40th Anniversary of THREE'S COMPANY MINUS Suzanne Somers

Through death and blackball, the interesting half of the cast is not there.

Terry looks bored to tears...

Where's the old broad who played the elderly vixen Lana?

Oh Lord, Joyce DeWitt must be cummin' in her panties. She hasn't had this much attention in 40 years.

The four of them talk & reminisce about John Ritter, Don Knots, Norman Fell and Audra Lindley

Not one word about Suzanne Somers. It is as if they erased her contribution to the show.

Joyce and Suzanne made up a couple of years back. On Suzanne's talk show, of course.

Somers probably didn't want to "guest" on a DeWitt led production. In all honesty, DeWitt may have some issues, but Somers is a narcissistic con artist.

After 40 years it's insane either lady should have any issue sitting down together to please the fans of the show.

Suzanne talks here with TV Archive how TO THIS DAY people from the show still snub her. If they see her on the street, they will cross the street to avoid her. Or if they run into her, they will avoid eye contact

Poor Priscilla Barnes could star in "The Jan Hooks Story: The Later Years."

Suzanne continues to be busy pioneering ground-breaking stem cell facelift advancements. Scientists have no time for Hollywood jibberjabber.

Here in this podcast (go 32 minutes in) Richard Kline talks about the Suzanne/Joyce reunion and went really went on behind the scenes that led to Suzanne firing on 3 Company

Gravity's still gonna win in the end.

How exactly is it a reunion? 3/4s of the cast is dead. If Suzanne isn't there, is it just Joyce talking to herself?

R13 As Richard Kline says "I'm Still Here"

Dick Kline must be at least 80 by now since he looked 40 back in '77

Poor Jenilee looks like one of those old bunny ranch hookers from that HBO cathouse series.

Thanks 4 posting that reunion interview here OP. Loved it!

All the women on the show got bad plastic surgery. Joyce looks the best but has that weird nose.

Joyce still has jet black hair and dresses all in black. She looks like the director of a funeral parlor.

That's her homage to Jack's Bistro

Antenna tv said via Facebook Somers was unavailable to them . I guess that means she declined.

[quote] Antenna tv said via Facebook Somers was unavailable to them .

So they say

I never thought Larry was attractive back when Three's Company was airing, but Richard Kline looks the best of the four there by far. Maybe because he's not trying to look sexy in his dotage.

No Jack, no Ropers, no Chrissy, no Furley. Whose brainstorm was it to have a "reunion" anyway?

Running a funeral home? Joyce looks like she should be a customer at a funeral home. Please. It it was either or they would have chosen Suzanne. She probably wanted some money to show up and they turned her down.

R24 problem with that is that Suzanne never worked with Priscilla or Jennilee. & don't think none of them showed up for free, All of them were paid for this appearance

Thanks OP, this is a great interview. The 4 stars interviewed seem really nice and paid great tributes to the others that have passed. I didn't miss Suzanne at all.

[quote]No Jack, no Ropers, no Chrissy, no Furley. Whose brainstorm was it to have a "reunion" anyway?

I know! So stupid. Either invite them all or don't have a reunion at all.

They were very gracious to invite Jenny

You mean desperate, r28.

to make this a real reunion it should of been only Suzanne, Joyce & Richard Kline,

What would a reunion be without the star of the show, Jack Tripper? Ropers were no shows too.

I guess Jeffrey tambor was too busy to come and knock on their door...

R32 even Jeffery Tambor was mentioned on the show, but zero mention of Suzanne

What about Reb Brown?

If Bob Mandan was mentioned over Suzanne, then I consider that proof positive of the conspiracy...

John Ritter chose me over ALL of them. Thirsty bitches.

I did not expect Priscilla Barnes to age so badly.

Did she show her third nipple?

What happened to PB's face? It looks like she is all lumpy around her jaw line.

R40 yeah I agree. She's kind of a sardonic character - I like her sense of humor. I guess I'm the only DL nut who listened to her pod cast? The four of them gossip a bit on that - if you're at all a TC fan it's worth listening to.

