Come and knock on our door...
Three's Company is another series with some spin-offs, but no connection to the TVCU.
I know I usually do these posts the first week of the month, but tomorrow is the first so close enough.
1977 - 1984--Three's Company--This was a great series. It ran in syndication in reruns when I was a kid. Jack Tripper needs a place to live. Janet and Chrissy need a roommate. Only the landlord is conservative and won't let a male room with women. Except despite being homophobic, he's okay if Jack is gay, and so the deception and constant misunderstandings which are the basis for the comedy begin.
1979--That 70's Show Stone Cold Crazy. Don Knotts appears has Jackie and Fez's Landlord and has a comical misunderstanding. Ralph Furley mentioned he was the Landlord at some of his brother's other properties. So this must take place shortly before his brother had him be the landlord for the roommates on Three's Company
1979-1980--The Ropers--Mr. Roper was such a popular character as the landlord on Three's Company. He was always breaking the fourth wall, smiling at the camera after cracking a joke, usually at his wife's expense. So they got a spin-off. The Ropers sold the building to Mr. Furley (Don Knotts) and moved to a more upscale neighborhood, where they had snobby neighbors who looked down on them. I didn't realize but the show didn't last that long. I liked it though. Mr. Roper was great.
1983--Truth, Justin, and the American Way. Is a comic about a slacker who gets a Super suit and his many misadventures it includes cameos by many characters from 70's and 80's tv shows the important bit or us is that Justin lives in the Regale Begale apartment complex, the same place Jack and his roommates live
1984 - 1985--Three's a Crowd--So Three's Company ended after a successful seven year run. But the network wanted the show to continue. So they took lead character, bumbling Jack Tripper, whose whole thing was living with two hotties and got him into a relationship. He had been a culinary student on Three's Company and now he opened his own restaurant and got into a committed relationship but his new father-in-law didn't approve of Jack. The show was alright but not the same. The original premise was gone and Jack (John Ritter) couldn't carry the show without the great ensemble cast that had previously existed.
1994--The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air---What's Will got to do with it?orman Fell appears as the unnamed Landlord of Will's office building, so obviously Mr. Roper right?
1997--Ellen--"Roommates"--Mr. Roper makes an appearance.
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