Gidget
1965, Series, 30 min, Comedy, English, United States, MoviePedia score 66
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.
Directed by E.W. Swackhamer, William Asher, Jerrold Bernstein, Bruce Bilson, Hal Cooper, Oscar Rudolph, Gene Reynolds, Christopher Cary, Lee Philips, Don Porter
Cast
- Sally Field as Gidget
- Don Porter as Professor Russell Lawrence
- Lynette Winter as Larue
- Pete Duel as John Cooper
- Betty Conner as Anne
- Michael Nader as Peter Stone
- Robert Beach as Pete
- Rickie Sorensen as Boy Surfer
- Barbara Hershey as Karen
- Beverly Washburn as Shirley
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