[quote] I guess that means she declined.

Translation: they didn't offer her enough money.

Damn, Joyce! I know that you had the longest tenure, but give the others an opportunity to talk!

Holy botox, Batman.

They should have had a floral caftan on the set as a tribute to Audra Lindley.

They offered to have Suzanne phone her part in but she declined.

R48 ok that's funny.

Maybe she drew the line at having to wear the pigtails again.

Joyce is like the annoying theatre geek in your high school who always is the first to raise her hand, sits in the front of every class, and never shuts the fuck up.

Although a friend of our family (she guested on a lot of 70s guest shows - not TC though) lived a block or two away from her at the time and said, I quote: "she did even more coke than I did."

It's strange, I was about to say that Barnes probably was in more episodes than Somers, but nope. Suzanne was in 104 eps (vs. 74 for Barnes). I didn't really watch it, I was only about 8-10 years old when it was really popular. But my recollection was that Somers left in the 2nd or 3rd season, yet she actually left in Season 5. Did she really think she was bigger than the show? Especially since at that point the producers already had enough for syndication.

[quote]After 40 years it's insane either lady should have any issue sitting down together to please the fans of the show.

I can't imagine that

[quote]Did she really think she was bigger than the show?

She was, the show sucked bad enough without the Ropers but it was unwatchable with Terri. Back then ABC thought they didn't need anyone because Fonzie could carry Happy Days, then they didn't need the likes of Cindy William, Farrah Fawcett-Majors or Miss Somers.

[quote]Did she really think she was bigger than the show?

[quote]She was, the show sucked bad enough without the Ropers but it was unwatchable with Terri.

No, she wasn't. The show had its best ratings in Season 3, dropped in S4, dropped again in S5 (Somers' last episodes), then actually went back up in S6. It rose from No. 8 to No. 4 with Suzanne gone, and added another million viewers.

And her lack of success after her departure should tell you how big she was. Unless you're a huge fan of "She's the Sheriff".

R51 so post-season 3, TC had its best ratings in season 6, correct?

I think that was also their best season , pretty easily.

It's sad that poor Richard Kline can't bring himself to watch the show anymore.

Jenilee Harrison is a freakin amazon. Did she make them put a board under her cushion so she wouldn't sink down into the sofa like those other broads?

Priscilla Barnes' face has dropped at least 2".

[quote] She was, the show sucked bad enough without the Ropers but it was unwatchable with Terri. Back then ABC thought they didn't need anyone because Fonzie could carry Happy Days, then they didn't need the likes of Cindy William, Farrah Fawcett-Majors or Miss Somers.

At least they didn't settle the salary dispute by cancelling it like they did to us.

[quote] And her lack of success after her departure should tell you how big she was.

And how many years did Step by Step run for?

How many thigh masters did she sell?

À murder of crows.

Barnes' face looks lumpy and a sort of swollen. Prednisone? I listened to her podcast about the show - should have been a great listen but there were so many technical issues it was hard to follow.

Mary Cadorette wouldn't have been on it, even if they had asked her to be!

That's because it was the 40th anniversary of Three's COMPANY, not some flop called Three's A CROWD that no one remembers, you idiot!

Mary Cadorette was on at least 3 episodes of TC which included the two part series finale! If Mary Cadorette still had an agent, Mary Cadorette would tell said agent to refuse the low three figure offer to appear on the reunion!

They didn't even invite John Ritter so why in the world would they invite Mary Cadorette?

Didn't Step by Step last like 8 years? I would hardly call that a failure.

some people who post to this thread don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. typical dl.

[quote] Didn't Step by Step last like 8 years? I would hardly call that a failure.

Commercially, no. Artistically, yes.

The actual show clips look awful when cropped to 16x9. Couldn't somebody in post figure out how to adjust it for the right aspect ratio? There's one shot of Don Knotts where his chin is cropped and you lose part of his reaction. It was all about the reactions.

r66 you stupid asshole. three's company was an artistic success? !!! LMFAO!!!

