When two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last roommate. However, hijinks ensure when Jack must pretend to be gay in order to throw off the scent of the trio's conservative landlady.
Air date: 1983-09-27
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack's girlfriend wants him to be a father to her child.
Air date: 1983-10-04
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack finds a magazine quiz about secret loves and thinks that either Janet or Terri is in love with him. He then gets them both alone in a cabin to find out who the mystery lover is.
Writer: Michael Weinberger
Air date: 1983-10-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack goes to an ATM machine and the machine goes haywire and spits out all of the money on Jack. He tries to get it back to the bank, but the bank is closed. Janet suggests that he hide it in the couch, which, incidentally, gets takes away by Furley who wants to put in a new couch!
Writer: David Mirkin
Air date: 1983-10-25
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack tries to get a scathing letter from a food critic who thinks has written a bad review about his restaurant.
Air date: 1983-11-01
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack gets Larry to go out with Janet's visiting friend because he already had a date planned.
Air date: 1983-11-08
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack goes out with a sex therapist and Janet thinks that she is a prostitute.
Writer: Michael Weinberger
Air date: 1983-11-22
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Larry enters one of Jack's recipes in a cooking contest which wins, but Jack finds out that the contest is open only to women. Jack dresses as a woman to enter a bake-off competition.
Air date: 1983-11-29
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack's father comes to two, but Jack is mad at him because of all the heartache he had caused.
Air date: 1983-12-06
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Terri goes out with a doctor who happens to be married, and the roommates plan to have the wife catch her husband and Terri together.
Writer: David Mirkin
Air date: 1983-12-13
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack and Larry gambles with a lot of fake money, and they lose a lot.
Air date: 1983-12-20
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: The trio is suspicious of a new tenant, who they think is a jewel thief and a murderer. In actuality, he is a ventriloquist practicing for his act.
Air date: 1984-01-04
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Janet's aerobics job seems to be in jeopardy, and Jack tries to go out with the female boss.
Air date: 1984-01-10
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: To help an old school chum save her marriage, Jack agrees to talk to her husband, a very jealous, big man. However, he learns she met with someone that day and now has poison ivy and so will the man she met up with...Jack.
Air date: 1984-01-17
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: When they surprise a burglar robbing the restaurant after store hours, Jack and Ralph are locked in the meat freezer by the thief.
Writer: David Mirkin
Air date: 1984-01-24
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: After Jack finds a stray kitten and can't keep it due to the no-pet clause, the trio leaves it at Mr. Furley's doorstep. Mr. Furley is having fun until his brother Bart sends over an apartment inspector and the cat's owner winds up at the trio's apartment.
Writer: Al Gordon
Air date: 1984-01-31
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack's navy buddies take him to a tattoo parlor while he's drunk.
Writer: David Mirkin
Air date: 1984-02-21
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack helps out an art teacher by posing nude for her class.
Writer: David Mirkin
Air date: 1984-02-28
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack smashes Janet's new car and fakes amnesia to save his skin. The girls realize that Jack is fooling them and decides to get even with him.
Air date: 1984-03-08
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: An old flower shop customer of Janet's leaves her a little something in his will and his family tries to cut her out.
Writer: Michael Ross
Air date: 1984-03-15
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: While flying, Jack gets a fear of heights and a stewardess named Vicky Bradford helps him out. They even go out for the first time, against her father's wishes. Meanwhile, Philip, the guy we met in the last episode, proposes to Janet.
Writer: Michael Ross
Air date: 1984-09-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Jack and Vicky are really good together, despite Mr. Bradford's objections. Janet and Philip get married in the apartment, and Jack wants Vicky to marry him as well.
Writer: Michael Ross
Air date: 1984-09-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: When Jack proposes to Vicky, she turns him down cold. The reason is that she's afraid of marriage because it might fail like her father's did. They decide to live together. The trio finally moves out of their apartment and into their new lives: Terri is going to Hawaii to work with poor children, Janet and Philip move into their new place, and Jack moves into the apartment above the restaurant with Vicky. As they begin their new life together, Mr. Bradford comes in and tells him that he is the new landlord! With that, the spin-off series Three's a Crowd begins.
