Threes Company - Season | 1

The season's primary comedic engine is the "Big Lie". To satisfy their "puritanical" landlord, Stanley Roper (Norman Fell), Janet tells him that Jack is gay. This allows the trio to share the apartment under the guise that there is no risk of sexual impropriety.

The first season of Three’s Company , which premiered on ABC on March 15, 1977, was a short but revolutionary entry into the American sitcom landscape. Consisting of only six episodes, it introduced a premise that challenged the social norms of the era: a man living platonically with two women. Based on the British comedy Man About the House , the show centered on Jack Tripper (John Ritter), a cooking student who moves into a Santa Monica apartment with Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt) and Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers). The Central Conflict and Comedy Threes Company - Season 1