The Best Episodes of Gidget
Every episode of Gidget ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Gidget!
Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 to April 21, 1966. Gidget was among the first regularly scheduled color programs on ABC, but did poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was cancelled at the end of its first season.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Gidget" is "Take a Lesson", rated 8/10 from 67 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Take a Lesson" aired on 3/10/1966 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Hard Night's Night".
8.0/10 67 votes#1 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 59 votes
#2 - 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.
Director: Don Porter
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.8/10 58 votes
#3 - 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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 58 votes
#4 - In and Out with the In-Laws
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1966
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10 51 votes
#5 - 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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.6/10 67 votes#6 - 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.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 46 votes
#7 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 76 votes#8 - 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.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 59 votes
#9 - Chivalry Isn't Dead
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
Director: N/A
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.5/10 47 votes
#10 - Like Voodoo
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
Director: N/A
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.5/10 54 votes
#11 - 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!"
Director: N/A
Writer: Joanna Lee
- 7.5/10 49 votes
#12 - Ego-A-Go-Go
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.5/10 47 votes
#13 - We Got Each Other
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1966
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.4/10 52 votes
#14 - Daddy Come Home
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 59 votes
#15 - Gidget is a Proper Noun
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1965
An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 57 votes
#16 - Now There's a Face
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1965
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 44 votes
#17 - Too Many Cooks
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1965
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
Director: N/A
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.4/10 52 votes
#18 - 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.
Director: William Asher
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 69 votes#19 - The Great Kahuna
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.3/10 45 votes
#20 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.3/10 47 votes
#21 - One More for the Road
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1966
Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10 50 votes
#22 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 49 votes
#23 - Image Scrimmage
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Barbara Avedon
7.0/10 47 votes#24 - All the Best Diseases are Taken
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 49 votes
#25 - Operation Shaggy Dog
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1966
Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A