At the time, Barris's company had four other shows on the air: revivals of both
The Dating Game and
The Newlywed Game, the still-running syndicated
The Gong Show and its spin-off
The $1.98 Beauty Show. Barris wrote that "
The public backlash from Three's a Crowd not only caused the program to be canceled, but it took three other TV shows of mine with it. I went to my house in Malibu and stayed there for a year." Indeed, it was largely due to the backlash from
Three's a Crowd that ratings for all of his other shows—including the still-popular
The Gong Show—plummeted and were removed from the air by the start of the next television season.