That Girl
That Girl

That Girl

1966 5 Seasons 136 Episodes ⭐ 6.2 Comedy

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.

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There

Ann's five years of being an independent woman actress begins when she meets Donald Hollinger, a magazine reporter, in o

EP 2

Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye

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 he

EP 3

Never Change a Diaper on Opening Night

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 pu

EP 4

I'll Be Suing You

Ann has to go to court because of an accident involving a pedestrian and a sewing machine.

EP 5

Anatomy of a Blunder

Ann brings Donald home to meet her parents, but he goes through some serious torture when they stop for a little picnic

EP 6

Rich Little Rich Kid

Ann is charmed by a wealthy man who gives her many luxuries and Don tries to compete. Ann realizes that money is not the

EP 7

Help Wanted

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

EP 8

Little Auction Annie

At an antique auction, Ann buys a box of junk with a baseball in it. A strange man follows her because he wants the base

EP 9

Time for Arrest

Ann ends up in jail trying to help a fellow waitress when she serves two rival underworld groups and the place gets raid

EP 10

Break a Leg

Ann's friend Sandy, an actress who has just won a lead role in a Broadway play, visits Ann. Suddenly, Sandy gets sick, l

EP 11

What's in a Name?

Ann's agent thinks that she needs a new name for an excellent acting career.

EP 12

Soap Gets in Your Eyes

Donald's parents meet Ann for the first time, and his mother Mildred takes a dislike to Ann because she plays a vamp on

EP 13

All About Ann

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

EP 14

Phantom of the Horse Opera

Ann and Donald find a strange organ player who used to play the soundtrack in silent movies. Donald does a story about h

EP 15

Beware of Actors Bearing Gifts

Ann is being given presents by one of her acting class colleagues, Hobart Niles. She and Donald think that these gifts a

EP 16

Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid

This very touching Christmas episode has Ann telling Donald about a time where she was a teacher and had to keep a lonel

EP 17

Among My Souvenirs

Ann finds souvenirs that remind her of a boyfriend she used to have named Freddy. It turns out that Freddy still has a f

EP 18

These Boots Weren't Made For Walking

Ann is a salesperson for shoes that somehow fall apart over time.

EP 19

Kimomo My House

Ann hires a maid for Donald, but who she hired makes her jealous.

EP 20

Gone With the Breeze

Donald gives Ann a manuscript of a novel that he is writing, and she loses it. Donald is waiting for a response, but Ann

EP 21

Rain, Snow and Rice

Ann and Donald are invited by their friends, Jerry Bauman and Margie, to a private wedding in Connecticut, but they get

EP 22

Paper Hats and Everything

Ann thinks that her friends are going to surprise her with a birthday party when she is invited out to dinner by her fat

EP 23

What Are Your Intentions?

Lou thinks that Ann and Donald ought to be married, but they have different ideas.

EP 24

A Tenor's Loving Care

Ann helps Donald get a story about a famous opera singer, if only he can control his romantic urges.

EP 25

Leaving the Nest is For the Birds

Ann invites her parents and her Aunt Harriet to dinner at her house where she tries to prove to them that living in the

EP 26

You Have to Know Someone to Be Unknown

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 tr

EP 27

The Honeymoon Apartment

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 for

EP 28

This Little Piggy Had a Ball

Ann has her toe stuck in a bowling ball at a very unopportune moment.

EP 29

Author, Author

Ann needs some funny material for an audition and enlists Donald's writing expertise, but his jokes aren't funny.

EP 30

The Mating Game

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 i

EP 1

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 ""Gyps

EP 2

The Good Skate

Ann makes a valiant effort to learn to roller-skate to get a part in a soft-drink commercial.

EP 3

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 ma

EP 4

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, L

EP 5

The Apartment

Ann gets a job in telephone marketing at the same time her apartment is being painted, so Ann must borrow Donald's apart

EP 6

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 separat

EP 7

The Philadelphia Story (2)

Despite attention from a fellow castmate, Ann misses Donald while in Philadelphia to do a play.

EP 8

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.

EP 9

The Collaborators

Ann and Donald learn that a couple that works together also fights together when they collaborate on a play about her li

EP 10

When in Rome

Ann wins a part in an Italian movie, but turns it down when she discovers a nude scene.

