The BEST episodes of That Girl season 5

Every episode of That Girl season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of That Girl season 5!

Historic sitcom focused on a single, working woman named Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) who sets her sights on the New York stage.

Last Updated: 8/17/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Share:
star
8.00
4 votes

#1 - No Man is a Manhattan Island

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1970

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.

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
8.00
5 votes

#2 - 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!

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
8.00
5 votes

#3 - That Señorita

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1970

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

Directors: John Rich
Watch Now:Amazon
star
8.00
5 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.80
5 votes

#5 - A Limited Engagement

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1971

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

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.75
4 votes

#6 - Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1970

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.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.75
4 votes

#7 - There Sure are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1970

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

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.75
4 votes

#8 - Super Reporter

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1970

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!

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.75
4 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Alan Rafkin
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.60
5 votes

#10 - Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1970

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

Directors: Saul Turteltaub
Writer: Gordon Farr
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.57
7 votes

#11 - Chef's Night Out

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1971

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

Directors: Richard Kinon
Writer: Bud Grossman
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.57
7 votes

#12 - Stag Party

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1971

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

Directors: John Rich
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
star
7.50
4 votes

#13 - There Sure are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1970

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.

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.40
5 votes

#14 - The Russians are Staying

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1971

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

Directors: Homer Powell
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.33
3 votes

#15 - That Girl's Daddy

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1970

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.

Directors: John Rich
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.33
3 votes

#16 - An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1970

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

Directors: John Rich
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.25
4 votes

#17 - That Script

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1971

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.

Directors: Roger Duchowny
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.14
7 votes

#18 - Counter Proposal

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1970

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.

Directors: Saul Turteltaub
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.00
4 votes

#19 - Rattle of a Single Girl

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1970

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

Directors: John Rich
Writer: Bruce Howard
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.00
6 votes

#20 - That Shoplifter

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1971

Ann is duped by a robber into shoplifting.

Directors: Richard Kinon
Watch Now:Amazon
star
7.00
7 votes

#21 - Soot Yourself

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1971

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.

Directors: Saul Turteltaub
Watch Now:Amazon
star
6.83
6 votes

#22 - Two for the Money

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1971

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!

Directors: Roger Duchowny
Writer: Sam Nicholas
Watch Now:Amazon
star
6.67
6 votes

#23 - That King

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1971

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

Directors: Richard Kinon
star
6.14
7 votes

#24 - The Elevated Woman

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1971

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.

Directors: Roger Duchowny