Gidget: Love and the Single GidgetABC
March 3, 1966
Sitcom
DVD
B
With Russ out of town, John and Anne give Gidget permission to go to a surfing tournament (as a viewer not competitor), but they hire college senior Scott to keep an eye on her. Scott tricks Gidget into thinking he's interested in her romantically, and then she's very upset when she finds out. Meanwhile, a vain guy named Richie thinks she must be a swinger if she needs a bodyguard, so he takes her parking. I like how Gidget gets out of the risky situation on her own, even before Scott shows up. And I like how Larue finds Gidget at the bus stop earlier and talks her out of going home, convincing her to stay despite the "slurky gleek" Scott.
This time Barbara Hershey plays Karen, Pamela McMyler plays Janet, and Tim Rooney plays Ken. Twenty-six-year-old Ron Rifkin, in his TV debut, does his best to pass as a college student. The episode is co-written by John McGreevey and Stephen Kandel, the last of four by the latter.
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