Gidget (TV series)

Gidget
Original title screen
GenreSitcom
Created byFrederick Kohner (novel)
StarringSally Field
Don Porter
Betty Conner
Pete Duel
Lynette Winter
Theme music composerJack Keller
Opening theme"(Wait 'Til You See) My Gidget", performed by Johnny Tillotson
ComposersDave Grusin
Stu Phillips
Charles Albertine
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes32 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producerHarry Ackerman
ProducersBob Claver (pilot episode)
William Sackheim
Running time25 minutes (per episode)
Production companyScreen Gems
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 15, 1965 (1965-09-015) –
April 21, 1966 (1966-04-21)
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Gidget is an American sitcom television series by Screen Gems 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. Reruns were aired until September 1, 1966.[1]

Gidget was among the first regularly scheduled color programs on ABC. With a Wednesday-night time slot that put it in direct competition with The Beverly Hillbillies and The Virginian, it did poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was cancelled at the end of its first season.

  1. ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 197–198. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.