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Gidget

Gidget is a one-season color sitcom from the mid-sixties starring Sally Field and Don Porter. Field plays Frances "Gidget" Lawrence, a 15 year old surfer girl while Porter plays Russell Lawrence, her UCLA English professor father. The show follows Gidget's adventures in high school, at home, and on the beaches of southern California. Mr. Lawrence has much ado guiding his daughter through her surf loving, boy crazy teenage years while Gidget's older married sister Anne and her goofy husband John offer advice and counsel. Gidget's gawky school pal and confidante Larue is often an accomplice in her zany escapades. The entire series is available on DVD.

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Episode Info

Final: 1x32 -- Don't Defrost the Alligator (Apr/21/1966)

Gidget puts a dead alligator in the freezer.

Cast

Sally Field As Frances "Gidget" Lawrence	Don Porter As Professor Russell Lawrence

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Recaps

1x20: Ego-A- Go-Go recap: Norman Durfner, a teenage nervous wreck, is known as "Durf the Drag" to his female classmates. To build up his self-esteem, Gidget dates him for the Spinsters Hop, but then she discovers that Russ is helping Chuck Batson, a gorgeous six foot three, to master grammar so he'll be eligible to quarter-back the college team. Gidget's interest in Durfner's ego drops rapidly as she schemes to get Chuck to take her to the Hop... read more.

1x3: The Great Kahuna recap: When Gidget confides to her father she's in love with a world-traveling surfer bum called Kahuna, Mr. Lawrence suggests she invite him home to dinner. Kahuna arrives for dinner in a suit and talks of wanting nothing more in life than a little house, a wife, and a regular job in an electronics plant. Gidget is stunned and disappointed with Kahuna's "creepy suburban dream." Alone for a moment, she suddenly realizes that her father and Kahuna have conspired to cure her of her infatuation by making Kahuna appear the typical middle class bore. She turns the tables on Kahuna by telling him she wants nothing more than an ordinary man who dreams of putting down roots. Kahuna hurries out of the house as fast as he can... read more.

Crew

Creator: Frederick Kohner
Executive Producer: Harry Ackerman
Producer: William Sackheim, Bob Claver
Associate Producer: Stan Schwimmer
Music: Hugo Montenegro, Dave Grusin, Stu Phillips, Charles Albertine
Music Supervisor: Ed Forsyth
Set Decorator: Louis Diage

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Recurring Guests

• Pete Duel as John Cooper (9 eps)
• Betty Conner as Anne Lawrence Cooper (9 eps)
• Lynette Winter as Larue (8 eps)
• Bob Beach as Pete (6 eps)
• Rickie Sorensen as Randy (4 eps)
• Michael Nader as Siddo (4 eps)
• Barbara Hershey as Ellen (2 eps)
• Tim Rooney as Tommy (2 eps)
• Janis Hansen as Girl (2 eps)
• Beverly Washburn as Marcia (2 eps)

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Gidget

Classification: Scripted
Genre: Comedy
Status: Canceled/Ended
Network: ABC (