The BEST episodes of That Girl
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Historic sitcom focused on a single, working woman named Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) who sets her sights on the New York stage.
#1 - A Muggy Day in Central Park
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1968
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.
#2 - My Sister's Keeper
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1969
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.
#3 - Help Wanted
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1966
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.
#4 - Time for Arrest
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1966
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.
#6 - Break a Leg
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1966
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.
#7 - Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1967
Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman.
#8 - Sixty-Five on the Aisle
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1968
Ann is upset to learn that her lines have been reduced for her pending Broadway debut.
#9 - The Other Woman
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1968
Lou escorts Ethel Merman, but the press thinks that they are an item, much to Helen's dismay.
#11 - The Hi-Jack and the Mighty
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1968
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!
#12 - The Defiant One
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1969
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.
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Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1969
The Maries, Donald and Ann are playing a game of Monopoly and Lou gets very competitive.
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Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1969
Despite being snowed in at the airport, Ann is determined to make it to a Broadway audition.
#16 - She Never Had the Vegas Notion (2)
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1969
After Marty tries to trick Ann into believing Donald had married a starlet, Ann and Donald turn the tables on him.
#17 - I Ain't Got Nobody
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1970
A nude picture of Ann is plastered in a ""Playpen"" magazine, which jeopardizes her chance of being on a kiddie show.
#18 - That Cake
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1970
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!
#19 - Those Friars
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1971
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.
#20 - Goodbye, Hello, Goodbye
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1966
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!
#21 - Don't Just Do Something, Stand There
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966
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.
#22 - I'll Be Suing You
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1966
Ann has to go to court because of an accident involving a pedestrian and a sewing machine.
#23 - Rich Little Rich Kid
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1966
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.
#24 - Phantom of the Horse Opera
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1966
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.
#25 - To Each Her Own
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1967
When Ann tries out computer dating, her match turns out to be a lot like Donald.