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That Girl Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
Counter Proposal
Fri, Sep 25, 197030 mins
Don is shopping for an engagement ring as he has decided to ask Ann to marry him. He loves the ring that he has picked out for her, which he has on hold at the jewelers, and hopes that Ann will love it too. However, his colleague Bob offers him a deal: a nicer ring at the same price. The catch?: the ring Bob is selling was the one he used to propose to his now ex-fiancée Betty. Don is of mixed emotions. He likes Bob's ring more, but he isn't sure if the sentiment of having another woman's ring from a failed relationship will bother him or Ann if she were ever to find out. He decides to buy Bob's ring with every intention of telling Ann of its background. Don finds it easier to ask Ann to marry him - to which she excitedly says yes - than about the ring's origins, which he doesn't divulge. With Don out of town on a business trip shortly thereafter, Bob comes to Ann to ask for the ring back since he and Betty are patching things up with the ring part of that patching things up. Bob's request sets in motion some actions by Ann to show or not to show Donald what she thinks about getting another girl's ring for what is perhaps the most important event of her life.
Episode 2
Don and Sandi and Harry and Snoopy
Fri, Oct 2, 197030 mins
Donald is concerned about his widowed sister Sandi, who is coming to New York for a visit to meet up with her serious boyfriend, Harry Fieldstone, who is - gasp - an actor. Donald feels that Harry is probably after the insurance money Sandi received from her husband's death. Despite being somewhat offended by Donald's implication that if Harry's an actor that he must be no good as a person, Ann, who doesn't know or know of Harry professionally, uses whatever contacts she has to find all about Harry. Her snooping pays off - she finds that Harry is a hard working, upstanding citizen, which eases Donald's mind. But when Harry finds out that an Ann Marie has been asking questions about him, he calls Ann wanting to have lunch with her. Ann agrees to the lunch, with the issue of Sandi ultimately to be a coincidence. When Ann meets him, she finds out that he assumed she was asking about him since she had seen him perform and wanted to have a fling with him. After meeting Ann, he definitely wants to have a fling with her. After telling Donald about the situation, they have to come up with a way of not letting Sandi know that they snooped around about Harry behind her back, yet show her that Harry is a no good louse not worth marrying. Harry may have his own say in the matter.
Episode 3
I Ain't Got Nobody
Fri, Oct 9, 197030 mins
An excited Jerry rushes into Donald's office while Ann is there. He obviously wants to talk to Donald without Ann, the hint which isn't lost on Ann who kindly departs for an interview for a recurring role on the Captain Gooney children's show. Ann does get the part, which could be the biggest break in her career. That break is threatened by what Jerry had to tell Donald, or more precisely show Donald: a naked centerfold photograph of Ann in Playpen men's magazine. When a shocked Donald confronts Ann about the photograph, Ann is as shocked as him. She admits the head is hers, it being a photograph she did for a hairstyle magazine, but the body isn't. After they confront the photographer who admits the situation but won't do anything since the magazine is already in circulation and Ann signed a waiver, they have to figure out how to minimize the impact of the photograph in its bad, especially to those who matter like Ann's father and Captain Gooney, and take advantage of whatever clean cut opportunities may arise.
Episode 4
No Man Is a Manhattan Island
Fri, Oct 16, 197030 mins
Ann has a multi-day appearance as a contestant on a game show. On her first appearance, the questions asked are about her neighbors, about who she knows nothing except for Jerry and Ruthie. On her next appearance on the show in three days, she learns that the questions will be along the same vein of knowing neighbors. Beyond the fact of wanting to win money on the show, Ann laments the fact that she really doesn't know the neighbors in her building. As hard as she tries through general hallway chit-chat, her neighbors are less than forthcoming about themselves. Based on an off-the-cuff innocent comment by Donald, Ann figures that a good way to bring her and her neighbors together is to create a crisis around which to bond. The ploy works. But after the follow-up get-to-know each other party in Ann's apartment, Ann regrets getting to know her neighbors as her purse containing $50 goes missing. As Ann, Donald and Jerry go on a quest to figure out which neighbor stole her purse, Ann finds out that a little larceny lies in the hearts of all her new friends.
