Gidget: The War Between Men, Women and Gidget

Gidget: The War Between Men, Women and Gidget
ABC
December 8, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
B

Gidget again unites the girls against the guys to make a point, here a rather Lysistrata one, about how they won't go out with the guys if they keep quarreling with a rival group.  Gidget befriends the girls in the rival group, and interestingly one couple is Japanese-American.  (Caroline Kido would have a part on That Girl.)  The girls stick together more here than in "Chivalry," even when they're replaced by girls from Pacific High.  Gidget tricks her replacement, and then gets tricked by her boyfriend.  A couple years later and the hypodermic needle would've had more connotations of illicit drug use.

This is Stephen Kandel's second Gidget episode, while Leo Townsend (here co-writing with wife Pauline) co-wrote three Beach Party movies, so, yes, the second reference to Beach Party Vampire is a definite in-joke.