The first of two pilot episodes, taped in March 1976 but never aired on television. Written by Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) and starring John Ritter, the pilot co-stars Suzanne Zenor and Valerie Curtin, who were eventually replaced by Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt for the series.

Made before Suzanne Somers was cast.

Jack mistakes a visit from the FBI for a reference for a former Navy buddy as a mission to get him.

Lana Shields needs an escort and instantly falls for Jack, who wants nothing at all to do with her.

The trio and Larry meet Mr. Ralph Furley, the new landlord, after accidentally selling all of his furniture, believing it was the Roper's old furniture.

Chrissy gets a new sales job.

Jacks wants to be aggressive to get the better of Mr. Travers.

Jack saves the life of a man who happens to be rich. A s a reward, he gives them an apartment in a very affluent neighborhood.

Chrissy feels sorry for a homeless man and lets him stay with her, Janet and Jack, much to their dismay.

Larry's girlfriend wants to be an actress, so he tells her that his friend Jack is a famous commercial director. Jack, Janet, Chrissy, Furley, Lana, Larry, and his girlfriend Laura go on a camping trip that's anything but relaxing.

Chrissy falls and hits her head in the bathtub while trying to put up a shower curtain. Jack and Janet take her to the hospital when she starts to get dizzy. They misunderstand the doctor when he comes out of Chrissy's room crying, and think that she has only a short time to live.

Chrissy loses Jack's money and they can't pay the rent. So Chrissy sees a loan shark and borrows money on Jack behalf.

Jack gets a job on a cruise ship and is invited to take only one guest. He has a choice between Janet and Chrissy and he sure doesn't want to take Lana of all people. So he makes it so Mr. Furley can go on the trip with Lana, who thinks that jack will be on the ship waiting for her.

Chrissy pretends to be Mr. Furley's wife so Mr. Furley can show off to his old rival.

The trio think an advice column was written about them; that Jack is secretly dating one of the two girls without the other girl knowing.

Reverend Snow has a chance for a new appointment on the condition that his daughter Chrissy move out of the apartment.

After an unsuccessful date, Janet comforts Larry, who takes her kindess the wrong way when he thinks that she wants him.

Jack goes out with a girl who has a muscular brother that doesn't like her sister dating.

Furley hopes to ""straighten"" Jack out by giving him love lessons. If he is indeed straight, he has to move out.

Chrissy borrows her policeman cousin's handcuffs and accidentally gets locked together with Jack who has a big date waiting for him.

Jack and Chrissy believe Janet wants to have a baby.

The trio help out a runaway boy.

Jack's brother comes for a visit, but Jack doesn't like him because he always seemed to be better than Jack. It gets really serious when he has designs on Chrissy.

Chrissy wins money at the racetrack and the trio get into a fight over how to use the winnings. It takes a trip to the psychiatrist's office to see that the money is tearing them apart.

Chrissy plans a rendezvous with a secret admirer.

The roommates thinks that Furley is going to kill himself and they show praise for him.

During a cooking class exam, Jack's dishonest friend switches dishes with him, making Jack unable to graduate cooking school.

Jack has to fix dinner for 4 dates at the same time!

Jack's female boss makes a pass at him and he sues her for sexual harassment.

Chrissy goes to work at a convention as a hostess with an old friend of hers, not realizing the job is being a high priced call girl.

Jack pretends to be a professional skier to impress his new date who is a ski nut.

Jack and Larry both go at each other for the affections of one woman and Larry takes advantage of Jack's new job as a store window display mannequin to embarrass him in front of her.

Jack gets a job as a busboy and at the same time is misrepresenting himself to his new date as the chef.

Cindy Snow moves into the apartment with Jack and Janet.

Jack goes to Cindy's place of employment to fight for her job back after she loses it.

To get a new job, Jack assumes the identity of another person, not knowing that a lot of people have it in for that person!

A little old lady adopts Jack as her so-called 'son' but becomes more trouble than she is help when she starts interfering in Jack's love life.

Jack set up a date for his girlfriend's father with Janet, who doesn't realize how old he is.

Janet's parents come to visit, and Janet has to pretend that she and Jack are husband and wife.

Cindy is flourished with the wealth of an older man who wants her to be his bride. Her persistant refusal to wed him doesn't seem to be enough, so Jack and Janet try to figure out a way to discourage him. They soon find themselves tempted by his generous promises for the future, before coming to their senses and rescuing Cindy from her worst nightmare.

The roommates help Ralph stand up to his brother, Bart Furley, who owns the building.

Jack and Larry switch apartments to see how each other lives their life.

Dean Traver's niece gets Jack in trouble, and Janet and Larry try to help him out.

Jack and Janet think that Cindy is going to have a baby.

The Ropers are back in town, and Stanley has a falling out with Mr. Furley when he catches him in bed with Helen.

In order to date Furley's niece, Jack must pretend that he is his fictitious brother, Austin.

Jack fakes his death to avoid dealing with a girl's jealous boyfriend.