Episode 5
Rattle of a Single Girl
Fri, Oct 23, 197030 mins
Ann and Donald have an argument which reduces Ann to tears, since she believes them arguing, which they never did before getting engaged, means that their engagement is a mistake. As such, Marcy suggests to Ann that they go see a marriage counselor. Ann wants her and Donald to go to a counselor immediately, at the expense of doing anything else in their life, like looking for a new apartment. Despite Ann and Donald both apologizing to the other about the argument and despite Donald believing that going to see a marriage counselor before they're even married is a crazy idea, he agrees if only to appease Ann. At their session with Dr. Globe, they don't seem to be able to find anything about the other that would suggest that their relationship is in trouble. To the contrary, Dr. Globe feels that they not talking about issues that bothers them about the other means that they are indeed not ready to get married, and suggests further counseling. Is Ann and Donald's relationship truly in trouble because they can't communicate with each other, or is Dr. Globe manufacturing problems that don't exist?
Episode 6
There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis: Part I
Fri, Oct 30, 197030 mins
Ann has taken a supporting role in a play being mounted by a St. Louis theater company. Ann regrets taking the role if only because it means that she and Donald will be spending time with Donald's family, most of who she has never met. Having previously met Donald's mother, Mildred Hollinger, Ann has the feeling that she already and still does not like her. Mrs. Hollinger inviting all of Donald's old friends, including Donald's old girlfriend Janet Booth, to a party at their house is a further indication to Ann that Mrs. Hollinger is trying to place a wedge between herself and Donald. Ann is more concerned about meeting Donald's Great Aunt Belle, who Donald has mentioned is the tough one in the family, she who likes to be difficult if only to catch people off guard. But Ann may have a supporter on her side, namely Donald's father, Bert Hollinger.
Episode 7
There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis: Part II
Fri, Nov 6, 197030 mins
In a continuation of Ann and Donald's trip to St. Louis where Ann is appearing in a play and which thus allows Ann to meet who Ann believes is Donald's disapproving family, Ann is asked by the play's producer if she would like to assume the lead role in the play due to the lead actress coming down with the measles. Ann believes she could do it, but turns down the offer, leaving the role to the excited understudy, Jeannie. Ann, however, changes her mind as she believes that being the lead will make Mrs. Hollinger proud of her - which Ann feels currently isn't the case - and win over Donald's Great Aunt Belle, who Ann has yet to meet. Assuming the lead role would also allow Ann to get out of what is supposed to be a surprise dinner party meeting with Aunt Belle. But what may be more difficult for Ann is to tell Jeannie that she now wants the role back despite the reason.
Episode 8
That Cake
Fri, Nov 13, 197030 mins
Just before she is supposed to head out for the evening to meet Donald for dinner and a Broadway show, a panicked Ann realizes that she has lost her engagement ring. She is afraid Donald is going to hate her for doing so. On the contrary, pragmatic Donald understands that these things happen, that the ring is insured and thus can be replaced, which makes Ann more upset as he doesn't understand the sentimental value of that specific ring. As Donald helps Ann think about where she may have lost it, Ann can only narrow it down that she had the ring at the start of her work day - at a photo shoot for a New York promotion where she was required to bake a cheesecake - and didn't have it when she was ready to meet Donald for dinner. But when her promo shoot is shown later that evening on the local news, Ann notices that her left hand is devoid of the ring after the cake was baked, meaning that she's pretty sure the ring is in the cake. On the quest for the cake, Ann and Donald learn that it is being served at an official state function hosted by Governor Rockefeller. Ann and Donald not only have to try and crash the official function, but they also have to convince the person in charge that her ring is in the cake which therefore should not be eaten.
