Why the Cast of Three's Company Stopped Speaking for 30 Years

Why the Cast of Three's Company Stopped Speaking for 30 Years Three's Company ran on ABC from 1977 to 1984, and for a stretch was the most-watched comedy in America, powered by John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers. Off camera, the three of them stopped speaking for decades, starting with a contract negotiation ahead of the fifth season that didn't go the way Somers expected. What the production did afterward is one of the strangest things a hit show has ever done to one of its own stars, and almost nobody watching at home noticed. This is the story of what that fight actually cost, and how long it took three people to speak again. Hit like and subscribe:    / @flashbackfamehq   Chapters: 00:00 - Suzanne Somers Banished From the Three's Company Set 00:52 - Three's Company Becomes America's Top-Rated Comedy 03:02 - How Suzanne Somers Got the Part 04:56 - Suzanne Somers' Pay Negotiation With ABC 08:23 - Suzanne Somers Reduced to a Phone Call a Week 10:58 - The Career Fallout Suzanne Somers Faced 12:57 - Three's a Crowd: The Spinoff That Left Joyce DeWitt Out 14:28 - Suzanne Somers and John Ritter's Twenty-Two Years of Silence 17:54 - Was Suzanne Somers Right to Ask for More? Watch more classic TV stories here:    • Classic TV Shows   #ThreesCompany #SuzanneSomers #JohnRitter #FlashbackFame