Gidget TV series

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.

I liked her better as Gidget than any of her later roles

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.

DL fave Bonnie Franklin was on at least one episode.

Bonnie Franklin and Barbara Hershey both attended one of Gidget's pajama parties.

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.

A young (hot) Daniel J. Travanti was also on an episode. He played an older photographer that Gidget had a crush on.

Henry Jaglom had a prominent role in one episode as Billy Roy Soames

R3: Alejandro Rey

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

You can tell Gidget loved her gay father and even her crabby, jealous, know-it-all lesbian sister Ann.

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.

LaRue was one of the better sitcom sidekicks.

Larue was a fun sidekick. Young and handsome Mike Nader showed up on "Gidget", too.

Hairy-chested Don Porter was a hot Silverdaddy.

Ann was such a frigid humorless bitch.

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.

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.

R17, sexy Peter Duel committed suicide in the Hollywood Hills. They never found his nose. Just sayin'.

I found it, no worries.

Alejandro Rey had the AIDS you know.

R3, when lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, well, anything can fly.

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.

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.

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I can see fattie Ann Sothern trying for lift off LOL

Before Smith and Jones, Peter Duel did "Love on a Rooftop" opposite crazy Judy Carne.

Never found his nose,wtf?

rey was hot

Gidget did not live in Hazel's house, r17. They used the same kitchen set but everything else was different.

And still hot years later in Moscow on the Hudson

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.

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.

Wait 'til you see my Gidget, you'll want her for your valentine...

I wanna see Pete's gidget.

Theme song!

R12 Her name is FIELD, you fat stupid whore!

R3, it was a combination of the angle of her hat and her small size that made flying possible for her.

It was the original Sally Field Programme!

[quote]Also, Gidget lives in Hazel's house.

The REAL Hazel house not the fake Mr B's house.

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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?

I loved the theme songs for both Gidget and the Flying Nun.

"The moment we met we knew we were meant for each other." "Get lost!"

Who played Moondoggie?

[R43] - I don't know, but he was CREAMY!

[quote]I Dream of Jeannie/Donna Reed house

That was the same house?

Yes it was

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

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

I actually used to say, "Toodles", to the school bus driver when I got off the bus. Was I queer or what?

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You were both queer and "or what"

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

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.

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.

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?

I think Patty was earlier than Gidget. By the time Gidge came around the viewers had moved on.

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.

[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.

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?

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

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?

Ann Sothern would've been lusting after Carlos on camera and in real life. She was a whore.

I adore Ann Sothern but she could never have gone without her false eyelashes and mascara and would have insisted on a black habit.

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.

Those Swingin' Sisters!

When the Gidget goes Hawaiian, she goes Hawaiian all the way!

Remember when everybody went surfin?

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.

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?

Sally and Davy Jones

Hey Hey we're with Sally!!

Underrated acting and writing