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That Girl Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1969 - 1970
Episode 1
Mission Improbable: Part 1
Thu, Sep 18, 196930 mins
Knowing that Ann's an actress, Leo Schneider, owner of Unifit Sleepwear for which Ann has been doing some modeling work, asks her to do what he considers an acting job. Last fashion season, his sleepwear designs were stolen by Al Taylor of Sleeptight Fashions, a rival sleepwear company. Schneider knows that Taylor sent a mole into his sewing area. So Schneider wants Ann to act as his mole into Sleeptight's sewing area to see if Taylor has once again stolen his designs. Ann is initially apprehensive about taking the job because of the possible risk to her safety if she is found out, but decides to do so, against Donald's better judgment, as she likes Mr. Schneider and doesn't want to see his business ruined by unscrupulous practices by his competitors. Ann, who treats this job like a spy, complete with an alias, has a few hurdles to overcome. First, she doesn't know how to sew. Second, she does look more like a model than a seamstress. And third, she may not be the most observant person necessary to conduct espionage work. Mr. Schneider thinks he has the last part covered by use of a fake banana.
Episode 2
Mission Improbable: Part 2
Thu, Sep 25, 196930 mins
Ann is quickly found out by Taylor and Becker to be a mole in the Sleeptight factory for Schneider, but not before Taylor and Becker decide to have their own payback for Schneider. Through it all, Taylor swears to Ann that he didn't steal Schneider's designs. Ann now feels caught in the middle because she likes both Taylor and Schneider, and doesn't know who to believe. It becomes even more difficult for Ann when she learns from Becker that the two sleepwear giants have more than their businesses as a connecting point, and that their feud does not originally stem from stolen sleepwear designs. Ann, seeing that each has a different strength in the business, believes that they should join forces under one company. She has a plan to make that happen. However only if Taylor and Schneider truly want it to happen can it come to fruition.
Episode 3
My Part Belongs to Daddy
Thu, Oct 2, 196930 mins
Ann's parents invite and Ann and Donald to watch the auditions for their annual country club variety show. Ann learns the invitation is specifically because Lew has told the country club members that she will direct the show. Although Donald thinks it's a bad idea for Ann to direct her father, Ann has mixed emotions about it. She agrees with Donald, but Lew's request is the first sign that he respects her choice of a profession. After watching the auditions, Ann decides not to do it, feeling in part since they are doing the same type of show they've done for years and the same numbers each always performs, they don't really need her. But Lew misinterprets Ann's explanation. As such, he tells the group that she will do it but that she wants to mount a full fledged play. Ann, feeling like she now does not have a choice, goes through with it. But her bigger challenge may be casting. Lew expects to be cast as the male lead, all the other male country club members expect Lew to be cast in the male lead, but Ann, who wants to be impartial, may have other ideas, especially as Lew treats the audition like he already got the part.
Episode 4
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Thu, Oct 9, 196930 mins
Ann's latest job is as Miss Chicken Big, the public face for the Chicken Big fried chicken fast food chain owned by a good old southerner named Major Culpepper. Ann's job as Miss Chicken Big - which requires her to be dressed in a chicken costume - is to accompany the Major to Chicken Big franchises in the region to do in-restaurant promotions. On her first day on the job, she finds out that the Major chose her more for his attraction to her as a woman than her ability as an actress. An incident between the two leads to Ann being stranded in the middle of nowhere wearing her chicken costume. Her situation is a dilemma not only in trying to make it home to New York City, but trying to make it to Brewster by that evening to attend a banquet where her father is receiving a prestigious award.
