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That Girl Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Sock It to Me
Thu, Sep 26, 196830 mins
After a verbal tirade against her agent for not getting her any auditions, Ann learns that he's gotten her one for "The Revolutionary Heart", a currently running hit Broadway play, the part a replacement one for an actress who needs to leave the show. Despite the reservations of the play's director Sidney Gold, Ann ends up getting the small but pivotal part on the want of the play's lead actor, Barry Sullivan. Ann's character first enters the play at the second act's climactic scene, where she is required to yell at Sullivan's character and slap him across the face, which during early rehearsals a non-violent Ann is unable to do. Sullivan does whatever he can to help Ann through this issue, at first since he does believe in her, but ultimately solely to prove Gold wrong. Due to circumstances, Ann is required to appear in the production immediately, without having yet being able to slap Sullivan. So in Ann's inaugural performance in the play, the climactic second act scene has more than one reason for being climactic.
Episode 2
The Hi-Jack and the Mighty
Thu, Oct 3, 196830 mins
Ann has an upcoming role as a stewardess in a Transeastern Airlines commercial in the lead-up to her being the Transeastern Girl, the public face of the company. The airline wants her to have some practical experience, and as such is making her work as a stewardess on a New York to Miami round trip flight. With Ann having a Saturday layover in Miami, Don decides to fly with her, which doesn't sit well with Mr. Marie, who decides to do something about it. Beyond Ann's stewardess colleague Terry setting her female sights on Don as a possible conquest, Ann faces some unwanted excitement on board when she spots a Spanish speaking passenger named Manuel Gracie carrying a gun under his suit jacket. She believes he is planning on hijacking the plane to Cuba. As Ann tries to alert Terry and Captain Riley - the pilot - rumors abound amongst the passengers about potential problems aboard. As the rumors turn to borderline pandemonium, Gracie may show his true colors if he can.
Episode 3
Eleven Angry Men and That Girl
Thu, Oct 10, 196830 mins
Ann has been called for jury duty. She sees it as an honor and her civic responsibility, despite it possibly interfering with a planned trip with Donald to St. Louis to visit his parents. Indeed, Ann is selected to sit on a jury, that for an alleged domestic assault between a husband and wife. Beyond the fact that Donald doesn't know how to reschedule their flights to St. Louis to accommodate the unknown length of the jury deliberations, Ann being on the jury with its disparate group of citizens has its own issues. Ann, has to deal with a bunch of fellow jurors some who don't seem to care much about the jury duty itself. They include the spineless jury foreman, overly prudish Miss Marker, womanizer and freeloader Jack Packard who seems more interested in what freebies jury duty provides and getting to know Ann in a personal sense, and hippie artist Mr. Talley who doesn't believe in the concepts of guilt or innocence. Ann also ends up being the one on the not guilty side versus the other eleven guilties. Ann doesn't seem to want to give in especially as she takes her role seriously. Ann and the other eleven jurors will ultimately learn if the verdict they render is indeed correct, and learn if Ann was right all along.
Episode 4
7 1/4: Part 1
Thu, Oct 17, 196830 mins
Since she'll miss him while he's gone, Ann is heartbroken that Donald has a one-week assignment in Hollywood. So she ends up being totally devastated when he tells her that his assignment has been extended to three weeks. Donald believes he has the perfect solution: Ann go with him on the trip. They can split his expenses and per diems, he can cash in his first class airline ticket for two coaches, and he can change his double room at the hotel for two singles. Ann becomes convinced about the idea when Donald tells her that there may be acting opportunities in Tinseltown. Ann agrees only on the condition that they lay out a financial agreement for her to pay him back. Beyond those issues, the major hurdle is convincing Ann's father that no hanky panky will go on between the two of them on the trip. But Ann ends up being more concerned about public perception of impropriety than her father as most of the hotel staff, who don't really care, ends up believing she's Mrs. Hollinger.
