That Girl - Season 1 - Eps 1: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There
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.
About That Girl
Title: That Girl
First Air Date: 1966-09-08
Last Air Date: 1971-03-19
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.2/10 (from 28 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 6
Total Episodes: 136
Network: ABC
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: ABC Entertainment, Daisy Productions
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.
Cast
Marlo Thomas
Ann Marie
Ted Bessell
Donald Hollinger
Lew Parker
Lew Marie
