Gidget
All the Best Diseases Are Taken | 1965
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: november 17, 1965 | s01e10
When the price of tickets go up at the local movie theater, Gidget enlists the help of a rebellious folk singer to protest the perceived injustice.
Written by Tony Wilson
Directed by E.W. Swackhamer
Produced by William Sackheim
Executive Producer Harry Ackerman
Creator & Script Consultant Frederick Kohner
Associate Producer Stan Schwimmer
Music by Stu Phillips
Title Song by Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller
Title Song Sung by: Johnny Tillotson
Gidget… Sally Field
Russell Lawrence… Don Porter
John… Pete Deuel
Larue… Lynette Winter
Billy Roy Soames… Henry Jaglom
Mr. Lefferts… Dick Wilson
Mr. Corella… Dick Balduzzi
Mr. Evans… Noah Keen
Director of Photography… Gert Anderson, A.S.C.
Art Director… Ross Bellah
Film Editor… William Martin
Set Decorator… Louis Diage
Make-up Supervision… Ben Lane, S.M.A.
Surfing Technical Consultant… Phil Sauers
Production Supervisor… Seymour Friedman
Post-production Supervisor… Lawrence Werner
Assistant Director… Jerrold Bernstein
Music Supervisor… Ed Forsyth
Sound Effects… Fred J. Brown
Don Porter’s Wardrobe by Lebow Clothes
Color by Pathé