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I saw one episode ("Vacation from Sex") on AntennaTV recently, and I'm sorry to say it was a terrible one. The comedy was very thin, and I couldn't see any chemistry between Jack and Vicky. At all. Like, whatsoever. And they were playing "sex-starved" and hot for each other. But it just wasn't there.
Joyce DeWitt (Janet on THREE'S COMPANY) should have gotten the job. DeWitt was energetic, understood farce, and she could be funny. She had tons of chemistry with John Ritter, and their long-standing brother-sister vibe, suddenly overturned, would have made their marriage must-see TV.
I didn't think the sets looks especially cheap for the period, but the interior of Jack's home was extremely derivative of the THREE'S COMPANY apartment. Same layout. That's what the makers were comfortable with and they stuck with it.
Admittedly I'm going on one episode, but my overall take is this: if the producers wanted to continue THREE'S COMPANY, they should have continued THREE'S COMPANY with Joyce DeWitt and Priscilla Barnes. If they wanted to produce a new show, they should have produced a new show. But they chose a third course: they half-assed it with a thinner, sparser, and less-inspired imitation of THREE'S COMPANY. The regular cast was too small and too disengaged from the outside world to sustain a decent plot, a problem made even worse by Vicky's father not living there, so he had to "drop in" on Jack and Vicky for every bit he contributed. The new cast and premise were simply inadequate.
But if you're nostalgic for that time and for that style of sitcom, a show doesn't have to be great. It can be a period piece and hold your interest very well.
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Dec 23, 2014 - 9:17 AM
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According to Wikipedia, Three's a Crowd garnered only modest ratings, still competing with The A-Team as with Three's Company. When the 1984-85 television season finished the show placed 38th in the Nielsen ratings; this put the show on the fence with ABC, since the show had enough of an audience to warrant renewal. However, when compared to Three's Company's ratings and The A-Team, which finished sixth for the season, ABC was tepid in committing to another season of Three's a Crowd. John Ritter was told that ABC would commit to a half-season of thirteen episodes to see how the series would place, although Ritter was reported as saying that he would not return to the show unless a full season was ordered. Finally, ABC decided instead to pick up Diff'rent Strokes for another season, which had just been cancelled by NBC.
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Three's a Crowd is afflicted with that "series of stills" opening credits that were the trademark of many a show back in the early 1980s. Simon & Simon even had it during that program's first season. Thankfully, it was changed to the now-classic opening credits. I always thought the stills opening was creepy, to be honest.
THE ROCKFORD FILES did it pretty well. I also liked THE BIONIC WOMAN titles, which used a combination of stills and film clips.
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