Gidget TV series
Sally Fie!d was at her most charismatic and appealing in this 1965 series, which produced an incredible 32 episodes in its only season.
The show originally did poorly in the ratings opposite The Beverly Hillbillies, but teens discovered it during the summer reruns.
ABC decided it was too late to renew, so they developed The Flying Nun for Sally, which lasted three seasons
by Anonymous | reply 73 | February 29, 2020 3:57 AM
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Sally was great in this show, along with her sidekick Larue. Great theme song too.
Bonus for me: In one episode, Martin Milner was shirtless...a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 18, 2016 1:44 AM
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I liked her better as Gidget than any of her later roles
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 18, 2016 1:44 AM
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BTW how did the nun fly? I always thought it was because of that hat BUT that wouldn't make sense since all the nuns could have flown then. (and was it funny? a comedy? I have to get a dvd!) and check this out.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 18, 2016 1:44 AM
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DL fave Bonnie Franklin was on at least one episode.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 18, 2016 1:50 AM
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Bonnie Franklin and Barbara Hershey both attended one of Gidget's pajama parties.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 18, 2016 1:54 AM
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R3 It was because she was so tiny and light.
I love "Gidget." It's so cute and charming, and her relationship with her father is really sweet.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 18, 2016 1:56 AM
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A young (hot) Daniel J. Travanti was also on an episode. He played an older photographer that Gidget had a crush on.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 18, 2016 1:58 AM
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Henry Jaglom had a prominent role in one episode as Billy Roy Soames
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 18, 2016 2:02 AM
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My best friend Joey would sing The Flying Nun theme thusly:
Who needs wings to fly?
Certainly not I.
I take a pill away I go,
or maybe a sugar cuuube
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 18, 2016 2:19 AM
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You can tell Gidget loved her gay father and even her crabby, jealous, know-it-all lesbian sister Ann.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 18, 2016 2:35 AM
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Was Gidget intended for Fields. You could have seen the despicable Bonnie Franklin in the role as well. Fields was a high school classmate of Cindy Williams and she could have fit Gidget too.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 18, 2016 2:39 AM
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LaRue was one of the better sitcom sidekicks.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 18, 2016 3:11 AM
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Larue was a fun sidekick. Young and handsome Mike Nader showed up on "Gidget", too.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 18, 2016 3:18 AM
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Hairy-chested Don Porter was a hot Silverdaddy.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 18, 2016 3:18 AM
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Ann was such a frigid humorless bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 18, 2016 3:19 AM
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Sexy Pete Duel played her brother in law and I often thought he would have been perfect as Darrin on Bewitched. It definitely would have upped the sexy quotient on that show. I can picture him and Samantha going at it like rabbits much more than her and Dick York.
About that Daniel J Travanti episode.. he is hot in it but in a lot of scenes he has something black stuck in his teeth and I find it very distracting. I can't believe no one noticed when they were filming.
Also, Gidget lives in Hazel's house.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | December 18, 2016 6:24 AM
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So much fun to see the 60s fashions. It was a cute show and it should've been renewed. The Flying Nun was dumb, I knew that even as a kid.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 18, 2016 6:28 AM
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R17, sexy Peter Duel committed suicide in the Hollywood Hills. They never found his nose. Just sayin'.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 18, 2016 6:32 AM
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Alejandro Rey had the AIDS you know.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 18, 2016 9:55 AM
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R3, when lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, well, anything can fly.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 18, 2016 11:05 AM
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Actually the Flying Nun came first. Ann Sothern tried out for the role of the Flying Nun and the producers were laughing so hard it took them two years before they could stop. Gidget happened while they were laughing.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 18, 2016 12:30 PM
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Peter Duel showed he had some potential on the show. Usually did not have much to do, but he had a lot of charisma, some comic timing, and was easy on the eyes.