Cindy goes to meet her father while he is visiting town but Jack and Janet think that she has been kidnapped.

Jack learns that honesty is not always the best policy when he agrees to tell the absolute truth.

Jack cuts his finger and goes to the hospital. While there, he meets a sassy nurse named Terri Alden and they do not really hit it off. Meanwhile, Cindy is leaving for UCLA and Janet is looking for a roommate and finds Terri, much to Jack's dismay....

Terri tries her best to warm up to Jack, which proves to be totally unsuccessful. Jack now hates her even more and wants her out. At Cindy's going-away party, he and Larry really insult and play mean jokes on Terri. Jack has a chance to spray Terri with water, but he ends up spraying himself. He really wants Terri to stay with them and now Terri is added to the cast.

To boost Jack's confidence, Terri turns on the charm, causing Janet to suspect that her new roommate's interest in Jack is more than platonic.

Jack is giving cooking lessons to raise some money and Terri mistakes them as love lessons.

Jack comes to the rescue when Janet meets an unscrupulous ballet dancer who tells her she has real talent to be a dancer in order to sleep with her.

Jack lies to Janet about having a date that night so that he can go out with 'Greedy' Gretchen.

Jack and Janet think a doctor that Terri brought home is really a mental patient.

Jack witnessed a robbery and now wants protective custody to save him from the return of the criminal.

Jack has a date with Angelino's daughter against her father's strict wishes and so to turn her off, pretends he is with his ""wife"" which is really a CPR dummy.

Janet unintentially fixes Terri up with the guy (Bob) she wanted to go out with. Terri tries to smooth things out with Janet by fixing her up with him, but Janet refuses to be the second choice. Jack tries to smooth things out between the girls and loses his own date ( Donna ) to Bob as a result.

While taking fighting lessons from Terri, Jack accidentally tackles an undercover cop making an arrest and gets arrested for assault.

Jack falls in love with a beautiful woman and wants to serenade her. He goes to her apartment and sings at the window, but what he doesn't know is that he has serenaded an overweight girl. The overweight girls thinks that Jack likes her, but the beautiful woman trashes her in front of Jack. Jack decides to have a date with the overweight girl instead.

Ralph Furley falls in love with a woman whom the trio believe is a golddigger just out for whatever Ralph can give her financially.

Jack overhears a conversation between Janet and her friend, a visiting nun, who has decided to leave the convent to marry the man she loves. Jack thinks he is that man and tries to convince her he is no good by pretending to be an alcoholic wharf rat.

To help give Cindy a job, the trio agree to hire her as their maid but with catastophic results.

Janet's new boss is an efficiency expert and she drives Janet nuts. What doesn't help matters any is that Jack falls for her.

Larry uses Jack's name while out on a date that goes bad and when the girl's brother comes looking for Jack, he must hide out on Cindy's grandparents' farm until the heat is off.

Jack agrees to help out a friend by posing as a head chef and becoming the favorite cook for a mobster with a spicy appetite.

Jack's new girlfriend is rich and she wants Jack to do better than his friends and his job.

Jack pretends he is a doctor to impress his grandfather.

Jack tries to win praise from a food critic, who is nothing more than a leich.

Terri lines up a fancy new house for the trio to move into but Larry and Mr. Furley, not wanting to see their best friends leave, plot to make them feel wanted enough to stay.

Jack gets his own cooking show and hires the girls as his assistants with unexpected results.

Janet buys a blonde wig to improve her image, but ends up breaking bad on her friends.

Janet needs a date to impress a new rich man she met and asks Jack to escort her to the ball which is held on a private island. Jack, afraid of flying, gets some tranquilizers from Larry, much to Terri's dismay. Jack accidentally mixes them with liquor and becomes a ""party animal"".

Jack & Janet sign up for a computer dating service, and both decide to lie on the application. Little do they know the computer has set them up together. They decide to go ahead with the date, but Terri thinks that they went out with each other behind her back. Larry tries to clarify the whole situation without knowing the whole truth himself causing Jack and Janet to believe he is making a play for Terri. The race is on to sort through their tangled stories to find the real truths.

Lucille Ball pays tribute to Three's Company in hosting a retrospective of the series. Introducing memorable clips of the show's funniest and most touching moments of the first 6 seasons.

Jack and Janet end up in the same bed, and Jack doesn't even remember how he got there.

Jack goes to the dentist who terrorizes him when the dentist thinks that Terri left him for Jack.

Larry asks Jack to take over on a date for him and Jack gets mixed up with diamond smugglers by mistake.

A newspaper article about three people sharing a similar living arrangement to the trio has them wondering if one of them is spreading gossip about the others.

With Mr. Angelino's help (along with Mr. Furley), Jack gets his own restaurant!

It's the first night of Jack's Bistro and no one even knows about it! Larry drums up business by bringing in his Greek relatives.

As a favor to Felipe, the trio allows his niece to stay with them until her wedding to prevent the immigration department from deporting her. Through a comedy of errors, everyone suspects Jack and the girl spent the night together.

