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.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel
Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.
Guest Stars:
Beverly Adams, Pete Duel, Michael Nader, Heather North
A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel, Michael Nader, Julie Parrish, Martin Milner
Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.
Guest Stars:
Harvey Korman, Pete Duel, Michael Nader, Joseph V. Perry
Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel, Janis Hansen
Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.
Guest Stars:
Michael Nader
An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel
Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel
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.
Guest Stars:
Pete Duel, Roy Stuart, Judy Carne, Kevin O'Neal
Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.
Guest Stars:
Noah Keen, Dick Wilson
Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.
Guest Stars:
Russ Bender, Stephanie Hill
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
Guest Stars:
Bonnie Franklin, Beverly Washburn, Robert Random
Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.
Guest Stars:
Charla Doherty, Mako
Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""
Guest Stars:
Brooke Bundy, Walter Koenig, Robert Random
Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.
Guest Stars:
Daniel J. Travanti
Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.
Guest Stars:
Bonnie Franklin, Larry Merrill
Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.
Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.
Guest Stars:
Peggy Rea, Pete Duel
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!"
Guest Stars:
Murray MacLeod, Sandy Kenyon, Jimmy Hawkins
Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.
Guest Stars:
Richard Dreyfuss
Gidget meets Jeff's parents.
Guest Stars:
Hazel Court, Janis Hansen, Hal March, William Long Jr.
Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.
Guest Stars:
Michael York, Kathleen Crowley
Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.
Guest Stars:
Tim Rooney
Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.
Guest Stars:
Lynne Marta, Irwin Charone, Lindsay Workman, Dorothy Konrad, Jimmy Murphy
Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.
Guest Stars:
Tim Rooney, Barbara Hershey, Ron Rifkin
Gidget gets a late evening phone call from a friend to hurry over to her house. She runs out of the house in her pajamas and a raincoat, not knowing that her friend wants her to go out of town with her to get a car. Along the way Gidget keeps trying to call home to tell Russ where she is but, it just ends up causing friction with the girls dad. Eventually they end up just going back home without a car.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Donnell, Beverly Washburn, Paul Lynde
Russ gets the idea that Gidget is working at a nightclub. When actually she's taken a job elsewhere to make enough money to buy him a birthday present.
Guest Stars:
Celeste Yarnall, Richard Bull
Gidget learns to drive for a new job.
Guest Stars:
Murray Alper, Jimmy Cross
Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.
Guest Stars:
Barbara Hershey
Russ's friend moves into the Lawrence home, while he is away, to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately Gidget comes home early from Larue's. With neither one knowing about the other they start to get scared about all the things going bump in the night.
Guest Stars:
Frank De Vol, Joseph Mell
Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.
Guest Stars:
Herb Voland, Joel Fluellen