Alias Smith and Jones was not a great show, but Duel and Murphy made it watchable (with recurring guest star Sally Field). A really shame that he ended his life. Also seems like Murphy should a little bigger career. Maybe not a huge movie star, but at least one TV show that lasted a few years.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 18, 2016 2:52 PM
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r23
I can see fattie Ann Sothern trying for lift off LOL
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 18, 2016 3:17 PM
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Before Smith and Jones, Peter Duel did "Love on a Rooftop" opposite crazy Judy Carne.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 18, 2016 3:57 PM
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Never found his nose,wtf?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 18, 2016 4:03 PM
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Gidget did not live in Hazel's house, r17. They used the same kitchen set but everything else was different.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 18, 2016 5:14 PM
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And still hot years later in Moscow on the Hudson
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 18, 2016 5:15 PM
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R29, the exterior set was the same used as Hazel's house (it's immediately to the left of the Bewitched house on Blondie Street on the lot), the interior kitchen set was exactly the same except for the addition of the back staircase where the door to Hazel's room had been. The living room was the same. The foyer was moved around, reversing the study door and putting the two stair sections side by side as opposed to an L-shape. Only the father's study and Gidget's bedroom were whole new sets.
I used to work at the Columbia Ranch, now the Warner Brothers Ranch.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 18, 2016 5:22 PM
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The pilot used I Dream of Jeannie/Donna Reed house and in one episode Bewitched's interior was used for a friend's house. It looked exactly the same.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 18, 2016 9:53 PM
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Wait 'til you see my Gidget, you'll want her for your valentine...
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 18, 2016 9:58 PM
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I wanna see Pete's gidget.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | December 18, 2016 10:04 PM
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R12 Her name is FIELD, you fat stupid whore!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 19, 2016 12:57 AM
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R3, it was a combination of the angle of her hat and her small size that made flying possible for her.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 19, 2016 3:58 AM
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It was the original Sally Field Programme!
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 19, 2016 5:28 AM
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[quote]Also, Gidget lives in Hazel's house.
The REAL Hazel house not the fake Mr B's house.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 19, 2016 6:09 AM
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r37
Then shouldn't the HAT have flown right off her head?
And would that updraft pull on her head and stretch her neck beyond breakage?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 19, 2016 6:10 AM
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I loved the theme songs for both Gidget and the Flying Nun.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 19, 2016 6:11 AM
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"The moment we met we knew we were meant for each other." "Get lost!"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | December 19, 2016 11:22 AM
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[R43] - I don't know, but he was CREAMY!
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 19, 2016 1:53 PM
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[quote]I Dream of Jeannie/Donna Reed house
That was the same house?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 19, 2016 3:43 PM
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Wait till you see my Bridget
You'll want her for your lesbo love
You know she is gay, but you stay away
Because you'll find
That Bridget is mine
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 20, 2016 4:13 PM
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No...I Dream of Jeannie used the FATHER KNOWS BEST house exterior with a different interior set, not Donna Reed.
--guy who worked at Columbia Ranch
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 20, 2016 5:19 PM
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I actually used to say, "Toodles", to the school bus driver when I got off the bus. Was I queer or what?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 20, 2016 7:03 PM
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r49
You were both queer and "or what"
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 20, 2016 7:05 PM
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The Flying Nun was based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican written by a Civil Air Patrol pilot and Army wife who was the mother of a Vietnam War Medal of Honor winner and POW
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 23, 2016 1:40 AM
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Gidget changes your impression of Sally Field if you only knew her from Smokey and the Bandit, Norma Rae and Steel Magnolias.
She was precocious and shows comedic talent that she toned way down after Gidget.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 23, 2016 1:51 AM
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Not just the the exteriors - Gidget filmed one scene in the living room set that was also being used as the Bewitched set. It was in color on Gidget and b&w on Bewitched (but color on Bewitched thd next season).
There's s blog that deals with the Warners ranch, where all the Screen Gems shows did their exteriors. The Partride family house is right across the street from the Bewitched/Gidget house.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 23, 2016 1:58 AM
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Why did the teen sitcom THE PATTY DUKE SHOW catch on and GIDGET didn't? Because Duke was an Oscar winner? The Patty/Cathy gimmick?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 23, 2016 3:33 AM
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I think Patty was earlier than Gidget. By the time Gidge came around the viewers had moved on.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 23, 2016 3:41 AM
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Sally Field is responsible for popularizing the most abused and harmful diagnoses in psychiatry ever. She should spend all her remaining days making reperations to the millions she harmed.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 23, 2016 6:59 AM
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[quote]Why did the teen sitcom THE PATTY DUKE SHOW catch on and GIDGET didn't?