R68 = Eleanor's fetus

R69 IS BUTTHURT.

I wouldn't fuck R70 with Roper's cock!

ROPER IS DEAD LIKE YOU.

[quote][R66] you stupid asshole. three's company was an artistic success? !!! LMFAO!!!

Compared to [italic]Step by Step[/italic] it was fucking Shakespearean.

no suzanne? it's not a true reunion.

Capital letters are your friend. I would be more impressed by your calling me stupid and an asshole (an act of psychological projection if ever there was one) if you used them in the right places. If you cannot grant us that basic courtesy, than there are plenty of grease fires for you to go die in.

r75, i don't make trash. i burn it.

R75 was hoisted by her own petard

Says R77, the sexist ape who forgot a period at the end.

Nice try, R78, but I'm not a messy grammar bottom

No, R79, just an illiterate moron who projects his stupidity onto everyone smarter than he is, which is almost everyone.

In bashing this show, you are doing the Moral Majority's work for them.

Both Joyce's and Suzanne's agents were desperately trying to have John's character marry either Janet or Chrissy for the spinoff. Little did they know the cast of Three's a Crowd was already chosen and rehearsing. Joyce even offered to take a pay cut.

The best thing about that show was John Ritter's ever present basket. That guy never saw a pair of jockey shorts he liked.

And his deliciously hairy body was to die for hot.

[quote]Both Joyce's and Suzanne's agents were desperately trying to have John's character marry either Janet or Chrissy for the spinoff.

That makes no sense. Suzanne was long gone by that point and there was no chance in hell the production staff would ever have anything to do with her by then.

It makes no sense but it's the truth. Oh and they're turning Three's Company into a movie.

It makes no sense for Jack to marry Janet, Chrissy, Teri or any of the roommates. That would have just come out of nowhere. And the show was built upon their platonic relationships.

WELL WHY DO YOU THINK THEY SAID NO?

[quote] WELL WHY DO YOU THINK THEY SAID NO? You have to be asked to say no

It is the truth - the book written about Three's Company talks about Suzanne wanting to star in the spinoff.

Yes, Step By Step was on for several years, about a decade after Somers departed "Three's Company". It was a "TGIF" show, paired with the likes of "Family Matters" and "Boy Meets World", and aimed at a teen audience, who weren't even alive when "Three's Company" debuted, and were not watching the show because of Somers. The show would have done just as well with another actress in that role. You can't point to "Step by Step" and say Suzanne was bigger than TC.

Priscilla has Madame's mouth but otherwise looks fine.

[quote] The show would have done just as well with another actress in that role. You can't point to "Step by Step" and say Suzanne was bigger than TC.

Yet Joyce, Jenilee & Priscilla didn't follow up Three's Company (well maybe Jenilee on Dallas)

nobody fucking said step by step was bigger than tc. nobody. it was a moderately successful sit com with a long life on tv.

In doing [italic]Three's A Crowd[/italic], they followed the same spin-off template as [italic]Man About the House[/italic] did with [italic]George and Martha[/italic] and [italic]Robin's Nest[/italic], so why should they have been surprised or hurt by that?

[quote] nobody fucking said step by step was bigger than tc. nobody. it was a moderately successful sit com with a long life on tv.

The point some people were making was that Suzanne had no acting career after 3 company, and that is simply NOT TRUE

Darn tootin', R96.

Joyce left showbiz for a decade after Three's. Had she stayed, she would have easily gotten another TV show.

She would have been the sheriff.

Sue Somers could buy and sell Joyce 10x over. No contest.

Except Alan Hamel would sign all the checks.

[quote] Joyce left showbiz for a decade after Three's. Had she stayed, she would have easily gotten another TV show.

R98 is trolling

So you're essentially a nobody in Hollywood and you win the FUCKING LOTTERY by playing a bimbo on an ABC sitcom and the stars align and it's a hit, primarily because of John Ritter's comedic abilities.

