qormi
Gidget was a very funny show with a very talented cast. Sally Field revealed herself to be a very talented actress at such a young age. Peter Duel was hilarious with his mugging and reactions. Betty Conner as Gidget's sister was very funny as well. Don Porter, who played her dad, was like a country club cardigan-wearing Ward Cleaver. This show was great and it's too bad it lasted only one season. Can you imagine Gidget 2013? Episode 1: Gidget supports gay and lesbian prom partners. Episode 2: Gidget's friend Larue confides that her uncle molested her. Episode 3: Gidget smokes weed and Larue drops acid. Episode 4: Gidget gets a tongue piercing and a tramp stamp. Episode 5: Gidget receives a sext message on her I-phone. Episode 6: Larue gets an abortion. ...and so on.
Mychills
I love the show I got it and watch it all at least every other month. I love the story line and her crazy kid one moment and as wise as an oldster the next as it really is for kids. I know it's hard to believe in the world today but their are still kids like that and they don't flash gang signs or carry guns but U may not want to believe this but they were there then as well. Just didn't have the weapons down like now. I love the Gidgets character she is sweet and a normal kid as I was. But then I've alway crushed on Sally Field and loved all of her work. Like Smokey and the Bandit that was just fun and a feel good show but when she wanted to make a statement she can and did do that with just as much zing in Norma Rae she made you think. This talent has helped me think and look at life in a different way from time to time. Very glad she and her talents were there to say and feel what I couldn't say for the lack of writers>LOL> Thanks Ms. Field. Sincerely; Big Mike H.;Ivanhoe,Ca.
Brian Washington
Long before shows like "Saved By the Bell" and "Moesha" we had Gidget. This was a pretty interesting look at kids in the mid-1960's and how teen-agers were looked at in those days. It was an okay show for its times, even though it did seem kind of corny. You never would have guessed that this would be the launching point for one of the finest actresses in her era in the person of Sally Field. She gives a good performance of everyone's favorite surfer girl and is probably her third most famous character behind "Norma Rae" and Sister Bertrille. Perhaps the funniest, as well as the most annoying, part of this series were her sister and brother in law. Anne was pretty much a control freak and along with her wannabe Freud husband John were the prototype yuppies before the term was even invented. This was definitely a product of its time.
breacain
I am hopelessly addicted to this show, which is way before my time and whose reruns never reach my local TV market. I am fascinated by the stunningly progressive messages that pop up, more in the earliest episodes, I think. (Gidget is such a free thinker, and she can be very good at asserting herself.) They are frequently obliterated or directly contradicted by the old fashioned values of the day, (Gidget takes shop, learns to fix cars expertly, but doesn't apply those skills later when her date's car breaks down, because it's unfeminine) and I am wondering who was writing the scripts? What was going on?