Gidget was opposite "The Beverly Hillbillies". That probably had a lot to do with it. "The Beverly Hillbillies" appealed to both kids and older people and was always high in the ratings.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 23, 2016 8:19 AM
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Loved the tv movie Gidget Grows Up with Karen Valentine. Gidg loses her virginity to Edward Mulhare, an older man. Paul Lynde plays Louie Latimer a former movie director. It's a very sweet movie. I wonder if Sally Field turned it down?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 23, 2016 9:20 AM
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[quote]Loved the tv movie Gidget Grows Up with Karen Valentine
The follow up movie Gidget Throws Up, was to be the showcase for Karen Carpenter's acting debut, but it was cancelled when the network refused to allow Richard Carpenter to play Moondoggie her love interest.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 23, 2016 10:40 AM
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Patty Duke tanked the year that Gidget debuted until Batman was brought in as a lead-in. The weak Patty Duke audience meant that Gidget started out badly. They shifted the show to Thursday night and the ratings gradually got better. The show actually did well in its audience numbers during reruns, but it was too late to bring it back. Screen Gems & ABC saw the potential in Peter Duel to cast him in the next season's "Love on a Rooftop" opposite world class psychobitch Judy Carne (they often clashed on set). "The Flying Nun" was put together as a vehicle for Field, based on Gidget's eventual ratings recovery and the network's continuing interest in her. Gidget, though, was cast on the basis of competitive auditions which included lots of young actresses including some marginally better known than Field.
Ann Sothern would have made a good wisecracking foil for the Nun---they had Marge Redmond as the easy going narrator and Shelley Morrison as the malaprop-ridden comic relief, but a shrewd wisecracking nun would have rounded out the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 23, 2016 10:58 AM
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[quote]Ann Sothern would have made a good wisecracking foil for the Nun
Sothern was an uber-slut, no one would cast her as a nun. As a whale yes, in fact they did, but not as a nun.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 23, 2016 11:08 AM
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Casting against type can be interesting but Ann Sothern as a nun just would not have worked. It would have wound up being a very different show.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 23, 2016 11:15 AM
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Marge Redmond had been Sister Liguori in The Trouble With Angels - the kind nun - so I'm sure they got her for that reason. Years later she was the Cool Whip Lady, right?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 23, 2016 11:46 AM
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Ann Sothern would've been lusting after Carlos on camera and in real life. She was a whore.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 23, 2016 1:54 PM
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I adore Ann Sothern but she could never have gone without her false eyelashes and mascara and would have insisted on a black habit.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 23, 2016 2:06 PM
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Alejandro Rey was a gay icon. The man was sex on a stick. He has looks and a Latin flair. He was also hung like a horse.I got the impression The Flying Nun was blowing him every now and then.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 23, 2016 2:14 PM
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When the Gidget goes Hawaiian, she goes Hawaiian all the way!
Remember when everybody went surfin?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 23, 2016 2:40 PM
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Was Pete Duel gay? He was linked with Judy Carne (Burt Reynolds) and Kim Darby (Andrew Stevens), neither of whom are lookers. And the girls he publicly hooked up with were almost all unattractive. His last girlfriend, who found his body, claimed she was an actress but wasn't anything to look at. One of his publicity photos said he liked "natural and unaffected girls" and he loved watching sports car racing.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 69 | December 23, 2016 3:04 PM
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R31, when did you work there? I found a website about the ranch, where "I Dream of Jeannie," "Here Come the Brides," and "The Monkees" were filmed during roughly the period when "Gidget" was. Do you have any good stories about the actors on those shows?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 70 | December 23, 2016 4:12 PM
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Hey Hey we're with Sally!!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | September 26, 2019 5:42 AM
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Underrated acting and writing
by Anonymous | reply 73 | February 29, 2020 3:57 AM
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