An aspiring actress moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York, to try to make it big in New York City, having to take several offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Marlo Thomas , Ted Bessell , Lew Parker , Bernie Kopell , Rosemary DeCamp , Bonnie Scott , Carolan Daniels , Alice Borden , Dabney Coleman , Bobo Lewis , Bob Ross , Sam Denoff , Mabel Albertson , Ruth Buzzi , Ed Peck , Jesse White , Renata Vanni , Gino Conforti
Ann can not bring herself to slap actor Barry Sullivan as the script in the Braodway play tells her to do.
Ann while practicing for a commercial as an airline stewardess thinks she has spotted an airline hijacker.
Ann is the one holdout on a jury case about a man who hits his wife with an ashtray.
When Ann goes to LA with Donald, her father is sure that hanky panky is going on between them.
Donald disapproves of Ann promoting a soft drink in a TV commercial.
This is Ann's first Presidential election and she is studying the issues like crazy. She balks at telling her father which political party she is registered for.
Only Ann Marie can get stuck in her shower.
When Ann is mugged in Central Park Ann doesn't want her father to know. Donald does an article on the mugger patrol and gets caught by Ann's father dressed as a woman.
After a fight between Jerry and Ruth, Ann and Donald get stuck in the middle.
Donald does a story on a wealthy woman who has been married six times and Ann thinks that she is trying to steal Donald away from her.
Donald's secretary is trying to steal Donald from Ann. Ann returns everything he ever gave to her, but changes her mind and has minutes to correct the situation before Donald returns.
Ann gets too much advice on what to do with the windfall in her latest paycheck.
A private New Year's Eve celebration between Ann and Donald escalates when her parents show up for "one drink"and then more and more show up and a party starts.
After a window washer saves Ann from a bully and gets his nose broken, Ann helps him home and his wife is sure that something is going on between them.
Ann receives a delivery from an art store of an abstract sculpture. She believes the delivery is in error since there is no card and she didn't buy it. Regardless, she hates it, she likening it to a lump of brass mashed potatoes. She tells Donald her feelings about the sculpture, he who in turn tells her it is a gift from him. He felt like it figuratively "screamed Ann". Outwardly, Ann changes her tune about the sculpture because it was given to her not only with love but with her specifically in mind. However, as Ann starts defending the sculpture to others, it causes a riff between Jerry and Ruthie, between Ann and her father, and between Ann and her landlords, the Brentanos. Will the sculpture come to any good at all?
Since Don has to work on the weekend, Ann decides to spend the weekend home with her parents. Her parents are on their way to New York for a convention. Ann stays while the parents are away, goes through her old things and feels nostalgic.
Ann loses one of the expensive diamond earrings that Donald gave her. Donald had insisted that she wear them. They both go buy a replacement and hide them in her apartment.
Ann owes a lot back tax money to the IRS and she does not have it. Don tries to help her find tax deductions, but Ann did not keep any receipts.
Ann Marie does a soft drink commercial and will have her singing voice dubbed by a Sister - that looks like her sister.
Ann gets on a show where she gets hit in the face with a pie. After she feels embarrassed to death, the bit becomes a hit and they want her to do it again.
Early one day, Ann is followed home by a friendly and cute little brown and white bushy tailed dog who she's never seen. The dog ends up giving Ann's father a nip on his ankles, causing a superficial wound before the dog runs off. As an off the cuff funny comment, Donald mentions the word "rabid" which sends both Lew and Ann into a fit of hypochondriac related hysteria. Lew is certain his developing symptoms are rabies related, while Ann can only think of her father's welfare even at the expense of her career as she stays with him, missing an important audition in the process. Despite the fact that Lew having rabies is in anecdotal terms a million to one, the possibly rabid dog story gains a life of its own. Because of it, Ann's apartment becomes Grand Central Station with among others the media hungry doctor, the animal control inspector, Ann's agent, a Newsview photographer, a messenger delivering the rabies vaccine, and a gaggle of young boys with small brown and white dogs who want Donald's offered reward money for finding *the* dog parading through her apartment all at the same time.
Ann befriends a young black boy who claims to live on Park Avenue. His second story is about rats and squalor and is so awful that Ann wants to adopt him. When his father shows up he is famous and they do live on Park Avenue.
Ann has a job with Air Force public relations when she is supposed to help Donald in his apartment.
Ann's father catches Donald in Ann's apartment at night after a mouse scared her and he wants to get a preacher immediately.
Ann's father is a shark when it comes to playing Monopoly.
Lou and Donald both have problems when he slips and falls at Donald's office.