7.5/1077 votes#1 - 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
7.6/1067 votes#2 - 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
7.3/1069 votes#3 - The Great Kahuna
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
7.4/1052 votes#4 - 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
- 6.8/1056 votes
#5 - Gidget Gadget
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1965
Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1071 votes#6 - A 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
- 7.4/1059 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.0/1049 votes
#8 - Image Scrimmage
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 6.8/1052 votes
#9 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1048 votes#10 - 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
- 7.8/1059 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.5/1060 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.2/1050 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1056 votes
#14 - Gidget's Foreign Policy
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1057 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.4/1044 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.4/1052 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.5/1048 votes
#18 - Like Voodoo
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1966
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
Director: N/A
Writer: Albert Mannheimer
- 7.5/1055 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.5/1049 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.7/1058 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.5/1047 votes
#22 - 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
- 7.1/1050 votes
#23 - 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
- 6.8/1051 votes
#24 - Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1966
Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.3/1045 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Gidget Season 1
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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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Dear Diary-Et Al" is the best rated episode of "Gidget" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by William Asher and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1965. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust".