List of Three's Company episodes

Brunette Janet Wood, manager of a flower shop, and Chrissy Snow, a guileless, ditzy blonde secretary, find Jack Tripper asleep in their bathtub full of water the morning after a going-away party for their ex-roommate Eleanor Garvey-Phillips. The two girls, who lack culinary skills, decide to share the apartment and expenses with Jack when they learn he is studying to be a gourmet chef. But first they must find a way to overcome objections from their landlords, Stanley and Helen Roper, a romantically dysfunctional couple who lives downstairs and doesn't allow males and females living together unmarried. So Janet comes up with an idea and leads the Ropers to believe that Jack is gay, thus allowing Jack to live with the girls.

Note: This pilot episode is based on the pilot episode "Three's a Crowd!" from the British series Man About The House, written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke.

While Jack is moving in to share the apartment with Janet and Chrissy, Chrissy's mother calls and informs Chrissy that she will be there in moments. Chrissy, whose father is a minister, panics at the news that her mother is coming. To keep the situation under control, Chrissy asks Janet to take Jack to the Reagal Beagle, the local pub, and keep him there until Mrs. Snow leaves. As the evening progresses, Chrissy's mom decides to spend the night.

Note: This episode is based on the episode of the same name from Man About The House.

When Mrs. Roper accuses Mr. Roper of showing his visiting niece Karen a boring time, Mr. Roper--feeling comfortable with Jack's supposed homosexuality--decides to introduce Karen to Jack. Meanwhile, Jack is involved in organizing a birthday celebration for Janet, so when Mr. Roper suggests to Jack that he would like Jack to take his niece out, Jack refuses, saying he couldn't leave Janet on her birthday. When Mr. Roper leaves, Jack also admits to Janet and Chrissy that he can imagine what any niece of Mr. Roper's would look like, convinced that she would be unattractive as well. But when Mr. Roper brings Karen to meet Jack, he is surprised to find she is beautiful. Jack then asks Karen out and tells Janet and Chrissy that they will be back in time for the party. However, Jack does not show up at the appointed time, making Janet and Chrissy angry--leading them to realize that they are actually jealous.

When a puppy is left at the trio's doorstep, Jack wants to claim it; but Janet and Chrissy remind him that Mr. Roper doesn't allow pets on the premises. While the trio tries to hide the puppy from Mr. Roper, Jack fails in attempts to give the little pooch away. Then Chrissy gets an idea when Mrs. Roper mentions that her husband will forget their approaching 20th wedding anniversary.

Notes: First appearance of Richard Kline as the trio's neighbor and Jack's best friend Larry Dallas. Also, this episode is based on the episode of the same name from Man About The House.

While the trio takes a break from weekend chores at the Regal Beagle; Jeff, a large chap, approaches their table to make a rude play for Chrissy. His size intimidates Jack, and the situation becomes more embarrassing for him when the Ropers drop in and Mr. Roper, ill-tempered from a toothache, puts Jeff in his place. But Jack feels he may have acted cowardly by avoiding a fight.

Note: This episode is based on the episode "Colour Me Yellow" from Man About The House.

The trio, believing a burglar has stolen their rent money, frantically try to avoid Mr. Roper until they can replace it. After Jack and Janet find their apartment door unlocked and the cash missing, Chrissy arrives and insists that she left the envelope containing the rent money on a shelf. Jack then calls the police; and while the trio worries about trying to get a loan, Mrs. Roper convinces her husband to invite them out to dinner.

Notes: This episode is based on the episode of the same name from Man About The House. Also, this episode marks the first appearance of Dean Travers, the often-uptight dean of Jack's cooking school.

A conflict over lack of privacy comes to a head after Janet brings home a boyfriend, and Jack and Chrissy have to cool their heels at the Regal Beagle. While at the Regal Beagle (where the Ropers also are spending the evening), Jack makes a date with a beautiful girl, Veronica. Later, Janet becomes furious when Jack and Chrissy choose an inopportune moment to barge into the apartment where she is entertaining her date, Alex. Later, the trio agrees to an "unbreakable rule" on taking turns privately using the apartment for dates. Jack soon regrets this rule when Veronica calls to change their date night.

While Janet and Chrissy are both employed, Jack has a problem finding work to fit around his school hours. Jack's principles are at stake when he is hired as a male model and learns he is to pose nude for a magazine centerfold, which doesn't set so well. So Jack then sells encyclopedias as an alternative.

