Historic sitcom focused on a single, working woman named Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) who sets her sights on the New York stage.
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 woman to catch muggers to do a story for his magazine.
Ann gets a job in another soda commercial, but she has to have her singing voice dubbed by someone else. Her voice double, Rose Cassinetti, helps Ann out and Ann tries to do something good for her. She doesn't know that Rose is a nun.
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 his secretary.
Ann ends up in jail trying to help a fellow waitress when she serves two rival underworld groups and the place gets raided by the police.
Ann's friend Sandy, an actress who has just won a lead role in a Broadway play, visits Ann. Suddenly, Sandy gets sick, leaving Ann to play her role. Everyone thinks that Ann stole teh job from her, but Ann pays them no never mind as she enjoys her chance. Unfortunately the play closes after one performance.
Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman.
Ann is upset to learn that her lines have been reduced for her pending Broadway debut.
Lou escorts Ethel Merman, but the press thinks that they are an item, much to Helen's dismay.
Ann works as a flight attendant to get a job for an airline commercial. Ann thinks that a man is going to hijack the plane and she tackles him. She then discovers that he is a detective hired to prevent hijackings!
Ann befriends an African-American boy after saving him from a shoplifting charge. When he tells her he lives on Park Avenue, she does not believe him, so he invents a story of 13 brothers and sisters, fat rats, life in a dirty tenament, and a father who beats him. Appalled, Ann goes so far as to decide to adopt him! The boy then calls his father, who happened to be wealthy like he said earlier.
Watch Now:AmazonThe Maries, Donald and Ann are playing a game of Monopoly and Lou gets very competitive.
Watch Now:AmazonDespite being snowed in at the airport, Ann is determined to make it to a Broadway audition.
After Marty tries to trick Ann into believing Donald had married a starlet, Ann and Donald turn the tables on him.
A nude picture of Ann is plastered in a ""Playpen"" magazine, which jeopardizes her chance of being on a kiddie show.
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!
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.
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 her mother who is threatening to move in with her!
Ann's five years of being an independent woman actress begins when she meets Donald Hollinger, a magazine reporter, in one of her in-between jobs as a candy clerk. She gets a job in a perfume commercial where she plays a woman who gets kidnapped by two robbers. Donald happens to see the act and thinks that Ann is in real trouble, so he saves her only to get serious flack from her. But with that incident aside, Ann and Donald find out that they really belong together.
Ann has to go to court because of an accident involving a pedestrian and a sewing machine.
Ann is charmed by a wealthy man who gives her many luxuries and Don tries to compete. Ann realizes that money is not the most important thing in a relationship.
Ann and Donald find a strange organ player who used to play the soundtrack in silent movies. Donald does a story about him, but he disappears because he is a wanted criminal.
When Ann tries out computer dating, her match turns out to be a lot like Donald.