Synopsis
In the final episodes of its predecessor, Three's Company, Vicky Bradford (Mary Cadorette) is introduced as a love interest of Jack Tripper (John Ritter) beginning in "Cupid Works Overtime", episode 20 of season 8. In the following two episodes, "Friends and Lovers" parts 1 and 2, Jack asks Vicky to marry him, but she refuses and explains that although she loves Jack, she does not want to be married because she remembered when her father and mother got divorced. So, marriage scares her. However, Jack and Vicky eventually move to a new apartment together, the landlord of which is James Bradford (Robert Mandan), Vicky's father. James does not approve of Jack and constantly tries to disrupt their relationship.
Other characters included E.Z. Taylor (Alan Campbell), Jack's "surfer dude" assistant chef at his bistro, and Claudia Bradford (Jessica Walter), Vicky's mother and James' ex-wife. Three's a Crowd was broadcast on ABC from September 25, 1984 (only one week after the final new episode of Three's Company was broadcast) until April 9, 1985, with reruns airing until September 10, 1985.
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