Jack and Janet feel compelled to inform Chrissy that Lloyd Cross (Dick Sargent), a mature, sophisticated man she is dating happens to be married. Janet had confronted Jack about being jealous of Lloyd, who is dining at the apartment with Chrissy, when they run into the Ropers at the Regal Beagle. Mrs. Roper reveals that she knows Lloyd's wife, which sends Jack and Janet rushing back to the apartment to break up Chrissy's romance. To convince Chrissy that he's telling the truth, Jack takes Chrissy to meet Lloyd's wife.

Note: This episode is based on the episode "In Praise of Older Men" from Man About The House.

The trio decides to celebrate Christmas at home because they haven't been invited to any parties--not even by their neighbors, the Stevens, who hosts a big party every Christmas. After finding this out, the Ropers invite the trio downstairs for their own party, and they accept; but shortly after, the Stevens call to reconfirm their invitation to the party, which must have gotten lost in the mail. Jack and Janet want to go; but Chrissy, honoring the Ropers' invitation, makes them go to their party instead. The evening is spent listening to Mr. Roper sing silly songs, until finally the trio is able to excuse themselves. They go to the Stevens' party, where they unexpectedly run into the Ropers, who found out that they received a belated invitation as well. Turns out that Mr. Roper had spent the evening trying to bore the trio into leaving so he and Mrs. Roper could go to the party.

Jack and Chrissy agree to take over Janet's babysitting job for a night. To their dismay, they are met with a crying baby, no TV, and a locked liquor cabinet.

Chrissy's new boyfriend, an aspiring filmmaker, gets her interested in making movies and her parents send her a 8mm movie camera. Larry wants to use Chrissy's projector to screen a porno film he purchased for $50.00 from a stranger. Jack and Larry suddenly have an apartment full of people they think will accidentally see the porno flick, but it's revealed that Larry has been conned into buying an old Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

Short of help, Janet hires Jack to help her in the flower shop. Their friendship is put to the test when Jack's relaxed attitude clashes with Janet's more hard-nosed work ethic, a clash that carries over into their homelife. When Janet's boss discovers that Janet missed an important order, Jack--to make amends with Janet--takes the fall for her, sacrificing his job. Jack is of course fired by the shop owner, but his friendship with Janet is mended.

A woman claiming to be Jack's girlfriend tells Janet and Chrissy that she is pregnant. After the girls confront him, Jack proposes to his girlfriend, whom Janet and Chrissy later find out is a different girl. It was then discovered that the whole chaos was created by Larry, who posed as Jack to the pregnant girl.

The trio sacrifices a weekend to clean the Ropers' garden and find some attractive weeds to give to Mrs. Roper to use in her plant in which she entered in a flower-judging contest sponsored by her flower arranging class. But after later discovering that the weeds resemble marijuana plants, Jack frantically calls the Ropers, who are at the contest. Mr. Roper then damages Mrs. Roper's plant that's about to be judged, infuriating Mrs. Roper. She becomes even more furious when her teacher comes around for the judging and informs her that the controversial weeds were not marijuana weeds after all.

Reverend Snow (Peter Mark Richman) orders Chrissy to move back home, as he does not approve of his daughter's living arrangement.

Jack and Chrissy take turns sucking up to Janet, who acquired a pair of tickets to a Frank Sinatra concert. The trio is also entrusted to take care of a parakeet Mr. Roper bought as a gift for his wife. Jack then inadvertently sits on the box containing the bird, killing it. After frantically thinking of ways to get out of the jam, the trio gives Mrs. Roper the Sinatra tickets, claiming they were the gift from Mr. Roper--much to his surprise, of course.

Not allowing any wild parties after last year's party got out of control, Mr. Roper plays such a dirty trick on the trio (he fakes a cancellation of the party by posting a sign in the lot) that his wife walks out on him.

Mr. Roper is repairing their bathroom sink's clogged drain pipe, which leads to the main drain pipe connecting to the bathroom sink of the trio's. While repairing the sink, Mr. Roper inadvertently hears a conversation coming from the trio's bathroom, which includes Chrissy saying she "wants to get rid of it." Misinterpreting this, Mr. Roper believes Chrissy is pregnant and wants to get an abortion, when actually all she wants to get rid of is a wart that developed on her arm.

When Janet is terrified by a mouse in their bedroom, Jack takes advantage of the situation by offering to move in with Chrissy until the rodent is captured.