Episode 5
At the Drop of a Budget
Thu, Oct 16, 196930 mins
Since Ann has what looks to be a steady paycheck coming in associated with a recurring role on a soap opera, she feels she needs to be more responsible with her money. As such, she asks Donald to manage her money for her, or at least help her prepare a budget. Donald is reluctant to do so, as he feels Ann will go off the budget and resent him, which will lead to an argument between the two of them. After Ann pleads with him, he gives in, agreeing to prepare the budget for her. Ann has every intention of sticking to the budget, but as time goes on, she feels compelled to purchase anything at the drop of a hat... literally. These compulsions began after Ann went to see Dr. Pellman, a dentist who uses hypnosis instead of pharmaceutical anesthetics. Dr. Pellman gave Ann a post hypnotic suggestion after filling one of her teeth so that she would feel no pain. He inadvertently and unknowingly gave her another post hypnotic suggestion as he was speaking to his spendthrifty wife on the telephone at the time, he saying to her sarcastically, "at the drop of a hat you'll buy anything". Will Ann or Donald, the two who ultimately do get into an argument over her breaking her budget, figure out why Ann is compelled to purchase all these useless items?
Episode 6
Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow
Thu, Oct 23, 196930 mins
Ann has come down with a nasty cold. Despite sneezing, feeling congested and having a fever, Ann, against Donald's advice, refuses to pass up an audition for a commercial since she needs the money. What's worse is if she gets the job, the filming, which will take place the next day all day, is to be outside in the freezing cold and snow. To Donald's dismay, Ann gets the part. As Ann tries to get better before the job with Donald at her side trying to make her feel as comfortable as possible, Ann comes down with another symptom: she loses her hearing. After feeling relief learning that the hearing loss is only temporary and a manifestation of the cold, Ann is still determined to make it to the commercial shoot. But can she work if she can't hear the director or her cues?
Episode 7
The Snow Must Go On
Thu, Oct 30, 196930 mins
On a snowy winter day, Donald and Ann are driving Ann's parents to JFK Airport for their snowbird flight to Cornivaca, Mexico, after which Donald will drop Ann off at an audition for a play. Ann is excited about this audition if only because it was the first time that a producer asked for her specifically by name, as opposed to the regular routine of them asking her agent for a "type". All their plans may be in jeopardy when the snow turns into a blizzard meaning that no flights are taking off, and the roads in and out of the airport are closed. Donald and Lew see the blizzard as an opportunity, Donald who thinks he can write a story for the magazine about the blizzard from some unique perspective of being stranded at the airport, and Lew who learns that the restaurant is running low on food and decides to hoard it all for later resale when all the stranded people get hungry. Ann, however, has to figure out a way to get back into town for her audition, which she learns can't be postponed since they need to go into rehearsals immediately following casting. Donald and Ann believe that if Ann can't make her way to the audition in person, there may be other ways to audition.
Episode 8
Write is Wrong
Thu, Nov 6, 196930 mins
Ann and Donald are invited to the launch party of the third season of The Barry Forbes Show, a successful comedy television show on which Ann once appeared. The show's producer, Harry Cook, remembers Ann and recognizes Donald's name from Newsview articles. Through party chit chat, Ann and Cook convince Donald that it would be a great idea to turn one of his articles, the one about the time they were all snowed in at JFK Airport, into a script for the show, with Ann playing herself. Despite Donald not considering himself either a comedy writer or a script writer, he agrees on the clause that Ann does indeed play herself. Donald runs into external problems when those around him give him pointers on what to write or not to write, fact or fiction. Ann ultimately loves the warm, sensitive script Donald writes, which also gives Barry Forbes some real acting to do. However, Milton East, the show's story editor, hates the script, and Cook himself, while liking the script, feels it's not right for the show. So East will go through the process of heavy editing, with some of those edits ridiculing those close to Donald and Ann all in the name of garnering some laughs. Ann is torn about what to do. She feels like quitting if only to be faithful to Donald, who she got into this situation. However, Cook threatens to ruin her career if she walks out on her contract. Ann has the more difficult job of telling Donald that his script will not be what is filmed and aired if she has the nerve.