So what do you do?

You try to make it all about YOU and you leave the show and have various successes and failures ever since.

I did 12 hours of extra work on a TV show this week. If you show up, do what they tell you, and the assistant directors aren't total dicks (mine weren't), then you can get in and out, make a coupe of bucks and be fed.

I 'm so freaking grateful I have THAT.

To throw it all way because you're unhappy and you don't want to be ON THE SHOW that GAVE YOU EVERYTHING makes me sick!

R103 everything happens for a reason, and if Suzanne didn't leave the way she left, doubtful she would be able to reinvent herself.

So it worked out for everyone a-okay in the long run

Stop pretending the Chrissy character wasn't central to the early buzz of this show.

R105 no one is saying that. All we are saying is that Suzanne still got acting jobs AFTER 3 Company.

If it weren't for Suzanne the ship that was 'Step by Step' would have sank! She was the heart and soul of that show. Now, Patrika Darbo? That's another can of worms!

Rumour has it that Joyce was offered the role of Hope in 'Thirtysomething' but her agent couldn't get a hold of her because she was on a 'spiritual journey' in the Himalayas.

No credit to Patrick Duffy?

Didn't Step by Step essentially get "Urkeled" by the late addition of the Sasha Mitchell character?

R102 Not trolling. Everyone from that show got work after they left it. It's ridiculous to assume that Joyce wouldn't have gotten another role in a TV show. Especially given how popular Three's was.

R103 Suzanne said it took her years to realize why John was so angry with her . It wasn't because she wanted to be paid much more than everyone else. Not because she put the show in jeopardy over her contract dispute. The real reason was because John realized he had lost a great comedic partner.

R104, if she had never left we might never have been subjected to Three's A Crowd.

Seriously, of course, everything happens for 'a' reason, but that doesn't mean it's a 'good' reason.

[quote] Seriously, of course, everything happens for 'a' reason, but that doesn't mean it's a 'good' reason.

I'm sure she goes over her regret while counting her millions

Suzanne guest starred on The Ropers for a two parter.

I never saw the show the ropers.

HOLLYWOOD WIVES!

[quote]I never saw the show the ropers.

Don't bother.

Joyce and her husband.

Such a slappable mug

Hubby has HOF gay face

Wait, Joyce married a black dwarf alien?👽

Does Joyce ever shut up? She barely let the others get a word in.

Remember when Joyce said something like she was the new Lucy? I never could stand her. I'd like to buy her for what she's worth and sell her for what she thinks she's worth. A stubby midget who thinks she's sexy.

If a sexy blonde wasn't important to the show, why did they keep trying to replace her (badly)?

When the show took-off they should have given them all hefty salary increases (and maybe a Bentley).

Producers felt ANY blonde would do.

Maybe they weren't far off. When SHE'S THE SHERIFF was first announced as SUDDENLY SHERIFF(as opposed to SUDDENLY SALAD), the star was to be none other than Miss Priscilla Barnes.

I guess I'm in the minority. I preferred the character of Terri to Chrissy. Chrissy was too dumb to be believable. I liked Terri's sarcasm and intelligence; it added a contrast to the other characters.

I wish it could have been Jack, Terri, and Chrissy.

I concur with r128. I liked Terri best of all the blondes. I also liked Janet. Don't get the hate for Joyce. Ideally, it would have been Jack, Janet, Terri with the Ropers since Furley got on my nerves most of the time (as did Don on Andy Griffith). Terri was a believable character whereas by the time Chrissy was out, that character was ruined by too much stupidity.

Go ahead Jack. Do it. You know you want to.

My favorite episode is the one with the big misunderstanding and Mr. Furley thought Jack was sleeping with both Janet and Chrissy.

The funniest episode with Chrissy was when she was in the hospital with a head injury, and Jack and Janet, because of a misunderstanding of course, thought that she was dying.

