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Gidget

  • TV Series
  • 1965–19661965–1966
  • TV-GTV-G
  • 30m
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Sally Field and Don Porter in Gidget (1965)
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Gidget is a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.Gidget is a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.Gidget is a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.
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    • Frederick Kohner
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    • Sally Field
    • Don Porter
    • Lynette Winter
    • Frederick Kohner
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    • Sally Field
    • Don Porter
    • Lynette Winter
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    • Trivia
      In an interview featured on the DVD release of the series, Sally Field said she and Don Porter had a father/daughter-like relationship off screen as well. Field was new to professional acting and, due to nerves and inexperience, sometimes made mistakes that caused others to laugh at her. Acting veteran Porter not only took time to explain things to Field, but often sensed things she didn't know. In one instance during a cold read of the script, the word "symbiosis" appeared in one of Field's lines. Porter pronounced the word quietly so Field would know how to pronounce it.
    • Quotes

      Frances "Gidget" Lawrence: Wait just a dingy minute.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Flying Nun: The Reconversion of Sister Shapiro (1968)
    • Soundtracks
      Wait 'Til You See My Gidget
      Music by Jack Keller

      Lyrics by Howard Greenfield

      Performed by Johnny Tillotson

      Copyright 1965--Screen Gems Music Co.

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    10/10
    Sally Field was perfectly cast in Gidget roll !
    This short lived series was very important for many of us just becoming teens in the mid-60's. Her clothing, hairdos, language and relationships with friends and boyfriends were fun to tune into once a week and see what life was like (although somewhat not believable!!) for a teenage girl growing up near the beach in California. Sally Field was a darling girl, perfectly cast here, not afraid to make faces, cry, or even do physical comedy in this series. Gidget had her own bedroom with her own Princess telephone (we all wanted one), lived in a wonderful two story home with a beautiful yard and got to drive her dad's cool car sometimes. And yes, she got into and out of a lot of trouble in the 22 minute show,but at that time in our lives, for a half hour, it was believable to many of us. Like The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, and Leave It To Beaver, these were mild comedies, with gentle story lines, usually a moral to be learned, and left us feeling good about ourselves and maybe had a laugh or two during the half hour show. To many people today,this sounds corny and old-fashioned, but it felt like a safer, more comfortable world back then.
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      • September 15, 1965 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Blondie Street, Columbia/Warner Bros. Ranch - 411 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA
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      • Screen Gems Television
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    • 30 minutes
      • Mono

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