Three's Company: Professor Jack

Three's Company: Professor Jack
ABC
October 27, 1981
Sitcom
DVD
C+


Laura Levine, who wrote four Bob Newhart Show episodes, offers her first of two for Three's Company, and it doesn't quite work.  Considering that there are not one but two major misunderstandings, I expect more of a pay-off than middle-aged men getting paint and Chinese food dumped on them.

Janet has a new boss (maybe Mr. Compton sold the flower shop in the last couple years), Tom Latham (Frank Aletter, who'd been Major Stoner on M*A*S*H and Daniel Turner on What's Happening!!).  Mr. Latham wants his wife (Sally Kemp, who earlier in the year played Mrs. Landis on Bosom Buddies) to learn cooking from Jack, so Janet sets it up.  Terri jumps to the wrong conclusion and thinks Jack is offering "love lessons."  Meanwhile, her boss, Dr. Anderson (Paul Kent, who previously played Alvin Morrell), wants her help in finding an apartment for his niece.  Jack and Janet assume Dr. Anderson is going to have a "love nest" for Terri.  Cindy drops by a couple times, for a change hitting Janet rather than Jack with the front door.