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Season guide

Three's Company: Season 3

23 episodes Premiered Sep 12, 1978
Previously on Three's Company

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Three's Company Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Double Date

Sep 12, 1978

Jack pretends he has a cold when Mr. Roper overhears him making a date.

S3·E2 Core

Good Old Reliable Janet

Sep 19, 1978

Janet and Mrs. Roper participate in a nude beach protest, and end up walking home without their clothes.

S3·E3 Core

The Love Diary

Sep 26, 1978

Chrissy discovers a spicy diary and uses it to perfect her typing skills. Mr. Roper reads the diary and thinks that Chrissy has it in for him!

S3·E4 Core

The Fast

Oct 3, 1978

It's a test of willpower when Janet and Chrissy give up food in exchange for Jack giving up girls!

S3·E5 Core

Helen's Rendezvous

Oct 10, 1978

After Stanley's friend fails to fulfill their deal of loser buys the beer, Stanely works himself into an outrage. Helen tries to patch things up between Jerry & Stanely by trying

S3·E6 Core

My Sister's Keeper

Oct 17, 1978

Janet's little sister visits the trio and instantly falls for Jack.

S3·E7 Core

Chrissy and the Guru

Oct 24, 1978

Chrissy is tricked into becoming a panhandler by a con-artist.

S3·E8 Core

Larry's Bride

Oct 31, 1978

Larry introduces the trio to his new fiance. Jack learns that Gloria has always had the hots for him, but Larry believes it to be the other way around. Jack unsuccessfully tries

S3·E9 Core

Chrissy's New Boss

Nov 14, 1978

Chrissy is invited to go on a business trip with her boss, and Jack thinks that the boss wants to get it on with her. What he doesn't know is that Chrissy's boss is a woman.

S3·E10 Core

The Crush

Nov 21, 1978

Laurie, the trio's babysitting charge, has a crush on Jack, much to her boyfriend's dismay.

S3·E11 Core

The Kleptomaniac

Nov 28, 1978

Chrissy a thief? No way! At least that what Jack thinks when he sees her with his money.

S3·E12 Core

The Party's Over

Dec 5, 1978

After canceling a party the trio were holding, Helen (in disgust) leaves Stanley.

S3·E13 Core

Eleanor's Return

Dec 12, 1978

Eleanor makes her first appearance in the shower when Jack meets her for the first time. Knowing that Eleanor was Janet and Chrissy's old roommate, he thinks that Eleanor is moving

S3·E14 Core

The Older Woman

Jan 16, 1979

Jack tells Janet and Chrissy that he's going out with an old woman. Janet and Chrissy thinks that it is roper's aunt after she shows up with his swimming trunks after Jack says th

S3·E15 Core

Stanley's Hotline

Jan 30, 1979

Mr. Roper thinks that Chrissy is pregnant when he overhears a conversation in a pipe adjoining their bathroom. The real deal is that Chrissy has a wart. Also, Linda stays at the ap

S3·E16 Core

The Catered Affair

Feb 6, 1979

While Jack is catering a party for Chrissy's business, Chrissy's lecherous boss tries to get it on with Chrissy.

S3·E17 Core

The Best Laid Plans

Feb 13, 1979

Jack finally has a chance to get it on with Chrissy when a mouse terrorizes the apartment building.

S3·E18 Mytharc

The Harder They Fall

Feb 20, 1979

Jack ruins Janet's date when he has a broken leg.

S3·E19 Core

The Bake-Off

Feb 27, 1979

Chrissy accidentally eats Jack's pie right before a pie contest he is supposed to be in.

S3·E20 Core

An Anniversary Surprise

Mar 13, 1979

Helen thinks that Stanley is leaving her for another woman, but in actuality, the woman is a real estate agent who got him a great deal on a house in Chevroit Hills. Stanley tells

S3·E21 Core

Jack Moves Out

May 8, 1979

Fed up with the girls not doing their share and helping out at the apartment, Jack angrily leaves and becomes a live-in cook for Larry's boss and his promiscuous wife.

S3·E22 Mytharc

Triangle Troubles

May 15, 1979

Jack goes out with a girl, and he is afraid that she will leave him due to his living arrangements. But what he doesn't know is that she has the same problem that he does.

S3·E23 Mytharc

Stanley, the Ladies' Man

Sep 15, 1979

Roper plans a surprise disco party for his wife. This is an episode of the Ropers packaged in syndication with Three's Company.

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