Episode 5
7 1/4: Part 2
Thu, Oct 24, 196830 mins
Don's initial article concerning violence and Hollywood movies is getting great reception and is being picked up by the wire services. Meanwhile, on the direction of her agent, Ann is pounding the pavement at Paramount Studios. She is spotted by Phil Bender and Larry Yorkin of Bender Productions, they who are looking for a fresh face to be the television commercial spokesperson for Action, a new soft drink. Ann is excited to be chosen the Action girl. What Ann soon comes to realize is that the part calls for her to be more a stunt person than a bona fide actress as the commercials are the epitome of the violence mentioned in Don's article. Despite the job taking its toll on her physically, Ann decides to soldier on unless something else stops her.
Episode 6
Secret Ballot
Thu, Oct 31, 196830 mins
It's Halloween. Ann's mind is not on costumes and jack-o-lanterns, but rather the upcoming Presidential election, which will be the first in which she is eligible to vote. She is reading up on as much as she can so that on election day she can make an informed decision, which she believes is the duty of every voter. As Ann and Donald spend the day with her parents, she gets into an argument with her father about her constitutional right to keep her election decisions - even with which party she registered - a secret, and their fundamental differences in how to vote, with Lew historically voting for a party slate regardless of the candidates. Ann, with Donald in tow, storms out of her parent's house because of this argument. Ann may have to make up with her father sooner than later as her forgotten purse in their house makes Ann and Donald need to drive all the way back up to Brewster to retrieve it.
Episode 7
The Face in the Shower Room Door
Thu, Nov 7, 196830 mins
Ann's apartment building landlady, Mrs. Brentano, has left Ann as the alternate to show the apartment for rent if she isn't around. That's why a handsome and suave stranger named Federico Gente, a famed Italian restaurateur, comes knocking on Ann's door. Ann would be happy to show him the apartment, but she's currently in the shower and her shower door is stuck, leaving her trapped inside her shower stall. Since Mrs. Brentano isn't around, Ann asks Federico for assistance in helping her get out, which he does. After Ann shows him the apartment, Federico decides to take it, seemingly in part because of his attraction to Ann. Federico knows about Don in Ann's life, which doesn't seem to matter. So when Federico caters a romantic meal for Ann and Donald after Ann burns what she was cooking, they have different reactions to Federico's gesture. Is Donald's assertion that Federico is coming on to Ann despite Donald being in the picture correct, or is Federico just being a kind neighbor?
Episode 8
A Muggy Day in Central Park
Thu, Nov 14, 196830 mins
While walking through Central Park alone one evening, Ann is mugged, the mugger getting away with her purse. Despite not being physically injured, Ann is traumatized by the incident which she reports to the police. She is sent to the Special Park Detail, which handles the muggings in the park. She is surprised to find that the detail is comprised of male police officers dressed as women, they who act as bait wandering through the park to capture the muggers. When Donald comes to pick Ann up from the police department, he is as concerned about Ann's welfare as he is excited about the possibility of writing a story for the magazine about the Special Park Detail. Wanting a first hand account of what the detail does, Donald gets an OK from the police department to be one of the dressed-in-drag female baits, which would leave Donald's male police officer partner to race after any mugger they encounter. Meanwhile, Ann doesn't want her father to find out that she was mugged, he who would probably force her to move back to Brewster if he knew. Keeping it a secret from him may be more difficult as Mr. Marie sees Donald dressed in drag arm in arm with another man wandering through Central Park.
Episode 9
Just Donald and Me and Jerry Makes Three
Thu, Nov 21, 196830 mins
Jerry and Ruthie have a fight, which on the surface looks to be a minor incident to Donald, but which, to Ann, underlies a more serious problem between the two. Ann seems to be right as Jerry and Ruthie decide to split over the incident, with Ruthie going home to her family in Buffalo, while Jerry stays in their apartment. As they don't want to choose sides, Ann and Donald decide not interfere. They change their minds when Jerry ends up spending every waking moment with Ann and Donald feeling sorry for himself and whimpering about how much everything in his apartment reminds him of Ruthie. Will Ann and Donald's psychological tactics bring the Baumans back together?
