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That Girl: Season Five

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Finally, we get to have the fifth and final season of That Girl! It has been a wait that is well worth waiting for! Ann finally becomes engaged to her 4 year boyfriend, magazine executive Donald Hollinger. This season features a few episodes that focus on just how serious planning to get married is for Ann and Donald.

There are great guest stars in this last season that include the great Phil Silvers playing Ann's Uncle and Cloris Leachman playing Don's sister. For the second time, Ann's real life father, Danny Thomas appears in her show, and this time he does more than just a walk-on. Ann and her father Danny close this episode with a musical stage number! This last season closes with highlights of all 5 years of That Girl, while Ann and Don remember their favorite moments together, when they are trapped in an elevator. It's a fitting ending for such a wonderful series!

Here are the final seasons episodes from 113 to 136:

113.(9-25-1970) COUNTER PROPOSAL...After 4 years of dating, Donald pops the question.
114.(10-2-1970) DONALD, SANDY, HARRY AND SNOOPIE...Cloris Leachman guest stars as Donald's sister who is serious about a man Donald thinks is not good enough for her, so Donald sends Ann to spy on him.
115.(10-9-1970) I AIN'T GOT NOBODY...Ann finds her reputation tarnished when her photo suddenly turns up in Playpen Magazine's foldout, wearing nothing more than a staple.
116.(10-16-1970) NO MAN'S A MANHATTAN ISLAND...Ann appears on a game show Know Your Neighbor, and when she does poorly, decides to get to really know her neighbors.
117.(10-23-1970) RATTLE OF A SINGLE GIRL...Worried Ann wants pre-marital counseling.
118.(10-30-1970) THERE SURE ARE A BUNCH OF CARDS IN ST.LOUIS (Part 1)...Ann travels to St. Louis to both appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, and Ann is certain that Donald's mother hates her.
119.(11-6-1970) THERE SURE ARE A BUNCH OF CARDS IN ST.LOUIS (Part 2)...Baseball great Stan Musial guest stars in this finale.
120.(11-13-1970) THAT CAKE...Ann loses her engagement ring in a fruit topped cheesecake that she bakes for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
121.(11-20-1970) THAT GIRL'S DADDY...When Ann's mother is away visiting relatives, Ann's lonely father Lou spends a few days with her and takes a liking to one of Ann's flirty friends.
122.(11-27-1970) STOP THE PRESSES, I WANT TO GET OFF...Ann volunteers to write an article for a magazine while doing a photo shoot for them, not realizing the magazine knows she'll get Donald to do the actual writing for really cheap.
123.(12-4-1970) SUPER REPORTER...Don is forced by Ann and his friends to wear a "Super Don" suit to mark his milestone at Newsview Magazine.
124.(12-11-1970) THAT SENORITA...Doing a comedy sketch, Ann finds some of the jokes degrading to Latinos. Alejandro Rey guest stars.
125.(12-18-1970) AN UNCLE HERBERT FOR ALL SEASONS...Ann's father's brother Herbert comes to visit Ann from Iceland with some of his get-rich schemes. The great comedy master Phil Silvers guest stars.
126.(1-1-1971) THAT SCRIPT...Ann schemes to meet a noted American writer whose book she sees as a perfect vehicle for a movie with her as the lead. William Windom guest stars.
127.(1-8-1971) THOSE FRIARS...Ann inherits her Uncle Harry's old trunk filled with bits and pieces from his vaudeville career. Milton Berle and Danny Thomas guest star, with Ann and real-life father Danny Thomas doing a musical number at the end of the episode.
128.(1-15-1971) A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT...Donald gets cold feet and breaks his engagement to Ann.
129.(1-29-1971) THE RUSSIANS ARE STAYING...Ann helps a Russian comedian defect and the KGB are following Ann.
130.(2-5-1971) THAT SHOPLIFTER...Ann believes she is testing the staff's alertness by shoplifting for "security", until she realizes the real security is not the security she's been working for.
131.(2-12-1971) CHEF'S NIGHT OUT...When Ann's father takes a vacation from his restaurant and the staff are out with the flu, Ann and Don run the restaurant themselves during the weekend rush.
132.(2-19-1971) THAT KING...Ann is contacted by the U.S. State Department for the sake of international diplomacy when the King of Kowali wants to meet her after seeing her in a commercial. Donald gets jealous until they find out that the King's age certainly does not match up with Ann's.
133.(2-26-1971) STAG PARTY...Donald's friends throw him a bachelor party.
134.(3-5-1971) TWO FOR THE MONEY...Ann gets assigned a modeling job at Belmont Race Track where co-incidentally a horse has her name. Don's friends see this as a sign and all bets are on.
135.(3-12-1971) SOOT YOURSELF...Ann pickets Newsview Magazine where Donald works with an ecology minded group.
136.(3-19-1971) THE ELEVATED WOMAN...When Ann and Don get stuck in an elevator, they go through memories together showing some of the most classic scenes of the entire series.

