

That Girl
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
Cast

Marlo Thomas
Ann Marie

Ted Bessell
Donald Hollinger

Lew Parker
Lew Marie
Seasons

E1Don't Just Do Something, Stand There
Sep 8, 1966
Ann's five years of being an independent woman actress begins when she meets Donald Hollinger, a magazine reporter, in one of her in-between jobs as a candy clerk. She gets a job in a perfume commercial where she plays a woman who gets kidnapped by two robbers. Donald happens to see the act and thinks that Ann is in real trouble, so he saves her only to get serious flack from her. But with that incident aside, Ann and Donald find out that they really belong together.

E2Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye
Sep 15, 1966
Ann Marie leaves the safety and comfort of her parent's home to live on her own in New York. But she has a visit from her mother who is threatening to move in with her!

E3Never Change a Diaper on Opening Night
Sep 22, 1966
Ann has a chance to audition for Jules Benedict, but has to babysit Leon and Judy's baby as well. Will Ann be able to pull this off?

E4I'll Be Suing You
Sep 29, 1966
Ann has to go to court because of an accident involving a pedestrian and a sewing machine.

E5Anatomy of a Blunder
Oct 6, 1966
Ann brings Donald home to meet her parents, but he goes through some serious torture when they stop for a little picnic on the way.

E6Rich Little Rich Kid
Oct 13, 1966
Ann is charmed by a wealthy man who gives her many luxuries and Don tries to compete. Ann realizes that money is not the most important thing in a relationship.

E7Help Wanted
Oct 20, 1966
One rule in life: never ever ask your girlfriend to work with you. Don learns that the hard way when he hires Ann to be his secretary.

E8Little Auction Annie
Oct 27, 1966
At an antique auction, Ann buys a box of junk with a baseball in it. A strange man follows her because he wants the baseball. It turns out that he is an ex-baseball player who wants the ball for sentimental reasons.

E9Time for Arrest
Nov 3, 1966
Ann ends up in jail trying to help a fellow waitress when she serves two rival underworld groups and the place gets raided by the police.

E10Break a Leg
Nov 10, 1966
Ann's friend Sandy, an actress who has just won a lead role in a Broadway play, visits Ann. Suddenly, Sandy gets sick, leaving Ann to play her role. Everyone thinks that Ann stole teh job from her, but Ann pays them no never mind as she enjoys her chance. Unfortunately the play closes after one performance.

E11What's in a Name?
Nov 17, 1966
Ann's agent thinks that she needs a new name for an excellent acting career.

E12Soap Gets in Your Eyes
Nov 24, 1966
Donald's parents meet Ann for the first time, and his mother Mildred takes a dislike to Ann because she plays a vamp on a soap opera.

E13All About Ann
Dec 1, 1966
Ann thinks she will lose her sweet Donald to a famous actress when all the time, he is interviewing her for his article.

E14Phantom of the Horse Opera
Dec 8, 1966
Ann and Donald find a strange organ player who used to play the soundtrack in silent movies. Donald does a story about him, but he disappears because he is a wanted criminal.

E15Beware of Actors Bearing Gifts
Dec 15, 1966
Ann is being given presents by one of her acting class colleagues, Hobart Niles. She and Donald think that these gifts are hot, but they find out that Hobart is very wealthy.

E16Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid
Dec 22, 1966
This very touching Christmas episode has Ann telling Donald about a time where she was a teacher and had to keep a lonely boy company on Christmas when his parents cannot get him.

E17Among My Souvenirs
Jan 5, 1967
Ann finds souvenirs that remind her of a boyfriend she used to have named Freddy. It turns out that Freddy still has a flame burning for her.

E18These Boots Weren't Made For Walking
Jan 12, 1967
Ann is a salesperson for shoes that somehow fall apart over time.

E19Kimomo My House
Jan 19, 1967
Ann hires a maid for Donald, but who she hired makes her jealous.

E20Gone With the Breeze
Jan 26, 1967
Donald gives Ann a manuscript of a novel that he is writing, and she loses it. Donald is waiting for a response, but Ann stalls because she did not want to admit that she lost it.