Episode 10
The Seventh Time Around
Thu, Nov 28, 196830 mins
Donald has just completed an interview with who he considers the most fascinating person he's ever met, namely septuagenarian Lady Margaret Wetherby, or Trixie as she is known. Among other things, she is worth $53 million and has been married six times. When Trixie sends Donald a set of golf clubs as a gift, Ann believes that Trixie has ulterior motives for being nice to Donald, whereas Donald thinks that Trixie is just a sweet old lady who looks at Donald as the grandson she never had. But when Ann meets Trixie, sweet old lady is not the description that Ann would use. Trixie is loud and outspoken and usually gets what she wants in life, which for now is Donald to help write her memoirs. But when Ann learns that with the exception of her first husband Lord Wetherby all of Trixie's husbands have been men much younger than herself, Ann believes that what Trixie really wants is Donald as husband number seven. Concurrently, Donald gets a prestigious and lucrative promotion at work to become the magazine's latest foreign correspondent. Beyond meaning that Donald will be away more than he will be in New York, Ann, based on circumstances surrounding the promotion, doesn't want Donald to take the job since she is certain that it is Trixie's way of getting Donald to be with her. Ann just has to convince Donald of that.
Episode 11
Ann vs. Secretary
Thu, Dec 5, 196830 mins
Donald can't stop gushing about how great his new secretary Pat Crawford is. Having only spoken to Pat on the telephone, Ann already doesn't like her if only because of a little jealousy in how fond Donald seems of her, and how Pat has effectively placed an air of formality in any connection between Ann and Donald at least during work hours. So when Ann finally meets her and sees that she is also an attractive young unmarried woman, Ann's jealousy and dislike only grows. Further, when Donald cancels one date after another with Ann for work reasons and as Donald needs to head off on an out of town business trip with Miss Crawford in tow, Ann makes a unilateral decision about her and Donald's relationship. Donald makes a unilateral decision of his own about his personal relationships which in turn results in Ann needing to do a little backtracking.
Episode 12
Decision Before Dawn
Thu, Dec 12, 196830 mins
Ann receives notification that she has a residual check from an acting job down at the union office. She's expecting it to be a minimal amount in the realm of a couple of dollars. So she's shocked when she finds out it is for $743.62, which she believes makes her independently wealthy. When those around her bring her back down to earth in the realization that she can't yet retire, Ann receives a myriad of suggestions on what to do with her minor windfall. Her father thinks she should invest in stocks. Her mother thinks she should make a cultural investment in a piano. And Donald thinks she should travel. Ann, who has a sleepless night thinking about the issue, comes to the conclusion that she needs a new bed. But she also wants to please her loved ones by taking their advice. In achieving all these goals, what Ann decides to do with the money results in a slightly schizophrenic life and apartment, which ends up more closely resembling Grand Central Station.
Episode 13
Should All Our Old Acquaintances Be Forgot
Thu, Dec 26, 196830 mins
After a procrastinating Donald can't find anywhere at the last minute for him, Ann and three other couples to spend New Year's Eve together, Ann suggests they take a different tact and have an intimate but still festive evening for two at home at her apartment. Donald enthusiastically agrees, as do the other three couples, who plan to do the same. But what starts off as a quiet evening for two quickly changes as one person after another stops by Ann's apartment for one drink, resulting in a small then extremely large impromptu party for which the whole world is seemingly looking. Beyond Ann and Donald who have insufficient food and champagne to serve their apartment full of unexpected guests, the only other two people who may be more annoyed at this change of event are Ruthie and Jerry, whose own romantic and quiet evening is constantly being interrupted by Ann in search of food and party accessories.
Episode 14
The Homewrecker and the Window Washer
Thu, Jan 2, 196930 mins
While Ann gets into an altercation with a bully, a window washer named Rudy Clarn comes to her rescue. Rudy gets a punch in the nose from the bully for his troubles. That punch leads to further problems with Rudy's wife, Ethel, who believes Rudy only helped Ann because she's a beautiful young woman on who he has designs. In addition, Ethel believes Rudy's injury is all Ann's fault. Later, after Ethel sees Ann give Rudy an innocent thank you kiss on the cheek, Ethel, who believes Ann and Rudy are having an affair, tells Ann that she's leaving him, and that she'll be on the 5:15 bus out of town back home to East St. Louis. Ann has to find Rudy through the skyscrapers of New York City by 5:15 to tell him where to go to stop Ethel from leaving, which may be even more difficult because of all the misunderstandings she encounters.
