Three's Company: A Black Letter Day

Three's Company: A Black Letter Day
ABC
December 11, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
B

This Baser & Weiskopf script, based on a story by a writer with only one other credit, takes a not very original idea (The Brady Bunch had done a variation on it and 3'sC would plagiarize itself during the Teri era) and makes it funny.  Lana reads "Dear Abby" and thinks that Jack is having an affair with Janet or Chrissy, so she tells each of them and then they suspect the other.  Larry adds to the confusion of course.  This is one of the episodes of that time (the one with the racetrack winnings is another) where Janet and Chrissy imitate each other when they argue.  It also has one of my favorite pairs of their outfits, the red & black and white & red suggesting that they are two sides of one coin.  (Plus I just like those color combinations anyway.)  The scene with Jack faking suicide and their reactions is particularly good, and I like the running gag about the letter from the Siamese twin.  Not quite a classic episode, but a lot of nice moments.

Note that this was the last Lana episode to air and I guess we can assume that Jack never corrected her assumption and so she moved out.  We'll see Wedgeworth a decade later, as Dan's mom on Roseanne.