<description>&lt;p&gt;"A Muggy Day in Central Park" (November 14, 1968)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A contemporary of Bewitched, That Girl aimed for a more sophisticated audience than most sitcoms of its era. Not only does it look more cinematic, in a way that sitcoms generally wouldn't until the 2000s, but it's also more clearly a feminist show, where Marlo Thomas plays a woman braving big city life on her own. This episode does that tired thing where gay men, cross-dressers, trans woman and drag queens are conflated down to a single thing, but it’s nonetheless interesting to see how a progressive show handles queer things &lt;em&gt;fairly&lt;/em&gt; explicitly in the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Listen to the Monday Afternoon Movie episode about the Ted Bessell thriller &lt;a href= "https://www.mondayafternoonmovie.com/episodes/night-terror-night-drive-1974-mts3j"&gt; Scream, Pretty Peggy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Gayest Episode Ever

Drew Mackie & Glen Lakin / TableCakes Productions

That Girl Meets the Cross-Dressing Cops

NOV 13, 202479 MIN
Gayest Episode Ever

That Girl Meets the Cross-Dressing Cops

NOV 13, 202479 MIN

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"A Muggy Day in Central Park" (November 14, 1968)

A contemporary of Bewitched, That Girl aimed for a more sophisticated audience than most sitcoms of its era. Not only does it look more cinematic, in a way that sitcoms generally wouldn't until the 2000s, but it's also more clearly a feminist show, where Marlo Thomas plays a woman braving big city life on her own. This episode does that tired thing where gay men, cross-dressers, trans woman and drag queens are conflated down to a single thing, but it’s nonetheless interesting to see how a progressive show handles queer things fairly explicitly in the 1960s.

Listen to the Monday Afternoon Movie episode about the Ted Bessell thriller Scream, Pretty Peggy.