Lou escorts Ethel Merman just to be nice, and the publicity thinks that they are an item much to Helen's dismay.

Ann is overwhelmed to find herself on stage with Ethel Merman, who chooses Ann for a walk-on part in a revival of ""Gypsy.""

Ann's friend Sandy, an actress who has just won a lead role in a Broadway play, visits Ann. Suddenly, Sandy gets sick, leaving Ann to play her role. Everyone thinks that Ann stole teh job from her, but Ann pays them no never mind as she enjoys her chance. Unfortunately the play closes after one performance.

Ann ends up in jail trying to help a fellow waitress when she serves two rival underworld groups and the place gets raided by the police.

One rule in life: never ever ask your girlfriend to work with you. Don learns that the hard way when he hires Ann to be his secretary.

Ann and Donald find a strange organ player who used to play the soundtrack in silent movies. Donald does a story about him, but he disappears because he is a wanted criminal.

Marge tells Ann that she has met the man of her dreams, but he backs out when she proposed marraige.

Donald is stunned when Ann receives a marriage proposal from British fashion photographer Noel Prince. Noel expects his answer in the morning, despite Ann's protestations that she loves Donald.

The Hollingers are upset that their son isn't coming home for Thanksgiving, and the Maries are upset that a family tradition is being broken. Trying to cook everyone's favorite dishes, Ann takes over the kitchen of a neighbor who is away. The dinner turns out to be a disaster!

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.

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!

Ann's five years of being an independent woman actress begins when she meets Donald Hollinger, a magazine reporter, in one of her in-between jobs as a candy clerk. She gets a job in a perfume commercial where she plays a woman who gets kidnapped by two robbers. Donald happens to see the act and thinks that Ann is in real trouble, so he saves her only to get serious flack from her. But with that incident aside, Ann and Donald find out that they really belong together.

Ann is charmed by a wealthy man who gives her many luxuries and Don tries to compete. Ann realizes that money is not the most important thing in a relationship.

After Ann invites her parents to see her Broadway debut, she learns that her lines have been cut considerably. Ann asks her father to change his reservations to the following night so he can see her uncut role. She's unaware that her part was cut to accommodate a surprise theater party planned by her father.

Ann Marie leaves the safety and comfort of her parent's home to live on her own in New York. But she has a visit from her mother who is threatening to move in with her!

Ann has to go to court because of an accident involving a pedestrian and a sewing machine.

Mrs. Hollister stays at Ann's apartment and finds a pair of her son's pants hanging in Ann's closet.

Donald's friends throw him a stag party - which almost costs him his engagement to Ann.

At an antique auction, Ann buys a box of junk with a baseball in it. A strange man follows her because he wants the baseball. It turns out that he is an ex-baseball player who wants the ball for sentimental reasons.

Ann is hired by a rival magazine because they think that Donald is going to help her out now that they are engaged.

In St. Louis to appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, Ann once again finds that nothing is ever easy.

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.

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.

Unaware that her cover has been blown, Ann is tricked into photographing reject designs.

Ann gets a job in another soda commercial, but she has to have her singing voice dubbed by someone else. Her voice double, Rose Cassinetti, helps Ann out and Ann tries to do something good for her. She doesn't know that Rose is a nun.

Noel falls for Ann badly. Don sees a newspaper photo of Ann and Noel being arrested for frolicking in a fountain, he's on the next plane to Los Angeles.

Ann meets a fashion photographer named Noel Prince, whom Donald dislikes. Noel wants to take her to California to do a shoot.

Ann and Donald try to run Lou's restaurant by themselves when the staff comes down with a virus.

Ann meets an elderly man, Andrew Washington at a party when he accidentally spills his shrimp cocktail on her new white crepe dress. He tries to make it up to her by giving her gifts, but Ann cannot accept them.

When Ann sprains her ankle at work, Donald comes to the rescue cooking gourmet meals and cleaning her apartment with a vengeance.

Ann makes friends with a Russian named Nicholai who is a con man sponging off her.

Ann gets a lesson in minorities when a sketch that she is in is very offensive to Mexicans.

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!

Ann is mugged and tries her best not to let her father find out about it. Donald gets into the act by dressing up as a woman to catch muggers to do a story for his magazine.

Ann is excited at the prospect of voting in her first presidential election. She's gone to the library to read everything she can about the issues and the political process. But on Halloween night, when Ann's father asks her what party she registered with, Ann feels it's her right to preserve her secret ballot.

Ann becomes convinced that she has no sex appeal when she lands a part as the Creamy Soap Girl because the producer sees her as a fresh scrubbed face that no housewife could resent for her looks.

Ann brings Donald home to meet her parents, but he goes through some serious torture when they stop for a little picnic on the way.

Ann purchases tickets for the Baumans from a scalper. Giving the scalper a check with her address on it and saying the tickets are for her neighbors, she fears they may be robbed (on Christmas Eve). In order to prevent a robbery, Ann and Donald remove all the valuables from the Baumans' apartment, only to be caught by the police.

Donald does a story on computer dating. Ann is jealous when Donald's Compudate match turns out to be attractive model, Lisa Stevens. So Ann fills out a Compudate card herself and comes up with a good-looking date also, who turns out to be a lot more like Donald than she'd care to admit!

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.

Ann gets obscene phone calls and a police chief is called to stay with her. Donald thinks that there is something going on between the two of them when he comes out of Ann's bedroom one morning.

