Gidget: Gidget Gadget

Gidget: Gidget Gadget
ABC
October 13, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Anne leaves John (going home four blocks) after six months of marriage, feeling neglected.  Gidget of course interferes, including setting them up with dance lessons.  The male dance instructor is a pre-Get-Smart Dick Gautier.  The "instructress" is played by Janis Hansen, who'd return in a different role.  Larue has some cute moments, including dressed a spy.  I would've given this a B, but the ending with both Anne and John spanking Gidget is just wrong by modern standards, on so many levels.  Both writer Stephen Kandel and director E. W. Swackhamer would return.