Season 3

September 26, 1978

Chrissy discovers a spicy diary and uses it to perfect her typing skills. Mr. Roper reads the diary and thinks that Chrissy has it in for him!

October 3, 1978

It's a test of willpower when Janet and Chrissy give up food in exchange for Jack giving up girls!

October 10, 1978

After Stanley's friend fails to fulfill their deal of loser buys the beer, Stanely works himself into an outrage. Helen tries to patch things up between Jerry & Stanely by trying to get Jerry to apologize. When Helen makes a date to meet up with Jerry, Jack and Chrissy both assume that she is having an affair.

October 17, 1978

Janet's little sister visits the trio and instantly falls for Jack.

October 24, 1978

Chrissy is tricked into becoming a panhandler by a con-artist.

October 31, 1978

Larry introduces the trio to his new fiance. Jack learns that Gloria has always had the hots for him, but Larry believes it to be the other way around. Jack unsuccessfully tries to talk Larry out of marriage. Chrissy unknowingly stumbles upon the real reason Gloria is marrying Larry, because he told her he owned a used car lot. Larry figures out what Jack was trying to tell him, and Gloria learns the truth about Larry. The conclusion is something both Gloria & Larry agree on!

November 14, 1978

Chrissy is invited to go on a business trip with her boss, and Jack thinks that the boss wants to get it on with her. What he doesn't know is that Chrissy's boss is a woman.

November 21, 1978

Laurie, the trio's babysitting charge, has a crush on Jack, much to her boyfriend's dismay.

November 28, 1978

Chrissy a thief? No way! At least that what Jack thinks when he sees her with his money.

December 5, 1978

After canceling a party the trio were holding, Helen (in disgust) leaves Stanley.

December 12, 1978

Eleanor makes her first appearance in the shower when Jack meets her for the first time. Knowing that Eleanor was Janet and Chrissy's old roommate, he thinks that Eleanor is moving back in and he might have to leave. What he doesn't know is that they are planning a surprise party for him, but it's too late when Jack tries to ruin the party by having Larry streak across the room!

January 16, 1979

Jack tells Janet and Chrissy that he's going out with an old woman. Janet and Chrissy thinks that it is roper's aunt after she shows up with his swimming trunks after Jack says that he went surfing with his new girlfriend.

January 30, 1979

Mr. Roper thinks that Chrissy is pregnant when he overhears a conversation in a pipe adjoining their bathroom. The real deal is that Chrissy has a wart. Also, Linda stays at the apartment temporarily while Janet is off visiting her parents.

February 6, 1979

While Jack is catering a party for Chrissy's business, Chrissy's lecherous boss tries to get it on with Chrissy.

February 13, 1979

Jack finally has a chance to get it on with Chrissy when a mouse terrorizes the apartment building.

February 20, 1979

Jack ruins Janet's date when he has a broken leg.

February 27, 1979

Chrissy accidentally eats Jack's pie right before a pie contest he is supposed to be in.

March 13, 1979

Helen thinks that Stanley is leaving her for another woman, but in actuality, the woman is a real estate agent who got him a great deal on a house in Chevroit Hills. Stanley tells Helen that they have sold the building and are moving into their new house and their own spin-off.

May 8, 1979

Fed up with the girls not doing their share and helping out at the apartment, Jack angrily leaves and becomes a live-in cook for Larry's boss and his promiscuous wife.

May 15, 1979

Jack goes out with a girl, and he is afraid that she will leave him due to his living arrangements. But what he doesn't know is that she has the same problem that he does.

September 15, 1979

Roper plans a surprise disco party for his wife. This is an episode of the Ropers packaged in syndication with Three's Company.