E21Rain, Snow and Rice
Feb 2, 1967
Ann and Donald are invited by their friends, Jerry Bauman and Margie, to a private wedding in Connecticut, but they get snowed in. There are only two rooms available in the inn that they are staying and the boys share one room and the girls share another. The problem begins with Jerry and Margie decide to stay together leaving Ann and Donald in a room together, much to the chagrin of Ann's parents.

E22Paper Hats and Everything
Feb 9, 1967
Ann thinks that her friends are going to surprise her with a birthday party when she is invited out to dinner by her father.

E23What Are Your Intentions?
Feb 16, 1967
Lou thinks that Ann and Donald ought to be married, but they have different ideas.

E24A Tenor's Loving Care
Feb 23, 1967
Ann helps Donald get a story about a famous opera singer, if only he can control his romantic urges.

E25Leaving the Nest is For the Birds
Mar 2, 1967
Ann invites her parents and her Aunt Harriet to dinner at her house where she tries to prove to them that living in the city is pretty cool. A stranger outside the window ruins Ann's point because he has romantic woes.

E26You Have to Know Someone to Be Unknown
Mar 9, 1967
Ann reads that a famous producer is looking for an unknown for his play and has Donald put in a good word for her. He tries to tell her that the producer had found his star a long time ago, but she doesn't listen.

E27The Honeymoon Apartment
Mar 16, 1967
Ann gets a visit from her cheap cousin and his bride. When he refuses to leave, Ann gets a room in a bridal suite to formualte a plan to get him out.

E28This Little Piggy Had a Ball
Mar 23, 1967
Ann has her toe stuck in a bowling ball at a very unopportune moment.

