![]() ![]() But they put that show in a lighter, more whimsical manner, so the time was right for a show like Three’s Company. And the same people who did Three’s Company had been writers on that show and went on to create and produce The Jeffersons, which was a spinoff of All in the Family. “If you look back to ’70s sitcoms,” explains Chris Mann, author of 1998’s Come and Knock on Our Door: A Hers and Hers and His Guide to Three’s Company (which is being readied for an updated edition coming next year) in an exclusive interview, “you had All in the Family, which was so huge, and political and raw and real. The show would turn out to be a combination of slapstick humor and sexual innuendo usually arising from misunderstanding - and it was a huge hit. The latter focuses on Chrissy Snow ( Suzanne Somers), Janet Wood ( Joyce DeWitt) and Jack Tripper (the late John Ritter), living together platonically and pretending that Jack is gay to keep their landlords, the Ropers ( Norman Fell and Audra Lindley), at bay. Instead, it became a short-hand, if you will, to describe shows like Lynda Carter‘s Wonder Woman, the ladies of Charlie’s Angels, and, of course, Three’s Company. ![]() Becoming a part of the popular conversation in the mid-1970s was the phrase “Jiggle Television,” which was designed by NBC to be an insult to ABC’s programming of the time. ![]()
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