TV series / 1965

Gidget

Name: Gidget
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1965-09-15
Cast: Don Porter, Sally Field, Betty Conner, Lynette Winter, Pete Duel

Episode directors William AsherBruce BilsonDon PorterJerrold Bernstein

More directors

Gene ReynoldsLee Philips

Comedy

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

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 …

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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.