Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 to April 21, 1966. Gidget was among the first regularly scheduled color programs on ABC, but did poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was cancelled at the end of its first season.
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Episode 1
In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative confessions are true.
Episode 2
Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
Episode 3
A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
Episode 4
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
Episode 5
Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
Episode 6
Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.
Episode 7
An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.
Episode 8
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
Episode 9
Gidget's meddling sister and brother-in-law convince her father he's too dependent on her. So he decides to send Gidget away to a private girl's school in Paris.
Episode 10
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
Episode 11
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
Episode 12
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
Episode 13
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
Episode 14
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
Episode 15
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
Episode 16
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
Episode 17
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
Episode 18
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
Episode 19
Gidget joins a folksy singing group. They audition for a teenage music TV show and get the gig! Gidget decides to change the group's image—they become "Gidget and the Gories!"
Episode 20
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
Episode 21
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
Episode 22
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
Episode 23
Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
Episode 24
Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
Episode 25
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
Episode 26
Gidget gets a late evening phone call from a friend to hurry over to her house. She runs out of the house in her pajamas and a raincoat, not knowing that her friend wants her to go out of town with her to get a car. Along the way Gidget keeps trying to call home to tell Russ where she is but, it just ends up causing friction with the girls dad. Eventually they end up just going back home without a car.
Episode 27
Russ gets the idea that Gidget is working at a nightclub. When actually she's taken a job elsewhere to make enough money to buy him a birthday present.
Episode 28
Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
Episode 29
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
Episode 30
Russ's friend moves into the Lawrence home, while he is away, to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately Gidget comes home early from Larue's. With neither one knowing about the other they start to get scared about all the things going bump in the night.
Episode 31
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
Episode 32
A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.
