Moondoggie

Moondoggie
First appearanceGidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas
Last appearanceThe New Gidget
Portrayed byJames Darren
Stephen Mines
Paul Petersen
Michael Burns
Dean Butler
In-universe information
NicknameMoondoggie
GenderMale
OccupationStudent. Later Military, then engineer (in Gidget Gets Married) and architect (in Gidget's Summer Reunion and The New Gidget).
SpouseGidget (at the end of the last novel, and in some of the later television work)

Moondoggie is a fictional character created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas.[1] He appears as a principal character in five of the eight Gidget novels, but is a minor character or is only mentioned in passing in Cher Papa,[2] The Affairs of Gidget[3] and Gidget Goes Parisienne.[4]

  1. ^ Gidget (2001) by Frederick Kohner, Berkley Publishing Group, New York, NY (first edition 1957)
  2. ^ "Cher Papa" (1959) by Frederick Kohner, Putnam Books, New York, NY
  3. ^ "The Affairs of Gidget" (1963) by Frederick Kohner, Bantam Books, New York, NY
  4. ^ Gidget Goes Parisienne (1966) by Frederick Kohner, Dell Books, New York, NY