LOL. As some people pointed out, Crystal portrayed one of the first openly gay characters on Soap. I remember how many people “Soap” upset when it was on TV - it was crude, it was sexually lurid, it undermined marriage, it had gays on it, etc. Now if you look back at “Soap,” its so quaint and tame by comparison. And the guy who was shoving homosexuality in everyone’s face in 1977 is now the old man who blushes when he sees it on TV now.
‘Three’s Company’ was rejected by one or more of the networks in the mid 70s because they thought the public wouldn’t stand for a show about an unmarried man living with unmarried women.