Gidget
Image Scrimmage | 1965
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: november 3, 1965 | s01e08
Gidget develops a crush on her best friend, Larue’s cousin, Roger, but is worried that he doesn’t find her sophisticated enough. In order to mature her image, Gidget returns a childish formal dress her sister picked out for her for a ridiculous looking dress that she thinks is glamorous.
Written by Barbara Avedon
Directed by William Asher
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
Anne… Betty Conner
John… Pete Deuel
Larue… Lynette Winter
Mary Haliday… Melissa Murphy
Roger Haimes… Jan Crawford
Siddo… Mike Nader (uncredited)
Siddo’s Date… Linda Opie Bent (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