That Girl

That Girl

1966
That Girl
That Girl

That Girl

7.3 | TV-PG | en | 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.

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EP24  The Elevated Woman
Mar. 19,1971
The Elevated Woman

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.

EP23  Soot Yourself
Mar. 12,1971
Soot Yourself

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.

EP22  Two For the Money
Mar. 05,1971
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 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!

EP21  Stag Party
Feb. 26,1971
Stag Party

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

EP20  That King
Feb. 19,1971
That King

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

EP19  Chef's Night Out
Feb. 12,1971
Chef's Night Out

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

EP18  That Shoplifter
Feb. 05,1971
That Shoplifter

Ann is duped by a robber into shoplifting.

EP17  The Russians are Staying
Jan. 29,1971
The Russians are Staying

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

EP16  A Limited Engagement
Jan. 15,1971
A Limited Engagement

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

EP15  Those Friars
Jan. 08,1971
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 surprised when stars Milton Berle and Danny Thomaspay a visit to her apartment and try to buy the old trunk.

EP14  That Script
Jan. 01,1971
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 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.

EP13  An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons
Dec. 18,1970
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.

EP12  That Senorita
Dec. 11,1970
That Senorita

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

EP11  Super Reporter
Dec. 04,1970
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 before he is to accept an Humanitarian award from the deputy mayor!

EP10  Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off
Nov. 27,1970
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.

EP9  That Girl's Daddy
Nov. 20,1970
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 that he is going to leave her mother when actually he wants to please her.

EP8  That Cake
Nov. 13,1970
That Cake

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!

EP7  There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)
Nov. 06,1970
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.

EP6  There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)
Oct. 30,1970
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 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.

EP5  Rattle of a Single Girl
Oct. 23,1970
Rattle of a Single Girl

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

EP4  No Man is Manhattan Island
Oct. 16,1970
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 everyone until her purse gets stolen.

EP3  I Ain't Got Nobody
Oct. 09,1970
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.

EP2  Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy
Oct. 02,1970
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 actor finds out what's going on and makes moves on Ann to teach her a lesson.

EP1  Counter Proposal
Sep. 25,1970
Counter Proposal

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.

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7.3 | TV-PG | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: 1966-09-08 | Released Producted By: ABC Entertainment , Daisy Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

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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Cast

Marlo Thomas , Ted Bessell , Lew Parker

Director

Jane Ficker

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Amy Adler Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas, Danny Thomas' daughter in case you've never heard) is a single lady living in Manhattan. Her ambition is to make it as an actress on Broadway but between small gigs on children's television, commercials and experimental theater, she must work other jobs. These include news stand salesclerk (where she meets someone special), waitress, door-to-door shoe hawker, and more. On one of her first days in NYC, she meets Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) and its an auspicious beginning. They both want to buy the same rolltop desk for sale in the same building and Don interrupts a commercial Ann is shooting after hours. But, in short order, they go to dinner. Pretty soon, they are stepping out steadily and, after a disastrous picnic, meet Ann's folks. While Ann's mother (Rosemary DeCamp) is loving and kind, Ann's father, Lew (Lew Parker, hilarious) is a prickly restaurateur. He, Ann, and Don often clash on many topics. Also, Ann is on very friendly terms with the couple across the hall, Judy and Leon, and Don's co-workers include Bernie (Bernie Kopell) before he went to the Love Boat. By the fifth season, will Ann and Don finally tie the knot? This will always be one of my favorite shows from childhood. First, it was and is very funny, with Thomas exhibiting very comedic talents as zany Ann. Bessell is a perfect foil and Parker is a delight, too. Secondly, Ann was a single lady decorating her own apartment, pursuing her own dreams, choosing her own friends and more. Yes, most gals like me wanted to get married AT SOME POINT but, first, we wanted to live the good life by our own merits! Naturally, Ann's costumes are terrific, her hairstyle was one we tried to copy, and her tastes became our tastes. Dear Marlo Thomas, as Ann's alter ego, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A HEROINE TO ME. After all, you were one of the first to show women everywhere that women's goals and ambitions MATTERED!
flackjacket It has been said: "The decision to leave the couple engaged at the end of the run was largely the idea of Thomas herself. She did not want to send a message to young women that marriage was the ultimate goal for them and she was worried that it would have defeated the somewhat feminist message of the show."And also: "The final episode was originally going to have Ann and Donald getting married but Marlo Thomas (who was an executive producer of the show as well as the star) refused, claiming that it sent the message to young girls that a woman's main goal in life was to be married."And yet, for five years, she portrayed her independent feminist character as a paranoid, eternally confused, insecure woman (with a sore throat) who constantly needed the help of her father and boyfriend in almost every episode. But God forbid she send the wrong message by getting married.Feminist message? I think not. But rather, pure hypocrisy masked in the largest false eyelashes known to mankind.
cenythia 6-13-2015I Have been watching that girl on metv in Denver Colorado, and thank god that girl Marlo Thomas has re-awakened such loving memories and feelings! i even love the theme song!I i grew up in the 70's and as a teen no matter how crummy my days were that girl Marlo AND Ted were really encouraging for me. my looking forward to such a loving relationship they both had, and i really could feel the love they both exuded on TV. I looked forward to growing up and moving out and being independent and selecting my own clothes and styleeven today at 57 years old as of 6-12-2015 i am still looking for that type of love relationship Ted and Marlo portrayed. better yet i am still working on being the type of woman i want to be regardless of the harsh realities of love and life disappointments.I had no idea Ted died back in 1996. their love and friendship was so heartfelt for me, and i wonder how close if at all they were after the show...finally the story writing and presenting was so cleaver, how the credits were in the opening of the show, in stop sign fashion, man i long for that creativity in the shows of today...and if i had 1/2 the relationship she had with her father on that girl, i might not have needed so much therapy..thank you that girl, you made a difference in my life, and god bless your heart and soul Ted....you are missed.love you both from the 420 state of Colorado
earlytalkie "That Girl" is one of those shows that I enjoyed during it's first run on ABC and in it's reruns over the years, but it's been many years since i saw this as it has not been on TV in a while. The re-discovery of this on DVD reveals that it is even better than I remember it. The cast in all instances is first-rate, and the scripts are crisp, funny, full of heart and do not date one bit. Marlo Thomas supposedly had a hand in most of the aspects of this classic series, and I say a great job well done. Like John Forsythe in "Bachelor Father", this show was her baby and no show could have had a better mother. ME-TV has just begun re-running this as of this writing, and my partner and I were laughing out loud at many of the antics on the marathon which launched the series on New Year's Day. The film quality of the show has been so beautifully preserved that it looks brand-new. The 1960s background makes the series a kind of time capsule back to those fashions and some of the early episodes especially feature some great location footage shot in N.Y.C. which add to the "theatrical" look of this series. Each episode has the look of a mini-movie, being shot with one camera. The laugh-track is present but not overdone or intrusive. The format of the single girl trying to make it on her own would be echoed a few years later in the super-classic "Mary Tyler Moore" show. "That Girl" had great writing throughout it's five seasons, and Ms. Thomas wisely opted out of the show before it became stale as so many other long-running shows of the period did. She also avoided knuckling under to the network by not having Ann and Donald marry. This was her personal decision and in retrospect, a wise one. Marlo Thomas herself, being the daughter of the great Danny Thomas, had to prove herself with this series and boy, did she ever. Having "Make Room For Daddy", one of the great shows of it's own era, and "That Girl", one of the greats of the 60s, one hopes that there will be another generation of the Thomas family to give us yet another great series to enjoy. If this review sounds like a love letter to Marlo Thomas, so be it. It is.