Episode 9
Shake Hands and Come Out Acting
Thu, Nov 13, 196930 mins
While Ann is visiting Donald at a local boxing gym, he who is writing an article on boxing, Ann learns that one of the boxers, Tony Harris, is really an aspiring thespian, he who has done no acting since high school. Ann is determined to help Tony break into acting by getting him an audition in a beginning actor's workshop led by Jules Benedict. If Tony is accepted, it could be the start of a whole new career for him. Using a little suasion, Ann is able to overcome the first hurdle, which is to convince Benedict that Tony be able to audition. However, Tony will have to get over the second hurdle primarily on his own, which is to pass the audition, a scene performed by him and Ann. Ann runs into a third hurdle, which is Tony's manager and his 60% owner, Dal and Jake, who don't want Tony's focus away from boxing as he is only a couple of matches away from the championship bout. Dal and Jake try to bribe Ann into taking an acting dive at the audition. Regardless of what Ann decides to do in the matter, which may take into consideration the real or perceived threat of her personal safety if she doesn't accept the bribe, Jake's boxing career may already be in jeopardy if his thoughts are already on how to become an actor, audition or not.
Episode 10
Fix My Screen & Bug Out
Thu, Nov 20, 196930 mins
Ann is surprised to see that Bobby Miller, an old boyfriend, is now her new landlord. As the other tenants can see that Bobby is still attracted to Ann, they feel their best offense in getting Bobby to make all the necessary repairs and upgrades the previous landlord promised is to have Ann act as the chairperson of their grievance committee. What they see is correct as Bobby does profess his continued love for Ann, which is why she feels she shouldn't be the spokesperson for the tenants so as not to lead Bobby on. But Ann relents to the tenants' request if only to show them that Bobby really means nothing to her. This role makes Ann a nervous wreck in having to deal with Bobby, who is aware of Donald in Ann's life but doesn't care. Ann has to figure out how to act like a sane person in Bobby's presence so that she can truly be coherent in expressing to him how she feels about both him and Donald.
Episode 11
Kiss That Girl Goodbye
Thu, Nov 27, 196930 mins
While eating at Nino's, Donald and Ann are approached by a man who seems to know all about both of them, but neither who knows him. After the man gives his business card to Donald, asks Donald to call him and leaves the restaurant, Donald realizes what an idiot he made of himself during their discussion as the man is Bob Harrison, a publishing magnate. Ann is certain that Harrison is going to offer Donald a job in the realm of an associate editorship at one of his many magazines. Ann is almost spot on about her prediction about what Harrison does offer Donald, with one major exception: Ann did not guess that the job is located in Paris. Donald admits that he hasn't had time to even think about the offer. But while Ann waits to see Donald later that evening, she hears through the grapevine that Donald is planning on accepting the job. Can a heartbroken Ann have a faulty grapevine?
Episode 12
She Never Had the Vegas Notion
Thu, Dec 11, 196930 mins
Ann has a two week gig in the show "Funny Man" in Las Vegas. Donald is accompanying her for the first weekend in Vegas. The star of the show - the funny man in question - is egomanical womanizer Marty Haines, who, unknown to Ann and Donald, sets his sights on Ann as his conquest for the two weeks. On their first night in town, Donald, starving, waits for Ann so that they can eat together. But during that wait, the casino bug hits him, both on the alcohol side and the gambling side. On what ends up being a double date with Marty and Marty's date, his leading lady Joanne Ferrer, an inebriated Donald loses his perspective which lets Marty swoop in as the possible knight in shining armor to Ann's defense, and lets Joanne take advantage of the situation for her own end goal.
Episode 13
She Never Had the Vegas Notion: Part Two
Thu, Dec 18, 196930 mins
Concerning an inebriated Donald's Vegas wedding to Ann's co-star Joanne Ferrer, Ann's heartbreak over losing the love of her life, however unintentional on Donald's part, turns to anger when Ann and Donald learn directly from Joanne that she and Donald aren't married. Rather, the marriage was a practical joke initiated by the show's star, Marty Haines, to show Ann that Donald isn't as perfect a man as Ann has been gushing to him. Ann and Donald, with Joanne now on their side, have to figure out how to give Marty a taste of his own medicine. Meanwhile, Ann and Donald have another unexpected problem when Ann's father learns indirectly that Donald just got married, Lew believing that Mrs. Donald Hollinger is Ann.
