In the pilot episode, Gidget falls in love with two things: surfing and her surf boy Jeff. Life's swell until Gidget's protective older sister Anne, reads her diary and assumes her highly imaginative confessions are true.

Anne is worried because John goes to a luau with Gidget.

An older man dates Gidget.

Gidget becomes suspicious when she sees her dad with another woman.

Gidget attempts to get Anne and John to make-up.

Gidget makes a deal with a surfer to buy his hearse so she can become more independent. However, after making a few payments the surfer sales it to a bunch of boys. Making her point about owning a small part of the hearse the boys decide to let her drive it, a very small part of the time. In the mean time she takes shop class at school to help with the upkeep of the hearse.

An old friend of Russ' is now Gidget's English teacher.

Gidget has a crush on Larue's cousin.

Gidget's meddling sister and brother-in-law convince her father he's too dependent on her. So he decides to send Gidget away to a private girl's school in Paris.

Gidget takes a stand against rising movie ticket prices.

Gidget thinks Russ and Larue are going to get together. Actually Larue is just getting help and advice from Russ.

Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.

Gidget, her friends and the boys fight for possession of an isolated cove at the beach.

Gidget tries to show a foreign girl the ""American way.""

Gidget falls for a fashion photographer.

Gidget has two too many dates for an upcoming dance.

Gidget falls for a surfer who turns out to be her math teacher.

Gidget is voodoo'd by a fortune teller.

Gidget joins a folksy singing group. They audition for a teenage music TV show and get the gig! Gidget decides to change the group's image—they become ""Gidget and the Gories!""

Gidget gets a boy to be more self-confident.

Gidget meets Jeff's parents.

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

Gidget rallies to save the local burger joint.

Fab British singing duo The Dingbats come to town. Gidget wants to find out if she really digs the Dingbats or if it's just because grown-ups don't. She hatches an elaborate scheme to meet the Dingbats—but then causes so much trouble for ""the boys"" that the only way to fix it is for her and Larue to disguise themselves as The Dingbats!

Gidget is to be chaperoned by a college student, whom Anne and John paid.

Gidget gets a late evening phone call from a friend to hurry over to her house. She runs out of the house in her pajamas and a raincoat, not knowing that her friend wants her to go out of town with her to get a car. Along the way Gidget keeps trying to call home to tell Russ where she is but, it just ends up causing friction with the girls dad. Eventually they end up just going back home without a car.

Russ gets the idea that Gidget is working at a nightclub. When actually she's taken a job elsewhere to make enough money to buy him a birthday present.

Gidget learns to drive for a new job.

Gidget takes over writing for the school's advice column. She then gets caught up trying to put two lonely hearts together.

Russ's friend moves into the Lawrence home, while he is away, to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately Gidget comes home early from Larue's. With neither one knowing about the other they start to get scared about all the things going bump in the night.

Gidget and her boyfriend try to discourage the boys father from going on dates with them.

A frozen alligator is the cause of some confusion.