Season 1
7.4/1081 votesDear 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: Unknown
7.4/1070 votesIn 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: Unknown
7.3/1072 votesThe Great Kahuna
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
7.3/1055 votesDaddy 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: Unknown
6.4/1073 votesA Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1965
Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.
Director: William Asher
Writer: John McGreevey
- 6.9/1051 votes
Image Scrimmage
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.7/1061 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.5/1062 votes
Chivalry Isn't Dead
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.4/1045 votes
Too Many Cooks
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1965
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.4/1053 votes
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: Unknown
- 7.5/1048 votes
Like Voodoo
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.5/1055 votes
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: Unknown
Writer: Joanna Lee
- 7.5/1053 votes
Ego-A-Go-Go
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1966
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.7/1059 votes
In and Out with the In-Laws
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1966
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1048 votes
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
- 6.8/1053 votes
Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1966
Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.5/1048 votes
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: Unknown
Writer: John McGreevey
- 8.0/1072 votes
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: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1053 votes
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
- 7.1/1049 votes
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.
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1060 votes
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