Eventually, the doctor approves Chrissy to leave the hospital. The doctor exits Chrissy's hospital room in tears--from laughing at her jokes--just as Jack and Janet arrive at the hospital. Jack and Janet: Doctor, how is Chrissy? Doctor: (wiping away tears) oh, she can go at any time... (Jack and Janet are horrified.)

Later:

Chrissy (in a cheerful voice, while sitting in her hospital bed): Well, it's almost over! Janet: Did the doctor say when you'd be ....going? Chrissy: He said around noon.

Still later:

Mr. Furley (to Jack and Janet): if you wrap things up here around noon, you won't have to pay for another day. Jack: Right now, we want to spend every moment that we can with Chrissy. Mr. Furley: Well, fine, but when it's all over here, you can take her home, prop her up on the sofa with some pillows, and stare at her all day.

Priscilla looks like she has a drinking problem.

I like Terri too. Chrissy just looked ridiculous by the end with those pigtails. She looked great the first season.

See, I get Suzanne asking for more money. But she wasn't just asking for a raise but a percentage of the show. She got greedy. No wonder Joyce and John didn't want her back - she thought she was more important to the show than then. She was not a team player.

r135 Susan asked for ALL of them not just her alone. If they had stood with her, they would've got it too.

r132

That was good, but the episode where Mrs Roper became sex crazed and wanted sex with Mr Roper was better.

R135 not to mention she wasn't just asking for parity with John, but for the amount Carroll O'Connor and Alan Alda were getting - which is simply absurd. So Somers disingenuously makes it out to be a feminist gender thing - that she was some kind of feminist martyr - which is total bullshit.

That said, the producers should have just fired her - the whole having her go in a separate entrance after everyone was gone and filming that humiliating tag was some kind of sick sadistic game the producers were playing on their part. ANd I think that's the only part where Suzanne can legitimately try to elicit sympathy - because by all accounts the producers were sexist assholes (Barnes et al talk a lot about what lecherous pigs they were on the podcast, too).

R136 not true at all. Therein lies the rub. It was a "team" of her and her husband and an attitude of fuck John and espcially Joyce.

Dunno. if someone offers me something that will set me for life, I'm not sure I'd say okay, but I want a piece of the pie, too so I can have even more.

then again, I'm fucking broke right now.

I do think acting in Hollywood and landing a modest hit show is like hitting the lottery.

r136 that is not true at all. Suzanne and her husband only thought of themselves. It wasn't a Friends-type situation where they all banded together and demanded to be paid equally.

The ABC producers were assholes but her demands were ridiculous. They had just been through difficult negotiations with Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams on Laverne & Shirley and were not about to go through it with Suzanne Somers, and she learned the hard way. Valerie Harper also learned the hard way too a few years after the SS incident, but in her case, it was different because she did resolve it with the show. And then they backtracked and fired her. She won her lawsuit because she proved that she was willing to work and had negotiated a new contract.

r140 Valerie didn't technically win, first of all she took it out of the legal system and went to arbitration where an arbitrator decided she had SOME points. Secondly Valerie caved in the end because she owned 25% of the show and she knew that pursuing it would not get her job back and she'd lose any potential income. So even after she was let go Valerie still made money off her show.

R140 what I've never figured out was whether Suzanne's and Alan's outrageous demands were a mere negotiation ploy so that both parties would meet in the "middle" at a Laverne & SHIRLEY level, or if she really was that delusional?

Common sense would tell me the former, but then again the way those two went about everything - they used some of the worst, but amateurish negotiation tactics ever - makes me wonder. My hunch is Suzanne and Alan really did convince themselves that she should be paid as much as the very, very top earners on TV - regardless of gender.

Priscilla Barnes looks like hell.

R142 Gender shouldn't have been a factor. Her problem was that she over estimated her importance to the show. She played a hot ditzy blonde, that isn't a hard thing to come by in Hollywood.

Wasn't Suzanne the third blonde cast in the show - there were two pilots without her - and the consensus on here has been than neither of her replacements easily replaced her?