Episode 15
The Eye of the Beholder
Thu, Jan 9, 196930 mins
Ann receives a delivery from an art store of an abstract sculpture. She believes the delivery is in error since there is no card and she didn't buy it. Regardless, she hates it, she likening it to a lump of brass mashed potatoes. She tells Donald her feelings about the sculpture, he who in turn tells her it is a gift from him. He felt like it figuratively "screamed Ann". Outwardly, Ann changes her tune about the sculpture because it was given to her not only with love but with her specifically in mind. However, as Ann starts defending the sculpture to others, it causes a riff between Jerry and Ruthie, between Ann and her father, and between Ann and her landlords, the Brentanos. Will the sculpture come to any good at all?
Episode 16
Dark on Top of Everything Else
Thu, Jan 16, 196930 mins
Donald tells Ann that if she wasn't in his life, he probably would have worked this weekend. As such, Ann does allow Donald to live his "without her" life, as she decides to head back to Brewster to visit with her parents for the weekend. But that plan doesn't come totally to fruition as Lew and Helen are heading into the city for the weekend for a convention. So Ann is left to her own devices at her parent's house. When she isn't fondly and not so fondly reminiscing about her growing up period in Brewster, Ann, who has too much alone time on her hands, hears every little proverbial bump in the night. Those bumps do cause Ann some grief, but probably not quite in the way she initially suspected.
Episode 17
The Earrings
Thu, Jan 23, 196930 mins
It's Valentine's Day. Among the many gifts that Donald and Ann exchange with each other to mark the day is a pair of diamond earrings that Donald gives Ann. As much as she loves them, Ann believes they are too extravagant a gift and as such she is afraid to wear them. But Donald convinces her to wear them at least on their date tonight, which she does. Although the earrings are insured and can be replaced if lost, Ann, who believes that a replacement pair would not be sentimentally the same since they're not the ones that Donald gave her, ends up being so concerned the entire night about losing them. By the end of their date, a heartbroken Ann has indeed lost one of the earrings. Knowing how Ann feels about a replacement earring, Donald decides to get a replacement anyway, hide it somewhere in her apartment, and when found feign that it must be the one she lost. The problem for Donald is trying to decide the logical place to hide it to mimic Ann's movements that night. While Donald tries to convince Ann to look again in that strategic location, a similar mindset and a telephone call end up complicating matters.
Episode 18
Many Happy Returns
Thu, Jan 30, 196930 mins
Ann receives a visit from Leon Cobb, an IRS auditor. The personal visit is because Ann has failed to respond to the several letters sent to her, which she, thinking that they were invitations to some such social function, threw away unopened. She is shocked to learn that the IRS believes she owes back taxes for the year 1965 in the amount of $2,600, money which she doesn't have. When Donald learns of Ann's situation, he promises to help her sort out the mess, he figuring that she couldn't have earned nearly enough, in what was her first year in the city as an actress, to warrant a $2,600 tax bill. But a problem may be that Ann, who is diligent about pasting news clippings of her acting roles into her scrapbook, has no clue about the whereabouts of any official documentation associated with her taxes, such as her W2 forms or receipts. Can Donald piece together Ann's financial life from 1965 three years after the fact to get her out of a $2,600 jam, all the while keeping the news from Ann's overly concerned father?
