Three's Company: The Older Woman

Three's Company: The Older Woman
ABC
January 16, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
B-

This Wayne & Burditt story has Jack involved with Mrs. Roper's cousin, Barbara (41-year-old Claudette Nevins, who had been a Hostess on The Bob Newhart Show).  She's an archaeologist who "digs him," and the feeling is mutual.  The girls approve, until they mistake Barbara's mother, Martha (71-year-old Irene Tedrow, who had recently played Mr. Drummond's mother, here making her first of two 3'sC appearances), for Jack's new girlfriend.  So Larry volunteers to seduce the woman, to prove she's just into young guys.  I'd like the episode better if it didn't go in that farcical direction and actually explored Jack's new relationship and reaction to it.