Episode 14
I Am Curious Lemon
Thu, Dec 25, 196930 mins
As a favor to her cousin Trudy and Trudy's husband, Ann has agreed to look after their daughter, Ann's niece, Caroline for the weekend. Caroline's stay with Ann coincides with a planned visit by one of Donald's college friends, Chippy Dolan, who Ann is more than happy to have over to her place for dinner. Ann becomes less excited by the prospect of the dinner when she learns that Chippy is also bringing his new bride Heather, who happens to be one of Donald's old girlfriends. To impress specifically Heather and show the collective that Donald made the right choice in dating her instead of marrying Heather, Ann wants the dinner party to be perfect. But Caroline's lemon tree, which she brought with her to Ann's for the weekend, may have another say in the matter.
Episode 15
Tenpercent of Nothing Is Nothing
Thu, Jan 1, 197030 mins
Sandy Stone, Ann's agent, is a former stand-up comedian who gave up that life due to lack of self confidence. But an impromptu performance at a party with Ann acting as his second banana makes Sandy think that he perhaps could perform stand-up again. This second time around, he feels he needs Ann, who he coerces into performing with him at a country club banquet. He even is forgoing his 10% fee since he's her partner and not her agent in this venture. They're a hit, which leads to them doing their shtick on the banquet circuit. Ann likes the money - more money than she's made in quite a while - but she doesn't want these gigs to replace her true goal of being an actress. She also doesn't want to abandon Sandy until she feels that he has regained his confidence. Sandy may come to his own realizations about him and Ann working together on stage. Regardless of what Ann decides to do with her performing career, she feels she has to put in one last performance for Sandy's sake, which unfortunately for Donald requires his assistance.
Episode 16
Opening Night
Thu, Jan 8, 197030 mins
Ann is nervous about the opening night of the first ever Broadway play in which she is performing. Everything that day is making her jumpy, even all the small things both Donald and her father do to try and calm her nerves. So she kindly asks them to leave so that she can be all alone to get some rest. She regrets doing so as, with a handful of hours left until curtain time, Ann gets her finger stuck in her kitchen faucet, and the telephone is just out of reach so she can't call anyone for help. Ann does eventually get close enough to the telephone to pick up the receiver, but dialing is a whole different matter. Will Ann be able to telephone for assistance in time to make her own opening night?
Episode 17
That Metermaid
Thu, Jan 22, 197030 mins
Donald has to forgo his scheduled lunch with Ann to work in order to please the magazine's new editor, who Donald doesn't really yet know as a boss and thus doesn't want to rock the boat by missing a deadline. When Donald mentions to Ann that the man's name is Lewis M. Franks, Ann is certain that he will let Donald go to lunch with her. Why?: because they had an auspicious series of encounters five years ago the summer Ann worked as a meter maid in the small town of Fenwick. The story... Ann was initially torn between not wanting to ticket anyone for parking violations against her job of upholding the law. But when she was told by the police to rescind a ticket written for a car parked next to a fire hydrant - that car belonging to the mayor - Ann was appalled at what she saw as the corruption, however small. So Ann went to the local newspaper, whose editor at the time was Lewis, hoping that he would write a feature article on the issue. He refused seeing that it was not big news, but he encouraged her to write a letter to the editor which he would gladly print. That letter began the public David versus Goliath battle between Ann and the mayor, who decided to use his power, wealth and thus influence for retribution against anyone associated with Ann and this story, including her father and Lewis.
Episode 18
Fly by Night
Thu, Jan 29, 197030 mins
Despite she hating flying, Donald convinces a reluctant Ann to fly to Vermont for their weekend getaway rather than drive. Donald's old air force pilot friend Jon offered the flight, which makes Ann even more nervous that they will be flying in a small private plane and that she will get to see everything that is going on in the cockpit. During the flight, they hit some stormy weather and Jon mentions that he is flying using visual references only as he was in the process of rewiring the control panel. Ann's life flashes before her eyes, which she believes is an omen that something bad will happen. As Ann drifts off into a nervous slumber thinking more about her and Donald's past time together, will her premonitions comes true?