EP 11

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 tradi

EP 12

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 publici

EP 13

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 s

EP 14

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 o

EP 15

'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 t

EP 16

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 v

EP 17

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.

EP 18

The Rivals

Ann takes boyfriend Donald home to spend the weekend with her parents, only to find that her father is jealous of Don an

EP 19

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

EP 20

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

EP 21

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.

EP 22

He and She and He

Donald is stunned when Ann receives a marriage proposal from British fashion photographer Noel Prince. Noel expects his

EP 23

Odpdypahimcaifss

Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.

EP 24

Great Guy

Marge tells Ann that she has met the man of her dreams, but he backs out when she proposed marraige.

EP 25

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

EP 26

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.

EP 27

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 B

EP 28

The Beard

Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.

EP 29

The Drunkard

A drunk comedian named Marty is taken in by Ann to sober up, and he thinks that they had an affair.

EP 30

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

EP 1

Sock It to Me

Against the objections of the director, Ann is awarded a part in a Broadway play by the star, Barry Sullivan. Ann is exc

EP 2

The Hi-Jack and the Mighty

Ann works as a flight attendant to get a job for an airline commercial. Ann thinks that a man is going to hijack the pla

EP 3

Eleven Angry Men and That Girl

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""

EP 4

7 1/4 (1)

Ann goes with Donald to Los Angeles to do a story on media violence and causes confusion for her father and everyone els

EP 5

7 1/4 (2)

Whiel in Los Angeles, Ann gets a job in action commercials for soda-pop, and Donald hates them because it is the very th

EP 6

Secret Ballot

Ann is excited at the prospect of voting in her first presidential election. She's gone to the library to read everythin

EP 7

The Face in the Shower Room Door

Ann gets stuck in a shower and a new neighbor helps her to get out.

EP 8

A Muggy Day in Central Park

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 w

EP 9

Just Donald and Me and Jerry Makes Three

Ann and Donald get in the middle of Jerry and Ruth's troubled marriage to get them back together again.

EP 10

The Seventh Time Around

Don does a story on an old multimillionairess named Margaret ""Trixie"" Weatherby, and Ann thinks that she is trying to

EP 11

Ann vs. Secretary

Donald's sexy new secretary, Pat Crawford, arranges to accompany him on an out of town assignment to Washington, D.C., h

EP 12

Decision Before Dawn

Ann is torn when everyone wants her to do different things with her expensive pay check.

EP 13

Should All our Old Acquaintances be Forgot

Ann and Donald want to ring in the New Year by themselves, but the arrival of Ann's parents for one quick drinks instant

EP 14

The Homewrecker and the Window Washer

When an aggresive bully collides with Ann in an office lobby, only nearby window washer, Rudy Clarn comes to her aid. Bu

EP 15

The Eye of the Beholder

Ann receives a godawful art piece from Donald and gets a lot of different opinions about it.

EP 16

Dark on Top of Everything Else

Ann and Donald decide to take a little vacation from themselves, so Ann decides to move into her parent's house. Her par

EP 17

The Earrings

On Valentine's Day, Ann and Donald exchange permanent gifts. She gives him a tie clasp and he gives her a pair of genuin

EP 18

Many Happy Returns

Donald tries to help Ann out of an IRS mess but gets into a mess himself involving flour.

EP 19

My Sister's Keeper

Ann gets a job in another soda commercial, but she has to have her singing voice dubbed by someone else. Her voice doubl

EP 20

There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man

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 dea

EP 21

The Subject Was Rabies

Lou gets bitten by a dog that follows Ann home and he thinks that he has caught rabies.

EP 22

The Defiant One

Ann befriends an African-American boy after saving him from a shoplifting charge. When he tells her he lives on Park Ave

EP 23

Fly Me to the Moon

Ann lands a public relations job for the air force to promote women in the space program, at the time time she is suppos

EP 24

It's So Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House

Ann calls Donald late one night because of a mouse in her apartment. Donald goes over to stay in her apartment to protec

EP 25

Bad Day at Marvin Gardens

The Maries, Donald and Ann are playing a game of Monopoly and Lou gets very competitive.

EP 26

Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?

