Description: Catch a wave with America's favorite southern California beach teen in GIDGET: THE COMPLETE SERIES. Join two-time Academy Award® winner Sally Field (1984, Actress in a Leading Role, Places in the Heart) as perky 15-year-old Frances Elizabeth Lawrence (better known to her family and friends as Gidget), Don Porter as her ever-loving father, Russ, and a host of such soon-to-be-famous faces as Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershey, Bonnie Franklin, Harvey Korman and Henry Jaglom, for 32 winning episodes of fun-in-the-sun comedy, romance and adventure.
Amazon.com: Gidget launched the career of the ever-perky Sally Field (who decades later still looks like the sweetie-pie beach bunny she played in the mid-'60s series). The show is a valentine to Southern California, surfing, and plucky girl power--in fact, Gidget's self-aware musings and intrepid ways of getting out of trouble lay the groundwork for later TV heroines like Buffy and Veronica Mars. The show's aged surprisingly well, mostly because of the undeniable charms of Field, who seems to take her teenage "horror stories"--as when squeeze Jeff (a.k.a. Moon Doggie) is poised to return to Princeton and suggests they date other people--with a knowing grain of salt. The teen drama is all a bit tongue in cheek, since it's clear nothing will get our Gidget down for long. The dialogue is a real treat, a crazy mix of late film noir ("How old's the underripe tomato?") and pre-Summer of Love hipster California-speak ("Well, look at all the wiggy birds around here!"). The set includes all 32 episodes, with a short interview with Field, who has a lot of affection for her young persona--as do we all, Daddy-o. --A.T. Hurley
good clean fun I was so happy to see this TV show on DVD. It is wholesome and wonderful for young girls to watch. We love it!!
a great summer movie the tv show gidet was great tv show I love it even thought i wasnt around when it started but its a great beach movie to watch during the summer
So Nostalgic! I thoroughly enjoyed watching all of the episodes in this series that I used to love as a child. The stories are so fun to watch and Sally Field is utterly adorable as Gidget. I'm so glad this is now available since I haven't been able to find it anywhere on cable. I highly reccommend it to any of those who enjoyed the series like I did. It will not disappoint!
Great series! Gidget was a great, uplifting, lighthearted series back when it aired, and it was great to relive the times. Interesting that there were a couple of episodes that would have people up in arms today, but back then it was a more innocent time. Overall, great series, glad I watched them again, and then gave them to my sister Maryann for her birthday! :)
Great The color, sound and quality of this DVD set is a solid 10 out of 10. For some reason I do not remember watching this show when it was on TV in 1965. However it is easy to get hooked on this series. I highly recommend it.
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