I only really know of her from DL, but she clearly had something, and it wasn't just her looks. Young Barnes was a thousand times better looking.

The original Three's Company pilot is on Youtube, and the actress (forget her name) who originally played Chrissy was awful, and had no chemistry with Ritter or Dewitt. It's easy to see why she was replaced with Somers, if they hadn't fired her, the show wouldn't have lasted long.

the show sucked when Suzanne left. It threw to much of the show to the completely unlikable Joyce. Joyce was fine as a third banana. As the second banana no.

Surprised to see Jennilee there, on the E true Hollywood story, she had nothing but snarky comments about her, even though she never specifically named her, you knew who she meant.

Jennilee was dressed inappropriately for her age.

R148 I meant Joyce had nothing but snarky comments to make about Jennilee.

R145 The show went on for several seasons without her. The show was better when she was on it, but most shows lose quality over time. The chemistry between the original cast was the best. However Susanne wasn't better that DeWitt or Ritter. Ritter was the most talented. She wasn't the lead and she was negotiating as though she were.

Suzanne definitely wasn't fighting for all three of them because remember, John and Joyce didn't want to work with her. That's why she had those scenes of Chrissie calling in.

Suzanne burned so many bridges that even if she withdrew her demands, I don't think the show would have taken her back.

How the hell can they not mention Suzanne? What petty idiots.

R145 yes she had "something." It was called an aggressive publicist. Which ... 9 times out of ten, separates the really big stars from the rest.

This is true even for reality stars (i.e. kardashians and Bethenny Frankel vs the masses of reality stars)

If only David Schwimmer had been around to convince them to negotiate as one.

Suzanne WAS the biggest draw to the show despite what some are saying.

In 1978-1980, Suzanne was on several posters that rivaled Farrah's iconic poster (not surpassed). No one was buying Joyce DeWitt or John Ritter posters.

Suzanne was on numerous magazine covers. Her hairstyles were copied. She was following the Farrah route and was the breakout star of "Three's Company."

She should have had equal pay to Ritter. ABC would never let a man be paid less than a woman, so SS should have gotten the same salary as JR. Joyce? Nope. Third bananas don't get top pay.

Ritter was the "comedic genius" (blech!) and Suzanne was ABC's patented Jiggle draw to the show.

Suzanne wanted 10% ownership of the show, which was ridiculous. That's why they fired her.

R156, so true. I remember girls all around the country asking their hairdresser to give them the Chrissy side ponytail *eyes roll*.

r156 = Alan Hamel

R156 she was never gonna get as much as Ritter. Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams got huge pay hikes around this time. ABC was hellbent on making an example of Somers by not caving in to her. Plus what worked against her was the fact that they would've had to give DeWitt and Ritter raises too. I personally prefer the Somers years of the show but the show lasted another four years without her and Barnes was a good replacement.

Fast forward 30 years and several of the Friends cast will be sitting on that set: Courtney Cox, Matt Leblanc, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow. Jennifer Aniston will have zero interest and not attend. Matthew Perry will give a shout out via satellite.

R156 and I wonder why that was? She and Farrah had the same publicist.

You realize all that hype doesn't just come naturally don't you?

Matthew Perry's last years will be in a Walmart scooter.

Damn, R163, that's cold, bruh.

He was repulsive even before he got fat.

I think R156 is right at least to this degree: everyone keeps talking about how "John Ritter was the real star of TC" and that "John Ritter was the draw," yet his star power didn't keep "Three's A Crowd" on but a hot minute, so obviously he wasn't that much of a draw without DeWitt and Somers (and later DeWitt and Barnes). People were not tuning into "Three's Company" every week just to see him, they were tuning in to see all three of them together.

Also, regarding Barnes, I thought she was a passable replacement but the show was better with Somers and, in my personal opinion, Barnes was never necessary to begin with: the show could've done just as well with Cindy (played by Jenilee Harrison) as the permanent new roommate, who, though just a clumsier version of her cousin Chrissy, brought more comic chops (for lack of a better word) to the show than Barnes, who was really not a comedic actress at all (but did the best she could with what she was given).

