[Dr. Sivana]

Three’s Company came out in 1977. Nothing could be worse than that.

There were a couple of shows at least as bad starring old Happy Days cast members. "Mr T and Tina" starring Pat Morita as an inventor. "The Ugily Family" starring Al Molinaro as patriarch of an ugly family. Honarable mention goes to "Baby I'm Back" with Demond Wilson showing he had no acting talent and was carried by Redd Foxx and LaWanda Page in Sanford and Son. Oh, and "Mason", about a wiseacre dwarfish eightyear old who commwnts on his parent's tush within the first minute of the first episode. "Three's Company" differed as it was a success, and had some great actors (Ritter, Knotts).

[OttawaFreeper]

Then there was the immortal Happy Days spinoff “Blansky’s Beauties” with Caren Kaye, Pat Morita (as Arnold), Scott Baio, and Nancy Walker (playing a cousin of Howard Cunningham’s).

[sparklite2]

“Three’s Company” differed as it was a success, and had some great actors (Ritter, Knotts).

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Three’s Company was copied from the British series, Man About the House. The differences between the shows was telling. In the original Brit version, the guy was forever tying to bed the girls. The US version feminized that character down to being nearly homosexual so as, I suppose, to avoid offending the puritanical among us.