Episode 19
Ugh Wilderness
Thu, Feb 5, 197030 mins
Despite the possibility of them crashing due to a combination of factors, Ann and Donald's flight to Vermont on the small private plane of Donald's friend Jon is able to make an emergency landing in an unknown location. Although shaken, Ann, Donald and Jon all are physically unhurt. It's dark and cold, and visibility is near zero. Jon volunteers to go look for help and suggests to Ann and Donald that they stay in or near the plane if at all possible, since it is the safest and warmest location, especially if they can build a fire. Jon is able to find some help, but when they return to the plane, Ann and Donald are gone. Unknown to Jon, they had no matches and as such went looking for some shelter. As Jon and the officers eventually go searching for the pair, they who are facing their own immediate problems, they have no ideas which way to search. Meanwhile, Ann and Donald will ultimately have more problems to face than just the need to find shelter and the hope that they will be rescued. That additional problem is in the form of Ann's father.
Episode 20
Stocks & the Single Girl
Thu, Feb 12, 197030 mins
Ann accidentally but auspiciously meets Arnold Lindsey, who Donald later tells her is known as the Wolf of Wall Street for his shrewd investments. He is wealthy because of those investments. Donald is excited when he sees that the business card that Lindsey gave Ann has a list of stock symbols written on the back and the word "buy". Donald and Ann are uncertain about what to do with list. They decide to give the list back to Lindsey hoping that he will be grateful in a financial compensatory manner. However, Ann is only able to speak to Lindsey's personal secretary who implies that he requires the important list before the end of the trading day. As such, Ann and Donald, based on discussions with Newsview's financial columnist Ben White, decide to invest, using whatever money they can scrounge up from whatever sources, including Ann's father and White himself. What they are unaware of is that the important list is important in a different way than they thought. Will they find out that the list isn't what they thought before they invest and potentially lose their shirts?
Episode 21
The Night They Raided Daddy's
Thu, Feb 19, 197030 mins
Ann's father is at home on a Saturday night, which should be the busiest night at the restaurant. Lew's talk about retirement further shocks Ann since the restaurant is his life. Ann and Donald go to the restaurant to speak to Lew's longtime maitre d' Harry to see if anything is the matter with Lew. What they find out is that the restaurant is nearly empty, a situation that has been in existence for the past half year, while one of their rivals, Tony's, which doesn't have nearly the quality of food as La Parisienne, has to turn customers away. It's because Tony's has a hip, young vibe punctuated by the live rock music, as opposed to the staid saxophone/accordion combo playing at La Parisienne. Ann wants to try and help her father by convincing him to update La Parisienne by hiring a rock combo of his own, but she wants for him to think it was his own idea. With advice from Donald and Ann on the specific group, Lew does hire the Blue Boys, the least offensive group to his own sensibilities. The Blue Boys do end up changing La Parisienne's fortunes, but that may be short-lived based on the surprise finale they have in store.
Episode 22
The Reunion
Thu, Feb 26, 197030 mins
It's time for Ann, as her high school graduating class' secretary/treasurer, to make all the arrangements and send out the invitations for her five year high school reunion. Organizationally, Ann is ill-equipped to handle such matters on her own, so she co-opts her old high school steering committee and Donald to help her. Beyond the conundrum of whether to hold the reunion at her father's restaurant or a much lower priced competitor, Ann faces a major problem. As treasurer, she apparently was given $360 by her graduating class to hold onto for this event, the money which she has no memories of or its whereabouts. If she or her father don't have it, she is sure that one of her classmates who worked on financial issues with her has absconded the money. She plans on going to the reunion, stare into each of those three people's eyes and gage who is lying to her without directly asking each if he/she has the money. If she can't figure out who has the money, Ann will either have to take a more direct approach in asking the three or come up with the money - a small fortune to her - on her own.
