was allowed to rent the apartment with two women because the landlord mistakenly thought he was gay.

Tripper was a self-employed caterer who later opened his own business; DeWitt played Janet Wood, his sensible roommate, a florist; and for four seasons Suzanne Somers was their daffy roommate.

The show dealt with sex and sexual situations in a very groundbreaking way. But would the show work these days, in the Sex and the City environment?

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I'm naturally assuming that this was the last time that John and Joyce were seen together on television or on camera given that of course, John sadly passed away less than two years later. I do wonder if John Ritter ever regretted the manner of which Three's Company ended back in 1984. Many people, especially looking back, wanted to see Jack and Janet officially end up together instead of the ending that we actually got.