Gidget (1965)
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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1x01 Dear Diary-Et Al
16 September, 1965 4:00 am
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.
1x02 In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
23 September, 1965 4:00 am
Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
1x04 Daddy Come Home
07 October, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
1x06 A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
21 October, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget makes a deal with a surfer to buy his hearse so she can become more independent. However, after making a few payments the surfer sales it to a bunch of boys. Making her point about owning a small part of the hearse the boys decide to let her drive it, a very small part of the time. In the mean time she takes shop class at school to help with the upkeep of the hearse.
1x07 Gidget is a Proper Noun
28 October, 1965 3:00 am
One of Russ' old friends is now Gidget's English teacher.
1x09 Is It Love or Symbiosis?
11 November, 1965 4:00 am
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.
1x10 All the Best Diseases are Taken
18 November, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
1x11 My Ever Faithful Friend
25 November, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
1x12 Chivalry isn't Dead
02 December, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
1x13 The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
09 December, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
1x14 Gidget's Foreign Policy
16 December, 1965 4:00 am
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
1x17 I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think
06 January, 1966 4:00 am
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
1x19 Gidget's Career
21 January, 1966 4:00 am
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!"
1x24 Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
25 February, 1966 4:00 am
Fab British singing duo The Dingbats come to town. Gidget wants to find out if she really digs the Dingbats or if it's just because grown-ups don't. She hatches an elaborate scheme to meet the Dingbats—but then causes so much trouble for ""the boys"" that the only way to fix it is for her and Larue to disguise themselves as The Dingbats!
1x25 Love and the Single Gidget
04 March, 1966 4:00 am
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
1x26 Take a Lesson
11 March, 1966 4:00 am
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.
1x27 Independence: Gidget Style
18 March, 1966 4:00 am
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.
1x29 Ask Helpful Hannah
01 April, 1966 5:00 am
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
1x30 A Hard Night's Night
08 April, 1966 5:00 am
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.
1x31 I Have This Friend Who...
15 April, 1966 5:00 am
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
1x32 Don't Defrost the Alligator
22 April, 1966 5:00 am
A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.
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