E29Author, Author
Mar 30, 1967
Ann needs some funny material for an audition and enlists Donald's writing expertise, but his jokes aren't funny.
E30The Mating Game
Apr 6, 1967
Donald has to do a story on the show ""The Mating Game"", and he has Ann be a contestant. Ann doesn't know that Donald is one of the bachelors and she picks another man. While she had her date with this man, Donald tags along to get a story.
E1Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman
Sep 7, 1967
Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman, who chooses Ann for a walk-on part in a revival of ""Gypsy.""
E2The Good Skate
Sep 14, 1967
Ann makes a valiant effort to learn to roller-skate to get a part in a soft-drink commercial.
E3Black, White and Read All Over
Sep 21, 1967
Donald, the proud owner of an unpublished novel, needs cheering when he gets his twelfth rejection slip. Ann's father makes connections with a publisher for Don's book, but he reads it himself and refuses to send it in.
E4To Each her Own
Sep 28, 1967
Donald does a story on computer dating. Ann is jealous when Donald's Compudate match turns out to be attractive model, Lisa Stevens. So Ann fills out a Compudate card herself and comes up with a good-looking date also, who turns out to be a lot more like Donald than she'd care to admit!
E5The Apartment
Oct 5, 1967
Ann gets a job in telephone marketing at the same time her apartment is being painted, so Ann must borrow Donald's apartment whiel he is away to work in. Dan's friend Harry comes by unknowingly and decides to stay in the apartment as well.
E6Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (1)
Oct 12, 1967
Ann Marie's elation at winning a Broadway role fades when she realizes its Philadelphia opening will mean a long separation from Donald.
E7The Philadelphia Story (2)
Oct 19, 1967
Despite attention from a fellow castmate, Ann misses Donald while in Philadelphia to do a play.
E8There's Nothing to Be Afreud of But Freud Himself
Oct 26, 1967
After a meeting with a famous doctor, Donald uses what he has learned to find out all out Ann's personality.
E9The Collaborators
Nov 2, 1967
Ann and Donald learn that a couple that works together also fights together when they collaborate on a play about her life.
E10When in Rome
Nov 9, 1967
Ann wins a part in an Italian movie, but turns it down when she discovers a nude scene.
E11Thanksgiving Comes But One a Year, Hopefully
Nov 23, 1967
The Hollingers are upset that their son isn't coming home for Thanksgiving, and the Maries are upset that a family tradition is being broken. Trying to cook everyone's favorite dishes, Ann takes over the kitchen of a neighbor who is away. The dinner turns out to be a disaster!
E12The Mailman Cometh
Nov 30, 1967
While modeling at a famous restaurant, Ann meets an agent named Seymour who gets her a date with Dick Shawn as a publicity stunt, but he doesn't know about it!
E13It's a Mod, Mod World (1)
Dec 7, 1967
Ann meets a fashion photographer named Noel Prince, whom Donald dislikes. Noel wants to take her to California to do a shoot.
E14It's a Mod, Mod World (2)
Dec 14, 1967
Noel falls for Ann badly. Don sees a newspaper photo of Ann and Noel being arrested for frolicking in a fountain, he's on the next plane to Los Angeles.
E15'Twas the Night before Christmas, You're Under Arrest
Dec 21, 1967
Ann purchases tickets for the Baumans from a scalper. Giving the scalper a check with her address on it and saying the tickets are for her neighbors, she fears they may be robbed (on Christmas Eve). In order to prevent a robbery, Ann and Donald remove all the valuables from the Baumans' apartment, only to be caught by the police.
E16A Friend in Need
Dec 28, 1967
When Ann sprains her ankle at work, Donald comes to the rescue cooking gourmet meals and cleaning her apartment with a vengeance.
E17Fur All We Know
Jan 4, 1968
A fortune hunter named Buzzy has his eyes on Ann when she wears a borrowed chinchilla stole to wear at an elite party.
E18The Rivals
Jan 11, 1968
Ann takes boyfriend Donald home to spend the weekend with her parents, only to find that her father is jealous of Don and sees him as a rival.
E19Sixty-Five on the Aisle
Jan 18, 1968
After Ann invites her parents to see her Broadway debut, she learns that her lines have been cut considerably. Ann asks her father to change his reservations to the following night so he can see her uncut role. She's unaware that her part was cut to accommodate a surprise theater party planned by her father.
E20Call of the Wild
Jan 25, 1968
Ann becomes convinced that she has no sex appeal when she lands a part as the Creamy Soap Girl because the producer sees her as a fresh scrubbed face that no housewife could resent for her looks.