Episode 9
That Girl's Daddy
Fri, Nov 20, 197030 mins
Ann has invited her father to stay with her for the weekend while her mother is out of town. Ann is dismayed to hear the way her father is talking, like he is a rickety old man past his prime. After his first night in town, Lew has a new sparkle in his eyes and in his voice. He says that it's because Donald's friends, with who he played poker, treated him like one of the guys. But Ann thinks it was more because of a post poker game encounter with Ann's actress friend Jeanne, who Ann went out with for the evening while the boys played poker at her apartment and who Lew walked home after the poker game. Ann believes that her father and Jeanne may be embarking on an affair. Wanting to protect the sanctity of her parent's marriage, Ann, against Donald's advice, plans on putting a kibosh on her father and Jeanne's affair before it begins. In doing so, will Ann be making a fool of herself as Donald believes she will since she in reality has nothing to kibosh?
Episode 10
Stop the Presses I Want to Get Off
Fri, Nov 27, 197030 mins
Ann is doing some modeling work for one of the fashion magazines under Girl Friday Publications. When Ann overhears that they have no one to send to a press scrum for the arrival of world renowned fashion designer Andre Pennet, she offers to be their reporter on the scene for a fee. She figures she understands fashion, and she has writing skills by association being engaged to the best magazine writer in New York. Phil Harvey, the publisher, agrees, as he believes he can low-ball Ann in what he pays her for the work, and he is pretty sure that she'll get Donald to write the associated article. He's correct on both counts. That job leads to many more from Harvey to Ann, and by association to Donald. What Ann doesn't understand is that she really is doing none of the work, Donald doing all the writing and even devising interview questions when required. Regardless, Ann is a success on paper as a by-lined writer. If they find out, will Donald's publishing company be happy that he is writing for a rival publishing company, for free no less? And will Ann ever come to the realization that her success as a writer has nothing to do with her writing skill or is despite her lack of writing skill?
Episode 11
Super Reporter
Fri, Dec 4, 197030 mins
Donald is receiving a prestigious humanitarian award at a televised event this evening. Ann, with the assistance of one of Donald's colleagues Charlie, who has been stopping by her apartment at lunch each day over the past week to act as a model, is completing sewing a super hero costume for the collective "boys in the office" to give to Donald as a gag gift for winning the award. Donald is tickled by the gift, which he tries on right then and there at the office. As a further gag, Jerry steals his clothes, which he vows to Ann - who knew nothing about this part of the scheme - that he will return to Donald before the day is out so that Donald can at least get ready for the awards ceremony. In return, Ann vows not to tell Donald where his clothes are. Being "Super Don" in costume places Donald in some embarrassing situations, but the costume does have the effect of turning Donald into a super hero of sorts, which he hopes to culminate at the awards ceremony with a special topic at the center of the speech he writes for the awards ceremony for his publisher, Jonathan Adams, in light of a meeting they had with Deputy Commissioner Finlay that afternoon. Out of circumstance, Donald may have to go all the way with his super hero impression as Jerry left the office to go on assignment and Ann forgot to pick up his tuxedo from the now closed cleaners.
Episode 12
That Señorita
Fri, Dec 11, 197030 mins
Ann is excited to be performing in a new Broadway revue. Her specific sketch is a comic one where she portrays a Mexican woman complete with Spanish accent and Mexican stereotypical behavior. What she is unaware of is that a lobby group, calling itself Dignidades (Spanish for Dignities), is trying to have that sketch taken out of the show for its offensive nature. The producer, George Phillips, refuses their demands. What they are all unaware of is that Felix, Ann's leading man, is also part of Dignidades, he doing whatever he can from behind the scenes to have the sketch removed from the show, or at least have it changed so that he and other Mexicans would not be offended by it. When Ann learns about the group and Felix's involvement in it, Ann, who agrees with their stance after hearing the arguments, has to decide what to do. On the one hand, she now agrees that the sketch is offensive. On the other hand, she has signed a contract and as an actress she feels compelled to do her best to make the show a success by following guidance of the director.
