Secret Ballot opens on Halloween with Don Hollinger arriving in costume to tease his girlfriend, Ann Marie, better known as That Girl. The season three story actually has nothing to do with Halloween, but it was a nice way to acknowledge the event without devoting an entire episode …

That Girl: The Face in the Shower Room Door opens with Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) being stuck in her shower because the door won’t open. Coming to her rescue is the handsome Federico Gente, played by Cesare Danova. He’s apartment hunting, and Ann is supposed to show …

That Girl: A Muggy Day in Central Park from season three is pretty funny, and it features Ted Bessell in a dress. Now that was a get up! There is a logical explanation, especially when you remember that this show aired on network television in 1968.
In this …

That Girl: Just Donald and Me and Jerry Makes Three deals with Ann and Don’s friend, Jerry Bauman, who had a big argument with his wife and becomes ‘the crowd’ in the saying, ‘two’s company and three’s a crowd’. Like good friends, Ann and Don spend some time …

That Girl: Ann vs. Secretary is a great show. Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) has yet another secretary. Apparently, Newsview has a secretarial problem because they just can’t keep the same gals hired. This professional helper, though, has a mission that doesn’t just include typing and dictation. …

This episode of That Girl called The Seventh Time Around has a couple of things I like about it, but overall is in my average category. What’s nice about it, though, is just that it’s someone going after Don instead of Ann, thereby showing that both parts of …

Ann Marie’s residual check is much more than she expected, and she considers it to be a windfall. Her problem becomes how to spend the money because she doesn’t just want to bank it. To celebrate, she invites her boyfriend and her parents over for dinner. …

One of the things I like about That Girl is that they celebrate a lot of the holidays, or at least acknowledge them. Some shows may do Christmas, but that’s about it, so this is quite nice. The occasion here is New Year’s Eve, and to welcome …

From season three of That Girl, we get The Homewrecker and the Window Washer. It’s the first episode that aired in 1969, and it was okay. It’s not a huge favorite of mine personally. However, the color of the show comes from Jules Munshin, who is …

In The Eye of the Beholder episode from the third season of That Girl, there are actually some very funny moments, beginning with the opening scene. I have to say first, though, that I loved the red, white, and blue dress that Marlo Thomas wore in this opening …

That Girl: Dark on Top of Everything Else begins with a lot of miscommunication between boyfriend and girlfriend. It starts innocently enough with a fun welcome when Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) arrives at Ann Marie’s (Marlo Thomas) apartment while she’s working on a puzzle. Their big decision …

Ted Bessell is an absolute hoot in The Earrings episode of That Girl from season three. It’s one of those shows where he really gets to stand out and show off some of his personality. This is the Valentine’s Day show, and Don surprises Ann with diamond …

That Girl: The Other Woman is another good episode from the second season of this hit ABC comedy. Ethel Merman makes her second appearance of the season. Though the first one was the best of the two, this one has its own character and flavor to it.
One …

Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) goes on an audition for a commercial in That Girl: Call of the Wild and though she gets the part, she becomes very depressed by the reason why she won the role. According to the man doing the hiring, Ann doesn’t have any sex …

That Girl: Sixty-Five on the Aisle is a fun little show about Ann appearing in a play where she has a decent part with a few different scenes with dialog. As a surprise, her father has arranged for 65 people in all from Brewster to attend the opening …

In That Girl: The Rivals, Ann and Don are visiting the Maries in Brewster for the weekend. Everything becomes a competition, though, between Ann’s father, Lou, and Don. Don’s not really trying to get the best of his girlfriend’s dad, but he just can’t help it.
When Ann …

Though the opening bit is rather cute, the rest of That Girl: Fur All We Know perturbs me on several levels. At the beginning of this show, Don takes Ann to a big party for the wealthy jet set. While he’s doing his business, he tells his …

When Ann Marie sprains her ankle while filming a scene, boyfriend Don Hollinger comes to rescue, and it’s pretty funny, even if there are more continuity issues between this episode and prior ones. That Girl: A Friend in Need has Don tending to his girlfriend’s every need, even …

That Girl: It’s a Mod, Mod World concludes in Los Angeles, where a British photographer with eyes for Ann Marie has taken her and others to complete a modeling project. All the while, he’s trying to win her over and convince Ann to go with him to Palm …

That Girl: It’s a Mod, Mod World is the first part of a two-part story, though both parts have the same title. The main plot in this show from the second season is that Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) gets a job as a model for a hotshot British …

There’s a slight problem with That Girl: The Mailman Cometh from season two. I suspect it was filmed earlier than it aired, and the reason I believe that is because in an earlier episode from this second season, Ann Marie either received a phone call or made one …

This episode from ABC’s hit show That Girl celebrates the Thanksgiving holidays. It’s called Thanksgiving Comes But Once a Year, Thankfully. I’d actually forgotten about this one. The plot is centered on Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) and Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) deciding that they want to …

That Girl: When in Rome gives Ann Marie the part of her lifetime, only to have it come tumbling down in one quick stage direction, that being that the part includes a nude scene.
There’s some wonderfully funny stuff in this half-hour entry from season two of this hit ABC …

In That Girl: The Collaborators, Ann and Don are simply relaxing as the story opens, talking about his latest article, which Ann is raving about. She’s certain her boyfriend could write anything at all, if he wanted to. The only bad thing about her comments is that …

Two’s Company was an unsold pilot that starred Marlo Thomas and Ron Hussman as a married couple named Bob and Caroline. Hussman is a lawyer who in the pilot went in to ask for a raise, was denied it, and, feeling unappreciated, quit. A former model, Caroline …