Episode 19
My Sister's Keeper
Thu, Feb 6, 196930 mins
Ann is on a short list of two for a television commercial for Pop, a new soft drink. Mr. McKorkle, the Pop representative, really believes Ann is the better choice of the two actresses, however the person chosen is required to sing, which Ann can't do very well as witnessed in her call-back audition. That's when Mr. McKorkle gets the brilliant idea to have Ann lip-sync the song for the commercial. During the filming, Ann meets her "voice", a beautiful young woman named Rose Cassanetti. Rose is represented by her musician brother, Tony Cassanetti, who gets her the odd singing job here and there. Ann believes Rose could go so much further in show business if she only had the right connections and a bit more drive in achieving show business success as a goal, which she doesn't seem to have. Ann is determined to help her, especially in getting her own agent, Seymour, to hear her sing and represent her. Donald believes Ann's meddling isn't such a good idea, at least not until Ann clears what her plans are with Rose first. Donald learns directly from Rose something about herself which makes Donald correct in his and Ann's argument, which he feels she can best understand with a surprise attack.
Episode 20
There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man
Thu, Feb 13, 196930 mins
Ann goes to an audition not knowing what the part is. Regardless, she gets the job, it a small part in a television show. The producer, Hal Grissom, was looking for a specific type: beautiful, classy and elegant. Ann is delighted when she learns that she will get to wear expensive gowns, and be bedecked in real diamonds. She is equally happy to hear that her entrance is a grand magnificent one down a regal spiral staircase. She is less enthralled to learn that the part also requires her to get hit in the face with a pie when she reaches the bottom of the staircase. Ann is torn about accepting the job. On the one hand, she needs the money, and the job is a lucrative $500 one. On the other hand, she feels it is degrading. The money side wins. After doing the part, Ann feels so embarrassed and humiliated that she doesn't ever want to show her face in public again. She also feels that whatever exposure she gets for the work will now diminish her chances for getting what she considers serious and legitimate acting roles. The reaction from friends and family to the broadcast makes Ann just as sure that she doesn't want to recreate the role when Grissom calls her back for his option on her. In discussing the issue with Grissom, will anything he says make her change her mind?
Episode 21
The Subject Was Rabies
Thu, Feb 20, 196930 mins
Early one day, Ann is followed home by a friendly and cute little brown and white bushy tailed dog who she's never seen. The dog ends up giving Ann's father a nip on his ankles, causing a superficial wound before the dog runs off. As an off the cuff funny comment, Donald mentions the word "rabid" which sends both Lew and Ann into a fit of hypochondriac related hysteria. Lew is certain his developing symptoms are rabies related, while Ann can only think of her father's welfare even at the expense of her career as she stays with him, missing an important audition in the process. Despite the fact that Lew having rabies is in anecdotal terms a million to one, the possibly rabid dog story gains a life of its own. Because of it, Ann's apartment becomes Grand Central Station with among others the media hungry doctor, the animal control inspector, Ann's agent, a Newsview photographer, a messenger delivering the rabies vaccine, and a gaggle of young boys with small brown and white dogs who want Donald's offered reward money for finding *the* dog parading through her apartment all at the same time.
Episode 22
The Defiant One
Thu, Feb 27, 196930 mins
While Ann is shopping at her local grocery store, a young black boy is caught shoplifting by the store owner. The boy, eight year old David Johnson, claims that his mother was going to buy the pilfered candy bar for him. His supposed mother?: Ann. Ann ends up defending David, who claims that he stole the candy because he was hungry, which Ann infers means that he comes from a poor family. However, David later claims that he lives on Park Avenue, but with his single father, who beats him, and his thirteen siblings. Ann believes the parts of the story that make David sound like he comes from an impoverished background in a less than happy home life. Instead of letting David wander off on his own, Ann insists on taking him home, although she is somewhat loathe to do so if only because of David's violent father. As David seems not to know how or want to get home, Ann takes David on a trek through the streets, slums, buses and police stations of Manhattan, doing whatever it takes to ensure David is taken care of by her high standards. Will Ann ever truly learn where David lives and about his background? If David has his way, Ann will find these things out, but not quite in the good Samaritan way she wants.
