That Girl: Secret Ballot

That Girl: Secret Ballot
ABC
October 31, 1968
Sitcom
DVD
B

Richard Baer wrote this script about Ann being excited about voting in her first presidential election.  (Which would make her between 21 and 24, likely on the higher end of that since she finished college by '66, and taught school in '63.  Donald's first presidential election was presumably in '64.)  As the title suggests, Ann doesn't want to say who she's voting for, although her father insists on knowing.  (I can't see her voting for Nixon, but I could be wrong.)  Like other episodes focusing on the older and younger couples, it's good to see the group dynamic here, with Ann and Lew the emotional ones and Donald and Helen the sensible ones.  Most of the episode is set on Halloween, appropriately given the air date.  (Halloween was actually on a Thursday that year, but maybe they were visiting for a long weekend.)

This time Florence Halop is the librarian, and her assistant is 25-year-old Penny Marshall.  Richard Steele plays the Trick-or-Treater who has lines, his first TG role.