Gidget
Is It Love or Symbiosis | 1965
25 min. | color | ABC | first aired: november 10, 1965 | s01e09
Anne and John talk Professor Lawrence into sending Gidget away to a Parisian boarding school. Gidget hates the idea, but pretends otherwise because she thinks her father is trying to get rid of her.
Teleplay by A.J. Mady
Story by A.J. Mady and Frederick Kohner
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
Anne… Betty Conner
John… Pete Deuel
Larue… Lynette Winter
Dick… Kevin O’Neal
Pat Taylor… Judy Carne
Howie… Dan Ferrone
Terry Walker… Donna J. Anderson
Siddo… Mike Nader (uncredited)
Roy Stuart... as Jerry Rodgers
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