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60mn animated version of "That Girl" from the two-season "ABC Saturday Superstar Movie" (which also included cartoon versions of "Nanny and the Professor", "Lost in Space", "The Banana Splits" and others), has Ann Marie (voiced by Marlo Thomas) applying for a job as a secretary at a children's book publishing firm, being mistaken for an applicant for the assistant editor's position. She has one week to come up with an idea for a new book for kids but can't seem to get much done because boyfriend Donald Hollinger keeps phoning her for no reason (Donald is voiced by Ted Schwartz, who sounds like an overripe teenager). Ann hits upon the idea to do a mash-up of all the famous fairy tales, imagining herself as each story's heroine: Dorothy in Oz, Gretel, Goldilocks, Alice in Wonderland, and Cinderella (easily the best of the fantasies). Produced for ABC by Filmation, Rankin/Bass, and Thomas's own Daisy Productions, this now-forgotten footnote in TV cartoon history should've been much wittier. Some of Ann's asides are cute, but her co-workers are a nasty bunch and the addition of a grouchy pet dog named Freckle is a nuisance. Save for the "Cinderella" bit--and a funny moment when Ann gets an estimate from a decorator to redo her one-room apartment ($11K!)--"That Girl in Wonderland" is far too routine. Even the new theme song composed by Jules Bass and Maury Laws sounds recycled (it had me humming "Georgy Girl").