ABC
February 24, 1966
Sitcom
DVD
C+
After the satires of Dylan and "sickies" earlier in the season, this episode seems particularly dated, like it should've aired a year or two earlier, when the British invasion was fresher and jokes about wigs made more sense. Not only that, unlike the more mod-looking Mosquitoes on Gilligan's Island, the Dingbats don't even sing! So it's mostly Gidget and Larue racing around, trying to find the teen idols, with a pay-off that can't match the classic Davy Jones episode of The Brady Bunch five years later. Note, I don't think Anne is old enough to have been part of Elvis's first wave of fans, since that would make her about a decade older than Gidget, rather than the more likely five or seven years.
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