The WORST episodes of Gidget

Every episode of Gidget ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 9/8/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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All the Best Diseases are Taken
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5.00
2 votes

#1 - All the Best Diseases are Taken

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965

Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Tony Wilson
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Gidget's Career
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5.33
3 votes

#2 - 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!"

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Joanna Lee
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Too Many Cooks
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5.50
2 votes

#3 - Too Many Cooks

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1965

Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.

Directors: Oscar Rudolph
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Don't Defrost the Alligator
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5.67
3 votes

#4 - Don't Defrost the Alligator

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/21/1966

A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
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Like Voodoo
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5.67
3 votes

#5 - Like Voodoo

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
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Dear Diary-Et Al
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5.87
15 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: William Asher
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One More for the Road
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6.00
3 votes

#7 - One More for the Road

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1966

Gidget learns to drive for a new job.

Directors: Jerry Bernstein
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Take a Lesson
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6.00
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Jerry Bernstein
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Operation Shaggy Dog
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6.00
3 votes

#9 - Operation Shaggy Dog

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1966

Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.

Directors: Hal Cooper
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Now There's a Face
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6.00
2 votes

#10 - Now There's a Face

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1965

Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
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Gidget's Foreign Policy
star
6.25
4 votes

#11 - Gidget's Foreign Policy

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965

Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""

Directors: Jerry Bernstein
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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think
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6.33
3 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: William Asher
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The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
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6.33
3 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: E.W. Swackhamer
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Is It Love or Symbiosis?
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6.33
3 votes

#14 - 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.

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Ego-A-Go-Go
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6.50
2 votes

#15 - Ego-A-Go-Go

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966

Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.

Directors: Jerry Bernstein
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Love and the Single Gidget
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6.50
2 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Hal Cooper
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The Great Kahuna
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6.57
7 votes

#17 - The Great Kahuna

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965

An older man dates Gidget.

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Independence: Gidget Style
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6.67
3 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Joanna Lee
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Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
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6.67
3 votes

#19 - 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!

Directors: Hal Cooper
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Image Scrimmage
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6.67
3 votes

#20 - Image Scrimmage

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

Directors: William Asher
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In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
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6.86
7 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: William Asher
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A Hard Night's Night
star
7.00
3 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Don Porter
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Ask Helpful Hannah
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7.00
2 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Lee Philips
Writer: Don Richman
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We Got Each Other
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7.00
2 votes

#24 - We Got Each Other

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1966

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Chivalry isn't Dead
star
7.00
2 votes

#25 - Chivalry isn't Dead

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965

Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.

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