Gidget
Independence: Gidget Style | 1966
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: march 17, 1966 | s01e27
Gidget needs money to buy her father a birthday present and secretly takes a job as a waitress at a teen hangout. Anne, John and Professor Lawrence come under the impression that Gidget is actually working at a gentlemen’s key club and head over to raid the place.
Written by Joanna Lee
Directed by Bruce Bilson
Produced by William Sackheim
Executive Producer Harry Ackerman
Creator & Script Consultant Frederick Kohner
Associate Producer Stan Schwimmer
Music by Dave Grusin
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
Maitre d’… Richard Bull
Miss Conway… Viola Harris
Toby… Robert Beach
1st Girl… Carole Williams
2nd Girl… Celeste Yarnell
Hatcheck Girl… Lisa Mitchell
Counterman… Ralph Leabow
Boy Surfer… Rickie Sorensen
Director of Photography… Andrew J. McIntyre
Art Director… Ross Bellah
Film Editor… Howard Kunin
Set Decorator… Anthony Mondell
Make-up Supervision… Ben Lane, S.M.A.
Surfing Technical Consultant… Phil Sauers
Production Supervisor… Seymour Friedman
Post-production Supervisor… Lawrence Werner
Assistant Director… Mark Sandrich
Music Supervisor… Ed Forsyth
Sound Effects… Fred J. Brown
Don Porter’s Wardrobe by Lebow Clothes
Color by Pathé