Sally Rogers

Sally Rogers is one of the sharpest gag writers on The Alan Brady Show, trading one-liners with Buddy Sorrell in the writers' room and matching Rob Petrie joke for joke. Quick-tongued and unmarried, she deflects questions about her love life with a punchline, more interested in landing the next laugh than settling down.

Rose Marie plays Sally with a brassy, unbothered confidence that was rare for a sitcom woman in 1961 — she's not the butt of the joke, she's the one telling it. The writing lets her be funnier than the men around her without ever making that the point; it's just how good she is at her job.