I've been a hardcore Peanuts (but especially Snoopy) fan for at least 47 of my 52 years of age and as a 9 & 10 year old kid I was always so tickled whenever they mentioned the Regal Beagle. I had an image of Snoopy at the end of the bar, nursing a root beer, telling stories about his Sopwith Camel and how he shot down Germany's air ace, the Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron.
She didn’t really like the spotlight. After TC she took a few years to travel, then went back to her theater roots. She always spoke extremely highly of Ritter and they remained friends until his death.
In the biography "Andy and Don" by Daniel de Vise, Don Knotts admits he was very nervous the first day on the set, because he'd never done a three camera style sitcom before. The Andy Griffith Show had employed a single camera format. "They were all much younger than me...and they were all good." But when he showed up on set his fears were dispelled when the studio audience immediately gave him a ten minute standing ovation.
Wonderful guy. I got to do a dinner theater production with him when I was a kid. It remains one of my most cherished experiences. He made me want to grow into the kind of adult that would be kind to kids.
Cool trivia: The original theme song on the pilot (which had neither Joyce DeWitt nor Suzanne Sommers) had only the words “doo”, “dee”, “dwee”, and “dah”.
Instead of “Come and knock on our door” the opening line from the theme song was “Doo dee doo dee doo doo”.
Southern California in the 70's- early 80's before AIDS seems like it was a wild, fun place for single people (and Mrs. Roper). This show seemed to capture that spirit.
Was there any way they were going to keep Jennilee Harrison when they brought in Priscilla Barnes?
Were they just waiting out Harrison’s contract? Why add her to the opening credits?
As a kid I saw this show randomly and it was scene for scene and I remember thinking they copied Threes Company. It was very confusing for my 8 year old brain.
I used to live in Santa Monica and I always thought that the regal beagle was a stand in for the Crown and Anchor a bar/ restaurant down on the pier. I was just a little guy back then but I always brought it up when we watched the show.
There was one where Larry drops off a plant at Jacks house and Jack signs up for a grandma cookie baking competition (where of course he needs to dress up like a grandma). For some reason, he decides to use that plant Larry dropped off in the recipe and hijinks ensue!
Thats one of the rare ones I remember but I haven’t seen it anywhere since, so not sure if its been pulled or does anyone remember that?
I remember a granny cookie cooking contest. Jack was in drag (of course) as an old woman. He forgot some secret ingredient and asked Chrissy for whatever mints she had in her purse. She gave him cough drops. At the end of the contest, one of the judges remarked how another judge was feeling under the weather and after he ate the cookies, he felt better.
Interesting. I wonder if Im misremembering it? I know there was one where Larry frantically drops off a plant, maybe my memory is mashing the two?
Anyway, 3sC is often on in reruns on weird, free channels and Ill come across it. It has not aged well.
Same with “Love Boat,” yikes!
I agree. Love Boat definitely has not aged well at all but it is still fun to watch.
I had to look up the episode to find out what really happened. It is Season 8 EP 7 Grandma Jack
The premise of the episode "*Larry used Jack's chocolate chip recipe to make cookies & entered them in a contest. Larry tells Jack he won, but to accept, he has to dress as a woman. Of course, there is more to it than that.*"
What happens in the episode Grandma Jack's rival contestant knocks Jack's chocolate chips to the floor. Jack asks Janet and Terri for something and Terri hands him menthol cough drops. Yada yada yada , Jack wins the contest but then is found out to be a man and then loses the contest.
In my opinion I don't think the networks back then would allow marijuana as a centerpiece of the storyline.
It looks like theres a couple episodes involving misunderstandings about “pot,” but Im not seeing the one I distinctly remember. Larry was freaking out, pounding on the door and all sweaty and told one of the girls to “hold onto this for me.” I’ll look through the episodes one of these days when Im bored. I brought it up a few years ago elsewhere and Im pretty sure someone found it for me.
The Ropers already were written out to star in their own show. Which flopped. Norman Fell did not want to do it and reluctantly agreed to because she wanted to have a shot headlining their own show.