Episode 23
Fly Me to the Moon
Thu, Mar 6, 196930 mins
With only an address and contact name in hand from her agent, Ann attends what she believes is an audition, the part of which she is unaware. So she is surprised when the address is for an air force office, and the contact name, Brian James, is a reservist major. The job, which she has already been approved for by the government, is a short term one as Miss Air Force, whose role is to provide a face for public relations in an effort to recruit women, specifically to recruit the first American woman sent to the moon. Despite Ann believing she isn't right for the job, Major James personally picked her after seeing her perform in a play. The job has Major James flying Ann all around the country for personal appearances and photographic shoots. Donald isn't too happy about Ann's new job for two reasons. First, Ann was supposed to be in charge of the remodeling work in his apartment, the actual work which has just started, and Ann who was supposed to deal with all the contractors. With Ann gone, Donald either has to figure things out with the contractors himself or get in touch with Ann wherever she may be at the moment the contractors are bugging him for answers. And second, despite Ann stating that Major James doesn't really seem to like her based on his standoffish attitude toward her, Donald believes it's all an act and that he will soon make his play for her.
Episode 24
It's So Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
Thu, Mar 13, 196930 mins
In the middle of the night while she's sleeping, Ann hears a noise, which awakens her. She knows it's a something and not a someone, but she is nonetheless terrified. After she spots the creature in the dark, she frantically telephones Donald for help. What Ann describes to him as a three and a half foot tall, forty pound half leopard/half beaver Donald surmises correctly is probably a small mouse. Despite Donald not having the time due to a pressing work assignment, he comes to Ann's rescue immediately. He can't find the mouse, so for Ann's peace of mind, he suggests to her that she sleep at his apartment while he will sleep at her's. She's grateful for the suggestion, which she accepts. A problem arises when Ann's father arrives at her apartment the next morning and sees a half undressed Donald in her apartment. He believes the worst and because of the improper nature of what they've just done, he is adamant that they get married immediately. Can Ann, when she arrives back home, and Donald convince her father that what he walked into has a logical and innocent explanation?
Episode 25
Bad Day at Marvin Gardens
Thu, Mar 20, 196930 mins
Ann, Donald and Ann's parents have decided to spend the weekend together in the city. Saturday's plan is to go to a baseball game in the afternoon and a Broadway show in the evening. When the baseball game gets rained out, they have to figure out what to do in the afternoon that they can do inside. They decide on a game of Monopoly. For overly competitive and by the books Lew, the game turns into a metaphor for real life, most specifically his life. As such, he not only wants to win, but he wants to win in a way that he considers was all his doing. So when the game comes down to him and Donald, an issue arises when Lew wants to buy one of Donald's properties, Marvin Gardens, which Donald initially refuses to sell but then decides to give to Lew if only to speed up the game as they are running late for their evening show. Lew sees Donald's move as being patronizing. Lew airs his thoughts and opinions about this situation with Marvin Gardens and the unfinished game into the show, into the night and well into the next day. While most see Lew's behavior as being childish, Lew has an unexpected supporter among his three competitors who can understand why he is feeling how he's feeling.
Episode 26
Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?
Thu, Mar 27, 196930 mins
While Ann and Lew go to Donald's office to pick him up for their evening outing, Lew slips and falls on a puddle of water on the marble floor just outside of Donald's office. Although the doctor they find for the immediate examination issues Lew a clean bill of health, he still suggests Lew have a thorough check-up with his own physician. Dr. Heindorf, Lew's own physician, also ultimately gives him a clean bill of health. Meanwhile, Stewart Hurley, who works in the claims department of the magazine, comes to investigate. Through a request through Donald, Hurley, who has a near perfect record of claimants not collecting any money from supposed accidents, wants Lew to sign a waiver especially since he implies that Donald's relationship to Lew through Ann could implicate him in the situation as being in collusion with Lew about a possible false claim. Although Lew was willing to sign, Jerry convinces him not to if only for possible delayed symptoms of injury from the fall. Hurley's action and Donald's subsequent discussion with Robert Prentice, the magazine's publisher, ultimately raises the ire of Donald, who doesn't know if he wants to work for an organization that thinks him a cheat. While Donald takes drastic action, Ann conversely tries to convince her father not to sue, especially since he's not injured.
