I jsut read a review which noted a Samantha doll on Gidget's dresser and it hit me like a ton of bricks - this was produced by the makers of Bewitched, and I just thought of another reference - didn't Peter Duel's character remind anyone of a young(er) Darrin Stephens?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I just got it on Netflix and I noticed William Asher as the director.
Stop quoting Ginsburg.
I never noticed the Samantha doll, but I know that Gidget's character mentioned Elizabeth Montgomery who played Samantha in the Gidget episode called Ring a Ding-Ding-Bat.
I do thing Peter resembles a younger Darrin Stephens -- just a bit.
Also in the Ring a Ding-Ding-Bat episode, we see a couple of partial shots of the exterior of the Stephens home from Bewitched. Both shows were from Screen Gems.
shareI watched all of the Gidget episodes on DVD over a year ago and I hate to say I don't pay a lot of attn to background stuff but after I too read that review on here I went back after having watched the 1st episode & then the 2nd episode after it again and I saw it, the Samantha doll in the red hat and dress holding a broom sitting on top of Gidget's TV set in her bedroom behind her. If that was a dressor it was a tiny one.
In the next episode the TV is still there but not the doll. As a matter of fact her bedroom totally changed from the 1st to the 2n episode. Her bedspread is a lighter pink. THe stuff on the walls are changed and what is sitting on the dressors as well as her phone no longer being pink but being beige or tan. Her bed doest have long posts now but short posts. The small TV replaced a vase of artficial flowers. It was so interesting to see that even though they only originally aired a week apart. Since then thought I found there is a Pilot on the extras and it is exactly the same as the 1st episode except the theme song sung by a group of guys and in a different style so its possible that was made a while before the 2nd episode and why so many changes were made.
I never realized the connection between Gidget and Bewitched and then I found this in Wikipedia. I knew that in one episode of Gidget they used the same living room as used in Donna Reed and I Dream of Jeannie, and they used the same kitchen as in Hazel. But then I found this which I thought was pretty interesting:
The Gidget/Bewitched connection
The 1959 Columbia Pictures' Gidget filmed on location at a real home in Santa Monica (at 267 18th Street) as seen in the film. The blueprint design of this home was later reversed and replicated as a house facade attached to an existing garage on the backlot of Columbia's Ranch. The reversed Gidget house was primarily used on the Columbia/Screen Gems hit television show Bewitched which premiered in 1964. The patio and living room sets seen in Columbia's Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) were soon adapted for the permanent Bewitched set for 1964. In the TV series from 1965–66, Gidget (played by Sally Field) is often shown with a "Samantha" doll in her bedroom (a merchandise cross promotion for the other Columbia TV show), and in 1986's The New Gidget (produced by Columbia executive and producer Harry Ackerman) the facade used in shots for her home is the reversed Gidget house (better known by TV audiences from those subsequent decades of reruns as Samantha's home on Bewitched).[16]
There are other examples of Screen Gems reusing resources from different productions. For instance, the exterior and kitchen sets of the 1965 television series starring Sally Field had been previously employed in the Screen Gems' sitcom Hazel starring Shirley Booth.
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Some of the sound effects were exactly like Bewitched & Jeannie!
shareThe episode in which the girls demand to be treated better (by their boyfriends) and end up at a sleepover at Gidget's place, when they cut to Mark on the phone (with the boys at his place), the set used is the Stephen's living room with a different couch and a different painting over the fireplace.
"The most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it." - Cesar Romero
Everything from the title credits (well, more like I Dream of Jeannie) to the background music -- well both were Screen Gems series.
But Peter and Dick York could have played characters like Frasier and Niles Crane.
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In the episode "Gidget's Career " I believe it is Larry Tate's office from BETWITCHED that is used as the record company executive's office.
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