E21The Other Woman
Feb 1, 1968
Lou escorts Ethel Merman just to be nice, and the publicity thinks that they are an item much to Helen's dismay.
E22He and She and He
Feb 8, 1968
Donald is stunned when Ann receives a marriage proposal from British fashion photographer Noel Prince. Noel expects his answer in the morning, despite Ann's protestations that she loves Donald.
E23Odpdypahimcaifss
Feb 22, 1968
Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.
E24Great Guy
Mar 7, 1968
Marge tells Ann that she has met the man of her dreams, but he backs out when she proposed marraige.
E25The Detective Story
Mar 14, 1968
Ann gets obscene phone calls and a police chief is called to stay with her. Donald thinks that there is something going on between the two of them when he comes out of Ann's bedroom one morning.
E26If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World
Mar 21, 1968
Ann is knocked out by a baseball and the doctor that treats her looks exactly like Donald.
E27Just Spell the Name Right
Mar 28, 1968
Ann is pressured to hire unscrupulous press agent Eddie Edwards who promptly links her to a divorce scandal with actor Buddy Hobart in the hopes that it will boost Ann's career.
E28The Beard
Apr 11, 1968
Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.
E29The Drunkard
Apr 18, 1968
A drunk comedian named Marty is taken in by Ann to sober up, and he thinks that they had an affair.
E30Old Man's Darling
Apr 25, 1968
Ann meets an elderly man, Andrew Washington at a party when he accidentally spills his shrimp cocktail on her new white crepe dress. He tries to make it up to her by giving her gifts, but Ann cannot accept them.
E1Sock It to Me
Sep 26, 1968
Against the objections of the director, Ann is awarded a part in a Broadway play by the star, Barry Sullivan. Ann is excited to get this opportunity, but when the script calls for Ann to slap Barry, she can't bring herself to do it.
E2The Hi-Jack and the Mighty
Oct 3, 1968
Ann works as a flight attendant to get a job for an airline commercial. Ann thinks that a man is going to hijack the plane and she tackles him. She then discovers that he is a detective hired to prevent hijackings!
E3Eleven Angry Men and That Girl
Oct 10, 1968
Ann takes her jury duty to heart and will not go along with the rest of the panel when they all want to vote ""guilty"" against a man accused of hitting his wife with an ashtray. After reasoning that he couldn't have hit her with his right hand, she convinces the others and they vote for acquittal.
E47 1/4 (1)
Oct 17, 1968
Ann goes with Donald to Los Angeles to do a story on media violence and causes confusion for her father and everyone else who thinks that they are getting it on.
E57 1/4 (2)
Oct 24, 1968
Whiel in Los Angeles, Ann gets a job in action commercials for soda-pop, and Donald hates them because it is the very thing that he is going against.
E6Secret Ballot
Oct 31, 1968
Ann is excited at the prospect of voting in her first presidential election. She's gone to the library to read everything she can about the issues and the political process. But on Halloween night, when Ann's father asks her what party she registered with, Ann feels it's her right to preserve her secret ballot.
E7The Face in the Shower Room Door
Nov 7, 1968
Ann gets stuck in a shower and a new neighbor helps her to get out.
E8A Muggy Day in Central Park
Nov 14, 1968
Ann is mugged and tries her best not to let her father find out about it. Donald gets into the act by dressing up as a woman to catch muggers to do a story for his magazine.
E9Just Donald and Me and Jerry Makes Three
Nov 21, 1968
Ann and Donald get in the middle of Jerry and Ruth's troubled marriage to get them back together again.
E10The Seventh Time Around
Nov 28, 1968
Don does a story on an old multimillionairess named Margaret ""Trixie"" Weatherby, and Ann thinks that she is trying to steal Don away from her.
E11Ann vs. Secretary
Dec 5, 1968
Donald's sexy new secretary, Pat Crawford, arranges to accompany him on an out of town assignment to Washington, D.C., hoping to steal his heart from Ann. Feeling neglected and rejected, Ann decides she'll spare Don the pain of breaking up with her and she'll have it all done by the time he returns, so she returns all borrowed items of hers and Donald's to their proper apartments. But when she discovers she was wrong, she has only minutes to get everything back to normal before Don finds out.
E12Decision Before Dawn
Dec 12, 1968
Ann is torn when everyone wants her to do different things with her expensive pay check.
E13Should All our Old Acquaintances be Forgot
Dec 26, 1968
