That Girl
There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man
TV Flash files “There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man” as hour 80 of 136 in the TV Flash guide — That Girl (1966–1971) on ABC, season 3, episode 20, aired 1969-02-13, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E20: listed hour 80 of 136 in the That Girl guide, hour 20 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1969-02-13 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “My Sister's Keeper” (S03E19). Next is “The Subject Was Rabies” (S03E21).
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Where does There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man sit in the That Girl guide?
S03E20 is listed hour 80 of 136 — hour 20 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 20.
When did That Girl S03E20 air?
There Was a Time Ann Met a Pie Man aired 1969-02-13 and is listed at 30 minutes.
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Ann Marie's New York acting-career premise is the contract: Thomas's charm, the apartment as manifesto, Donald as the boyfriend orbit. Early episodes sell the independence; later ones ride the five-season run.
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Why this series still plays
Ann Marie moves to New York to make it as an actress and makes independence look like a weekly fashion editorial. Marlo Thomas's single-woman sitcom treated career dreams as plot, not punchline setup alone. The stylish bridge between housewife sitcoms and Mary Tyler Moore — sparkle with genuine stakes.
Ann Marie moves to New York and the sitcom window stops being a housewife lease. Marlo Thomas headlined ABC's *That Girl* (1966–1971; **five seasons, 136 episodes**), a single-woman sitcom that treated career dreams as plot, not punchline setup alone. Bill Persky and Sam Denoff made the city a character and Ann's apartment a manifesto. Ted Bessell's Donald as the almost-fiancé. Lew Parker's dad orbiting a woman who declined to go home to daddy's script. Independence looking like a weekly fashion editorial is not…
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- Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie
Marlo Thomas made independence a hemline as Ann Marie on That Girl — New York actress hustle, career dreams as plot not punchline setup, the stylish bridge between housewife sitcoms and Mary Tyler Moore. Weekly fashion editorial with a…
- Ted Bessell as Donald Hollinger
Ted Bessell dated That Girl as Donald Hollinger — Ann Marie moves to New York to make it as an actress, independence as a weekly fashion editorial, career dreams as plot. The stylish bridge between housewife sitcoms and what came next. TV…
- Lew Parker as Lew Marie
Lew Parker played the anxious dad circuit as Lew Marie on That Girl — Marlo Thomas’s New York independence project with a father who treated her acting dream like a weekly weather alert. Career as plot, not punchline setup. TV Flash files…