He wants to take a more active role in the lives of his children so, when his wife Cate (Katey Sagal) returns to work full-time, he decides to stay home to take care of the kids.
In 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Ritter plays sportswriter and dad Paul Hennessy. In 2002, John Ritter returned to ABC, the network that aired Three’s Company, the sitcom that made him a star 15 years earlier.