Gidget
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think | 1966
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: january 5, 1966 | s01e17
Near the end of summer Gidget meets an older surf bum on the beach. Gidget falls in love but he gives her the brush-off. Later, when school starts, Gidget is shocked to find the surf bum is her new math teacher.
Written by Ruth Brooks Flippen
Directed by William Asher
Produced by William Sackheim
Executive Producer Harry Ackerman
Creator & Script Consultant Frederick Kohner
Associate Producer Stan Schwimmer
Music by Charles Albertine
Title Song Sung by: Johnny Tillotson
Title Song by Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller
Gidget… Sally Field
Russell Lawrence… Don Porter
Larue… Lynette Winter
Baxter Stevenson… Tom Gilleran
Miss O. Stoddard… Maida Severn
Janitor… Lennie Bremen
Siddo… Mike Nader
Student… Linda Opie Bent (uncredited)
Student… Johnny Fain (uncredited)
Student… Sue Hamilton (uncredited)
Director of Photography… Gert Anderson, A.S.C.
Art Director… Ross Bellah
Film Editor… Howard Kunin
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