Episode 13
An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons
Fri, Dec 18, 197030 mins
Ann's flamboyant uncle, Lew's brother, Herbert Marie is flying into New York from Iceland for a visit, he who Ann hasn't seen since she was a child. Ann loves her uncle, whereas Lew has always believed he was a small time con artist. Time has not changed either of their opinions, but Uncle Herbert's actions sway Ann's opinion slightly toward her father's. But things get worse for Ann and Donald when Uncle Herbert meets Donald's boss, Jonathan Adams, and convinces him to invest in what he calls his lucrative tuna growing business. If Uncle Herbert is pulling a scam, it could very well mean Donald's job. Or is Uncle Herbert legitimate despite his outward appearance to Ann, Donald and Lew?
Episode 14
That Script
Fri, Jan 1, 197130 mins
After reading the novel "A Woman's Story", an excited Ann believes she's found what has the potential to be the greatest part for a young actress ever in the lead character, Della. The problem is that the novel's author, Joseph Nelson, has so far refused all offers to sell the rights to make it into a movie, despite all his other novels already having been made into movies. Her agent Sandy's attempt to buy the rights for Ann get nowhere, even if she did have the money, which she doesn't. So Ann decides to approach Nelson himself, with a little acting thrown in. Ann and Donald are able to find where the Nelson's live. Although Nelson's wife Frances can see through Ann's deception to get into their house, Nelson himself seems sympathetic to Ann. After hearing Ann's story, Nelson ultimately decides to write the screenplay himself - as he has done with all his other books - and sell it to a studio only on the condition that Ann play Della. While Sandy revels in the negotiation to make Ann a rich woman in playing this role, Frances Nelson may shed some light on why she was so cold to Ann upon their initial meeting, why her husband has been so protective of the piece and why she believes the movie should and cannot be made.
Episode 15
Those Friars
Fri, Jan 8, 197130 mins
Ann unexpectedly receives a delivery: the trunk that belonged to her long deceased Great Uncle Harry Marie, a minor vaudevillian. Uncle Harry was basically unknown to the public, but was well known within the vaudeville community. Found in storage in a hotel scheduled for demolition, the trunk and Uncle Harry's belongings were thought to have disappeared, which is why Ann is so excited to receive this delivery of items of the only one of her family associated with show business. After she and Donald are able to break into the trunk, they find inside memorabilia from Uncle Harry's vaudeville days, which looks to have no monetary value, but which has great sentimental value to Ann. Regardless, Sandy, Ann's agent, thinks he can parlay the situation into some publicity for Ann. He plans to write a newspaper article about struggling actress Ann connecting with her show business past through the trunk. The article garners much attention, even from Milton Berle and Danny Thomas, who both come by wanting to buy the trunk and its contents. Initially Ann doesn't want to sell, then thinks about selling if only to make a few dollars. But she finally comes to the realization that there must be something valuable among the trunk's contents that is worth more than Berle or Thomas are letting on. What are they not telling Ann?
Episode 16
A Limited Engagement
Fri, Jan 15, 197130 mins
Ann's bridal shower marks the end of a near perfect day for her, more so in that she that much closer to being Mrs. Donald Hollinger. The bridal shower also marks the end of a troubled week for Donald, who has such an extreme case of cold feet that he doesn't know if he wants to get married at all, be it to Ann or anyone else. Jerry can sense that Donald is troubled. Once Donald confides to Jerry, Jerry tries to tell him, from his own experience, that his feelings are natural. Jerry also tries to help him get over it by volunteering to do many of the wedding tasks. But Jerry's measures don't help. Donald ends up snapping at every little thing that Ann says and does, which leads to Donald finally telling her that he doesn't want to get married. It further leads to an argument and them breaking up. A despondent and depressed Ann tries to figure out what she did wrong while trying to move on with life without the love of her life. But time and a look into a future without Ann courtesy of Jerry may give Donald a different perspective.
