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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- 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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S08E01 Jack Be Quick
September 27 · 25min find the promo
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Jack's girlfriend wants him to be a father to her child.
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S08E02 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
October 4 · 25min find the promo
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Jack finds a magazine quiz about secret loves and thinks that either Janet or Terri is in love with him. He then gets them both alone in a cabin to find out who the mystery lover is.
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S08E03 The Money Machine
October 18 · 25min find the promo
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Jack goes to an ATM machine and the machine goes haywire and spits out all of the money on Jack. He tries to get it back to the bank, but the bank is closed. Janet suggests that he hide it in the couch, which, incidentally, gets takes away by Furley who wants to put in a new couch!
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S08E04 Out on a Limb
October 25 · 25min find the promo
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Jack tries to get a scathing letter from a food critic who thinks has written a bad review about his restaurant.
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S08E05 Alias Jack Tripper
November 1 · 25min find the promo
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Jack gets Larry to go out with Janet's visiting friend because he already had a date planned.
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S08E06 Hearing Is Believing
November 8 · 25min find the promo
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Jack goes out with a sex therapist and Janet thinks that she is a prostitute.
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S08E07 Grandma Jack
November 22 · 25min find the promo
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Larry enters one of Jack's recipes in a cooking contest which wins, but Jack finds out that the contest is open only to women. Jack dresses as a woman to enter a bake-off competition.
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S08E08 Like Father, Like Son
November 29 · 25min find the promo
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Jack's father comes to two, but Jack is mad at him because of all the heartache he had caused.
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S08E09 The Odd Couples
December 6 · 25min find the promo
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Terri goes out with a doctor who happens to be married, and the roommates plan to have the wife catch her husband and Terri together.
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S08E10 Now You See It, Now You Don't
December 13 · 25min find the promo
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Jack and Larry gambles with a lot of fake money, and they lose a lot.
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S08E11 The Charming Stranger
December 20 · 25min find the promo
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The trio is suspicious of a new tenant, who they think is a jewel thief and a murderer. In actuality, he is a ventriloquist practicing for his act.
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S08E12 Janet Shapes Up
January 4 · 25min find the promo
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Janet's aerobics job seems to be in jeopardy, and Jack tries to go out with the female boss.
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S08E13 Itching for Trouble
January 10 · 25min find the promo
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To help an old school chum save her marriage, Jack agrees to talk to her husband, a very jealous, big man. However, he learns she met with someone that day and now has poison ivy and so will the man she met up with...Jack.
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S08E14 Baby, It's Cold Inside
January 17 · 25min find the promo
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When they surprise a burglar robbing the restaurant after store hours, Jack and Ralph are locked in the meat freezer by the thief.
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S08E15 Look What I Found
January 24 · 25min find the promo
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After Jack finds a stray kitten and can't keep it due to the no-pet clause, the trio leaves it at Mr. Furley's doorstep. Mr. Furley is having fun until his brother Bart sends over an apartment inspector and the cat's owner winds up at the trio's apartment.
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S08E16 Jack's Tattoo
January 31 · 25min find the promo
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Jack's navy buddies take him to a tattoo parlor while he's drunk.
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S08E17 Jack Takes Off
February 21 · 25min find the promo
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Jack helps out an art teacher by posing nude for her class.
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S08E18 Forget Me Not
February 28 · 25min find the promo
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Jack smashes Janet's new car and fakes amnesia to save his skin. The girls realize that Jack is fooling them and decides to get even with him.
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S08E19 The Heiress
March 8 · 25min find the promo
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An old flower shop customer of Janet's leaves her a little something in his will and his family tries to cut her out.
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S08E20 Cupid Works Overtime
March 15 · 25min find the promo
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While flying, Jack gets a fear of heights and a stewardess named Vicky Bradford helps him out. They even go out for the first time, against her father's wishes. Meanwhile, Philip, the guy we met in the last episode, proposes to Janet.
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S08E21 Friends and Lovers (1)
September 18 · 25min find the promo
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Jack and Vicky are really good together, despite Mr. Bradford's objections. Janet and Philip get married in the apartment, and Jack wants Vicky to marry him as well.
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S08E22 Friends and Lovers (2)
September 18 · 25min find the promo
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When Jack proposes to Vicky, she turns him down cold. The reason is that she's afraid of marriage because it might fail like her father's did. They decide to live together. The trio finally moves out of their apartment and into their new lives: Terri is going to Hawaii to work with poor children, Janet and Philip move into their new place, and Jack moves into the apartment above the restaurant with Vicky. As they begin their new life together, Mr. Bradford comes in and tells him that he is the new landlord! With that, the spin-off series Three's a Crowd begins.