Season 1

Season 1 • 1965

Episodes

1. Dear Diary-Et Al

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.

1965-09-15 • 25 min

2. In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust

Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.

1965-09-22 • 25 min

3. The Great Kahuna

A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.

1965-09-29 • 25 min

4. Daddy Come Home

Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.

1965-10-06 • 25 min

5. Gidget Gadget

Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.

1965-10-13 • 25 min

6. A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse

Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.

1965-10-20 • 25 min

7. Gidget is a Proper Noun

An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.

1965-10-27 • 25 min

8. Image Scrimmage

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

1965-11-03 • 25 min

9. Is it Love or Symbiosis?

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.

1965-11-10 • 25 min

10. All the Best Diseases are Taken

Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.

1965-11-17 • 25 min

11. My Ever Faithful Friend

Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.

1965-11-24 • 25 min

12. Chivalry Isn't Dead

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

1965-12-01 • 25 min

13. The War Between Men, Women and Gidget

Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.

1965-12-08 • 25 min

14. Gidget's Foreign Policy

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

1965-12-15 • 25 min

15. Now There's a Face

Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.

1965-12-22 • 25 min

16. Too Many Cooks

Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.

1965-12-29 • 25 min

17. I Love You, I Think

Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.

1966-01-05 • 25 min

18. Like Voodoo

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.

1966-01-13 • 25 min

19. Gidget's Career

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!"

1966-01-20 • 25 min

20. Ego-A-Go-Go

Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.

1966-01-27 • 25 min

21. In and Out with the In-Laws

Gidget meets Jeff's parents.

1966-02-03 • 25 min

22. We Got Each Other

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

1966-02-10 • 25 min

23. Operation Shaggy Dog

Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.

1966-02-17 • 25 min

24. Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat

Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.

1966-02-24 • 25 min

25. Love and the Single Gidget

Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.

1966-03-03 • 25 min

26. Take a Lesson

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.

1966-03-10 • 25 min

27. Independence -- Gidget Style

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.

1966-03-17 • 25 min

28. One More for the Road

Gidget learns to drive for a new job.

1966-03-24 • 25 min

29. Ask Helpful Hannah

Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.

1966-03-31 • 25 min

30. A Hard Night's Night

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.

1966-04-07 • 25 min