That Girl Season 2, Episode 16: A Friend in Need

Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman

Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman, who chooses Ann for a walk-on part in a revival of ""Gypsy.""

30 min

The Good Skate

Ann makes a valiant effort to learn to roller-skate to get a part in a soft-drink commercial.

Black, White and Read All Over

Donald, the proud owner of an unpublished novel, needs cheering when he gets his twelfth rejection slip. Ann's father makes connections with a publisher for Don's book, but he reads it himself and refuses to send it in.

To Each her Own

Donald does a story on computer dating. Ann is jealous when Donald's Compudate match turns out to be attractive model, Lisa Stevens. So Ann fills out a Compudate card herself and comes up with a good-looking date also, who turns out to be a lot more like Donald than she'd care to admit!

30 min

The Apartment

Ann gets a job in telephone marketing at the same time her apartment is being painted, so Ann must borrow Donald's apartment whiel he is away to work in. Dan's friend Harry comes by unknowingly and decides to stay in the apartment as well.

30 min

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (1)

Ann Marie's elation at winning a Broadway role fades when she realizes its Philadelphia opening will mean a long separation from Donald.

30 min

The Philadelphia Story (2)

Despite attention from a fellow castmate, Ann misses Donald while in Philadelphia to do a play.

30 min

There's Nothing to Be Afreud of But Freud Himself

After a meeting with a famous doctor, Donald uses what he has learned to find out all out Ann's personality.

The Collaborators

Ann and Donald learn that a couple that works together also fights together when they collaborate on a play about her life.

When in Rome

Ann wins a part in an Italian movie, but turns it down when she discovers a nude scene.

Thanksgiving Comes But One a Year, Hopefully

The Hollingers are upset that their son isn't coming home for Thanksgiving, and the Maries are upset that a family tradition is being broken. Trying to cook everyone's favorite dishes, Ann takes over the kitchen of a neighbor who is away. The dinner turns out to be a disaster!

30 min

The Mailman Cometh

While modeling at a famous restaurant, Ann meets an agent named Seymour who gets her a date with Dick Shawn as a publicity stunt, but he doesn't know about it!

It's a Mod, Mod World (1)

Ann meets a fashion photographer named Noel Prince, whom Donald dislikes. Noel wants to take her to California to do a shoot.

It's a Mod, Mod World (2)

Noel falls for Ann badly. Don sees a newspaper photo of Ann and Noel being arrested for frolicking in a fountain, he's on the next plane to Los Angeles.

'Twas the Night before Christmas, You're Under Arrest

Ann purchases tickets for the Baumans from a scalper. Giving the scalper a check with her address on it and saying the tickets are for her neighbors, she fears they may be robbed (on Christmas Eve). In order to prevent a robbery, Ann and Donald remove all the valuables from the Baumans' apartment, only to be caught by the police.

30 min

Fur All We Know

A fortune hunter named Buzzy has his eyes on Ann when she wears a borrowed chinchilla stole to wear at an elite party.

The Rivals

Ann takes boyfriend Donald home to spend the weekend with her parents, only to find that her father is jealous of Don and sees him as a rival.

Sixty-Five on the Aisle

After Ann invites her parents to see her Broadway debut, she learns that her lines have been cut considerably. Ann asks her father to change his reservations to the following night so he can see her uncut role. She's unaware that her part was cut to accommodate a surprise theater party planned by her father.

Call of the Wild

Ann becomes convinced that she has no sex appeal when she lands a part as the Creamy Soap Girl because the producer sees her as a fresh scrubbed face that no housewife could resent for her looks.

The Other Woman

Lou escorts Ethel Merman just to be nice, and the publicity thinks that they are an item much to Helen's dismay.

He and She and He

Donald is stunned when Ann receives a marriage proposal from British fashion photographer Noel Prince. Noel expects his answer in the morning, despite Ann's protestations that she loves Donald.

Odpdypahimcaifss

Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.

Great Guy

Marge tells Ann that she has met the man of her dreams, but he backs out when she proposed marraige.

The Detective Story

Ann gets obscene phone calls and a police chief is called to stay with her. Donald thinks that there is something going on between the two of them when he comes out of Ann's bedroom one morning.

If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World

Ann is knocked out by a baseball and the doctor that treats her looks exactly like Donald.

Just Spell the Name Right

Ann is pressured to hire unscrupulous press agent Eddie Edwards who promptly links her to a divorce scandal with actor Buddy Hobart in the hopes that it will boost Ann's career.

The Beard

Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.

30 min

The Drunkard

A drunk comedian named Marty is taken in by Ann to sober up, and he thinks that they had an affair.

30 min

Old Man's Darling

Ann meets an elderly man, Andrew Washington at a party when he accidentally spills his shrimp cocktail on her new white crepe dress. He tries to make it up to her by giving her gifts, but Ann cannot accept them.

30 min