Orangeville, Ont., got even orange-ier Saturday as over three dozen Mrs Ropers romped intro town. The locals all dressed up as outrageous landlady Helen Roper, originally played in all her colourful glory by Audra Lindley. The character was a favourite on Three’s Company (1977-84) and the short-lived ABC spinoff series, The Ropers (1979-80). John Ritter,
Jason Ritter is my guest this week on brioux.tv: the podcast. I spoke with the 45-year-old actor recently at the Corus Entertainment Upfront in Toronto. Ritter is so thrilled to be on Matlock — last season’s biggest rookie hit on both Global in Canada and CBS in the US — that he’s been dancing up a storm
I was showing a 16mm print of ABC’s 1978 Fall Preview reel to an audience in Hamilton, Ont., Saturday and there she was, Suzanne Somers, in all her Three’s Company glory. “I’ve only got one thing left to sell,” said Somers’ blonde bimbo character Chrissy in the clip, “and I was hoping to hold onto
CHML’s Scott Thompson starts things off this week by mentioning the death of All My Children star David Canary. The white-haired soap star passed away Nov. 16 at 77. He won five Emmys for playing twins–one good, the other evil–on the daytime series and is also remembered by some of us for his role as