Whiel in Los Angeles, Ann gets a job in action commercials for soda-pop, and Donald hates them because it is the very thing that he is going against.

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.

Donald hurts his back trying to demonstrate skiing in Ann's apartment, and worries about missing an interview. Ann brings the interviewee over to her apartment, and Lou comes over as well!

Lou gets bitten by a dog that follows Ann home and he thinks that he has caught rabies.

Ann thinks she will lose her sweet Donald to a famous actress when all the time, he is interviewing her for his article.

Donald, the proud owner of an unpublished novel, needs cheering when he gets his twelfth rejection slip. Ann's father makes connections with a publisher for Don's book, but he reads it himself and refuses to send it in.

Ann is a salesperson for shoes that somehow fall apart over time.

Ann is knocked out by a baseball and the doctor that treats her looks exactly like Donald.

Ann goes with Donald to Los Angeles to do a story on media violence and causes confusion for her father and everyone else who thinks that they are getting it on.

When an aggresive bully collides with Ann in an office lobby, only nearby window washer, Rudy Clarn comes to her aid. But while warning him off, the bully slugs Rudy and breaks his nose. Feeling terribly guilty, Ann helps him to the doctor and then home. Rudy's wife, Ethel - a terribly jealous woman, believes there is more to the relationship between Ann and Rudy and threatens to leave him.

Donald tries to help Ann out of an IRS mess but gets into a mess himself involving flour.

Ann calls Donald late one night because of a mouse in her apartment. Donald goes over to stay in her apartment to protect her. Of course, Lou comes by and finds Donald in Ann's apartment and decides that Ann and Donald should be married right away!

Ann hires a maid for Donald, but who she hired makes her jealous.

Donald has to do a story on the show ""The Mating Game"", and he has Ann be a contestant. Ann doesn't know that Donald is one of the bachelors and she picks another man. While she had her date with this man, Donald tags along to get a story.

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!

Ann gets a job as a dancing chicken for a fried chicken chain. The boss keeps trying to ""pluck"" her in his car, but Ann gets out of her car and gets stranded.

Ann goes to a dentist who uses hypnosis to calm people who are afraid down. When the dentist speaks to his wife on the phone while Ann is under hypnosis, the dentist tells his wife that she would buy anything at the drop of a hat and that EXACTLY what Ann does.

Ann gets a visit from her cheap cousin and his bride. When he refuses to leave, Ann gets a room in a bridal suite to formualte a plan to get him out.

Ann helps Donald get a story about a famous opera singer, if only he can control his romantic urges.

Ann gets a job in telephone marketing at the same time her apartment is being painted, so Ann must borrow Donald's apartment whiel he is away to work in. Dan's friend Harry comes by unknowingly and decides to stay in the apartment as well.

After a meeting with a famous doctor, Donald uses what he has learned to find out all out Ann's personality.

Ann dislikes Donald's new beard and takes measures to get him to shave it off.

Ann gets stuck in a shower and a new neighbor helps her to get out.

Don does a story on an old multimillionairess named Margaret ""Trixie"" Weatherby, and Ann thinks that she is trying to steal Don away from her.

Ann receives a godawful art piece from Donald and gets a lot of different opinions about it.

Ann is assigned to direct the Brewster annual play, but has to tell her father that he will not have the starring role.

A hearing loss from a cold that Ann receives ruins a commercial spot for her.

Ann has a dinner party, and one of Donald's now-married ex-girlfriends will attend. Ann tries to impress Heather, but the plans are ruined when her juvenile weekend guest plugs in a heater to warm up her lemon tree.

Ann's father is losing business at his restaurant, so she hires a musical group to help bring business. The group she hires seem harmless enough, but when they perform, they do a Full Monty act!

As class secretary-treasurer, Ann loses track of $360 she is to use for a high school reunion. Her father lends her the money, even though the party is to be at a rival restaurant. At the party, Ann watches three classmates she suspects of having taken the money.

Ann has to go to court to help a producer win a lawsuit involving a shish-kabob skewer.

Ann makes friends with a king, who turns out to be a kid!

Ann is pressured to hire unscrupulous press agent Eddie Edwards who promptly links her to a divorce scandal with actor Buddy Hobart in the hopes that it will boost Ann's career.

Ann takes her jury duty to heart and will not go along with the rest of the panel when they all want to vote ""guilty"" against a man accused of hitting his wife with an ashtray. After reasoning that he couldn't have hit her with his right hand, she convinces the others and they vote for acquittal.

Against the objections of the director, Ann is awarded a part in a Broadway play by the star, Barry Sullivan. Ann is excited to get this opportunity, but when the script calls for Ann to slap Barry, she can't bring herself to do it.

Ann is torn when everyone wants her to do different things with her expensive pay check.

Don wants to take Ann out to the theater for her birthday, but she has to stay and babysit for a neighbor's child who has the mumps.

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.

Ann and Donald are invited by their friends, Jerry Bauman and Margie, to a private wedding in Connecticut, but they get snowed in. There are only two rooms available in the inn that they are staying and the boys share one room and the girls share another. The problem begins with Jerry and Margie decide to stay together leaving Ann and Donald in a room together, much to the chagrin of Ann's parents.

Don has a chance to go to Paris, but mulls about it when he thinks about how Ann will feel having to live without him.

Ann tries to help out her neighbors in saving their hotel from the ownership of her ex-boyfriend.