Georgette Franklin Baxter

Georgette Franklin is Ted Baxter's girlfriend, a soft-voiced, guileless young woman who drifts into the WJM newsroom and seems to genuinely adore the vain, blustering anchorman everyone else tolerates at best. She is polite to a fault, easily flustered, and startlingly honest, saying exactly what she thinks without any sense that she shouldn't.

Georgia Engel's breathy, childlike line readings turn what could be a one-joke naif into something oddly moving: Georgette's simplicity keeps exposing the vanity and posturing of everyone around her, especially Ted. The show trusts her sweetness as a real virtue rather than a punchline, and Engel plays her utterly without irony, which is exactly why she lands.