That Girl - Season 3 - Eps 22: The Defiant One
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.
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