Joyce was a real cunt to me. But I married a doctor.

I WIN!

[quote]The ABC producers were assholes

Though a minor thing to point out, I was always surprised when they actually gave Suzanne Somers her third billing back on that "Three's Company" clip special hosted by Lucille Ball that aired long after Suzanne had left the show. You'd think that as a way of "sticking" it to her, they would have dropped her billing down below Barnes (and maybe even Harrison) but they didn't.

Watching reruns, I think Jenilee did a decent job.

You should have married a plastic surgeon, R167, then you'd really win.

R167, he's not exactly a doctor, he's a chiro. But thanks for taking my sloppy seconds.

Sue deserved more money but not the ridiculous amounts she was asking for. When they replaced her they should have replaced her with a sassy black girl.

Bet you wish you were still with him, Cyb, now that all of your Moonlighting money has been used up. And I didn't appreciate the flaky character you had written into your sad little sitcom who was obviously based on me!

R173, Jenilee dahling, I already got my money from "Dr" Bruce. Remember the twins? Of course, you couldn't have any kids since your surgeon in Tijuana botched your numerous facelifts and your vajajay is up near your throat. Good to have both close by since everyone knows that's how you got Three's Company. You also really shouldn't be talking about someone else's career since the last time you did anything was back in 2002.

Jenilee was surprisingly effective in Dallas. And much prettier. I wonder who came up with that casting. How the fuck did she get that gig?

I didn't like her in Dallas, but thought she was much better in Three's Company than Priscilla.

Why was Harrison unsuccessful? Her "eat an apple through a fence" mouth a turnoff?

BWAAHAHA, r177

R177 I think in the case of TC they wanted someone sexier and older in the role of the third roommate. Since she played just a cousin of JRs on Dallas I think her role became limited. In retrospect they needed as many Ewings as possible in the painful last few years of the show and they shouldn't have killed her off.

I liked Jenilee in Dallas. She's not a great actress but she was likable on both TC and Dallas, and had surprisingly good chemistry with Cliff on Dallas.

There's a lot of "what if" that goes on with 3's Company. They carved a successful show with all of the drama, but what if: *Suzanne had been smarter/less greedy about her negotiation? *They had kept Jennilee and Norman/Audra as Recurring characters in later seasons? *They had given more for Priscilla to do in the late seasons? *They had paired John with an actress he had more chemistry with for the spin off? What if it had been Anne Scheeden or Joanna Kerns in Three's A Crowd? *they had spun off Richard Kline to his own show? *Joyce had been more willing to do other TV after the show? *The producers had not been greedy dicks? Would a better relationship and better salary have kept the actors on for a longer run? *They had Don Knotts Character actually be gay? Would that have generated comedy, or would it be cringe-y now?

I thought that Joyce was so much prettier than Suzanne. Suzanne is homely for a sex symbol.

JOanna kerns would have been great for threes a crowd. They had terrific chemistry - probably had an affair knowing him lol

R179, didn't Jamie Ewing come after Jennilee's TC stint?

[quote] Sue deserved more money but not the ridiculous amounts she was asking for. When they replaced her they should have replaced her with a sassy black girl.

They should have given Shirley Hemphill her job after [italic]One in a Million[/italic], the show hastily put together from the sum parts of [italic]What's Happening!![/italic] and [italic]Carter Country[/italic], was cancelled.

The show would've gone through the roof if they'd kept that incredibly sexy Lana on! That was where they really screwed up!

If that's true, R187, then explain [italic]Filthy Rich[/italic].

They let Ann Wedgeworth go because she was an attractive woman who was hot for Jack, but Jack didn't want to fuck her. Jack, of course, was always horny and would fuck any woman who moved, so it didn't make sense for his character.

Did Wedgworth not read as old and therefore unfuckable to Jack? Elmarie Wendel might have been better casting.

Shouldn't they have had the reunion 20 years ago, when the cast was alive?

