Who Was Jack Tripper?

[arwalden]

Come on knock on our do-o-o-or
We've been waiting for you-u-u-u

[Dookus]

1. He was...

semi-talented performer who murdered the careers of many women.

And he still stalks the earth.... be afraid! Be VERY afraid!

[Gore1FL]

2. John Ritter

scarey as ever -- but now he lives with his two daughters.

[eyesroll]

3. You have to admit he was great as Ted

the not-quite-human boyfriend of Joyce Summers aka Buffy's mom...

[Skittles]

4. NO,,,,,,,,,NO..........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

YOU PUT THE WORST F***ING TV THEME SONG IN MY HEAD AND IT'S ONLY 0745 IN THE MORNING; I'LL KILL YOU.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

5. The orignal British version was far better...

Man About the House was MUCH funnier than Three's Company. Actually that seems to be a bit of a trend - the original British version of a TV show being better than the US copy, that is.

[arwalden]

6. I Fear The Same Thing Will Happen With "Coupling"

... but who knows? Maybe it will work.

-- Allen

[CO Liberal]

7. Hey!!! THE DUCK IS BACK!!!!!!

I missed the little guy......

:-)

[arwalden]

8. Thanks...

He missed you too.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. He WAS great as Ted

He lives with his two daughters now? Are you talking about "Ten simple rules for dating my teenage daughter?" You know he married Amy Yesbeck, his costart from the Problem Child series, right?
Duckie

[SmileyBoy]

10. And the kisses are hers and hers and his....

God DAMN, what a player.

THREE'S COMPANY TOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

[ArkDem]

11. Wasn't he Day Tripper's brother?

.

[corarose]

12. Tex Ritters Son

That's how he got the job. I don't know who Tex Ritter was but I think he might have been a country and western singer.

[mac56]

13. More than you ever wanted to know about Tex Ritter

Legendary country and western star. Notice I wrote "country and western" because that's what they called it in his era.

Woodward Maurice (Tex) Ritter was born on January 12, 1905 in Murvaul, Texas. He attended the University of Texas from 1922 to 1927: as a student he was influenced by J. Frank Dobie, Oscar J. Fox, and John A. Lomax who encouraged his study of authentic cowboy songs. He began singing western and mountain songs on KPRC in Houston in 1929. The following year he was with a musical troupe touring the South and the Midwest; by 1931 he was in New York and had joined the Theatre Guild. His role in "Green Grow the Lilacs" (predecessor to the musical "Oklahoma") drew attention, and he became the featured singer with the Madison Square Garden Rodeo in 1932. Further recognition led to his starring in one of the first western radio programs to be broadcast in New York, "The Lone Star Rangers".

His early image as the embodiment of a Texas cowboy, in spite of his roots in the rural southern music tradition, led to a movie contract in 1936. Appearing in eighty-five movies, including seventy-eight westerns, Ritter was ranked among the top ten money-making stars in Hollywood for six years. While his movies owed much to the genre begun by Gene Autry, Ritter used traditional folk songs in his movies rather than the modern "western" ditties.

Ritter's successful recordings, which began with "Rye Whiskey" in 1931, included "High Noon" (1952), "Boll Weevil" (1945), "Wayward Wind," "Hillbilly Heaven," and "You Are My Sunshine" (1946). "Ranch Party", a television series featuring Ritter, ran from 1959 to 1962.

In 1964 Tex Ritter was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, only the fifth person to be so honored; he also served as president of the Country Music Association from 1963 to 1965. In 1970 he made an unsuccessful bid for the United States Senate seat from Tennessee. He died in Nashville on January 2, 1974.