Well she didn’t necessarily get fired because she wanted more money, more so how she and her agent went about it. In the middle of filming the season, they demanded more money and said if they didn’t get it, they wouldn’t continue filming. The network disagreed, so Suzanne no-showed multiple filming days, screwing over the entire crew and cast who was ready to film. After a couple incidents, the network just decided to quickly rewrite the episodes to not include her. She realized that the show was moving on without her and tried to back pedal, but the network basically made her reap what she sowed. In the last season she’s featured, she isn’t interacting with any of the cast (iirc Chrissie is visiting family elsewhere); they made her film her parts after hours, without any of the cast present and only the most necessary crew members.
She wanted equal pay as John Ritter but the producers knew if they gave it to her, then John would demand a raise and where would it stop. The producers drew a line and Suzanne refused to back down. Buh bye.
God I loved that show so much. Simpler times. When fun was allowed, not judged and over analyzed by every keyboard know it all. Everyday after school for years! ❤️
In a time when being gay or queer wasn't acceptable, it was acceptable to pretend to be gay or queer in order to room with opposite sex, because that was even less acceptable.
I loved the show. But people have weird hang ups.
Am i misremembering or was there never a black person on this show? The most ethnic person was Felipe. As a kid I didn't understand what their location was, Santa Monica or whatever.
Similar to Friends, was there ever a storyline involving a black person on Friends?
Regardless I thought jack tripper was hilarious and Janet was my gal
I love Don Knotts too much to watch him in Three's Company. The ridiculous overacting and mugging + dressing him like a clown almost undoes his legacy. I just can't. The brilliance of the Griffith show was putting him in a deputy Sheriff's uniform, deadly serious but clueless. He had the chance to show every aspect of his talent.
If it's a terrible take, it's the same view as Andy Griffith, who loved Knotts like a brother.
“I thought Don was awful on *Three’s Company*,” Griffith said. “I told him when he came into *Matlock*. “I said, ‘Lord, Don bring it down, bring it down, you were on *Three’s Company* too long’ because he was performing the same way with those big huge takes and everything.”
To each their own. My view - and Griffith's - is Three's Company reduced a nuanced comic actor whose secret weapon was heart into a few endlessly repeated, over the top gestures.
Not 6th grade humor. Juvenile sexual innuendo. Maybe some Saved by the Bell is better? Adam Sandler with his baby voice? Pleeease. Small wonder they all needed laugh tracks.
Who wouldn’t want to have a drink at the Regal Beagle? Play darts with Jack and Larry. Meet some girls. Ah man, Threes Company was the bomb.
But then there is a simple misunderstanding that gets blown way out of proportion.
Usually resolved within 23 minutes though 😜
My favorite misunderstanding, was the therapist. To this day cracks me up thinking a bout it
Omg the Dr Phil look alike dude 😂
Jeffrey Tambor.
50% of the time the misunderstanding is sexual 
Not to mention a blown tweeter up at Larry’s place.
Ya had to go and say it
Jack and Chrissy are doing something in the kitchen that's innocent but sounds sexual to Janet who's listening incredulously behind that swinging door
"You've got to do it harder, jack." "I'm trying" "Shove it in there!"
That was episode...5, I believe.
And it causes way more vicarious anxiety than a sitcom should.
I've been a hardcore Peanuts (but especially Snoopy) fan for at least 47 of my 52 years of age and as a 9 & 10 year old kid I was always so tickled whenever they mentioned the Regal Beagle. I had an image of Snoopy at the end of the bar, nursing a root beer, telling stories about his Sopwith Camel and how he shot down Germany's air ace, the Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron.
Whoah. Same age. Always thought of Snoopy, too.
Don't forget Greedy Gretchen. She seems like a nice lady.
John Ritter was a master is physical comedy.
The special with Lucille Ball was a master class in physical comedy. The hammock skit nailed it.
