Three's Company: Season 3

1978 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 3 of Three's Company

Janet Wood, a florist, and Chrissy Snow, a secretary, share a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Santa Monica, California. When their roommate Eleanor gets married and moves out, the rent becomes impossible for the two of them to cover. Jack Tripper, a culinary student, shows up at the going-away party and ends up sleeping in the bathtub, which makes him the ideal roommate. But the landlord, Stanley Roper, doesn't allow single men and women under the same roof. Janet tells him Jack is gay, and the trio has to keep the lie going while Roper watches every detail. The episodes tangle the three of them in dates, bets and constant misunderstandings.

23episodes

Sep 12, 1978premiered

Sep 15, 1979last episode

7.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Double Date
Sep 12, 1978 · 20 min
Jack pretends he has a cold when Mr. Roper overhears him making a date.
Directing: Dave Powers · Starring: Richard Kline, Anne Schedeen
3x02 Good Old Reliable Janet
Sep 19, 1978 · 20 min
Janet and Mrs. Roper participate in a nude beach protest, and end up walking home without their clothes.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: John Baskin · Starring: Richard Kline, Ellen Sherman
3x03 The Love Diary
Sep 26, 1978 · 20 min
Chrissy discovers a spicy diary and uses it to perfect her typing skills. Mr. Roper reads the diary and thinks that Chrissy has it in for him!
Directing: Dave Powers
3x04 The Fast
Oct 3, 1978 · 20 min
It's a test of willpower when Janet and Chrissy give up food in exchange for Jack giving up girls!
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn · Starring: Angel Tompkins
3x05 Helen's Rendezvous
Oct 10, 1978 · 20 min
After Stanley's friend fails to fulfill their deal of loser buys the beer, Stanely works himself into an outrage. Helen tries to patch things up between Jerry & Stanely by trying to get Jerry to apologize. When Helen makes a date to meet up with Jerry, Jack and Chrissy both assume that she is having an affair.
Directing: Dave Powers
3x06 My Sister's Keeper
Oct 17, 1978 · 20 min
Janet's little sister visits the trio and instantly falls for Jack.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Paul Wayne
3x07 Chrissy and the Guru
Oct 24, 1978 · 20 min
Chrissy is tricked into becoming a panhandler by a con-artist.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Paul Wayne · Starring: Michael Bell, Diane Sommerfield, Paul Ainsley
3x08 Larry's Bride
Oct 31, 1978 · 20 min
Larry introduces the trio to his new fiance. Jack learns that Gloria has always had the hots for him, but Larry believes it to be the other way around. Jack unsuccessfully tries to talk Larry out of marriage. Chrissy unknowingly stumbles upon the real reason Gloria is marrying Larry, because he told her he owned a used car lot. Larry figures out what Jack was trying to tell him, and Gloria learns the truth about Larry. The conclusion is something both Gloria & Larry agree on!
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Martin Roth · Starring: Richard Kline, Cecilia Hart
3x09 Chrissy's New Boss
Nov 14, 1978 · 20 min
Chrissy is invited to go on a business trip with her boss, and Jack thinks that the boss wants to get it on with her. What he doesn't know is that Chrissy's boss is a woman.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn · Starring: Emmaline Henry, Paul Ainsley
3x10 The Crush
Nov 21, 1978 · 20 min
Laurie, the trio's babysitting charge, has a crush on Jack, much to her boyfriend's dismay.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Jack Mendelsohn, Al Gordon · Starring: Lauri Hendler, Lois Hamilton, Steve Shaw
3x11 The Kleptomaniac
Nov 28, 1978 · 20 min
Chrissy a thief? No way! At least that what Jack thinks when he sees her with his money.
Directing: Dave Powers · Writing: Paul Wayne, Michael Ross
3x12 The Party's Over
Dec 5, 1978 · 20 min
After canceling a party the trio were holding, Helen (in disgust) leaves Stanley.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Michael Ross
3x13 Eleanor's Return
Dec 12, 1978 · 20 min
Eleanor makes her first appearance in the shower when Jack meets her for the first time. Knowing that Eleanor was Janet and Chrissy's old roommate, he thinks that Eleanor is moving back in and he might have to leave. What he doesn't know is that they are planning a surprise party for him, but it's too late when Jack tries to ruin the party by having Larry streak across the room!
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: John Baskin · Starring: Richard Kline
3x14 The Older Woman
Jan 16, 1979 · 20 min
Jack tells Janet and Chrissy that he's going out with an old woman. Janet and Chrissy thinks that it is roper's aunt after she shows up with his swimming trunks after Jack says that he went surfing with his new girlfriend.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Paul Wayne · Starring: Richard Kline, Irene Tedrow
3x15 Stanley's Hotline
Jan 30, 1979 · 20 min
Mr. Roper thinks that Chrissy is pregnant when he overhears a conversation in a pipe adjoining their bathroom. The real deal is that Chrissy has a wart. Also, Linda stays at the apartment temporarily while Janet is off visiting her parents.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Starring: Anne Schedeen
3x16 The Catered Affair
Feb 6, 1979 · 25 min
While Jack is catering a party for Chrissy's business, Chrissy's lecherous boss tries to get it on with Chrissy.
Directing: Dave Powers · Writing: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn · Starring: Emmaline Henry, Bibi Osterwald, Macon McCalman
3x17 The Best Laid Plans
Feb 13, 1979 · 20 min
Jack finally has a chance to get it on with Chrissy when a mouse terrorizes the apartment building.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: John Baskin · Starring: Richard Kline
3x18 The Harder They Fall
Feb 20, 1979 · 20 min
Jack ruins Janet's date when he has a broken leg.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn
3x19 The Bake-Off
Feb 27, 1979 · 20 min
Chrissy accidentally eats Jack's pie right before a pie contest he is supposed to be in.
Directing: Dave Powers · Writing: Paul Wayne · Starring: Leon Askin, William Pierson
3x20 An Anniversary Surprise
Mar 13, 1979 · 19 min
Helen thinks that Stanley is leaving her for another woman, but in actuality, the woman is a real estate agent who got him a great deal on a house in Chevroit Hills. Stanley tells Helen that they have sold the building and are moving into their new house and their own spin-off.
3x21 Jack Moves Out
May 8, 1979 · 19 min
Fed up with the girls not doing their share and helping out at the apartment, Jack angrily leaves and becomes a live-in cook for Larry's boss and his promiscuous wife.
Directing: Dave Powers · Writing: John Baskin · Starring: Richard Kline, Cynthia Harris, John Larroquette, Janet Wood
3x22 Triangle Troubles
May 15, 1979 · 20 min
Jack goes out with a girl, and he is afraid that she will leave him due to his living arrangements. But what he doesn't know is that she has the same problem that he does.
Directed by: Dave Powers · Written by: Paul Wayne, Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn · Starring: Peter Mark Richman, Barrie Youngfellow, Terence Goodman, Robert Machray
3x23 Stanley, the Ladies' Man Season Finale
Sep 15, 1979 · 20 min
Roper plans a surprise disco party for his wife. This is an episode of the Ropers packaged in syndication with Three's Company.