S01E01 Dear Diary-Et Al
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...
Gidget
S01E19: Gidget's Career
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!"
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
S01E04 Daddy Come Home
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
S01E09 Is it Love or Symbiosis?
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.
S01E10 All the Best Diseases are Taken
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
S01E11 My Ever Faithful Friend
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
S01E13 The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
S01E17 I Love You, I Think
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
S01E19 Gidget's Career
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!"
S01E25 Love and the Single Gidget
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
S01E26 Take a Lesson
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...
S01E27 Independence -- Gidget Style
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.
S01E29 Ask Helpful Hannah
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
S01E30 A Hard Night's Night
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...
S01E31 I Have This Friend Who . . .
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
Cast
Don Porter
Professor Russell Lawrence
Sally Field
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
Betty Conner
Anne Cooper
Lynette Winter
Larue