At the Newsview office, Lou slips on some water. Donald is told that Lou has to sign a waiver of responsibility. Donald

EP 1

Mission Improbable (1)

While modeling at Unifit, Ann is hired to spy on a competitor who is suspected of stealing designs.

EP 2

Mission Improbable (2)

Unaware that her cover has been blown, Ann is tricked into photographing reject designs.

EP 3

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.

EP 4

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 An

EP 5

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 p

EP 6

Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow

A hearing loss from a cold that Ann receives ruins a commercial spot for her.

EP 7

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 Bro

EP 8

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 abo

EP 9

Shake Hands and Come Out Acting

Don is doing a story on a fighter who wants to be an actor.

EP 10

Fix My Screen and Bug Out

Ann tries to help out her neighbors in saving their hotel from the ownership of her ex-boyfriend.

EP 11

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.

EP 12

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.

EP 13

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 deci

EP 14

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 th

EP 15

Ten Percent of Nothing is Nothing

Ann joins her agent's comedy act in the Catskills, with disastrous results.

EP 16

Opening Night

Ann dreads bad reviews of her opening night in Broadway, and all this anxiety gets her finger trapped in a kitchen fauce

EP 17

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

EP 18

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 pl

EP 19

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

EP 20

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 lis

EP 21

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 hi

EP 22

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

EP 23

Gone-A-Courtin'

Ann has to go to court to help a producer win a lawsuit involving a shish-kabob skewer.

EP 24

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

EP 25

Easy Faller

Donald hurts his back trying to demonstrate skiing in Ann's apartment, and worries about missing an interview. Ann bring

EP 26

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 ha

EP 1

Counter Proposal

After four years of dating, Donald finally asks Ann to marry him and presents her with an engagement ring - which he was

EP 2

Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy

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 act

EP 3

I Ain't Got Nobody

A nude picture of Ann is plastered in a ""Playpen"" magazine, which jeopardizes her chance of being on a kiddie show.

EP 4

No Man is Manhattan Island

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

EP 5

Rattle of a Single Girl

Ann and Donald go to a pre-nuptial counselor to weed out their non-existent problems.

EP 6

There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)

Ann learns that killing two birds with one stone is almost too much when she goes to St. Louis with Donald to meet his p

EP 7

There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)

In St. Louis to appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, Ann once again finds that nothing is ever easy.

EP 8

That Cake

Ann lands the presitgious title of ""Miss New York has Everything"" and does a TV promotion for the city in which she ba

EP 9

That Girl's Daddy

Lou feels as though he is getting too old, and Ann introduces him to Jeanie, who makes him feel more younger. Ann thinks

EP 10

Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off

Ann is hired by a rival magazine because they think that Donald is going to help her out now that they are engaged.

EP 11

Super Reporter

Don is stuck in a ""super Don"" costume when his friends steal his clothes and forget to give them back to him. All befo

EP 12

That Senorita

Ann gets a lesson in minorities when a sketch that she is in is very offensive to Mexicans.

EP 13

An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons

Uncle Herbert is turning Ann and Donald's world upside down when he makes bogus get-rich-quick schemes.

EP 14

That Script

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 r

EP 15

Those Friars

Ann's late Uncle Harry wills her an old trunk filled with bits and pieces of his career in vaudeville. Ann is doubly sur

EP 16

A Limited Engagement

Donald breaks off his engagement to Ann because of cold feet.

EP 17

The Russians are Staying

Ann makes friends with a Russian named Nicholai who is a con man sponging off her.

EP 18

That Shoplifter

Ann is duped by a robber into shoplifting.

EP 19

Chef's Night Out

Ann and Donald try to run Lou's restaurant by themselves when the staff comes down with a virus.

EP 20

That King

Ann makes friends with a king, who turns out to be a kid!

EP 21

Stag Party

Donald's friends throw him a stag party - which almost costs him his engagement to Ann.

EP 22

Two For the Money

Ann gets a modeling assignment at Belmont Race Track and when Don's friends realize there's a horse running named for he

EP 23

Soot Yourself

As a member of an ecology-minded group, Ann is assigned to picket in front of the Newsview Magazine building where Donal

EP 24

The Elevated Woman

On their way to the Women's Liberation meeting, which Donald reluctantly agrees to visit, Ann and Donald become trapped

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