I love That Girl. I love everything about it. Morals and humor are compatible no matter what Hollywood says!

I am 29 years old and my mom used to love this show whn she was younger so me and my sister bought Season one for her for her birthday one year. I watched one or two of the shows with my mom and when she was done watching it i took it and watched it. After that i bought all the seasons for myself on DVD. I love this show. i just got done watching the fifth season and i dont know what i'm going to do - i want more! This was a great season, just like all the others it's hilarious and it makes me happy everytime i watch it. if i'm in a bad mood, i can't be after i watch this show. I'm going to miss it!!!!

I bought all the dvds. I have watched Season 1. 4 more to go! What a great family show. I watched this show with my mom back in the 90's. It used to be played on tv. I am in my mid 20's now and it is just a great show. Just shows you no matter what age you are it caters to everyone. It puts me in a happy mood. It seems times were more happier back then. Now they only have garbage on tv. What a shame! So don't worry and check this dvds out you will not be disappointed!

Do these dvd's have any commercials in them? I am looking for a commercial that played during That Girl in 1969.

My wife and I really enjoyed this sitcom. We now have all 5 seasons. Takes us back to the time when television was entertaining, and not depressing.

The release of these DVDs bring back some great memories; however, I was let down a bit by Marlo's commentaries. I realize that, forty years on, she has quite a body of work behind her; yet as a fan you wait to hear such things as, "I remember this!," or "I remember Ted Bessell did this during shooting this scene...", but she speaks about Ann Marie in the 3rd person, occasionally pointed out some dresses she liked, or that, "Teddy Bessell was so thin then." Her commentaries seem to suggest she has no independent recollection of the shows, so in that sense it will be a let down for fans and you may question the value of the commentaries.

+Chaps

You can't go wrong with Don and Ann's chemistry.. I think we all know this is a TV show while watching but to me they are as legit a couple as you will ever find on TV.. and beyond. The amount of dialogue learned for some episodes is often staggering, check out Counter Proposal the first episode of the season.. the exhaustive explanation Ann gives for not wanting to see the price or her ring and the ways around that are simply marvelous! Another plus is Shout factories continued consistent packaging and not skimping on the extras just because this is a final season. Plus the scripts are still often fairly strong for a 5th season; That Script, Counter Proposal, and Uncle Herbert come to mind.

-Chips

Where on earth did they get the crazy notion for a theme song change to this degree? I am a fan of music of this era but I have to say the new theme song is horrendous! I'm not really crazy about Ann's new shaggy mop. The show benefits from a certain innocence and looking at Ann's mop sort of reminds me of the real world of this era.. hard to explain. Lastly, I have to mention the major flop of 'That Senorita', wow, just painful to watch. The script is overly PC and poorly acted imo and tries to make a point on racial stereo-types and the very next episode they meet Uncle Herbert at the airport and are greeting by Asian tourists who all take pictures of each other. I thought it was hilarious but out of step with the message of the previous episode.

I grew up watching That Girl. It brings
back alot of happy memories watching all
the shows. I recommend this collection.

I loved all 5 years of this show. I was in my mid-teens when the show originally aired and I was in front of the television for each episode. Marlo, I doubt if you will see this, but you were my first Hollywood crush. The situations are funny. The acting is stellar. I recommend this to all who are looking for good, family entertainment. And those outfits!!! Wow. Pure 60's and fab. Marlo even makes a comment on an interview on the DVD, forgot which season, but she commented on the clothes and laughed about wearing a different outfit for practically each scene and raising the question, "How could she afford those clothes being a struggling actress?" But it didn't matter. Clothes aside, this is a great show.