The BEST episodes of Gidget
Every episode of Gidget ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gidget!
Surf-mad, boy-crazy Gidget's adventures in school, at home and on the beach form the basis of this 1960s series starring a young Sally Field.
#1 - In and Out with the In-Laws
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1966
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
#2 - Gidget Gadget
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1965
Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
#3 - Daddy Come Home
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
#4 - A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1965
Gidget makes a deal with a surfer to buy his hearse so she can become more independent. However, after making a few payments the surfer sales it to a bunch of boys. Making her point about owning a small part of the hearse the boys decide to let her drive it, a very small part of the time. In the mean time she takes shop class at school to help with the upkeep of the hearse.
#5 - I Have This Friend Who...
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1966
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
#6 - Gidget is a Proper Noun
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1965
One of Russ' old friends is now Gidget's English teacher.
#7 - My Ever Faithful Friend
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1965
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
#8 - Chivalry isn't Dead
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
#9 - We Got Each Other
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1966
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
#10 - Ask Helpful Hannah
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/31/1966
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
#11 - A Hard Night's Night
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/7/1966
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.
#12 - In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1965
Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
#13 - The Great Kahuna
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
An older man dates Gidget.
#14 - Image Scrimmage
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
#15 - Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1966
Fab British singing duo The Dingbats come to town. Gidget wants to find out if she really digs the Dingbats or if it's just because grown-ups don't. She hatches an elaborate scheme to meet the Dingbats—but then causes so much trouble for ""the boys"" that the only way to fix it is for her and Larue to disguise themselves as The Dingbats!
#16 - Independence: Gidget Style
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1966
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.
#17 - Gidget's Foreign Policy
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
#18 - Dear Diary-Et Al
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
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.
#19 - Is It Love or Symbiosis?
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1965
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.
#20 - The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1965
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
#21 - Now There's a Face
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1965
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
#22 - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1966
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
#23 - Ego-A-Go-Go
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
#24 - Love and the Single Gidget
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1966
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
#25 - Like Voodoo
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
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