Mrs. Roper and the trio mistakenly believe that Mr. Roper is having an affair; but the supposed "other woman" is actually a real estate agent (Ruta Lee), who had been working with Mr. Roper to sell the building and find a new home in Cheviot Hills.

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 (Jordan Charney) and his promiscuous wife (Cynthia Harris).

Guest-starring: John Larroquette as an unnamed police officer; Jordan Charney as Larry's boss.

Jack wants to raise money to buy a gift for Janet and Chrissy; so he takes Larry's place as a male escort and winds up with Lana Shields, an overly amorous older woman who falls hard for Jack.

Ralph Furley, the new landlord, gets off on the wrong foot with the trio when he secretly introduces himself to Janet and Chrissy at the Regal Beagle, who mistakenly think he's making a rude play on them. The situation only worsens when the trio accidentally sells his furniture, thinking it was the Ropers' old furniture. Mr. Furley then gives the trio 24 hours to get out, until he meets (and falls for) Lana, who convinces him to let Jack and the girls stay.

Chrissy takes in an elderly man named Leo (J. Pat O'Malley) who has come looking for an apartment after he has recently become homeless. He inadvertently makes a nuisance of himself when Jack brings home a date; but out of respect and sympathy for Leo, Jack kicks her to the curb when she insults Leo. When Leo disappears the next day, the trio becomes worried, but Leo returns to tell them he has moved in with some "buddies"--a pair of elderly women.

While installing a new shower curtain, Chrissy falls in the bathtub, causing a bump to develop on her head. Later, she suffers dizzy spells as a result, so Jack and Janet rush her to the hospital. When Jack and Janet visit Chrissy the next morning, they find the doctor leaving her room in tears and saying that "she could go at any time." Assuming the worst, Jack and Janet are uncertain how to break the news to Chrissy. Actually, the doctor (Keene Curtis) teared up from laughter at Chrissy's jokes and that Chrissy is due to be discharged later that day in perfect health.

Merl Denker (Roger C. Carmel), an old rival and nemesis of Mr. Furley, has come to town and Mr. Furley wants to appear to him as a successful professional, because Mr. Denker has always been more successful. Mr. Furley talks Chrissy into posing as his trophy wife during Mr. Denker's visit. Later, Larry comes to see Mr. Furley about a repair when he overhears Mr. Furley and Chrissy talking about her staying overnight with Mr. Furley; and in turn, Larry tells Jack and Janet that Chrissy and Mr. Furley are sleeping together. The situation gets more out of control when Chrissy's musclebound date Elmo (Reb Brown), who came to the apartment looking for her, overhears this as well and angrily goes to Mr. Furley's apartment to confront him. In the end; Mr. Furley is forced to admit the ruse, and Mr. Furley is surprised when Mr. Denker spills the beans about himself as well, confessing that he, too, is a perpetual failure.

Lana reads a letter in a Dear Abby column that mentions a man living with two girls and who is having an affair with one of them. She mentions this to Chrissy and Janet, which leads each to think the other is having an affair with Jack, which causes friction between them. When Jack finds out, he decides to teach the girls a lesson by faking a suicide attempt, but the girls eventually figure out that the letter was not about them.

Reverend Snow (Chrissy's father, Peter Mark Richman) has been given the opportunity to take over a church in Santa Monica. Chrissy is unaware of this when she sees him with another woman in an ice cream parlor and jumps to the conclusion that her father is having an affair. The woman, Mrs. Claremont (Patricia Barry), is among the members of the selection committee who will decide whether to accept Reverend Snow into the church, but she does not approve of Chrissy's living arrangements. Because of this, Reverend Snow is passed on by Mrs. Claremont, but not before he straightens out the situation for Chrissy.

Chrissy and Janet's efforts to get Jack into prime physical condition succeed beyond their wildest expectations when their voluptuous gym instructor Shirley (Tori Lysdahl) falls for him--much to the anger of her unnecessarily overprotective, musclebound brother.

Mr. Furley attempts to convert Jack from his supposed homosexuality to heterosexuality, and Jack may have to face eviction from the apartment as a result.

Jack's first day behind the grill at a diner heats up hilariously when his attractive boss (Ellen Travolta) tries to spice up his life by making an unwelcome play on him. After Jack confronts her about this, she fires him. Janet then encourages Jack to sue his love-starved boss for sexual harassment.

