Marlo Mania (Plus Bob & Ray)

TV Land is having a Marlo Thomas Film Festival for the next month or two, not only on the air but also on its website. This weekend on the channel, they're running what they consider the best episodes of That Girl, and you can also watch them uncut on the site for the next month or so. I've found that these shows don't hold up as well as some others but your mileage may vary. Here's what should be a direct link to the first episode. They also have some of the special features that are on the new That Girl DVD.

I'm even less impressed with Free To Be…You And Me, the award-winning 1974 special that Ms. Thomas produced and starred in, and which can also be watched over at the TV Land site. I agree with its message — that women should feel free to aspire to any job a male can do short of sperm donor — but the presentation of that self-evident truth struck me as pandering and overkill. Perhaps it needed to be said in such an obvious, overwrought manner but you'd like to think otherwise.

While you're over at the TV Land site, check out some of the clips from other shows they have up. But especially check out the one you can reach by clicking this link. It should take you to three and a half minutes of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on The Flip Wilson Show. Nobody funnier. (Bob and Ray, I mean. There were plenty of people funnier than Flip Wilson.)