Broadcast date
1965-09-15 • 32 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Dear Diary-Et Al
event 1965-09-15 • schedule 25m
In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative confessions are true.
2. In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
event 1965-09-22 • schedule 25m
3. The Great Kahuna
event 1965-09-29 • schedule 25m
4. Daddy Come Home
event 1965-10-06 • schedule 25m
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
5. Gidget Gadget
event 1965-10-13 • schedule 25m
Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
6. A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
event 1965-10-20 • schedule 25m
7. Gidget is a Proper Noun
event 1965-10-27 • schedule 25m
An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.
8. Image Scrimmage
event 1965-11-03 • schedule 25m
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
9. Is it Love or Symbiosis?
event 1965-11-10 • schedule 25m
Gidget's meddling sister and brother-in-law convince her father he's too dependent on her. So he decides to send Gidget away to a private girl's school in Paris.
10. All the Best Diseases are Taken
event 1965-11-17 • schedule 25m
11. My Ever Faithful Friend
event 1965-11-24 • schedule 25m
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
12. Chivalry Isn't Dead
event 1965-12-01 • schedule 25m
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
13. The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
event 1965-12-08 • schedule 25m
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
14. Gidget's Foreign Policy
event 1965-12-15 • schedule 25m
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
15. Now There's a Face
event 1965-12-22 • schedule 25m
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
16. Too Many Cooks
event 1965-12-29 • schedule 25m
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
17. I Love You, I Think
event 1966-01-05 • schedule 25m
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
18. Like Voodoo
event 1966-01-13 • schedule 25m
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
19. Gidget's Career
event 1966-01-20 • schedule 25m
Gidget joins a folksy singing group. They audition for a teenage music TV show and get the gig! Gidget decides to change the group's image—they become "Gidget and the Gories!"
20. Ego-A-Go-Go
event 1966-01-27 • schedule 25m
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
21. In and Out with the In-Laws
event 1966-02-03 • schedule 25m
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
22. We Got Each Other
event 1966-02-10 • schedule 25m
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
23. Operation Shaggy Dog
event 1966-02-17 • schedule 25m
Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
24. Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
event 1966-02-24 • schedule 25m
Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
25. Love and the Single Gidget
event 1966-03-03 • schedule 25m
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
26. Take a Lesson
event 1966-03-10 • schedule 25m
Gidget gets a late evening phone call from a friend to hurry over to her house. She runs out of the house in her pajamas and a raincoat, not knowing that her friend wants her to go out of town with her to get a car. Along the way Gidget keeps trying to call home to tell Russ where she is but, it just ends up causing friction with the girls dad. Eventually they end up just going back home without a car.
27. Independence -- Gidget Style
event 1966-03-17 • schedule 25m
Russ gets the idea that Gidget is working at a nightclub. When actually she's taken a job elsewhere to make enough money to buy him a birthday present.
28. One More for the Road
event 1966-03-24 • schedule 25m
Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
29. Ask Helpful Hannah
event 1966-03-31 • schedule 25m
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
30. A Hard Night's Night
event 1966-04-07 • schedule 25m
Russ's friend moves into the Lawrence home, while he is away, to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately Gidget comes home early from Larue's. With neither one knowing about the other they start to get scared about all the things going bump in the night.
31. I Have This Friend Who . . .
event 1966-04-14 • schedule 25m
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
32. Don't Defrost the Alligator
End of season • event 1966-04-21 • schedule 25m
A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.
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This season's cast
Don Porter
Professor Russell Lawrence
Professor Russell Lawrence
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Sally Field
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
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Betty Conner
Anne Cooper
Anne Cooper
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Lynette Winter
Larue
Larue
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