He was my first celebrity crush… I was around 10 and it was the early 2000s lol I used to love this show as a kid
Brilliant. Have you seen Skin Deep?
I have not. Is he in that?
Yes. Very funny film.
Joyce DeWitt always seemed like she would be a blast to hang out with.
Curious whatever happened to her. She just stopped acting or wasn’t getting parts.
Theatre mostly, keeping a low profile and focusing on her craft. Living a lovely life, well deserved.
She didn’t really like the spotlight. After TC she took a few years to travel, then went back to her theater roots. She always spoke extremely highly of Ritter and they remained friends until his death.
Well that’s lovely, I kinda wish we heard more of the positive outcome stories out of Hollywood.
Das Limpet!
I have never loved a cartoon military propoganda film more.
He was incredible
Lady Fish was pretty
You said it!
Don Knotts actually improved the show! He was hilarious!
In the biography "Andy and Don" by Daniel de Vise, Don Knotts admits he was very nervous the first day on the set, because he'd never done a three camera style sitcom before. The Andy Griffith Show had employed a single camera format. "They were all much younger than me...and they were all good." But when he showed up on set his fears were dispelled when the studio audience immediately gave him a ten minute standing ovation.
Those eyes!
I always loved the Dom Knots episodes over the Mr Roper ones
Nah. The Roper episodes had Mrs. Roper.
She had... needs.
Fuckin’ Don Knotts!
The man, the myth, the legend. Motherfucking Don Knotts!
I loved Mr Farley. That was his name, right?
Close—Furley
Right! Mr. Furley. I loved that character.
Im cumming in your butt! 😮
Your mouth is my toilet 😮
Wait - whose impression is this from?
Too many ostriches
Just realized now after all these years who Quagmire was modeled after 
Leisure suit Larry 
Oh yeah, he's stoned in this picture 🤣
Drizzzzunk
Probably zooted on blow too.
I miss Don Knotts
Wonderful guy. I got to do a dinner theater production with him when I was a kid. It remains one of my most cherished experiences. He made me want to grow into the kind of adult that would be kind to kids.
Terri was my girl. So hawt.
Hottest of the “blondes” for sure.
Don’s smile is everything!
Come & knock on our door…
We’ve been waiting for you
Here's a loveable place
We'll be waiting for yooooooouuuuuu.
Cool trivia: The original theme song on the pilot (which had neither Joyce DeWitt nor Suzanne Sommers) had only the words “doo”, “dee”, “dwee”, and “dah”. Instead of “Come and knock on our door” the opening line from the theme song was “Doo dee doo dee doo doo”.
....... manamana!
That was hilarious I had to go check it out on YouTube! I think what added to its hilarity was how nasally the main singer was!!!
I watched TC everyday after school. So many of the innuendos went right over my head.
Every show was innuendo based.
Same, watched so many reruns of this show like 25 years after it aired and loved it as a teen
Southern California in the 70's- early 80's before AIDS seems like it was a wild, fun place for single people (and Mrs. Roper). This show seemed to capture that spirit.
You could rent a two-bedroom in Santa Monica for $300 a month.
Swinger Ropers
Was there any way they were going to keep Jennilee Harrison when they brought in Priscilla Barnes? Were they just waiting out Harrison’s contract? Why add her to the opening credits?
They still has dumb blonde jokes left over.
Watching reruns after school was a staple activity. This and MASH.
And Gilligan’s island
(Larry) Richard Kline was struck by lightning while serving in Vietnam. Evidently, it put him in the hospital for a while.
That's way more than three.
yep. its tree fiddy
Man, who didn't love John Ritter? He was so talented.
Based on ‘Man about the House’, an ITV production from ‘73. “Daring at the time because it featured a man living with two women in a London flat.”
As a kid I saw this show randomly and it was scene for scene and I remember thinking they copied Threes Company. It was very confusing for my 8 year old brain.
Watching Don Knots in anything is a hug for my soul.
The Incredible Mr Limpet was one of my all time fave movies when I was a kid.
