That Girl: The Apartment

That Girl: The Apartment
ABC
October 5, 1967
Sitcom
DVD
B

As she did with Gidget, Ruth Brooks Flippen delivers a fun script, her first of thirteen for TG.  This is still a world that's a decade away from Three's Company, but for this show it does get relatively farcical and suggestive.  In fact, Bill Bixby's line to Ann, "I'm going to nail you in the bedroom," comes across as a lot more suggestive than I assume they intended.  He's playing Donald's old fraternity brother, Harry Banner (yes, with the Hulk's last name), who has a standing invitation to stay at Don's place when he's in town.  Don himself is out of town, so he invites Ann to stay over while her apartment is being fumigated for termites.  Ann does not want to stay in the same apartment with this strange man, so he makes that suggestion, although he ends up nailing himself into Don's bedroom.  As when Lew found out that Ann and Donald were snowbound in a hotel, Lew shows up in the middle of the night, without Helen this time.  The laugh track is heavy on the gasps and "uh oh's" throughout.

Leon Colker makes his first of four TG appearances, here as an Agent.  Florence Halop plays a Clerk and sounds much like she would on Night Court in the '80s, but less raspy.