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 - 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.
#2 - Don't Defrost the Alligator
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/21/1966
A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - One More for the Road
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1966
Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Take a Lesson
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1966
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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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!
#11 - Operation Shaggy Dog
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1966
Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
#12 - We Got Each Other
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1966
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
#13 - In and Out with the In-Laws
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1966
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
#14 - Ego-A-Go-Go
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
#15 - Gidget's Career
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1966
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!"
#16 - Like Voodoo
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Too Many Cooks
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1965
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
#19 - Now There's a Face
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1965
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
#20 - Gidget's Foreign Policy
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
#21 - 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.
#22 - Chivalry isn't Dead
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
#23 - 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.
#24 - All the Best Diseases are Taken
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
#25 - 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.