What is "three of a kind"

n. (context card games English) A hand including three cards of the same rank.

Three of a Kind was a British comedy sketch show starring comedians Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and Stanley Barlow under his stage name David Copperfield. Three series were made by the BBC between 1981 and 1983.

The show bolstered the careers of Ullman and Henry, as well as being an outlet for young writers including Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Ian Hislop and Nick Revell.

Ullman and Henry went on to greater success after the show, with Ullman initially launching a brief but successful pop career in 1983 before starring in the ITV sitcom Girls On Top in 1985 and then going on to a high profile career on American television. Henry was given his own BBC series The Lenny Henry Show in 1984 and he remains a semi-regular fixture on British television to this day. Copperfield, however, garnered less success and has been seen relatively little since the series ended.

"Three of a Kind" is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 2, 1999 in the United States. The episode was written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban, and directed by Bryan Spicer. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Three of a Kind" earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.2, being watched by 12.9 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with some noting that the episode served as a stop-gap.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, The Lone Gunmen run into the enigmatic Susanne Modeski. After deceiving Scully into joining them, the trio soon find out that Susanne's fiancé is planning to use her new brainwashing drug for political assassinations.

"Three of a Kind" functions as a sequel of sorts to the fifth season episode " Unusual Suspects", concluding the story of The Lone Gunmen and Susanne Modeski, the woman who led to the creation of the trio. While Mulder played a supporting role in "Unusual Suspects", the concept is reversed in "Three of a Kind", with Scully helping out The Lone Gunmen.

Three of a Kind is a 2004 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Joe Ma and starring Michael Hui, Miriam Yeung and Lau Ching-wan.

Three of a kind may refer to:

• Three of a kind (poker), a type of poker hand
• Three of a Kind (TV series)
• "Three of a Kind" (The X-Files)
• Three of a Kind (1925 film), an American silent crime film
• Three of a Kind (1936 film), an American comedy film
• Three of a Kind (1944 film), an American comedy film about two vaudeville acrobats
• Three of a Kind (2004 film), a Hong Kong comedy film
• Three of a Kind (album)
• 3 of a Kind (band)

Three of a Kind (also released as Three Wise Crooks) is a 1925 American silent crime film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is considered to be lost.

Three of a Kind is an album by Dutch boogie-woogie and jazz pianist Rob Agerbeek.

Three of a Kind is a 1936 American film directed by Phil Rosen. It was made by Invincible Pictures Corporation which was later absorbed into Republic Pictures.

Three of a Kind is a 1944 American comedy film directed by D. Ross Lederman.