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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Episode 1 - Dear Diary-Et Al
Release Date: 1965-09-15In 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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Episode 2 - In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Release Date: 1965-09-22Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
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Episode 3 - The Great Kahuna
Release Date: 1965-09-29A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
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Episode 4 - Daddy Come Home
Release Date: 1965-10-06Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
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Episode 5 - Gidget Gadget
Release Date: 1965-10-13Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
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Episode 6 - A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
Release Date: 1965-10-20Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.
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Episode 7 - Gidget is a Proper Noun
Release Date: 1965-10-27An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.
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Episode 8 - Image Scrimmage
Release Date: 1965-11-03Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
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Episode 9 - Is it Love or Symbiosis?
Release Date: 1965-11-10Gidget'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.
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Episode 10 - All the Best Diseases are Taken
Release Date: 1965-11-17Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
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Episode 11 - My Ever Faithful Friend
Release Date: 1965-11-24Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
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Episode 12 - Chivalry Isn't Dead
Release Date: 1965-12-01Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
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Episode 13 - The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
Release Date: 1965-12-08Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
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Episode 14 - Gidget's Foreign Policy
Release Date: 1965-12-15Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
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Episode 15 - Now There's a Face
Release Date: 1965-12-22Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
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Episode 16 - Too Many Cooks
Release Date: 1965-12-29Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
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Episode 17 - I Love You, I Think
Release Date: 1966-01-05Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
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Episode 18 - Like Voodoo
Release Date: 1966-01-13Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
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Episode 19 - Gidget's Career
Release Date: 1966-01-20Gidget 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!"
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Episode 20 - Ego-A-Go-Go
Release Date: 1966-01-27Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
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Episode 21 - In and Out with the In-Laws
Release Date: 1966-02-03Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
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Episode 22 - We Got Each Other
Release Date: 1966-02-10Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
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Episode 23 - Operation Shaggy Dog
Release Date: 1966-02-17Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
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Episode 24 - Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
Release Date: 1966-02-24Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
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Episode 25 - Love and the Single Gidget
Release Date: 1966-03-03Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
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Episode 26 - Take a Lesson
Release Date: 1966-03-10Gidget 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.
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Episode 27 - Independence -- Gidget Style
Release Date: 1966-03-17Russ 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.
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Episode 28 - One More for the Road
Release Date: 1966-03-24Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
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Episode 29 - Ask Helpful Hannah
Release Date: 1966-03-31Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
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Episode 30 - A Hard Night's Night
Release Date: 1966-04-07Russ'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.
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Episode 31 - I Have This Friend Who . . .
Release Date: 1966-04-14Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
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Episode 32 - Don't Defrost the Alligator
Release Date: 1966-04-21A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.