Was John Ritter the first man to show his balls on TV?

Joyce NitWitt IS MAME!

[quote]When they replaced her they should have replaced her with a sassy black girl.

Wow, interesting thing to say. In all these years I'd never even once thought about something like that, probably because "Three's Company" was always just one of those oh-so-white shows on TV (was there ever a black person on the show?), but a black replacement for Chrissy no doubt would have been quite the kick in the ass. Not sure about Shirley Hemphill, who, though a very funny woman, probably would not have been right for the show given that Jack was supposed to always be lusting after both of his female roommates. I can't really think of what attractive black female actress at the time would have been a good choice other than perhaps Ber'nadette Stanis, who hadn't long finished her stint as Thelma on "Good Times" when Somers got booted off of "TC." Stanis was certainly a pretty woman and had sitcom experience, so she may have been a good fit.

Makes me think of the talk at the time of a black actress being cast on "Charlie's Angels" and how Jayne Kennedy's name was often batted around, though of course nothing ever came of it.

Jackee was slim and cute back then. Was she already on 227?

"227" started the year (1985) after "Three's Company" ended (1984).

Ber'nadette Stanis didn't have much of a career but she was one of the most beautiful women that was ever on TV.

They wanted a big-titted blonde, they'd never cast an actress who wasn't one.

This should be about how Joyce DeCunt has had the same hair style for 40 years. Seriously.

Who invited Jennilee? She was an untalented, unfunny woman who the producers thought they could shove anyone in there and it would work. It didn't.

Still a cunt, Joyce.

I heard that Jennilee got very lucky with investments and became quite wealthy.

The lighting was atrocious.

"In 1978-1980, Suzanne was on several posters that rivaled Farrah's iconic poster (not surpassed). Suzanne was on numerous magazine covers. Her hairstyles were copied. "

In a lifetimes worth of deluded ramblings that I've read on this site, this is, bar none, the most deluded. Absolutely none of this is true.

My own story-I arrived drunk with a friend(also drunk) to see "The Producers" on Broadway. Before the curtain had risen I hightailed it to the lobby and threw up in the garbage can. I sat out the entire first act with the ushers who informed me that the nicest celebrity they met was Sarah Jessica and the absolute worst was Richard Kline. They said he was very "don't you know who I am" with them the whole time. I grew up with TC and they had to remind me who he was when they told the story. I went to get my friend during the first intermission to find him passed out in his seat. This was the night Jim McGreevey resigned and announced he was a big old homo.

Dewitt is an idiot. Instead of supporting Sommers at the time of the contract dispute she sided with the network. Sommers was being paid far less than the male counterparts including some of the minor male actors on the show and had no participation in residuals. I doubt Dewitt did either. Sommers knew her Q score while on 3 s company and knew that score of her costars and knew she was pulling in the audience. Dewitt decided to play good corporate go along girl and had a career that was mediocre from then on. Sommers was a businesswoman at a time when network executives werent going to tolerate it and she far out earned any of her costars or probably the network executives overall since..

Sommers got the last laught tho...........she has a net worth in excess of 100million and Dewitt is about 5 million.

Dick Kline seems like a nice guy. Maybe he was having an off day?

So Suzanne could spread her MAGA cooties on the rest of the cast? No thank you.

R205 Even if Dewitt sided with Somers, it wouldn't have changed anything. They weren't going to give her the unreasonable amount she demanded. She wanted $150,000 per episode AND 10 percent ownership of the show's overall profits. Even top male TV stars at the time didn't get that. Had she made a more reasonable salary increase, things probably would've went differently.

Didn't they "make up" after this interview?

R209 Yes, on Suzanne's web show. Suzanne came across as fake during it, as usual.

[quote] things probably would've went differently.

Oh, DEAR.

They SHOULD have mentioned Suzanne and Chrissy. Huge oversight and insult no matter what transpired. That would have been the classy thing to do.

I guess that Joyce/Suzy reunion was just B.S.