The Girl with Something Extra

1973

The Girl with Something Extra

6.6 | en | Comedy

A woman's ability to read minds disrupts her marriage.

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EP22 The New Broom

Mar. 15,1974

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EP21 The Not So Good Samaritan

Mar. 08,1974

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EP20 Three for the Road

Feb. 22,1974

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EP19 Irreconcilable Sameness

Feb. 15,1974

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EP18 The Sour Grapevine

Feb. 08,1974

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EP17 A Zircon in the Rough

Feb. 01,1974

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EP16 The Cost of Giving

Jan. 25,1974

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EP15 The Greening of Aunt Fran

Jan. 18,1974

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EP14 Guess Who's Feeding the Pigeons

Jan. 11,1974

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EP13 A Meeting of Minds

Dec. 21,1973

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EP12 Mind-ing Mama

Dec. 07,1973

Meeting John's mother proves to be more trauma than pleasure for Sally. Her ESP is revealing that Mom is detrermined to dislike her daughter-in-law. (1/2 hour)

EP11 Sugar and Spice and Quarterback Sneak

Nov. 30,1973

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EP10 It's So Peaceful in the Country

Nov. 23,1973

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EP9 And Baby Makes Two

Nov. 09,1973

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EP8 No Benefit of Doubt

Nov. 02,1973

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EP7 One of Our Hens Is Missing

Oct. 26,1973

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EP6 John & Sally & Fred & Linda

Oct. 19,1973

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EP5 All the Nude That's Fit to Print

Oct. 12,1973

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EP4 How Green Was Las Vegas

Oct. 05,1973

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EP3 A Gift for the Gifted

Sep. 28,1973

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EP2 Everything You Wanted to Hide and Couldn't

Sep. 21,1973

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EP1 Sally on My Mind

Sep. 14,1973

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6.6 | en | Comedy , Sci-Fi | More Info

Released: 1973-09-14 | Released Producted By: Screen Gems Television , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

A woman's ability to read minds disrupts her marriage.

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Cast

Sally Field , John Davidson , Zohra Lampert

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Sally Field

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John Davidson

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Zohra Lampert

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Reviews

mulroon02 21 of the 22 episodes of NBC's The Girl With Something Extra were rerun this year on Get TV. I was unfamiliar with this series during it's original run, having watched its competition, Roll Out on CBS, and The Odd Couple on abc. The Girl With Something Extra works very well as a light comedy, without getting bogged down in the magic of E.S.P., and like Sally Field's earlier Screen Gems series, Gidget, and The Flying Nun, her supporting cast is excellent. I was pleasantly surprised and would love to see a complete series DVD, if only to see the missing episode.

Mister_D_Loomis This series showcased Sally Field and John Davidson in their earlier years. Unfortunately the supernatural shows like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie and many others had exhausted the premise and this series only waters down the flames of this genre as it faded away.Highlight of this show to me is the very underrated Jack Sheldon, playing John's eccentric, hilarious brother as a musician. Jack in real life was a fabulous musician notably in Merv Griffin's show orchestra and is even credited as part of the infamous "Wrecking Crew" of the LA music scene. He has a most recognizable voice in some of the most popular "Schoolhouse Rock" segments on 70's Saturday morning cartoon on ABC, notably Conjuction Junction and I'm Just a Bill and also appeared in memorable roles on Dragnet 1967.Otherwise, the show falls flat as a typical couples sitcom with familiar rehashed story lines and "jokes" heard many times before and since.Overall the show seemed miscast in its leads and lacked energy or interest for any reason to continue past one season. However it's worth watching at least once all the way through the episodes if you enjoy cameo appearances by veteran TV actors who guest star throughout the 20-some episodes.

Jack_1515 I saw this show during its first run, and likely has not been on the air since it was canceled, so the recent rebroadcast of the series is a nice trip down memory lane – but only to discover how incredibly boring a show it was.The Girl With Something Extra is a late entry in the "magical person in a real world" scenario that infected the television landscape in the 1960s and 1970s. My Favorite Martian, Bewitched, and I Dream of Jeannie are the better examples, but other efforts include Living Doll, Nanny and the Professor, The Smothers Brothers Show (the sit-com where Tom was an Angel) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Sally Field's first post-Giget series, The Flying Nun.Unfortunately, there is little going in the series. Frankly, for a show about someone who can read minds, the show is a talk-fest. The pilot, except for one brief scene between Davidson and Jack Sheldon, was in its entirely a series of two-person scenes between Field and Davidson. The approach was more akin to a two-act off-off Broadway production than a sit-com.The gimmick here, ESP, is most of the time entirely superfluous. It seldom drives or resolves story lines and in many episodes is not needed at all. Indeed, the plots could be used in almost any series without a "magical" device. The use of ESP is perhaps one of the worst magical gimmicks to use. It is a passive ability and not used to set up slapstick or farcical scenes, which are the stock and trade of these sorts of sit-coms.There is an attempt to integrate on-location shooting in the production, which does improve the series overall look. Effort is often made to put Field in a pair of short-shorts or bikini (Thank You BTW), and Davidson is probably the first husband on TV to be shown sleeping in bed bare-chested, but such diversions were not enough to keep the series going.With wispy scenes of walking on the beach and the focus on a young couple working out their newlywed problems, the series has a post-Love Story focus on romance that may have been appealing at some level, but was overall a drag on the sit-com premise. If the show debuted in the 1960s, it might have squeaked out two seasons, but as it was, by 1973 the magical person sit-com was long past it's due date, and it shows.

atlaswinks Why don't you list the two major actors who play Sally & John Burton on this page? I did a search and their names only appear in the synopsis of the plot. Sally Field played the wife with ESP, but who was the husband? I really enjoyed this show in my middle childhood and was sad when it didn't return for a second season. I found the ESP facility, used in a comedic manner to be very entertaining. The energy/chemistry between the actors who played husband and wife was wonderful. It reminds me of the energy between such television couples and Samantha and Darren on Bewitched, Dharma and Greg and Jeannie and the Major. My memories of this TV series are a bit fuzzy as it was so long ago, but I would love to see it on DVD.