The world stopped for two hours and fifteen minutes on Tuesday, July 7 to mourn the singing legend of Michael Jackson. The services started a bit late and had a bit of a false start, perhaps, when Smokey Robinson greeted people several minutes before the Jackson family had …

That Girl: There’s Nothing to Be Afreud of But Freud Himself is one of those shows that I’m not so crazy about. Not every episode can be a winner, and while there is plenty to laugh about, this ink blot joke just doesn’t quite capture my funny bone …

That Girl: The Philadelphia Story is the second part of the two-parter than began the week before when Ann Marie finally lands a role on Broadway. First, though, the show has to be tested in cities like Philadelphia. She heads off on the train, leaving behind her …

That Girl: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Nervous is the first of a two-part story where Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) gets her first Broadway role. She’s very excited about it, and her boyfriend Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) is very supportive, even though it means that Ann will be …

That Girl: The Apartment has some great scenes in it. Basically, Don Hollinger is going out of town so he lets his girlfriend, Ann Marie, use his apartment since hers is being sprayed for pests. It’s the perfect setup for merriment, and we get a lot of …

In That Girl: To Each Her Own, the theme is all about computer dating, something that was fairly new at the time. Even though this has been around for decades now, the interest in how it works and the role it has on our society is still relevant, …

In That Girl: Black and White and Read All Over, Lou Marie (Lew Parker) finds out that Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) has written a novel. Don’s a little depressed since he’s had 12 rejections that day. The novel was actually completed in the first season and resurfaces …

That Girl: The Good Skate has Ann Marie auditioning for a commercial where she needs to roller skate. She actually gets the part, but she has a problem: she can’t skate. Thus, she enlists her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger, to teach her. In the process, Don ends …

Season two of That Girl begins with one of my favorite episodes for the entire series. It’s called Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman and obviously guest stars the wonderful Ethel Merman.
First, though, it’s appropriate to mention the new opening for the show. It’s actually much more sophisticated …

Shout Factory produced the That Girl DVDs, beginning with this season one set. It’s a great set, but what I don’t like is the way the DVDs are organized. The DVDs are placed in one, long jacket. You open it and then have to open it …

I’ve always remembered this episode because it’s just so dang funny. M*A*S*H: To Market, to Market has Hawkeye and Trapper trying to make a deal on the black market to get some much needed medical supplies. Much of the supplies ordered by the 4077th had been stolen. …

The classic game show, The Dating Game, is homaged in the final episode of the first season of That Girl. Called The Mating Game, Don Hollinger decides to do a story on the popular dating show and he wants to use Ann Marie as his guinea pig, though …

In That Girl: Author, Author, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) attempts to write a comedy routine for his girlfriend, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) as she tries to make it onto the finals of Talent Showcase. Actually, while the overall show isn’t its best, there are some great moments in …

One of the most classic episodes in the history of That Girl is from the comedy’s first season. It’s called This Little Piggy Had a Ball, and it’s the episode when a curious Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) puts her toe into a bowling ball, and it gets stuck.
That …

We meet another relative of Ann Marie’s in The Honeymoon Apartment episode of That Girl begins. From season, this episode opens with the arrival of Ann’s boisterous cousin, Harold Turner. Harold doesn’t come alone, though. He’s brought his brand new wife with him, too. In …

I’d forgotten that the first episode of M*A*S*H included all the shots that were part of the opening show with just a slight embellishment in the action. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I’d also forgotten that it’s one of Hawkeye’s letters home that begins …

That Girl: You Have to Know Someone to Be an Unknown was a nice edition of this freshman comedy series. Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) hears about a producer casting a show and wanting to hire an unknown. She’s absolutely positive that this role is for her and …

That Girl: Leaving the Nest Is for the Birds features Jerry Van Dyke in one of his better roles in my opinion. The brother of the amazing Dick Van Dyke, I’ve never been that impressed by Jerry. There are only a few roles that I’ve really enjoyed …

Carroll O’Connor guest stars in That Girl: A Tenor’s Loving Care as a blustery and arrogant tenor who Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) is supposed to interview, or at least try to interview. When Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) goes with him, Giuseppe Casanetti, the tenor, says he’ll only to …

Interestingly, the opening of That Girl: What Are Your Intentions? has a slight change to it. The very beginning where Ann is walking to the office building is replaced by her walking by and helping a little girl to get a drink from a water fountain. Changes …

In the commentary for That Girl: Paper Hats and Everything , Marlo Thomas talks about the tenderness of this episode and how her father actually did always take her out on her birthday. It was very special to her. She actually got a little choked up talking …

In That Girl: Rain, Snow and Rice, Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) and Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell) get a big surprise from their friends and that means an impromptu trip to Connecticut during a rain and snowstorm.
Jerry Bauman (Bernie Kopell) and Margie get married. Is this the same Margie …

The Company Man episode of Laramie is one of my very favorites of this western series. It is full of angst and drama.
The Sherman Ranch is also a relay station for the stagecoach company. The stages stop at the ranch before arriving in Laramie (or on the …

Laramie: The Legend of Lily is an episode that focuses a lot on Jonesy, played with style by Hoagy Carmichael. Jonesy is completely star struck by Lily Langtree, who is coming to town to give a performance.
Constance Moore guest stars as Lily. She brings a refined grace …

Jim Davis, perhaps best known as the patriarch on the nighttime soap opera Dallas, guest starred in the Trail Drive episode of the western Laramie. This first season episode has always been a favorite. The show opens with an impressive gun duel between Davis’ character of Hake …