Ann and Donald want to ring in the New Year by themselves, but the arrival of Ann's parents for one quick drinks instantly turns their private celebration into a big party house.
E14The Homewrecker and the Window Washer
Jan 2, 1969
When an aggresive bully collides with Ann in an office lobby, only nearby window washer, Rudy Clarn comes to her aid. But while warning him off, the bully slugs Rudy and breaks his nose. Feeling terribly guilty, Ann helps him to the doctor and then home. Rudy's wife, Ethel - a terribly jealous woman, believes there is more to the relationship between Ann and Rudy and threatens to leave him.
E15The Eye of the Beholder
Jan 9, 1969
Ann receives a godawful art piece from Donald and gets a lot of different opinions about it.
E16Dark on Top of Everything Else
Jan 16, 1969
Ann and Donald decide to take a little vacation from themselves, so Ann decides to move into her parent's house. Her parents are going on vacation, and she stays there. A noise gets her locked down in the basement and she is trapped. Her parents are worried when Ann doesn't answer the phone and they hurry back home to find that Donald has rescued her.
E17The Earrings
Jan 23, 1969
On Valentine's Day, Ann and Donald exchange permanent gifts. She gives him a tie clasp and he gives her a pair of genuine diamond earrings they saw together at Tiffany's. Ann is scared to wear them. When Don puts his foot down and insists she wear them on their evening of dinner and dancing, one of them indeed disappears. Don buys her a replacement earring and puts it in her apartment. Ann, not wanting to disappoint Dan, buys a replacement earring herself.
E18Many Happy Returns
Jan 30, 1969
Donald tries to help Ann out of an IRS mess but gets into a mess himself involving flour.
E19My Sister's Keeper
Feb 6, 1969
Ann gets a job in another soda commercial, but she has to have her singing voice dubbed by someone else. Her voice double, Rose Cassinetti, helps Ann out and Ann tries to do something good for her. She doesn't know that Rose is a nun.
E20There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man
Feb 13, 1969
Ann gets a job in a TV show. She is a pretty lady that gets hit by a pie. After the spot airs, she is embarrassed to death.
E21The Subject Was Rabies
Feb 20, 1969
Lou gets bitten by a dog that follows Ann home and he thinks that he has caught rabies.
E22The Defiant One
Feb 27, 1969
Ann befriends an African-American boy after saving him from a shoplifting charge. When he tells her he lives on Park Avenue, she does not believe him, so he invents a story of 13 brothers and sisters, fat rats, life in a dirty tenament, and a father who beats him. Appalled, Ann goes so far as to decide to adopt him! The boy then calls his father, who happened to be wealthy like he said earlier.
E23Fly Me to the Moon
Mar 6, 1969
Ann lands a public relations job for the air force to promote women in the space program, at the time time she is supposed to help Donald wallpaper his apartment.
E24It's So Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
Mar 13, 1969
Ann calls Donald late one night because of a mouse in her apartment. Donald goes over to stay in her apartment to protect her. Of course, Lou comes by and finds Donald in Ann's apartment and decides that Ann and Donald should be married right away!
E25Bad Day at Marvin Gardens
Mar 20, 1969
The Maries, Donald and Ann are playing a game of Monopoly and Lou gets very competitive.
E26Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?
Mar 27, 1969
At the Newsview office, Lou slips on some water. Donald is told that Lou has to sign a waiver of responsibility. Donald goes to Mr. Prentice's office and quits, only to be talked back into his job by his managing editor.
E1Mission Improbable (1)
Sep 18, 1969
While modeling at Unifit, Ann is hired to spy on a competitor who is suspected of stealing designs.
E2Mission Improbable (2)
Sep 25, 1969
Unaware that her cover has been blown, Ann is tricked into photographing reject designs.
E3My Part Belongs to Daddy
Oct 2, 1969
Ann is assigned to direct the Brewster annual play, but has to tell her father that he will not have the starring role.
E4Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Oct 9, 1969
Ann gets a job as a dancing chicken for a fried chicken chain. The boss keeps trying to ""pluck"" her in his car, but Ann gets out of her car and gets stranded.
E5At the Drop of a Budget
Oct 16, 1969
Ann goes to a dentist who uses hypnosis to calm people who are afraid down. When the dentist speaks to his wife on the phone while Ann is under hypnosis, the dentist tells his wife that she would buy anything at the drop of a hat and that EXACTLY what Ann does.
E6Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow
Oct 23, 1969