Episode 17
The Russians Are Staying
Fri, Jan 29, 197130 mins
Russian comic Nicholai Yusachevski is in New York to do among other things be a guest at Ann's acting workshop. Among his unwanted entourage are two men who Ann believes are members of the NKVD, the Russian spy service. The two never seem to let Nicholai out of their sights. In speaking to Nicholai directly, Ann and Donald learn that they are indeed NKVD and their mission is to stop him from defecting. If Nicholai can just hide out until the entire Russian contingent is to go home in a day - which is a necessity since their visas would have expired - he will be able to defect successfully, while protect his family back home by getting word back to them to go into hiding as well since he has made it to safety. He unilaterally makes the decision that Ann's apartment is the perfect hiding place, where the NKVD dare not enter since it is considered private property on foreign soil. Despite the unorthodox nature of letting him stay in Ann's apartment, Ann and Donald agree with his plans and do whatever they can to assist him. They, however, are unaware of the full Nicholai and NKVD story.
Episode 18
That Shoplifter
Fri, Feb 5, 197130 mins
Ann's latest job is as the specials announcer at Dawson's Department Store. When he overhears Ann say that she is an actress, the store's head of security, Mr. Baxter, gives her another job at the store: be his planted shoplifter to see where the gaps are not only among his own staff but among the store clerks with regard to store security and theft issues. Ann takes her new job seriously as she practices her various methods of stealing goods. Ann ends up being able to steal a lot of goods from various departments, which, day after day, she hands over to Mr. Baxter at a secret rendezvous. Ann thinks she's in trouble when Jim, one of the store's friendly security guards, introduces her to the store's head of security, Mr. Baxter, this person who is not the same man she knows as Mr. Baxter. Before she and Donald try to figure out what to do so that Ann won't go to jail over the thefts, the man she believed was Baxter comes clean: he is really Walter Harrison, the former head of security who was forced to retire and who wants to expose the lax security at the store since Baxter started on the job. Should Ann believe him this time? Only Mr. Dawson, the store's owner, may be able to answer the question definitively.
Episode 19
Chef's Night Out
Fri, Feb 12, 197130 mins
Almost immediately after Ann and Donald see Ann's parents off on an oft postponed and much deserved vacation, they learn that Harry, Lew's maitre d' and official head at the restaurant during Lew's absence, has gone home sick. Being a Thursday, Frankie, Lew's longest term employee, can handle managing the restaurant without Harry, but will be unable to do so for the busy Friday and Saturday evening service. Rather than ruin her parent's vacation by calling them back early, Ann decides to take over the administrative duties while she co-opts a reluctant Donald to act as front of house maitre d', which includes to Donald's chagrin table side preparation of Caesar salads, which he doesn't know how to make. Things take a turn for the worse when they learn that Harry will be off for all three night, and that most of the kitchen staff, including the head chef Pierre, come down with the same bug that sidelined Harry. After their attempt to act as combined head chef fail, Ann and Donald call in Lew's old chef Andre, the reason for him being let go which becomes quickly obvious to them and which will prohibit him coming back even temporarily. As such, Donald comes up with what he believes the only solution to get them through the dinner rush while preserving the fine dining reputation of La Parisienne.
Episode 20
That King
Fri, Feb 19, 197130 mins
Late one evening, Ann receives a visit from the US State Department. Their emergency visit is because the visiting King of Kowali, a country with which the US wants to foster relations, saw Ann's appearance on a television commercial and wants to go on a date with her. Despite she and Donald already being engaged, Ann, with Donald's approval, decides to assist her country by going out with the single King. It isn't until the King and his staff come to pick Ann up that she learns that the King is only eleven years old and that he is not in lust with her but was amused by her on the commercial. But the King ends up being a spoiled brat who is used to getting everything he wants when he wants. That attitudes leads to a diplomatic situation between the US an Kowali based on an action by Ann. The King will accept nothing less than a full apology by Ann. Despite the State Department's view that Ann should do what the King asks, Ann's approach to the situation is to treat the King not as a King but an eleven year old boy who needs some adult guidance about what is right and wrong.
