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Series Premise

Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason, it starred the late John Ritter (Three's Company) and Markie Post (Night Court) playing John Hartman and Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman, respectively. Supporting actors included Billy Bob Thornton and Ed Asner. The show was set in Washington, D.C. and centered on a senator's aide (Ritter) and the wife (Post) whose father served a prison term. The series was itself a satire on current affairs in Washington, D.C. Harry Z. Thomason, (born 1940), is an American film and television producer and director best known for his television series Designing Women. ... John Ritter John Ritter in the opening credits of Threes Company. ... Threes Company is an American sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. // Basic description The show was a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House and revolved around two women and a man sharing an apartment together. ... Markie Post Markie Post (born Marjorie Armstrong Post on November 4, 1950, in Palo Alto, California) is an actress, best known for her 1985–1992 role as Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court. ... Night Court was a situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. ... Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to a father of Irish descent and an Italian/Choctaw Native American mother) is an American actor, and also an occasional director, playwright, screenwriter and singer. ... An autographed portrait of Ed Asner Yitzhak Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a Jewish-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... Location in the United States of America Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ...

The Production and Rights Issues

The series was independently produced by Mozark Productions (series executive producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's company) and Adam Productions (Ritter's company) under the dummy company "Hearts Afire Productions". It did not receive any outside help from any major studio (Columbia Pictures Television partnered on Bloodworth-Thomason's previous series Designing Women), although another independent distributor, Genesis Entertainment, handled international distribution outside the U.S. Because of this, the series was never made available for television syndication, although in recent years cable's USA Network aired reruns. Columbia Pictures Television logo, used from 1992-2001. ... Designing Women was a U.S. television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. ... USA Networks new logo was implemented on July 8, 2005 as part of the networks 25th anniversary rebranding campaign. ...

The John Ritter estate now owns complete control over the series as to how and when it could be released. In 2005, the Ritter estate awarded the home video rights to Image Entertainment (beating out favorites Lions Gate Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, whose sister studio Columbia produced Designing Women), and the first season of the series is now available on DVD, albeit in altered versions (due to music rights issues, some music has been re-scored, and many episodes are presented in their USA Network rerun versions). The remaining two seasons are expected to follow soon. Image Entertainment is a major home video and television distribution company that has handled digital media distribution of television programs, public domain and copyrighted feature films, and music concerts. ... Lions gate home entertainment is the home video and dvd distribution arm of lions gate entertainment corporation, it has a vast library of more than 8,ooo films(many the result of output deals with other studios), it is mainly responsible for the distribution of the lions gate film library... Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video, DVD, and UMD distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidary of Sony Corporation. ... DVD-R writing/reading side DVD-R with purple dye, 4. ...

Trivia

The series' title is taken from a line in the Earth, Wind & Fire song "That's the Way of the World" (which originally served as the series' theme song).[[Category:CBS network shows]Rush Limbaugh guest-starred Earth, Wind & Fire is an American funk band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1969. ... Thats The Way Of The World is a 1975 album by Earth, Wind & Fire. ...