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.

This crazy series begins when Janet Wood and Chrissy Snow, two attractive women, have a going away party for their roommate, Eleanor (who we'll meet in Episode 44). While trying to find someone to share the rent with, they find party crasher Jack Tripper in their bathtub. They have their doubts at first but when they find out that Jack is the only one that can cook (by going to cooking school), they want him to stay. The hardest part of this is trying to convince the landlords, Stanley and Helen Roper, that Jack is indeed good company. Stanley doesn't like the idea of a man living with two women, knowing what can go on behind closed doors. Jack pretends he is gay so that he can have a place to live. It works, and the rest is sitcom history.

Jack is all set to move into Eleanor's room, until Chrissy's mother unexpectedly shows up. Chrissy's mom does not know that she and Janet live with a man, so she tries to keep them out of sight. Janet and Jack go to the Regal Beagle to hide out, and Mrs. Roper finds out that Jack is not really gay. She manages to keep it secret from Mr. Roper.

Mr. Roper sets Jack up with his niece, who turns out to be very promiscuous in her way. Jack finds out that Mr. Roper set him up in order to turn him straight, and if he is, out he goes.

Larry Dallas, a slick car salesman, unloads a puppy on the trio. Knowing that Stanley doesn't allow pets, they try to hide it. The puppy is necesary for Chrissy's sleepwalking problem.

Jack's masculinity is put to the test when a big bully tries to have his way with the girls.

Oh my! The trio's rent money is missing and they scramble to get more money so Stanley will not kick them out. Unbeknownst to them, Stanley picked up the money earlier that day.

After Jack and Chrissy disturb Janet's time alone with her date, the trio agree to arrange reservation times for the apartment. However, Jack has an offer he can't refuse and he tries to renege on the agreement.

In order to earn tuition money, Jack takes on a variety of odd jobs, including an encyclopedia salesman and a nude model in a magazine layout.

Janet's co-worker Chloe gets a promotion after only being hired for a couple of weeks. Janet's upset because chloe got the job because of her looks not her skills.

Chrissy and Janet go away on a trip, and Jack promises he won't throw a party. As soon as they're gone he goes back on his word. When Mr. Roper comes up to put an end to the party, he ends up joining in, but wakes up the next day in Jack's bed...WITH Jack, and he thinks he's gay.

Chrissy's new man is married, but she thinks he's single, and now her friends must prove to her the truth.

Jack must help Chrissy regain her confidence in her sex appeal, since he's the one who made her lose confidence after failing to come on to her when they spend a night alone in the apartment.

Mr. Roper tries to get his old car back from Jack and the girls after someone else makes an offer to him for a lot of money.

Jack agrees to cook a gourmet meal for Chrissy's date, who happens a very fussy critic when it comes to gourmet food.

Chrissy's naturally friendly nature gets her arrested for prostitution when a policeman thinks she's propositioning him.

During one of their marital disputes, Stanley thinks he is attractive to a younger woman (a friend of Jack's) who befriends him as a favor to Jack.

Janet is shocked at the misguided attention of a jock she used to have a crush on from high school. She realizes what a creep he really is once he is all over her, thinking their past will win her over.

Jack's uncle writes Mr. Roper a bad check and the trio try to get it back.

While Helen is out looking for a job, Stanley gets cooking lessons from Jack.

The kids and the Ropers spend Christmas together, but they would rather be at another party.

Stanley gets Helen a fur coat, unknowing that Jack is holding the gift for Mr. Travers.

Chrissy steals Janet's date by accident, and they refuse to speak to each other. It's up to Jack to get the two girls together again.

Janet made a date at the same time as her babysitting duty. She gets Jack and Chrissy to take her place as babysitters.

Chrissy has a new boyfriend who's a film buff, so she decides to become a filmmaker. She gets a super-8mm film camera from her parents and takes lots of very amateur footage of the trio fooling around. Meanwhile, Jack' s friend Larry has some footage of his own - a porno flick he's bought from a stranger for $50. Larry comes over to borrow Chrissy's projector, expecting to have a private showing with Jack. Unfortunately, Roper spots the film and decides to join them. Then Chrissy and Janet show up and it looks like it's going to be a very embarrassing premier showing. What shows up on the screen, however, is a Woody Woodpecker cartoon. Larry is furious, but Jack is hysterical and relieved. Meanwhile, Chrissy finds out her boyfriend has no enthusiasm for her films, and drops him for a painter.

Janet offers Jack a job in her flower shop, and Jack takes that opportunity to goof off during company time. Janet wants Jack to be more serious about his job and they end up not speaking to each other. They forgive each other when Janet needs help in fulfilling an order.

Jack's blind Navy friend comes to visit him and the girls.

Because of one of Larry's tricks, Jack is in trouble. A girl calls him claiming that he might have gotten her pregnant. The girls think that Jack is the father, but actually Larry used his name when he dated her. Jack hears this and thinks that he got his recent girlfriend, Linda, pregnant.

Jack, Janet and Chrissy weeds the Ropers' backyard and they find a plant which they think is marijuana.

Chrissy's father, a reverend, does not approve of Chrissy's life living with Jack and decides to take her home.

Janet has two tickets to see Frank Sinatra, and Chrissy and Jack fight over who gets to go with Janet.

Jack falls for a stewardess who plays him for a fool.

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

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

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!

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

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 to get Jerry to apologize. When Helen makes a date to meet up with Jerry, Jack and Chrissy both assume that she is having an affair.

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

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

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 to talk Larry out of marriage. Chrissy unknowingly stumbles upon the real reason Gloria is marrying Larry, because he told her he owned a used car lot. Larry figures out what Jack was trying to tell him, and Gloria learns the truth about Larry. The conclusion is something both Gloria & Larry agree on!

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.

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

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

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

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 back in and he might have to leave. What he doesn't know is that they are planning a surprise party for him, but it's too late when Jack tries to ruin the party by having Larry streak across the room!

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 that he went surfing with his new girlfriend.

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 apartment temporarily while Janet is off visiting her parents.

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

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

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

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

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 Helen that they have sold the building and are moving into their new house and their own spin-off.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.