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8 unusual facts about Three's Company


Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company is a 2003 American made-for-television movie, made by NBC, documenting the success of the sitcom Three's Company, as well as the interpersonal conflicts that occurred among its staff and cast.

Chief of Hearts

The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and William Wright and directed by Chris Clements, features guest star Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm, Maurice LaMarche and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and has references to the television shows Starsky and Hutch, Three's Company, and Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Jack Mendelsohn

An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he has numerous credits as a TV scripter, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Johnnie Mortimer

A version of Man about the House later transferred to America under the name Three's Company.

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

Schefflera elegantissima

In the Three's Company episode "Days of Beer and Weeds" (season: 2, episode: 22; air date: Tuesday February 21, 1978), Jack and Chrissy think a plant found in the Ropers' garden is marijuana, but Janet later identifies it as a False Aralia.

Ted Bergmann

By 1976, Bergmann would take on the job as the production manager for the ABC-TV sitcom Three's Company, serving in that capacity during the series eight season run on ABC.

Terri Alden

Terri Alden is a major fictional character during the final three seasons of the sitcom Three's Company, born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.


1673 in England

3 July - Elkanah Settle's play The Empress of Morocco first publicly performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London by the Duke's Company and published with illustrations.

1673 in literature

Settle's play also inspires a farce with the same title, probably by Thomas Duffet, performed by the King's Company and published the following year.

1674 in literature

In response, their rivals at the King's Company stage The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle by Thomas Duffet.

Ann Wedgeworth

Wedgeworth won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Chapter Two, by Neil Simon, and also appeared regularly on Another World (1967–70), Somerset (1970–73), Three's Company (1979), and Evening Shade (1990–94).

Barry Quin

After a small role in the British television series Just William in 1977, he had bit parts on UK sitcom Two's Company and US drama series Charlie's Angels.

Catherine Parks

Parks has made guest appearances on TV shows such as The Love Boat, Three's Company, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Street Hawk, Tales from the Darkside, Hunter, and Empty Nest.

Centurians of Rome

This film was reportedly financed from a 1980 theft by a Brink's security guard of almost $2 million.

Cynthia Harris

Harris is perhaps best recognized to television viewers for her guest roles on Three's Company, L.A. Law (1986), the TV adaptation of the Broadway play Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), Mad About You (1992).

Duke's Company

The company also acted many translations and adaptations of French and other foreign plays; their 1662 production of Sir Samuel Tuke's The Adventures of Five Hours, a version of Calderón's comedy Los Empeños de Seis Horas, ran for thirteen straight performances and was the first great hit of Restoration drama.

The Duke's Company had the patronage of the King's younger brother the Duke of York, the future King James II.

Elizabeth Barry

Barry worked for the Duke's Company from 1675 to 1682, taking the role of Cordelia opposite Thomas Betterton's Lear in Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

She worked in big, prestigious London theatre companies throughout her successful career: from 1675 in the Duke's Company, 1682 – 1695 in the monopoly United Company, and from 1695 onwards as a member of the actors' cooperative usually known as Betterton's Company, of which she was one of the original shareholders.

Gibbon's Tennis Court

After the English Restoration in 1660, Charles II granted Letters Patent to two companies to perform "legitimate drama" in London: the Duke's Company under the patronage of the Duke of York, led by William Davenant, and the King's Company, led by Thomas Killigrew.

Great Swamp Fight

On August 12, 1676 the leader of the Wampanoag sachem, Metacomet (also known as King Philip) was shot and killed by John Alderman, a Native American soldier in Benjamin Church's company.

Hooperman

Guest stars in the series' 42-episode run included: Don Cheadle, Kim Delaney, Dennis Dugan, Norman Fell (who worked with Ritter on Three's Company), Miguel Ferrer, Jack Gilford, Mark Hamill, Joanna Kerns, Richard Kind, Dan Lauria, Jane Leeves, Lorna Luft, David Paymer, Barbara Rush, and Shannon Tweed.

How to Live Forever

Somers is an actress, author, and businesswoman, best known for her role as Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company.

Joel Brooks

He also appeared in two episodes of Three's Company as Dr. Prescott, a psychologist that Jack sees to build up his self-confidence, and in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Falow in the episode "Move Along Home".

Joyce DeWitt

DeWitt would go on to co-produce and host the 2003 NBC-TV television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company, with actress Melanie Paxson portraying her during her time on Three's Company.

King's Company

Killigrew's King's Company fell under the sponsorship of Charles himself; Davenant's Duke's Company under that of Charles's brother, then the Duke of York, later James II of England.

Lee Ving

He also appeared in an episode of the short-lived Three's Company spin-off Three's a Crowd as a criminal in a police lineup.

Phule's Company

The book follows the comedic events as Willard J. Phule, the rich son of a millionaire arms manufacturer, reforms a group of misfits in the Space Legion, a fictional organization similar to the French Foreign Legion, into an "elite fighting force".

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

He is best known for his 1663 play The Adventure of Five Hours, possibly co-authored by George Digby - the play (an adaptation of a Spanish work by Antonio Coello) was produced by the Duke's Company and later proved an influence on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's opera The Duenna.

Stuart Devlin

He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmith's Company 1996-97.

The Devil's Company

This third memoir installment begins in November of 1722, eight months after the 1722 General Election that provided the historical setting for A Spectacle of Corruption.

One of the fictional characters, not happy about the activities of the British East India Company, refers to it as "the devil's company".

Liss has written that the character was "inspired" by the real life boxing champion, Daniel Mendoza, who also wrote a memoir.

This time, Weaver finds himself involved in puzzling and dangerous events surrounding the all-powerful East India Company.

The Maiden Queen

The play, commonly known by its more distinctive subtitle, was acted by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (which had escaped the Great Fire of London the year before).

The Wendy's Company

An investor that Posner contacted to help get Sharon Steel out of bankruptcy, indicated that his lawyer, Andrew Heine, might want to buy Fischbach Corp.

Security Management Company, headed by Victor Posner, a major investor in DWG saw potential with the company as it was bold to sell its main operation.

Thomas Betterton

On the opening of the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his Siege of Rhodes.

Thomaso

In October 1664, Killigrew's King's Company gave an unprecedented all-female-cast production of his Parson's Wedding.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

Two's Company

Two's Company The Duets, a 2006 album of Cliff Richard in a set of 14 duets with major artists


see also

East Catholic High School

Mary Cadorette - Television Star - "Three's a Crowd" a spin off of "Three's Company" - Played Vicky Bradford - Dancer.

Joyce DeWitt

DeWitt appeared on Suzanne Somers' talk show, Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through, during which she and Somers reminisced about their time on Three's Company together, Somers apologized for the conflict that arose between them, and they exchanged anecdotes about the last time they each spoke to John Ritter.