About Gidget
- Released on September 01, 1965
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 Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 to April 21, 1966.
Gidget was among the first regularly scheduled color programs on ABC, but did poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was cancelled at the end of its first season.
Main Cast of Gidget
Don Porter plays Professor Russell Lawrence (32 episodes)
Sally Field plays Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence (32 episodes)
Betty Conner plays Anne Cooper (32 episodes)
Lynette Winter plays Larue (32 episodes)
Secondary Cast of Gidget
Brooke Bundy
Beverly Adams
Harvey Korman
Lynne Marta
Peggy Rea
Marvin Kaplan
Russ Bender
Frank De Vol
Murray MacLeod
Tim Rooney
Murray Alper
Charla Doherty
Bonnie Franklin
Daniel J. Travanti
Hazel Court
Celeste Yarnall
Herb Voland
Pete Duel
Roy Stuart
Noah Keen
Michael Nader
Julie Parrish
Janis Hansen
Heather North
Sandy Kenyon
Jeff Donnell
Dick Wilson
Judy Carne
Beverly Washburn
Jimmy Cross
Hal March
Barbara Hershey
Richard Bull
Greg Mullavey
Joseph Mell
Joel Fluellen
Kathleen Crowley
Robert Random
Ron Rifkin
Paul Lynde
Jimmy Hawkins
Martin Milner
Joseph V. Perry
William Long Jr.
Jack Fletcher plays Harry McCann (1 episode)
Larry Merrill plays Tate (1 episode)
Kevin O'Neal plays Dick (1 episode)
Rae Sunshine Lee plays Jeanie (1 episode)
Crew of Gidget
- Brooke Bundy
- Beverly Adams
- Harvey Korman
- Lynne Marta
- Peggy Rea
- Marvin Kaplan
- Russ Bender
- Frank De Vol
- Murray MacLeod
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Tim Rooney
- Murray Alper
- Charla Doherty
- Bonnie Franklin
- Daniel J. Travanti
- Hazel Court
- Celeste Yarnall
- Herb Voland
- Pete Duel
- Roy Stuart
- Noah Keen
- Michael Nader
- Michael York
- Julie Parrish
- Janis Hansen
- Heather North
- Walter Koenig
- Sandy Kenyon
- Jeff Donnell
- Dick Wilson
- Judy Carne
- Beverly Washburn
- Jimmy Cross
- Hal March
- Barbara Hershey
- Richard Bull
- Greg Mullavey
- Mako
- Joseph Mell
- Joel Fluellen
- Kathleen Crowley
- Robert Random
- Ron Rifkin
- Paul Lynde
- Jimmy Hawkins
- Martin Milner
- Joseph V. Perry
- William Long Jr.
- Jack Fletcher
- Larry Merrill
- Kevin O'Neal
- Rae Sunshine Lee