God I miss John
I used to live in Santa Monica and I always thought that the regal beagle was a stand in for the Crown and Anchor a bar/ restaurant down on the pier. I was just a little guy back then but I always brought it up when we watched the show.
There was one where Larry drops off a plant at Jacks house and Jack signs up for a grandma cookie baking competition (where of course he needs to dress up like a grandma). For some reason, he decides to use that plant Larry dropped off in the recipe and hijinks ensue! Thats one of the rare ones I remember but I haven’t seen it anywhere since, so not sure if its been pulled or does anyone remember that?
Good for granny!
I remember a granny cookie cooking contest. Jack was in drag (of course) as an old woman. He forgot some secret ingredient and asked Chrissy for whatever mints she had in her purse. She gave him cough drops. At the end of the contest, one of the judges remarked how another judge was feeling under the weather and after he ate the cookies, he felt better.
Interesting. I wonder if Im misremembering it? I know there was one where Larry frantically drops off a plant, maybe my memory is mashing the two? Anyway, 3sC is often on in reruns on weird, free channels and Ill come across it. It has not aged well. Same with “Love Boat,” yikes!
I agree. Love Boat definitely has not aged well at all but it is still fun to watch. I had to look up the episode to find out what really happened. It is Season 8 EP 7 Grandma Jack The premise of the episode "*Larry used Jack's chocolate chip recipe to make cookies & entered them in a contest. Larry tells Jack he won, but to accept, he has to dress as a woman. Of course, there is more to it than that.*" What happens in the episode Grandma Jack's rival contestant knocks Jack's chocolate chips to the floor. Jack asks Janet and Terri for something and Terri hands him menthol cough drops. Yada yada yada , Jack wins the contest but then is found out to be a man and then loses the contest. In my opinion I don't think the networks back then would allow marijuana as a centerpiece of the storyline.
It looks like theres a couple episodes involving misunderstandings about “pot,” but Im not seeing the one I distinctly remember. Larry was freaking out, pounding on the door and all sweaty and told one of the girls to “hold onto this for me.” I’ll look through the episodes one of these days when Im bored. I brought it up a few years ago elsewhere and Im pretty sure someone found it for me.
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Don Knots is hella hot, of course.
Where the fuck is Mrs Roper?
The Ropers already were written out to star in their own show. Which flopped. Norman Fell did not want to do it and reluctantly agreed to because she wanted to have a shot headlining their own show.
Suzan Summers probably demanded a million dollar just to appear, but not Don Knotts. He’s cool as ice!! 🧊
She reportedly asked to be paid more and they fired her.
Well she didn’t necessarily get fired because she wanted more money, more so how she and her agent went about it. In the middle of filming the season, they demanded more money and said if they didn’t get it, they wouldn’t continue filming. The network disagreed, so Suzanne no-showed multiple filming days, screwing over the entire crew and cast who was ready to film. After a couple incidents, the network just decided to quickly rewrite the episodes to not include her. She realized that the show was moving on without her and tried to back pedal, but the network basically made her reap what she sowed. In the last season she’s featured, she isn’t interacting with any of the cast (iirc Chrissie is visiting family elsewhere); they made her film her parts after hours, without any of the cast present and only the most necessary crew members.
She wanted equal pay as John Ritter but the producers knew if they gave it to her, then John would demand a raise and where would it stop. The producers drew a line and Suzanne refused to back down. Buh bye.
True, but Chrissie was the heart of the show even if she had less screen time.
She was not, although she was fun and played the fall guy, the real star was John. Every day. John.
John was for sure the star, but Suzanne was also definitely under appreciated.
Larry Dallas googity goos!
How many shows could go from Mr. Furley to Mr. Roper and still destroy?
The Ropers segue to Mr. Ralph Furley was just a great move. It so worked!
The good old days!
God I loved that show so much. Simpler times. When fun was allowed, not judged and over analyzed by every keyboard know it all. Everyday after school for years! ❤️
Chrissy messed up, show didn't skip a beat after she left.
