Three's Company: Season 3
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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Double Date
Sep 12, 1978
Jack pretends he has a cold when Mr. Roper overhears him making a date.
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.
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!
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!
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
My Sister's Keeper
Oct 17, 1978
Janet's little sister visits the trio and instantly falls for Jack.
Chrissy and the Guru
Oct 24, 1978
Chrissy is tricked into becoming a panhandler by a con-artist.
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
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.
The Crush
Nov 21, 1978
Laurie, the trio's babysitting charge, has a crush on Jack, much to her boyfriend's dismay.
The Kleptomaniac
Nov 28, 1978
Chrissy a thief? No way! At least that what Jack thinks when he sees her with his money.
The Party's Over
Dec 5, 1978
After canceling a party the trio were holding, Helen (in disgust) leaves Stanley.
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
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
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
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.
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.
The Bake-Off
Feb 27, 1979
Chrissy accidentally eats Jack's pie right before a pie contest he is supposed to be in.
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
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.
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.
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.