Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The show only lasted a single season from 1965 to 1966, and while most of the Gidget TV show cast would have short-lived careers ...

When Gidget premiered on ABC in 1965, the series followed Francie Lawrence through her surfing adventures in California. In the series, the character, nicknamed Gidget, was 15 and a half. In theory, ...

Hollywood is looking to catch a new Gidget wave. Pterodactyl Prods. and “300” producer Mark Canton are teaming to bring the sun and surf icon back to film and TV for the first time in more than two ...

VENTURA, Calif.-The real life Gidget spent the day signing books and photographs at Betty Belts / Ocean Room Gallery in Ventura. The famous surfer's father Frederick Kohner wrote the book Gidget that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like “Gidget” to becoming an actor in TV shows such ...

LOS ANGELES – Actor James Darren, who starred in hit movie “Gidget” and TV shows such as “T.J. Hooker” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” has died. He was 88. Darren died in his sleep Monday at ...

LOS ANGELES – CIRCA 1961: Actor James Darren attends a party in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) James Darren, who became an instant teen idol as the ...

Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in ...