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Terri became the new roommate of Jack Tripper and Janet Wood, who remained on the show till it ended.
8 Suzanne Somers as Christmas "Chrissy" Snow
As the last and possibly the quirkiest member of the original main cast, Suzanne Somers played Christmas "Chrissy" Snow on Three's Company.
Mr. She would ultimately succumb to the latter in 2023 at the age of 76. It was one of the last examples of the kind of classic lighthearted spousal bickering that was made famous in shows like "The Honeymooners" and "I Love Lucy."
Like Fell, Lindley was already a longtime screen veteran when she achieved a new level of celebrity on "Three's Company." She previously had ongoing roles on the TV shows "From These Roots," "Bridget Loves Bernie," and the classic soap opera "Another World" before playing Mrs.
Roper, in addition to dozens of other movie and television appearances.
5 Richard Kline as Larry Dallas
Larry Dallas was a used car salesman and Larry Tripper's best friend on the show. Post-"Three's Company" and "The Ropers," Lindley's biggest roles were in the 1997 horror movie "The Relic" and an appearance on "Friends" as Phoebe's grandmother.
It is one of the few shows that has been successfully Americanized from a British series!
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In the first three seasons of "Three's Company," when they were still main cast members and key figures of the ensemble, the hilarious interactions between Stanley and Helen Roper (Audra Lindley) were among of the funniest parts of the show. That being said, it was largely one-sided, mostly consisting of Lana pursuing Jack and Jack continually declining her advances.
And in another example of "Three's Company" checking all of the archetype boxes, Larry was a used car salesman, further hammering home how he was slimy and not to be trusted.
Prior to "Three's Company," Kline had a three-episode stint on "Maude," thus making Larry Dallas his breakout character. To the show's credit, Mr. Furley wasn't just another Mr.
Roper. He continued his successful career after Three's Company right into the early 2000s, when he mostly did voice roles such as that of Mayor Turkey Lurkey in the animated film Chicken Little. Charney's further participation in the "Three's Company"-verse came by way of his portrayal of a character named Mr. McLaughlin during Season 2 of "The Ropers." But Frank Angelino would prove to be the biggest "Three's Company" character who didn't live in the apartment building nor was a romantic interest of any of the main ensemble.
Prior to either of those shows, Charney did a stint on "One Life to Live," and also played a doctor for 20 episodes of "General Hospital" concurrent to his time on "Three's Company." In 2000, he began his longest stint playing a single character when he began his recurring role on "Law & Order" as Judge Donald Karan, a role he would return to a number of times between Season 10 of that year through Season 16 in 2006.
The actor would later score another lead role in another successful sitcom with 1991's "Step by Step." Somers also spent some years being known as the spokesperson for the hugely popular ThighMaster workout device.
Actually, Three's Company was based on a hit British TV show titled, "Man About The House".
Jenilee Harrison (Cindy Snow)
Given that the show was called "Three's Company," it was important that there had to be a central trio of roommates. Don Knotts played Furley from Seasons 4 to 8 of the show.
Knotts was an American actor and comedian who was most prolific in the acting scene between the '50s and '70s, most famous for his role on The Andy Griffith Show.
In his portrayal of Mr. Roper, Fell brought a very old-school, almost Vaudevillian sensibility to the proceedings in the way he would deliver a joke, hold in the moment for a beat, and then look directly at the camera and offer a mugging smile. On the big screen, she appeared in the James Bond movie "Licence to Kill," cult hit horror comedy "The Devil's Rejects," and had a memorable cameo in the Kevin Smith comedy "Mallrats." On television, she had mostly done TV movies after "Three's Company" until she scored a recurring role as Magda Andel on "Jane the Virgin."
In 2024, Barnes reunited with Joyce DeWitt for an event put on by The John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health in Los Angeles.
Somers' demands for a massive salary increase may have seemed outrageous then but were perhaps merely asked for in the wrong century since her main grievance was actually that she wanted to be paid on par with her male counterpart on the show.
Nevertheless, Somers went on to have a successful career afterward. The subject matter was a little "spicy" for it's day and the publicity for the series was even more so!
Three's Company was a show that evoked much nostalgia in recent times if you were old enough to remember when it first aired or as a prominently syndicated show on TV. Decades after its success, many of its original cast members are still around and continuing to act.