Gidget (1965)

Name: Gidget
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Don Porter, Sally Field, Betty Conner, Lynette Winter

Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 6.9 (2,053 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 ↑ +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1965)

7.35 avg 32 episodes 7.5 → 6.7 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dear Diary - Et Al.	7.5	104
2	In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust	7.6	81
3	The Great Kahuna	7.4	84
4	Daddy Come Home	7.6	69
5	Gidget Gadget	6.9	69
6	A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse	6.6	83
7	Gidget Is a Proper Noun	7.5	71
8	Image Scrimmage	7.0	61
9	Is It Love or Symbiosis?	6.8	64
10	All the Best Diseases Are Taken	6.8	59
11	My Ever Faithful Friend	7.8	75
12	Chivalry Isn't Dead	7.7	72
13	The War Between Men, Women and Gidget	7.2	62
14	Gidget's Foreign Policy	6.6	76
15	Now There's a Face	7.4	73
16	Too Many Cooks	7.6	58
17	I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think	7.4	66
18	Like Voodoo	7.7	60
19	Gidget's Career	7.6	68
20	Ego-a-Go-Go	7.5	69
21	In and Out with the In-Laws	7.8	73
22	We Got Each Other	7.5	57
23	Operation Shaggy Dog	7.1	60
24	Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat	7.0	63
25	Love and the Single Gidget	7.4	59
26	Take a Lesson	8.0	87
27	Independence: Gidget Style	7.6	60
28	One More for the Road	7.3	55
29	Ask Helpful Hannah	7.1	56
30	A Hard Night's Night	7.9	69
31	I Have This Friend Who...	7.5	54
32	Don't Defrost the Alligator	6.7	56