8.4/1061 votes#1 - Counter Proposal
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1970
After four years of dating, Donald finally asks Ann to marry him and presents her with an engagement ring - which he was talked into buying second-hand by a co-worker against his better judgement.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.4/1041 votes
#2 - Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1970
Donald's sister Sandi has a passion for an actor, and he wants Ann to check up on him to see if he's a good man. The actor finds out what's going on and makes moves on Ann to teach her a lesson.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1046 votes
#3 - I Ain't Got Nobody
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1970
A nude picture of Ann is plastered in a ""Playpen"" magazine, which jeopardizes her chance of being on a kiddie show.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1044 votes
#4 - No Man is Manhattan Island
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1970
On a game show, Ann is asked to find out about her neighbors. No one wants to speak up, so Ann throws a party to invite everyone until her purse gets stolen.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1037 votes
#5 - Rattle of a Single Girl
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1970
Ann and Donald go to a pre-nuptial counselor to weed out their non-existent problems.
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1044 votes
#6 - There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1970
Ann learns that killing two birds with one stone is almost too much when she goes to St. Louis with Donald to meet his parents and to star in a play. She is convinced that Don's mother hates her and decides that she might be able to turn it around if she were to have a larger, starring role in the play instead of her more modest part.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.7/1043 votes
#7 - There Sure Are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1970
In St. Louis to appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, Ann once again finds that nothing is ever easy.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.7/1044 votes
#8 - That Cake
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1970
Ann lands the presitgious title of ""Miss New York has Everything"" and does a TV promotion for the city in which she bakes a fruit topped cheesecake using all New York ingredients. While baking the cake, Ann loses her ring in the cake batter, and to make matters worse, the cake has been shipped to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's house for a state dinner. After all the trouble they went to, Ann finds out that her ring wasn't even in the governor's cake!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1043 votes
#9 - That Girl's Daddy
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1970
Lou feels as though he is getting too old, and Ann introduces him to Jeanie, who makes him feel more younger. Ann thinks that he is going to leave her mother when actually he wants to please her.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.3/1042 votes
#10 - Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1970
Ann is hired by a rival magazine because they think that Donald is going to help her out now that they are engaged.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1039 votes
#11 - Super Reporter
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1970
Don is stuck in a ""super Don"" costume when his friends steal his clothes and forget to give them back to him. All before he is to accept an Humanitarian award from the deputy mayor!
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 6.4/1046 votes
#12 - That Senorita
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1970
Ann gets a lesson in minorities when a sketch that she is in is very offensive to Mexicans.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.0/1035 votes
#13 - An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1970
Uncle Herbert is turning Ann and Donald's world upside down when he makes bogus get-rich-quick schemes.
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1040 votes
#14 - That Script
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1971
Ann wants film rights to a novel, but the author will not sell. He changes his mind when he sees Ann, and how much she resembles his late wife. His new wife tells Ann that her husband can't write anymore and Ann turns down the movie out of respect for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.9/1051 votes
#15 - Those Friars
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1971
Ann's late Uncle Harry wills her an old trunk filled with bits and pieces of his career in vaudeville. Ann is doubly surprised when stars Milton Berle and Danny Thomaspay a visit to her apartment and try to buy the old trunk.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1039 votes
#16 - A Limited Engagement
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1971
Donald breaks off his engagement to Ann because of cold feet.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 6.4/1033 votes
#17 - The Russians are Staying
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1971
Ann makes friends with a Russian named Nicholai who is a con man sponging off her.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.4/1040 votes
#18 - That Shoplifter
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1971
Ann is duped by a robber into shoplifting.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1041 votes
#19 - Chef's Night Out
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1971
Ann and Donald try to run Lou's restaurant by themselves when the staff comes down with a virus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1039 votes
#20 - That King
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1971
Ann makes friends with a king, who turns out to be a kid!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1043 votes
#21 - Stag Party
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1971
Donald's friends throw him a stag party - which almost costs him his engagement to Ann.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 7.5/1041 votes
#22 - Two For the Money
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1971
Ann gets a modeling assignment at Belmont Race Track and when Don's friends realize there's a horse running named for her, they see it as a ""sign"" and send her with the money to place a bet for them. She loses the ticket at the wrong time!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1035 votes
#23 - Soot Yourself
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1971
As a member of an ecology-minded group, Ann is assigned to picket in front of the Newsview Magazine building where Donald works. Donald tries to make amends by inviting his boss to Ann's house for dinner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
- 6.6/1049 votes
#24 - The Elevated Woman
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1971
On their way to the Women's Liberation meeting, which Donald reluctantly agrees to visit, Ann and Donald become trapped in a stuck elevator. While they await to be rescued, they look back on their favorite moments together.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernie Orenstein
The Best Episodes of That Girl Season 5
Every episode of That Girl Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of That Girl Season 5!
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an...
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Counter Proposal" is the best rated episode of "That Girl" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Bernie Orenstein, it aired on 9/25/1970. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Donald, Sandi, and Harry and Snoopy".