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Gidget: Father
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[A]part from Gidget-related revenues (which are not particularly vast, since deals made in the 1950s are minuscule in today’s terms), it is not an empire in which Gidget or her family have a financial stake. Over the decades, it has floated hundreds of boats, boards, and kayaks, providing robust incomes for an axis of surfers based primarily in Southern California. Some of them scoff at the Gidget phenomenon even as they ride its endless wave; others have no knowledge of the role Gidget and her father played in bringing surf culture to landlubbers.
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Could Gidget's father really be attracted to her pal LaRue, after Gidget gives her a makeover, in "My Ever Faithful Friend"? Richard Dreyfuss guest stars as a nerd whom Gidget tries to help by going out with him in "Ego-A-Go-Go," and "In and Out with the In-Laws" has a meeting with Jeff's parents leading to...wedding bells?
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This show jumped when Wiliam Schallert (as Gidget's father Russ Lawrence) appeared in very few episodes even though he was a regular (billed in the oepning credits). But the family (Gidget, Jeff and niece Danni Collins) goes on vacation to Hawaii (parodying Gilligan's Island) and doesn't bring along Russ or they go to see Gidget's brother-in-law (Danni's father) ... not bringing Russ along. Instead they bring along Gail Baker, Danni's best friend, a total geek! Lili Haydn (Mrs. Columbo's daughter) played Gail, but she was not an opening-credits-listed regular. Yet, she appeared in nearly episode.
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The show is about a teenager "Gidget" living with her father (a college professor)and her wacky adventures with her best friend"Larue". Then ther is her sister, Anne and her husband John, a college student, trying make a marriage and going to colle
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