Episode 21
Stag Party
Fri, Feb 26, 197130 mins
It's a few weeks until Ann and Donald's wedding, which means it's time for Donald's friends to throw him a stag party. Ann is a little concerned if only because of stories she's heard about exotic dancers popping out of the cake. But that's not what she should ultimately be concerned about. As the evening progresses and as Donald gets more and more inebriated, Donald, based on typical joking comments made at stag parties about the bride, has one thought after another of what life being married to Ann will be like, none of them overly flattering. What's worse is that Ann's father is also at the stag. Lew doesn't like the comments made about his daughter, and doesn't like Donald's rude friends. Donald's already less than cordial relationship with Lew is made even worse by being drunk. In anger, Lew storms off. Donald becomes concerned about Lew's whereabouts. An incident at the end of the party shows Donald what his life with Ann as his wife and Lew as his father-in-law will really be like.
Episode 22
Two for the Money
Fri, Mar 5, 197130 mins
While on a modeling job at the race track, Ann can't keep her mind on her work as she is more preoccupied with the favor she agreed to do for three of Donald's friends: place a $15 bet on the daily double. Although she has trouble even remembering the horses to bet on, novice bettor Ann does manage to place the bet. She continues to be distracted by what is happening on the track until the end of the second race, when she learns that she is holding onto a winning $500 ticket. The next problem becomes the fact that she can't find the ticket. After learning that she needs the ticket to collect while not being able to find it, Ann becomes resigned to the fact that she will owe Donald's friends the money. But Donald tells her that she owes them not the $15 from their original bet as she believes, but rather the $500 the winning ticket is worth. Donald thinks Ann may be off the hook when his friends, who believe that Ann the model is their lucky charm, ask her to place a $500 bet on a long shot in a race the following day on a horse named Lucky Model. Donald suggests to Ann that she not make the bet on the high probability that Lucky Model won't win, and thus that $500, which no longer exists, will really be gone in the eyes of his friends. Will Ann tell them the truth and pay them the $500, or will she not make the bet on the high probability that 8:1 long shot Lucky Model will lose like she always does, which also means that Ann would owe the guys $4,500 if Lucky Model actually wins?
Episode 23
Soot Yourself
Fri, Mar 12, 197130 mins
Without telling Donald, Ann joins a women's activist group focused on pollution issues. The reason she didn't tell Donald is because Newsview magazine is on the group's picket list for printing an article written by Donald over a year ago on the issue but doing no follow-up since. A photograph of Ann wearing a gas mask after their Newsview picket ends up being featured in the newspaper, and she hopes that Donald won't figure out it's her. He does, as does Donald's boss, Jonathan Adams. That recognition leads to Ann and Donald arguing about the entire pollution issue, and their own possible hypocritical views. Ann convinces the group's leader not to picket Newsview anymore while Ann works on Mr. Adams directly, which she hopes will lead to, among other things, a follow-up feature. Ann invites Mr. and Mrs. Adams to her apartment under the guise of a surprise birthday party for Donald, at which she plans on serving what is known as an anti-pollution meal. Will Ann's action change either Donald or Mr. Adam's views on the matter?
Episode 24
The Elevated Woman
Fri, Mar 19, 197130 mins
Ann is angry at Donald for the article he just wrote about women's liberation from the perspective of a fictional, independent young woman. Her anger is because she knows that that girl is a thinly disguised Ann Marie. The article leads to a heated discussion about the battle between the sexes. Ann believes that men in general treat women as the lesser sex, while Donald believes that he treats women in a fair and dignified manner. As such, they rehash many incidents in their five year history. Ann convinces Donald to attend her women's liberation meeting that evening before he is to go to an NHL game without her. On the way to the meeting they get stuck in a hotel elevator with among others the elevator operator and a young newlywed couple. Will further reminiscing and their current situation answer the question of whose perspective is more accurate?
