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
While working as a model, Ann is hired to spy on a competing fashion house's designs.
While working as a model, Ann is hired to spy on a competing fashion house's designs.
Back in Brewster Ann is directing the local play and her father wants to have the lead which he doesn't get.
Ann gets a job promoting a fried chicken restaurant. When the owner gets fresh, Ann gets stuck in the middle of nowhere - in a chicken suit.
When Donald is helping Ann start a budget, Ann is suffering from a misunderstood post-hypnotic suggestion to buy anything "at the drop of a hat."
Ann messes up a commercial job because her cold has temporarily ruined her hearing.
Ann, Donald and her parents get trapped at JFK Airport during a blizzard and Ann has an audition on Broadway.
Donald has lots of trouble when he turns their incident at JFK during the blizzard into a television script.
Donald is writing about a boxer who really wants to be an actor.
Ann is surprised to see that Bobby Miller, an old boyfriend, is now her new landlord. As the other tenants can see that Bobby is still attracted to Ann, they feel their best offense in getting Bobby to make all the necessary repairs and upgrades the previous landlord promised is to have Ann act as the chairperson of their grievance committee. What they see is correct as Bobby does profess his continued love for Ann, which is why she feels she shouldn't be the spokesperson for the tenants so as not to lead Bobby on. But Ann relents to the tenants' request if only to show them that Bobby really means nothing to her. This role makes Ann a nervous wreck in having to deal with Bobby, who is aware of Donald in Ann's life but doesn't care. Ann has to figure out how to act like a sane person in Bobby's presence so that she can truly be coherent in expressing to him how she feels about both him and Donald.
While eating at Nino's, Donald and Ann are approached by a man who seems to know all about both of them, but neither who knows him. After the man gives his business card to Donald, asks Donald to call him and leaves the restaurant, Donald realizes what an idiot he made of himself during their discussion as the man is Bob Harrison, a publishing magnate. Ann is certain that Harrison is going to offer Donald a job in the realm of an associate editorship at one of his many magazines. Ann is almost spot on about her prediction about what Harrison does offer Donald, with one major exception: Ann did not guess that the job is located in Paris. Donald admits that he hasn't had time to even think about the offer. But while Ann waits to see Donald later that evening, she hears through the grapevine that Donald is planning on accepting the job. Can a heartbroken Ann have a faulty grapevine?
While performing in Las Vegas, the star that Ann is working with tries to break up Ann and Donald.
While performing in Las Vegas, the star that Ann is working with tries to break up Ann and Donald.
Ann tries to impress Donald's married ex-girlfriend at a dinner party.
Ann is heading to the Catskills to be in her agent's comedy act.
Ann is dreading her opening night reviews and THEN gets her finger stuck in the kitchen faucet.
Donald's meeting with a new editor turns out to be with somebody Ann knows, and leads to flashbacks of her brief career in law enforcement.
When flying up to her father's cabin in Vermont, their private plane runs out of gas and makes an emergency landing.
After making an emergency landing Ann and Donald start to walk to find shelter.
Based upon a list accidentally received from a stock broker, Ann invests in the stock market. The list was a grocery list.
To help business at his restaurant, Ann's father hires a music act that bares more than they should.
It's time for Ann, as her high school graduating class' secretary/treasurer, to make all the arrangements and send out the invitations for her five year high school reunion. Organizationally, Ann is ill-equipped to handle such matters on her own, so she co-opts her old high school steering committee and Donald to help her. Beyond the conundrum of whether to hold the reunion at her father's restaurant or a much lower priced competitor, Ann faces a major problem. As treasurer, she apparently was given $360 by her graduating class to hold onto for this event, the money which she has no memories of or its whereabouts. If she or her father don't have it, she is sure that one of her classmates who worked on financial issues with her has absconded the money. She plans on going to the reunion, stare into each of those three people's eyes and gage who is lying to her without directly asking each if he/she has the money. If she can't figure out who has the money, Ann will either have to take a more direct approach in asking the three or come up with the money - a small fortune to her - on her own.
Ann helps out a producer in court over a shish-kabob accident.
Ruthie is caught on Jerry's movie kissing another man.
After Donald hurts his back at Ann's, she goes to get his interviewee and brings him to her place - followed by her father.
Ann is staying with a child that has the mumps rather than go to the theater with Donald.