Gidget

Gidget

1965
Gidget
Gidget

Gidget

6.8 | TV-G | en | Comedy

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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Seasons & Episodes

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EP32  Don't Defrost the Alligator
Apr. 21,1966
Don't Defrost the Alligator

A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.

EP31  I Have This Friend Who . . .
Apr. 14,1966
I Have This Friend Who . . .

Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.

EP30  A Hard Night's Night
Apr. 07,1966
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 scared about all the things going bump in the night.

EP29  Ask Helpful Hannah
Mar. 31,1966
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.

EP28  One More for the Road
Mar. 24,1966
One More for the Road

Gidget learns to drive for a new job.

EP27  Independence -- Gidget Style
Mar. 17,1966
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.

EP26  Take a Lesson
Mar. 10,1966
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 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.

EP25  Love and the Single Gidget
Mar. 03,1966
Love and the Single Gidget

Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.

EP24  Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
Feb. 24,1966
Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat

Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.

EP23  Operation Shaggy Dog
Feb. 17,1966
Operation Shaggy Dog

Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.

EP22  We Got Each Other
Feb. 10,1966
We Got Each Other

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

EP21  In and Out with the In-Laws
Feb. 03,1966
In and Out with the In-Laws

Gidget meets Jeff's parents.

EP20  Ego-A-Go-Go
Jan. 27,1966
Ego-A-Go-Go

Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.

EP19  Gidget's Career
Jan. 20,1966
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!"

EP18  Like Voodoo
Jan. 13,1966
Like Voodoo

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.

EP17  I Love You, I Think
Jan. 05,1966
I Love You, I Think

Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.

EP16  Too Many Cooks
Dec. 29,1965
Too Many Cooks

Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.

EP15  Now There's a Face
Dec. 22,1965
Now There's a Face

Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.

EP14  Gidget's Foreign Policy
Dec. 15,1965
Gidget's Foreign Policy

Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""

EP13  The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
Dec. 08,1965
The War Between Men, Women and Gidget

Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.

EP12  Chivalry Isn't Dead
Dec. 01,1965
Chivalry Isn't Dead

Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.

EP11  My Ever Faithful Friend
Nov. 24,1965
My Ever Faithful Friend

Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.

EP10  All the Best Diseases are Taken
Nov. 17,1965
All the Best Diseases are Taken

Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.

EP9  Is it Love or Symbiosis?
Nov. 10,1965
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.

EP8  Image Scrimmage
Nov. 03,1965
Image Scrimmage

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

EP7  Gidget is a Proper Noun
Oct. 27,1965
Gidget is a Proper Noun

An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.

EP6  A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
Oct. 20,1965
A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse

Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.

EP5  Gidget Gadget
Oct. 13,1965
Gidget Gadget

Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.

EP4  Daddy Come Home
Oct. 06,1965
Daddy Come Home

Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.

EP3  The Great Kahuna
Sep. 29,1965
The Great Kahuna

A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.

EP2  In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Sep. 22,1965
In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust

Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.

EP1  Dear Diary-Et Al
Sep. 15,1965
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 true.

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Released: 1965-09-15 | Released Producted By: Screen Gems Television , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

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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Cast

Don Porter , Sally Field , Lynette Winter

Director

Harry Ackerman

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Reviews

atlasmb Only a few years after "The Patty Duke Show", the comedy "Gidget", based upon the film, mines the same veins of comedy.Gidget, played by Sally Field in her first credited role, is the personification of cute. Wholesome, not hot. Cute also describes the show's humor. Any problems are fairly benign in the safe and fuzzy world where she lives with her father.Gidget provides voice-overs that describe her inner feelings and provide commentary about her life. What's worse is the laugh track. It only serves to magnify how corny the humor is.The best thing about this show is Sally Field herself. Her portrayal of the fifteen year old is expectedly cute and corny, but it also displays real acting talent. She built her early career on being cute, but there is evidence of the thoughtful woman who would later become "Norma Rae".The second best thing about "Gidget" is the theme song.
cambridgejohnny Haven't seen anything in previous reviews re: motivation, at least originally, behind the filming of this show. Gidget was an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Patty Duke Show, which had been doing very well on ABC since 1963. A couple of very sad notes re: the demise of both programs. When Patty and other actors showed up at the film company to start shooting for the fourth season of the Duke show, they had no idea that the network had been trying to get the production company to pay for having the program shot in color. When the producers said, "no way" (this would have been very rare by the way; the networks always paid for this process, and just shortened the TV season to pay for the increased costs) the show was canceled--on the spot! Gidget hadn't been doing all that well during the regular season, being up against shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, and other established programs. But during the summer time, the show really began to catch on with teenagers all over the USA. By then, however, it was felt that it was too late to continue on with Gidget, so they decided to put Sally Field in another show, and that's where the idea for The Flying Nun came about. Even though that program did pretty well, I can speak from personal experience when I say that they should have let well enough alone. People loved Gidget!
bkoganbing America's favorite beach girl Gidget after being played by Sandra Dee on screen came to the small screen and it gave Sally Field her first big break. But it was a double edged sword. Who but Field suspected she actually had acting chops. But this show and The Flying Nun left her type cast for years before she showed what she could do in Norma Rae and Places In The Heart.Not much difference in the big screen and small screen Gidgets. Francine 'Gidget' Lawrence is a happy go lucky teen with surfing and boys on her mind. Her family unit was her widowed father Don Porter and married sister Betty Conner, her rather dense but lovable husband Peter Deuel and what we would now call her BFF Larue, Lynette Winter.Every week Gidget would get into her usual teen troubles and get out of them after consultation with dear old Dad.One thing I liked about this show was Don Porter. If you think Hugh Beaumont or Lorne Greene was the wisest TV dad than you never saw Gidget. Always professorial for that's what he did and totally unflappable in any situation Don Porter to me was the ideal TV dad. This man never, ever lost his cool in any situation. Granted these were G rated teen situations still the man was amazing. If you were to predict Sally Field's career would boast two Oscars within the next quarter century when Gidget was on you would have been sent forthwith to the rubber room. One never knows what lies ahead.
RaeganBeaumont_99 This is one of the cutest shows of that time period. I would watch it every day after school. Sally Fields was wonderfully funny, adorably cute and just wonderful to watch. It was innocent and sweet and just plain, nothing fancy about it. It was boys, and friends and lots of worries for her father who was funny about it. It was growing up, it was enjoying being a teenager it was fun and it was exploring. Shows are made that way anymore. Times and things have changed its a pity, it was an endearing show with a sweet cast. To bad its not around for others to see and some teens to watch. It was before sex was in every teen show, it was before kids were sleeping with one another. Innocent thats what it is, where is innocence at now. I would recommend it to anyone who likes simple, and sweet.