Bill Persky
Director
That Girl (1966)
Season 2
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.
Released Sept. 8, 1966
Episode 30 min
7+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: awards.emmy-award-nominated, awards.golden-globe-winner, awards.golden-globe-nominated
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Production Companies: ABC Entertainment, Daisy Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman
Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman, who chooses Ann for a walk-on part in a revival of ""Gypsy.""
Sept. 7, 1967, midnight
S2E2 - The Good Skate
Ann makes a valiant effort to learn to roller-skate to get a part in a soft-drink commercial.
Sept. 14, 1967, midnight
S2E3 - Black, White and Read All Over
Donald, the proud owner of an unpublished novel, needs cheering when he gets his twelfth rejection slip.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.
Sept. 21, 1967, midnight
S2E4 - To Each her Own
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!
Sept. 28, 1967, midnight
S2E5 - The Apartment
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.
Oct. 5, 1967, midnight
S2E6 - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (1)
Ann Marie's elation at winning a Broadway role fades when she realizes its Philadelphia opening will mean a long separation from Donald.
Oct. 12, 1967, midnight
S2E7 - The Philadelphia Story (2)
Despite attention from a fellow castmate, Ann misses Donald while in Philadelphia to do a play.
Oct. 19, 1967, midnight
S2E8 - There's Nothing to Be Afreud of But Freud Himself
After a meeting with a famous doctor, Donald uses what he has learned to find out all out Ann's personality.
Oct. 26, 1967, midnight
S2E9 - The Collaborators
Ann and Donald learn that a couple that works together also fights together when they collaborate on a play about her life.
Nov. 2, 1967, midnight
S2E10 - When in Rome
Ann wins a part in an Italian movie, but turns it down when she discovers a nude scene.
Nov. 9, 1967, midnight
S2E11 - Thanksgiving Comes But One a Year, Hopefully
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!
Nov. 23, 1967, midnight
S2E12 - The Mailman Cometh
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!
Nov. 30, 1967, midnight
S2E13 - It's a Mod, Mod World (1)
Ann meets a fashion photographer named Noel Prince, whom Donald dislikes. Noel wants to take her to California to do a shoot.
Dec. 7, 1967, midnight
S2E14 - It's a Mod, Mod World (2)
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.
Dec. 14, 1967, midnight
S2E15 - 'Twas the Night before Christmas, You're Under Arrest
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.
Dec. 21, 1967, midnight
S2E16 - A Friend in Need
When Ann sprains her ankle at work, Donald comes to the rescue cooking gourmet meals and cleaning her apartment with a vengeance.
Dec. 28, 1967, midnight
S2E17 - Fur All We Know
A fortune hunter named Buzzy has his eyes on Ann when she wears a borrowed chinchilla stole to wear at an elite party.
Jan. 4, 1968, midnight
S2E18 - The Rivals
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.
Jan. 11, 1968, midnight
S2E19 - Sixty-Five on the Aisle
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.
Jan. 18, 1968, midnight
S2E20 - Call of the Wild
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.
Jan. 25, 1968, midnight
S2E21 - The Other Woman
Lou escorts Ethel Merman just to be nice, and the publicity thinks that they are an item much to Helen's dismay.
Feb. 1, 1968, midnight
S2E22 - He and She and He
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.
Feb. 8, 1968, midnight
S2E23 - Odpdypahimcaifss
Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.
Feb. 22, 1968, midnight
S2E24 - Great Guy
Marge tells Ann that she has met the man of her dreams, but he backs out when she proposed marraige.
March 7, 1968, midnight
S2E25 - The Detective Story
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.
March 14, 1968, midnight
S2E26 - If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World
Ann is knocked out by a baseball and the doctor that treats her looks exactly like Donald.
March 21, 1968, midnight
S2E27 - Just Spell the Name Right
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.
March 28, 1968, midnight
S2E28 - The Beard
Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.
April 11, 1968, midnight
S2E29 - The Drunkard
A drunk comedian named Marty is taken in by Ann to sober up, and he thinks that they had an affair.
April 18, 1968, midnight
S2E30 - Old Man's Darling
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.
April 25, 1968, midnight
ABC
30 min/ep
4080 min
Sept. 8, 1966
March 19, 1971, midnight
Ended
TV-PG
7+
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