Episode 23
Gone-A-Courtin
Thu, Mar 5, 197030 mins
Ann is auditioning for famed Broadway producer William Samuels for a part in his new play. During the audition, Samuels is seemingly preoccupied and in a violent mood, which flusters Ann. He apologizes to her, and mentions that his thoughts are on a lawsuit issued by New York Times columnist Morgan Jerome, the two who have had a mutual professional dislike for years based on Jerome's criticisms of Samuels' past plays. The suit is based on an incident where Jerome claims that Samuels stabbed him with a flaming shish kebab at a nightclub. Samuels claims that Jerome, flustered by their encounter, accidentally stabbed himself. Because of Samuels' current preoccupied state of mind, he postpones the remainder of Ann's audition. Later, Ann is surprised and excited by a telephone call from Samuels asking her to come in for a follow-up audition. Ann learns that Samuels does have a role for her, but not quite the one she was expecting. Because of how flustered Ann was at the audition, he believes she can help recreate Jerome being flustered the way he was at the nightclub. In court, she is to act as Samuels' lawyer's clumsy assistant, culminating in a reenactment of the nightclub scene with a flaming shish kebab going toward Jerome. Will Ann pretending to be a clumsy legal mind go up in flames like the shish kebab in her hands?
Episode 24
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
Thu, Mar 12, 197030 mins
Ann, Donald and Jerry come home from an evening out watching a cinema-verité offering. Made for $35,000, the movie is expected to reap $10 million in sales. The three figure that they have the abilities collectively to make a better movie than what they just watched. They each vow to invest $5,000 - with an additional $5,000 from an absent Ruthie - with the three to do all the work. Ruthie doesn't balk at the idea but is somewhat outside of the fray as she seems preoccupied with other thoughts. Using an expensive camera from the magazine, Donald shoots some test footage in Ann's apartment. When he and Ann later watch that test footage, Ann notices something in the background of the film, namely Ruthie, in another apartment across the courtyard, kissing a man who is not Jerry. While Donald believes they should mind their own business, Ann, without asking Ruthie directly, believes she needs to find out what's going on in an effort to save Jerry and Ruthie's marriage.
Episode 25
Easy Faller
Thu, Mar 19, 197030 mins
Besides spending time with Donald, non-skier Ann is not looking forward to their ski weekend to Stowe. Even if Ann doesn't end up skiing, she's afraid Donald will be attracted to every ski bunny on the hills. Donald tries to convince Ann that it is now virtually impossible to twist one's ankles while falling on skis. In demonstrating such in Ann's apartment, Donald doesn't sprain his ankles but rather sprains his back. His painful injury requires as little movement as possible and complete bed rest, which doesn't sit well with Donald if only because he has what may be his most important interview of the year in a few hour's time with Renaissance man Jean Paul Lemairre, who has granted an exclusive to Donald and who will only be in town until the end of the day. But if Mohammed can't make it to the mountain, is Ann's idea of bringing the mountain to Mohammed such a crazy idea?
Episode 26
All's Well That Ends
Thu, Mar 26, 197030 mins
It's Ann's birthday. She's disappointed that Donald was not able to get the tickets to the impossible to get tickets for Broadway play, Among the Living, for tonight. As such, Ann suggests to her friend Janie Downs - who is generally housebound taking care of her one year old, Bobby - that she and Janie's husband Harry Downs join them for a birthday dinner out. When the one and only person Janie trusts to babysit can't do so, Ann suggests Plan C, which is for Janie and Harry to go out for dinner alone, while Ann takes care of Bobby. What Ann is unaware of is that Donald actually did manage to get the tickets, with which he wanted to surprise Ann. There is no way that Ann will entrust Bobby's security to anyone else to go see the play. Beyond Donald trying to sell the expensive tickets, Ann and Donald face what it will be like to be parents, especially as Bobby seems to becoming down with some unknown malady. That malady looks to be the mumps, which may not be too bad for Bobby in the long run, but which may be terrible for Ann who never had them as a child.