Janet sets Jack up with an old director friend of hers from school whom she didn't know had since gotten married. That's okay, though, because the friend wanted to have an affair anyway.

Jack hosts a Sunday brunch at the Bistro to prove to a pastor that it's a wholesome, family-oriented restaurant.

Larry wants to be a singer, but Jack finds out that he can't even carry a note when he sings at his restaurant, meanwhile Mr. Furley is helping Jack out in the kitchen and is messing up every order.

Terry dates an ex-murderer, which scares the total crap out of Jack and Janet.

Larry's sister is visiting and Larry asked Jack to take her out. After Jacks and his sister stay out late, Larry suspects that Jack is trying something with his sister.

Rumors are flying everywhere when Terry hears one about two friends and spreads it everywhere.

Jack must pay a bribe to an inspector in order to get a health permit so he sets up a sting operation to catch him redhanded but leads the police to believe that it's a drug bust they're working on.

Terry falls for a soap star, who happens to be a lecher who trying to maintain his image.

Jack finds out the hard way that when it comes to boxing, he is no Rocky.

Janet and Terri bet Jack that he can't go without women for a week. Although he is intent on proving them wrong, he weakens when he sets Furley up with an older woman whose bombshell daughter sweeps Jack off his feet.

Jack thinks that Janet is going out with Ralph's nephew when she trys to help him be a good gentleman when he meets girls.

Jack accidentally stumbles onto Angelino's love hideaway when he decides to sleep in the little apartment above the restaurant.

Jack wears a fake mustache to improve his image, but accidentally makes Terri fall in love with him.

Jack's Navy budy wants to get into the restaurant business, but tries to take over Jack's Bistro.

Janet and Terri overhear and misunderstand a conversation Jack and Mr. Angelino are having about finances and think Jack is in debt. They arrange for Jack to 'win' money on a faked radio show; money borrowed from Mr. Furley and Larry. However, Jack uses the sudden winfall to buy a new leather coat he's always wanted.

Jack's girlfriend wants him to be a father to her child.

Jack finds a magazine quiz about secret loves and thinks that either Janet or Terri is in love with him. He then gets them both alone in a cabin to find out who the mystery lover is.

Jack goes to an ATM machine and the machine goes haywire and spits out all of the money on Jack. He tries to get it back to the bank, but the bank is closed. Janet suggests that he hide it in the couch, which, incidentally, gets takes away by Furley who wants to put in a new couch!

Jack tries to get a scathing letter from a food critic who thinks has written a bad review about his restaurant.

Jack gets Larry to go out with Janet's visiting friend because he already had a date planned.

Jack goes out with a sex therapist and Janet thinks that she is a prostitute.

Larry enters one of Jack's recipes in a cooking contest which wins, but Jack finds out that the contest is open only to women. Jack dresses as a woman to enter a bake-off competition.

Jack's father comes to two, but Jack is mad at him because of all the heartache he had caused.

Terri goes out with a doctor who happens to be married, and the roommates plan to have the wife catch her husband and Terri together.

Jack and Larry gambles with a lot of fake money, and they lose a lot.

The trio is suspicious of a new tenant, who they think is a jewel thief and a murderer. In actuality, he is a ventriloquist practicing for his act.

Janet's aerobics job seems to be in jeopardy, and Jack tries to go out with the female boss.

To help an old school chum save her marriage, Jack agrees to talk to her husband, a very jealous, big man. However, he learns she met with someone that day and now has poison ivy and so will the man she met up with...Jack.

When they surprise a burglar robbing the restaurant after store hours, Jack and Ralph are locked in the meat freezer by the thief.

After Jack finds a stray kitten and can't keep it due to the no-pet clause, the trio leaves it at Mr. Furley's doorstep. Mr. Furley is having fun until his brother Bart sends over an apartment inspector and the cat's owner winds up at the trio's apartment.

Jack's navy buddies take him to a tattoo parlor while he's drunk.

Jack helps out an art teacher by posing nude for her class.

Jack smashes Janet's new car and fakes amnesia to save his skin. The girls realize that Jack is fooling them and decides to get even with him.

An old flower shop customer of Janet's leaves her a little something in his will and his family tries to cut her out.

While flying, Jack gets a fear of heights and a stewardess named Vicky Bradford helps him out. They even go out for the first time, against her father's wishes. Meanwhile, Philip, the guy we met in the last episode, proposes to Janet.

Jack and Vicky are really good together, despite Mr. Bradford's objections. Janet and Philip get married in the apartment, and Jack wants Vicky to marry him as well.

When Jack proposes to Vicky, she turns him down cold. The reason is that she's afraid of marriage because it might fail like her father's did. They decide to live together. The trio finally moves out of their apartment and into their new lives: Terri is going to Hawaii to work with poor children, Janet and Philip move into their new place, and Jack moves into the apartment above the restaurant with Vicky. As they begin their new life together, Mr. Bradford comes in and tells him that he is the new landlord! With that, the spin-off series Three's a Crowd begins.