Bill Persky
Director
That Girl (1966)
Season 4
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, Drama, Romance
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Production Companies: ABC Entertainment, Daisy Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Mission Improbable (1)
While modeling at Unifit, Ann is hired to spy on a competitor who is suspected of stealing designs.
Sept. 18, 1969, midnight
S4E2 - Mission Improbable (2)
Unaware that her cover has been blown, Ann is tricked into photographing reject designs.
Sept. 25, 1969, midnight
S4E3 - My Part Belongs to Daddy
Ann is assigned to direct the Brewster annual play, but has to tell her father that he will not have the starring role.
Oct. 2, 1969, midnight
S4E4 - Nobody Here But Us Chickens
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.
Oct. 9, 1969, midnight
S4E5 - At the Drop of a Budget
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.
Oct. 16, 1969, midnight
S4E6 - Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow
A hearing loss from a cold that Ann receives ruins a commercial spot for her.
Oct. 23, 1969, midnight
S4E7 - The Snow Must Go On (1)
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.
Oct. 30, 1969, midnight
S4E8 - Write is Wrong (2)
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.
Nov. 6, 1969, midnight
S4E9 - Shake Hands and Come Out Acting
Don is doing a story on a fighter who wants to be an actor.
Nov. 13, 1969, midnight
S4E10 - Fix My Screen and Bug Out
Ann tries to help out her neighbors in saving their hotel from the ownership of her ex-boyfriend.
Nov. 20, 1969, midnight
S4E11 - Kiss That Girl Goodbye
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.
Nov. 27, 1969, midnight
S4E12 - She Didn't Have the Vegas Notion (1)
Ann gets a job in a show in Las Vegas with an egotistical actor who tries to ruin her relationship with Donald.
Dec. 11, 1969, midnight
S4E13 - She Didn't Have the Vegas Notion (2)
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.
Dec. 18, 1969, midnight
S4E14 - I Am a Curious Lemon
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.
Dec. 25, 1969, midnight
S4E15 - Ten Percent of Nothing is Nothing
Ann joins her agent's comedy act in the Catskills, with disastrous results.
Jan. 1, 1970, midnight
S4E16 - Opening Night
Ann dreads bad reviews of her opening night in Broadway, and all this anxiety gets her finger trapped in a kitchen faucet.
Jan. 8, 1970, midnight
S4E17 - That Meter Maid
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.
Jan. 22, 1970, midnight
S4E18 - Fly By Night (1)
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.
Jan. 29, 1970, midnight
S4E19 - Ugh, Wilderness (2)
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.
Feb. 5, 1970, midnight
S4E20 - Stocks and the Single Girl
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.
Feb. 12, 1970, midnight
S4E21 - The Night They Raided Daddy's
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!
Feb. 19, 1970, midnight
S4E22 - The Reunion
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.
Feb. 26, 1970, midnight
S4E23 - Gone-A-Courtin'
Ann has to go to court to help a producer win a lawsuit involving a shish-kabob skewer.
March 5, 1970, midnight
S4E24 - They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
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.
March 12, 1970, midnight
S4E25 - Easy Faller
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!
March 19, 1970, midnight
S4E26 - All's Well That Ends
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.
March 26, 1970, midnight
ABC
30 min/ep
4080 min
Sept. 8, 1966
March 19, 1971, midnight
Ended
TV-PG
7+
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