When two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last roommate. However, hijinks ensure when Jack must pretend to be gay in order to throw off the scent of the trio's conservative landlady.
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Fandango At Home
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- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes aired
- 171
- Latest aired
- S08E21
- Total runtime
- 2d 16h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 March 1977 – April 1977 6 episodes
- Season 2 September 1977 – May 1978 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1978 – September 1979 23 episodes
- Season 4 September 1979 – May 1980 25 episodes
- Season 5 October 1980 – May 1981 22 episodes
- Season 6 October 1981 – May 1982 26 episodes
- Season 7 September 1982 – May 1983 22 episodes
- Season 8 September 1983 – September 1984 22 episodes
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S06E01 Jack Bares All (1)
October 6 · 25min find the promo
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Jack cuts his finger and goes to the hospital. While there, he meets a sassy nurse named Terri Alden and they do not really hit it off. Meanwhile, Cindy is leaving for UCLA and Janet is looking for a roommate and finds Terri, much to Jack's dismay....
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S06E02 Jack Bares All (2)
October 6 · 25min find the promo
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Terri tries her best to warm up to Jack, which proves to be totally unsuccessful. Jack now hates her even more and wants her out. At Cindy's going-away party, he and Larry really insult and play mean jokes on Terri. Jack has a chance to spray Terri with water, but he ends up spraying himself. He really wants Terri to stay with them and now Terri is added to the cast.
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S06E03 Terri Makes Her Move
October 13 · 25min find the promo
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To boost Jack's confidence, Terri turns on the charm, causing Janet to suspect that her new roommate's interest in Jack is more than platonic.
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S06E04 Professor Jack
October 27 · 25min find the promo
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Jack is giving cooking lessons to raise some money and Terri mistakes them as love lessons.
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S06E05 Some of That Jazz
November 3 · 25min find the promo
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Jack comes to the rescue when Janet meets an unscrupulous ballet dancer who tells her she has real talent to be a dancer in order to sleep with her.
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S06E06 Lies My Roommate Told Me
November 10 · 25min find the promo
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Jack lies to Janet about having a date that night so that he can go out with 'Greedy' Gretchen.
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S06E07 Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
November 17 · 25min find the promo
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Jack and Janet think a doctor that Terri brought home is really a mental patient.
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S06E08 Eyewitness Blues
November 24 · 25min find the promo
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Jack witnessed a robbery and now wants protective custody to save him from the return of the criminal.
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S06E09 Boy Meets Dummy
December 1 · 25min find the promo
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Jack has a date with Angelino's daughter against her father's strict wishes and so to turn her off, pretends he is with his ""wife"" which is really a CPR dummy.
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S06E10 Dates of Wrath
December 8 · 25min find the promo
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Janet unintentially fixes Terri up with the guy (Bob) she wanted to go out with. Terri tries to smooth things out with Janet by fixing her up with him, but Janet refuses to be the second choice. Jack tries to smooth things out between the girls and loses his own date ( Donna ) to Bob as a result.
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S06E11 Macho Man
December 15 · 25min find the promo
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While taking fighting lessons from Terri, Jack accidentally tackles an undercover cop making an arrest and gets arrested for assault.
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S06E12 Strangers in the Night
January 5 · 25min find the promo
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Jack falls in love with a beautiful woman and wants to serenade her. He goes to her apartment and sings at the window, but what he doesn't know is that he has serenaded an overweight girl. The overweight girls thinks that Jack likes her, but the beautiful woman trashes her in front of Jack. Jack decides to have a date with the overweight girl instead.
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S06E13 The Matchbreakers
January 12 · 25min find the promo
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Ralph Furley falls in love with a woman whom the trio believe is a golddigger just out for whatever Ralph can give her financially.
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S06E14 Oh, Nun
January 19 · 25min find the promo
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Jack overhears a conversation between Janet and her friend, a visiting nun, who has decided to leave the convent to marry the man she loves. Jack thinks he is that man and tries to convince her he is no good by pretending to be an alcoholic wharf rat.
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S06E15 Maid to Order
January 26 · 25min find the promo
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To help give Cindy a job, the trio agree to hire her as their maid but with catastophic results.
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S06E16 Hearts and Flowers
February 2 · 25min find the promo
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Janet's new boss is an efficiency expert and she drives Janet nuts. What doesn't help matters any is that Jack falls for her.
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S06E17 Urban Plowboy
February 9 · 25min find the promo
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Larry uses Jack's name while out on a date that goes bad and when the girl's brother comes looking for Jack, he must hide out on Cindy's grandparents' farm until the heat is off.
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S06E18 A Friend in Need
February 16 · 25min find the promo
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Jack agrees to help out a friend by posing as a head chef and becoming the favorite cook for a mobster with a spicy appetite.
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S06E19 Jack's 10
February 23 · 25min find the promo
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Jack's new girlfriend is rich and she wants Jack to do better than his friends and his job.
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S06E20 Doctor in the House
March 2 · 25min find the promo
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Jack pretends he is a doctor to impress his grandfather.
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S06E21 Critic's Choice
March 9 · 25min find the promo
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Jack tries to win praise from a food critic, who is nothing more than a leich.
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S06E22 Paradise Lost
March 16 · 25min find the promo
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Terri lines up a fancy new house for the trio to move into but Larry and Mr. Furley, not wanting to see their best friends leave, plot to make them feel wanted enough to stay.
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S06E23 And Now, Here's Jack
March 23 · 25min find the promo
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Jack gets his own cooking show and hires the girls as his assistants with unexpected results.
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S06E24 Janet Wigs Out
April 6 · 25min find the promo
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Janet buys a blonde wig to improve her image, but ends up breaking bad on her friends.
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S06E25 Up in the Air
May 4 · 25min find the promo
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Janet needs a date to impress a new rich man she met and asks Jack to escort her to the ball which is held on a private island. Jack, afraid of flying, gets some tranquilizers from Larry, much to Terri's dismay. Jack accidentally mixes them with liquor and becomes a ""party animal"".
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S06E26 Mate for Each Other
May 11 · 25min find the promo
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Jack & Janet sign up for a computer dating service, and both decide to lie on the application. Little do they know the computer has set them up together. They decide to go ahead with the date, but Terri thinks that they went out with each other behind her back. Larry tries to clarify the whole situation without knowing the whole truth himself causing Jack and Janet to believe he is making a play for Terri. The race is on to sort through their tangled stories to find the real truths.