I don't know if it was a good decision, but she didn't ave a big movie career, and I don't think she was a TV star at that level again.
Yep. Now often do you make it big and then you really take off? The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) is one of the recent stars. I think it’s more difficult nowadays. Too many entertainment options.
“I don’t know if it was a good decision, but she didn’t ave a big movie career, and I don’t think she was a TV star at that level again.”
S. Somers got another series, Step by Step, which ran for about 6-7 years after Three’s Company was dropped.
Nor can I say whether it was a good decision, but know that actor salaries from that era were nowhere near what they were for top-rated shows aka Friends, Seinfeld, etc. None of this $1 MM/episode stuff. [When Three’s Company began its fifth season in late 1980, Somers demanded a hefty salary increase from $30,000 to $150,000 an episode and 10 percent ownership of the show’s profits.] She and husband Alan Hamel are principal investors in the product, it’s not like she only gets a small royalty per unit. She might have been shown projected sales for the Thighmaster and made a better than average decision.