A hearing loss from a cold that Ann receives ruins a commercial spot for her.
E7The Snow Must Go On (1)
Oct 30, 1969
Ann, her mother, her father and Donald are all stranded in a blizzard at Kennedy Airport. Ann is supposed to go to a Broadway audition and is determined to get there despite the weather.
E8Write is Wrong (2)
Nov 6, 1969
Don writes a TV segment about the incident at Kennedy Airport if Ann agrees to be the star. Don is constantly bugged about rewrites and all that, and the whole thing turns out to be a mess. Thank god for pre-emption, Ann thinks when her show is supposed to be on.
E9Shake Hands and Come Out Acting
Nov 13, 1969
Don is doing a story on a fighter who wants to be an actor.
E10Fix My Screen and Bug Out
Nov 20, 1969
Ann tries to help out her neighbors in saving their hotel from the ownership of her ex-boyfriend.
E11Kiss That Girl Goodbye
Nov 27, 1969
Don has a chance to go to Paris, but mulls about it when he thinks about how Ann will feel having to live without him.
E12She Didn't Have the Vegas Notion (1)
Dec 11, 1969
Ann gets a job in a show in Las Vegas with an egotistical actor who tries to ruin her relationship with Donald.
E13She Didn't Have the Vegas Notion (2)
Dec 18, 1969
Marty pulls a scheme to make it seem like Donald had married a starlet. Ann and Donald find out about the trick and decide to get Marty back by making it seem like Don is committing suicide.
E14I Am a Curious Lemon
Dec 25, 1969
Ann has a dinner party, and one of Donald's now-married ex-girlfriends will attend. Ann tries to impress Heather, but the plans are ruined when her juvenile weekend guest plugs in a heater to warm up her lemon tree.
E15Ten Percent of Nothing is Nothing
Jan 1, 1970
Ann joins her agent's comedy act in the Catskills, with disastrous results.
E16Opening Night
Jan 8, 1970
Ann dreads bad reviews of her opening night in Broadway, and all this anxiety gets her finger trapped in a kitchen faucet.
E17That Meter Maid
Jan 22, 1970
Ann relives her days as a meter maid when she meets Donald's new boss. As a meter maid, Ann tried to ticket the mayor's illegally parked car and was fired. Donald's new boss was the newspaper editor who printed Ann's letter of protest.
E18Fly By Night (1)
Jan 29, 1970
Ann and Donald plan a trip to her father's cabin in Vermont. Donald's friend, Jon, flies them to the cabin in a small plane, but the plane makes an emergency landing after running out of gas.
E19Ugh, Wilderness (2)
Feb 5, 1970
After determining Donald and Ann are okay, Jon goes to look for help. Ann and Donald start walking to keep warm and find a cabin. Ann's father gets nervous when they don't arrive on time and calls out a search party.
E20Stocks and the Single Girl
Feb 12, 1970
Ann accidentally meets a stockbroker and he gives her his card. It seems that he has a list of products (his grocery list) on the back of the card, and Ann invests in the stock market.
E21The Night They Raided Daddy's
Feb 19, 1970
Ann's father is losing business at his restaurant, so she hires a musical group to help bring business. The group she hires seem harmless enough, but when they perform, they do a Full Monty act!
E22The Reunion
Feb 26, 1970
As class secretary-treasurer, Ann loses track of $360 she is to use for a high school reunion. Her father lends her the money, even though the party is to be at a rival restaurant. At the party, Ann watches three classmates she suspects of having taken the money.
E23Gone-A-Courtin'
Mar 5, 1970
Ann has to go to court to help a producer win a lawsuit involving a shish-kabob skewer.
E24They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
Mar 12, 1970
Neighbor Ruth Bauman is strangely disinterested in a movie her husband is making with Ann and Donald. While viewing the film with Donald, Ann is shocked when she sees Ruth kissing another man in the background. Ann investigates to get the real story. It turns out that Ruth is pregnant and the man that she was kissing was her realtor because he found them a perfect place.
E25Easy Faller
Mar 19, 1970
Donald hurts his back trying to demonstrate skiing in Ann's apartment, and worries about missing an interview. Ann brings the interviewee over to her apartment, and Lou comes over as well!
E26All's Well That Ends
Mar 26, 1970
Don wants to take Ann out to the theater for her birthday, but she has to stay and babysit for a neighbor's child who has the mumps.
E1Counter Proposal
Sep 25, 1970
After four years of dating, Donald finally asks Ann to marry him and presents her with an engagement ring - which he was talked into buying second-hand by a co-worker against his better judgement.
E2Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy
Oct 2, 1970
