About this season
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.
Episodes (26)
1. Sock It to Me
Aired 26 September 1968 • 30 min
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.
2. The Hi-Jack and the Mighty
Aired 3 October 1968 • 30 min
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!
3. Eleven Angry Men and That Girl
Aired 10 October 1968 • 30 min
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.
4. 7 1/4 (1)
Aired 17 October 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.
5. 7 1/4 (2)
Aired 24 October 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.
6. Secret Ballot
Aired 31 October 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.
7. The Face in the Shower Room Door
Aired 7 November 1968
Ann gets stuck in a shower and a new neighbor helps her to get out.
8. A Muggy Day in Central Park
Aired 14 November 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.
9. Just Donald and Me and Jerry Makes Three
Aired 21 November 1968
Ann and Donald get in the middle of Jerry and Ruth's troubled marriage to get them back together again.
10. The Seventh Time Around
Aired 28 November 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.
11. Ann vs. Secretary
Aired 5 December 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.
12. Decision Before Dawn
Aired 12 December 1968
Ann is torn when everyone wants her to do different things with her expensive pay check.
13. Should All our Old Acquaintances be Forgot
7.0Aired 26 December 1968 • 30 min
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.
14. The Homewrecker and the Window Washer
Aired 2 January 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.
15. The Eye of the Beholder
Aired 9 January 1969
Ann receives a godawful art piece from Donald and gets a lot of different opinions about it.
16. Dark on Top of Everything Else
Aired 16 January 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.
17. The Earrings
Aired 23 January 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.
18. Many Happy Returns
Aired 30 January 1969
Donald tries to help Ann out of an IRS mess but gets into a mess himself involving flour.
19. My Sister's Keeper
Aired 6 February 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.
20. There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man
Aired 13 February 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.
21. The Subject Was Rabies
Aired 20 February 1969
Lou gets bitten by a dog that follows Ann home and he thinks that he has caught rabies.
22. The Defiant One
Aired 27 February 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.
23. Fly Me to the Moon
Aired 6 March 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.
24. It's So Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
Aired 13 March 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!
25. Bad Day at Marvin Gardens
Aired 20 March 1969
The Maries, Donald and Ann are playing a game of Monopoly and Lou gets very competitive.
26. Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?
Aired 27 March 1969 • 30 min
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.