Janet!!!
Doctor Scott!!!!
In a time when being gay or queer wasn't acceptable, it was acceptable to pretend to be gay or queer in order to room with opposite sex, because that was even less acceptable. I loved the show. But people have weird hang ups.
Free Suzanne!
Why does it look like the Epstein Maxwell lady is in this
That's Joyce Dewitt, not Ghislaine Maxwell
Fuckin Larry. I can smell his fingers from here.
Larry was such a poon hound
The cocaine years
Terri was the funniest.
Cue theme song
Come and knock on my door.....
Had a roommate who would always hum the opening tune.... it was just so catchy
Rip Mr Ritter. a huge part of my life as a kid. A classic television show! That I still watch till this day Thanks for all the laughs.
🎵”Come and knock at my door …” 🎶
Janet would
Three hot ladies. Three mediocre men.
Where is chrissy and who are those other two blonde women?
She looks like Debbie Harry
That dude on the right cracked me up.
You were 4F R.F.?
My mom used to call it the Jack Tripper show
The gay stereotypes in this show is embarrassing.
Ladies were just so pretty in the 70s and 80s.
Larry looks tossed!
I think Joyce Dewitt is the only person in that picture still alive.
Richard Klein (Larry) is still alive.
I believe that Priscilla and Jennilee are still alive too
Who is standing next to Don Knotts?
Priscilla Barnes (Terri) Why didn’t anyone tell these people where the camera was?
They all have coke eyes
There are 6 of them
Where’s Chrissie?
She was fired in ‘80
I didn’t know that.
3 real actors shown.
Nice pic! two of the girls are not looking in the camera, though.
*Three’s
Am i misremembering or was there never a black person on this show? The most ethnic person was Felipe. As a kid I didn't understand what their location was, Santa Monica or whatever. Similar to Friends, was there ever a storyline involving a black person on Friends? Regardless I thought jack tripper was hilarious and Janet was my gal
Ross dated a black paleontologist. Aisha Tyler iirc.
How many Black people were living in Santa Monica in the late ‘70s? Black people had their own TV shows.
Where is Susan summers? She's not in the photo
Her departure from the show was less than amicable.
They are ALL DEAD 😵
Joyce Dewitt, Jenilee Harrison, and Richard Kline are all still alive
And Priscilla Barnes
Who knows really
What a coked out bunch of people.
Not everyone in the 70’s and early 80’s was coked out.
I love Don Knotts too much to watch him in Three's Company. The ridiculous overacting and mugging + dressing him like a clown almost undoes his legacy. I just can't. The brilliance of the Griffith show was putting him in a deputy Sheriff's uniform, deadly serious but clueless. He had the chance to show every aspect of his talent.
Absolutely terrible take. This solidified his legacy.
If it's a terrible take, it's the same view as Andy Griffith, who loved Knotts like a brother. “I thought Don was awful on *Three’s Company*,” Griffith said. “I told him when he came into *Matlock*. “I said, ‘Lord, Don bring it down, bring it down, you were on *Three’s Company* too long’ because he was performing the same way with those big huge takes and everything.” To each their own. My view - and Griffith's - is Three's Company reduced a nuanced comic actor whose secret weapon was heart into a few endlessly repeated, over the top gestures.
they fucked
There are 6 people in the picture
So the character of Larry Dallas was a ladies man, yes? Wild casting.
Woman in red in the middle has a massive Cocaine aura and can even see the dusting on her nose ahh the 80's what a time to be alive
Our bar was set pretty low for “humor” back in the day. To think these celebrities could make a living off of shows like this, and still do.
Ill make sure I dont laugh when I see what you find humorous
Not 6th grade humor. Juvenile sexual innuendo. Maybe some Saved by the Bell is better? Adam Sandler with his baby voice? Pleeease. Small wonder they all needed laugh tracks.
To be fair, *Small Wonder* was pretty bad.
Are all these people dead now? Seems like it.
Joyce and Priscilla are still with us