Darlene (Elaine Giftos), a high school friend of Chrissy's, is in town for a visit. When Jack meets her, he invites her to his family's home in San Diego with him for his mother's birthday. However, Jack discovers Darlene is a high-priced call girl, who has invited an unwitting Chrissy to work with her as a "hostess" at a convention.

Jack resigns his job at a hamburger joint and applies for a position as a chef at Lucien's, an exclusive French restaurant. Unfortunately; Jack's skills, along with Dean Travers' recommendation, only succeeds in landing him a job as a busboy. Ashamed, Jack can't bring himself to tell his friends the truth; especially when they all show up at the restaurant one night, expecting to find Jack in his supposed job as chef.

Chrissy's trip to Fresno has left the trio short on the rent this month. Jack, Janet, and Larry all maneuver to fill the "third roommate" spot with their respective choices. However, it's Cindy Snow (Jenilee Harrison), Chrissy's eager cousin, who moves in after a rather clumsy introduction.

Janet learns that Cindy's boss (Rod Colbin) is asking for favors above and beyond the call of duty.

Jack befriends an elderly woman, Gladys Moore (Amzie Strickland), who comes to regard Jack as a surrogate "son." Gladys' doting nature soon proves rather troublesome when she begins to meddle in Jack's love life.

Jack plays cupid to his current girlfriend's widowed father (Keene Curtis), but his arrows misfire when the love-starved older man makes Janet his target.

A wealthy man, Winston Cromwell III (Jeffrey Tambor), persistently tries to convince Cindy to marry him, despite her repeated refusals. Cromwell then attempts to win over Jack and Janet by giving them lavish gifts. Despite his very tempting offers, they decide to help Cindy rid herself of Cromwell once and for all.

After a fight with Janet and Cindy, Jack stays in Larry's apartment while Larry moves downstairs to live with the girls. Jack soon misses his roommates, while Larry unsuccessfully tries to develop an intimate relationship with the girls.

Cindy breaks up with her boyfriend, a fashion photographer named Doug (John McCook), after he chronically criticizes her supposedly unfit facial features for modeling. Later at the apartment, Cindy talks with a friend on the phone about borrowing some maternity clothing for the waitress at the Regal Beagle, who is pregnant. Overhearing this telephone conversation, coupled with the grudge Cindy is holding on Doug for betraying her, Jack and Janet mistakenly believe Doug had gotten Cindy pregnant and abandoned her. After an unsuccessful confrontation with Doug over this matter, Jack decides to make an honest woman of Cindy and proposes to her--before the whole situation is cleared up.

A surprise visit by the bickering Ropers turns into a romantic triangle when the lusty Mrs. Roper seeks solace from Jack and Janet and winds up in the arms of Mr. Furley.

As Cindy packs up for UCLA and Janet looks for a new roommate, Jack is preparing for Cindy's farewell party when he is called in to Angelino's restaurant for a spur-of-the-moment cooking job. After cutting his finger, Jack goes to the hospital and is attended to by nurse Terri Alden (Priscilla Barnes), who bruises Jack's ego with a tetanus shot in the buttocks. After an angry and embarrassed Jack leaves; Janet meets Terri and, after she finds out Terri is looking for an apartment, Janet gives her the offer to move in, which she accepts. When Terri reveals this to Jack by surprising him with her appearance in the apartment later that day, he is appalled. Later, when Jack is preparing food for Cindy's party, Terri tries to get on his good side by flrting with him, then apologizing when she is told by Mr. Furley that he is gay, but only makes things worse. To retaliate, and wanting Terri out desperately, Jack and Larry devise a plan to humiliate her during Cindy's party. After nearly driving Terri to tears with hurtful pranks; Jack realizes he has made a horrible mistake, apologizes, and tells her she can move in.

Jack breaks a date with Janet to coach a nervous Larry, who's hoping to romance Terri with smooth conversation.

Janet buys a blonde wig to wear in an attempt to boost her confidence. However, the wig causes Janet to develop an ego trip that alienates her friendships, as well as spoiling an opportunity to develop a relationship with a nice new neighbor who moved into the building.

Larry arranges a blind date for Jack--with a jewel thief (Tori Lysdahl) who mistakes him for a fence.

Jack receives $1,000 by mistake from an automated cash machine. He hides it in the couch for the weekend, not realizing that Mr. Furley plans to replace the couch later that day.

The trio plants a stray cat at Furley's door, hoping he'll bend his rules and keep it. When a girl appears looking for her kitten, Furley lies and says he took it to the pound; so Jack and the girls search the pounds and bring home three different cats.