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Gidget is an American sitcom by Screen Gems 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.
Original Release
09/15/1965 on ABC
US Release
09/15/1965
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Sally Field | Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence / Gidget |
| Don Porter | Professor Russell Lawrence |
| Lynette Winter | Larue |
| Pete Duel | John Cooper |
| Betty Conner | Anne Cooper / Anne |
| Michael Nader | Siddo / Peter Stone |
| Robert Beach | Toby / Pete |
| Rickie Sorensen | Randy / Boy Surfer |
| Barbara Hershey | Ellen / Karen |
| Beverly Washburn | Shirley / Marcia |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dear Diary - Et Al. | Tuesday, 20 May 2014 |
| 2 | In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust | Wednesday, 22 September 1965 |
| 3 | The Great Kahuna | Wednesday, 29 September 1965 |
| 4 | Daddy Come Home | Wednesday, 06 October 1965 |
| 5 | Gidget Gadget | Wednesday, 13 October 1965 |
| 6 | A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse | Wednesday, 20 October 1965 |
| 7 | Gidget Is a Proper Noun | Wednesday, 27 October 1965 |
| 8 | Image Scrimmage | Wednesday, 03 November 1965 |
| 9 | Is It Love or Symbiosis? | Wednesday, 10 November 1965 |
| 10 | All the Best Diseases Are Taken | Wednesday, 17 November 1965 |
| 11 | My Ever Faithful Friend | Wednesday, 24 November 1965 |
| 12 | Chivalry Isn't Dead | Wednesday, 01 December 1965 |
| 13 | The War Between Men, Women and Gidget | Wednesday, 08 December 1965 |
| 14 | Gidget's Foreign Policy | Wednesday, 15 December 1965 |
| 15 | Now There's a Face | Wednesday, 22 December 1965 |
| 16 | Too Many Cooks | Wednesday, 29 December 1965 |
| 17 | I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think | Wednesday, 05 January 1966 |
| 18 | Like Voodoo | Thursday, 13 January 1966 |
| 19 | Gidget's Career | Thursday, 20 January 1966 |
| 20 | Ego-a-Go-Go | Thursday, 27 January 1966 |
| 21 | In and Out with the In-Laws | Thursday, 03 February 1966 |
| 22 | We Got Each Other | Thursday, 10 February 1966 |
| 23 | Operation Shaggy Dog | Thursday, 17 February 1966 |
| 24 | Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat | Thursday, 24 February 1966 |
| 25 | Love and the Single Gidget | Thursday, 03 March 1966 |
| 26 | Take a Lesson | Thursday, 10 March 1966 |
| 27 | Independence: Gidget Style | Thursday, 17 March 1966 |
| 28 | One More for the Road | Thursday, 24 March 1966 |
| 29 | Ask Helpful Hannah | Thursday, 31 March 1966 |
| 30 | A Hard Night's Night | Thursday, 07 April 1966 |
| 31 | I Have This Friend Who... | Thursday, 14 April 1966 |
| 32 | Don't Defrost the Alligator | Thursday, 21 April 1966 |
Directors
E.W. Swackhamer, William Asher, Jerrold Bernstein, Bruce Bilson, Hal Cooper, Oscar Rudolph, Christopher Cary, Gene Reynolds, Lee Philips, Don Porter
Writers
Ruth Brooks Flippen, John McGreevey, Barbara Avedon, Patrick Rodriguez, Albert Mannheimer, Irma Kalish, Austin Kalish, Frederick Kohner, Dorothy Cooper, Joanna Lee, Louella MacFarlane, Martin Ragaway, Leo Townsend, Gary Flaum, A.J. Mady, Janet Carlson, Pauline Townsend, Don Richman, Lee Karson, Anthony Wilson
Creators
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Sally Field | Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence / Gidget |
| Don Porter | Professor Russell Lawrence |
| Lynette Winter | Larue |
| Pete Duel | John Cooper |
| Betty Conner | Anne Cooper / Anne |
| Michael Nader | Siddo / Peter Stone |
| Robert Beach | Toby / Pete |
| Rickie Sorensen | Randy / Boy Surfer |
| Barbara Hershey | Ellen / Karen |
| Beverly Washburn | Shirley / Marcia |
| Janis Hansen | Girl / Della Mae |
| Stephen Mines | Jeff / Jeff (Moondoggie) |
| Bonnie Franklin | Jean / Janie |
| James M. Crawford | Roger Haimes / Ben |
| Robert Random | Mark |
| Pamela McMyler | Janet / Betty |
| Rick Cooper | Ted |
| Tim Rooney | Tommy / Ken |
| Johnny Fain | Luau Party Guest / Classmate |
| James Davidson | Jack Collins |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Harry Ackerman | Executive Producer |
| William Sackheim | Producer |
| Stan Schwimmer | Producer |
| Bob Claver | Producer |
