Gidget
Like Voodoo | 1966
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: january 13, 1966 | s01e18
Gidget has her surfboard swiped by an old Gypsy woman. When she and Larue track it down and take it back, the Gypsy puts a curse on the surfboard. Things start going wrong for Gidget and everyone around her until her father gives her a talisman to break the curse.
Written by Albert Mannheimer
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 Sung by: Johnny Tillotson
Title Song by Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller
Gidget… Sally Field
Russell Lawrence… Don Porter
Larue… Lynette Winter
Anne… Betty Conner
John… Pete Deuel
Zangara… Jeanne Gerson
Fat Lady… Peggy Rea
Casey… Arthur Adams
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… Bill Lukather
Music Supervisor… Ed Forsyth
Sound Effects… Fred J. Brown
Don Porter’s Wardrobe by Lebow Clothes
Color by Pathé