Episode 1: Dear Diary-Et Al

1965-09-15

In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative confessions are true.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 2: In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust

1965-09-22

Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 3: The Great Kahuna

1965-09-29

A 28-year-old surfer dates Gidget.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 4: Daddy Come Home

1965-10-06

Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 5: Gidget Gadget

1965-10-13

Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 6: A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse

1965-10-20

Gidget decides to buy a used hearse.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 7: Gidget is a Proper Noun

1965-10-27

An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 8: Image Scrimmage

1965-11-03

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 9: Is it Love or Symbiosis?

1965-11-10

Gidget's meddling sister and brother-in-law convince her father he's too dependent on her. So he decides to send Gidget away to a private girl's school in Paris.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 10: All the Best Diseases are Taken

1965-11-17

Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 11: My Ever Faithful Friend

1965-11-24

Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 12: Chivalry Isn't Dead

1965-12-01

Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 13: The War Between Men, Women and Gidget

1965-12-08

Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 14: Gidget's Foreign Policy

1965-12-15

Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 15: Now There's a Face

1965-12-22

Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 16: Too Many Cooks

1965-12-29

Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 17: I Love You, I Think

1966-01-05

Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 18: Like Voodoo

1966-01-13

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 19: Gidget's Career

1966-01-20

Gidget joins a folksy singing group. They audition for a teenage music TV show and get the gig! Gidget decides to change the group's image—they become "Gidget and the Gories!"

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 20: Ego-A-Go-Go

1966-01-27

Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 21: In and Out with the In-Laws

1966-02-03

Gidget meets Jeff's parents.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 22: We Got Each Other

1966-02-10

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 23: Operation Shaggy Dog

1966-02-17

Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 24: Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat

1966-02-24

Gidget helps a singer have a quiet wedding day.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 25: Love and the Single Gidget

1966-03-03

Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 26: Take a Lesson

1966-03-10

Gidget gets a late evening phone call from a friend to hurry over to her house. She runs out of the house in her pajamas and a raincoat, not knowing that her friend wants her to go out of town with her to get a car. Along the way Gidget keeps trying to call home to tell Russ where she is but, it just ends up causing friction with the girls dad. Eventually they end up just going back home without a car.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 27: Independence -- Gidget Style

1966-03-17

Russ gets the idea that Gidget is working at a nightclub. When actually she's taken a job elsewhere to make enough money to buy him a birthday present.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 28: One More for the Road

1966-03-24

Gidget learns to drive for a new job.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 29: Ask Helpful Hannah

1966-03-31

Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 30: A Hard Night's Night

1966-04-07

Russ's friend moves into the Lawrence home, while he is away, to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately Gidget comes home early from Larue's. With neither one knowing about the other they start to get scared about all the things going bump in the night.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 31: I Have This Friend Who . . .

1966-04-14

Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.

Runtime: 25 min

Episode 32: Don't Defrost the Alligator

1966-04-21

A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.

Runtime: 25 min