Donald's sister Sandi has a passion for an actor, and he wants Ann to check up on him to see if he's a good man. The actor finds out what's going on and makes moves on Ann to teach her a lesson.
E3I Ain't Got Nobody
Oct 9, 1970
A nude picture of Ann is plastered in a ""Playpen"" magazine, which jeopardizes her chance of being on a kiddie show.
E4No Man is Manhattan Island
Oct 16, 1970
On a game show, Ann is asked to find out about her neighbors. No one wants to speak up, so Ann throws a party to invite everyone until her purse gets stolen.
E5Rattle of a Single Girl
Oct 23, 1970
Ann and Donald go to a pre-nuptial counselor to weed out their non-existent problems.
E6There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)
Oct 30, 1970
Ann learns that killing two birds with one stone is almost too much when she goes to St. Louis with Donald to meet his parents and to star in a play. She is convinced that Don's mother hates her and decides that she might be able to turn it around if she were to have a larger, starring role in the play instead of her more modest part.
E7There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)
Nov 6, 1970
In St. Louis to appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, Ann once again finds that nothing is ever easy.
E8That Cake
Nov 13, 1970
Ann lands the presitgious title of ""Miss New York has Everything"" and does a TV promotion for the city in which she bakes a fruit topped cheesecake using all New York ingredients. While baking the cake, Ann loses her ring in the cake batter, and to make matters worse, the cake has been shipped to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's house for a state dinner. After all the trouble they went to, Ann finds out that her ring wasn't even in the governor's cake!
E9That Girl's Daddy
Nov 20, 1970
Lou feels as though he is getting too old, and Ann introduces him to Jeanie, who makes him feel more younger. Ann thinks that he is going to leave her mother when actually he wants to please her.
E10Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off
Nov 27, 1970
Ann is hired by a rival magazine because they think that Donald is going to help her out now that they are engaged.
E11Super Reporter
Dec 4, 1970
Don is stuck in a ""super Don"" costume when his friends steal his clothes and forget to give them back to him. All before he is to accept an Humanitarian award from the deputy mayor!
E12That Senorita
Dec 11, 1970
Ann gets a lesson in minorities when a sketch that she is in is very offensive to Mexicans.
E13An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons
Dec 18, 1970
Uncle Herbert is turning Ann and Donald's world upside down when he makes bogus get-rich-quick schemes.
E14That Script
Jan 1, 1971
Ann wants film rights to a novel, but the author will not sell. He changes his mind when he sees Ann, and how much she resembles his late wife. His new wife tells Ann that her husband can't write anymore and Ann turns down the movie out of respect for him.
E15Those Friars
Jan 8, 1971
Ann's late Uncle Harry wills her an old trunk filled with bits and pieces of his career in vaudeville. Ann is doubly surprised when stars Milton Berle and Danny Thomaspay a visit to her apartment and try to buy the old trunk.
E16A Limited Engagement
Jan 15, 1971
Donald breaks off his engagement to Ann because of cold feet.
E17The Russians are Staying
Jan 29, 1971
Ann makes friends with a Russian named Nicholai who is a con man sponging off her.
E18That Shoplifter
Feb 5, 1971
Ann is duped by a robber into shoplifting.
E19Chef's Night Out
Feb 12, 1971
Ann and Donald try to run Lou's restaurant by themselves when the staff comes down with a virus.
E20That King
Feb 19, 1971
Ann makes friends with a king, who turns out to be a kid!
E21Stag Party
Feb 26, 1971
Donald's friends throw him a stag party - which almost costs him his engagement to Ann.
E22Two For the Money
Mar 5, 1971
Ann gets a modeling assignment at Belmont Race Track and when Don's friends realize there's a horse running named for her, they see it as a ""sign"" and send her with the money to place a bet for them. She loses the ticket at the wrong time!
E23Soot Yourself
Mar 12, 1971
As a member of an ecology-minded group, Ann is assigned to picket in front of the Newsview Magazine building where Donald works. Donald tries to make amends by inviting his boss to Ann's house for dinner.
E24The Elevated Woman
Mar 19, 1971
On their way to the Women's Liberation meeting, which Donald reluctantly agrees to visit, Ann and Donald become trapped in a stuck elevator. While they await to be rescued, they look back on their favorite moments together.
Storyline
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.











