Season 1

22 episodes · 1986

Danni's wind surfing teacher develops a crush on Gidget, and she must find a way to set him straight without hurting his feelings

Gidget tries to make a plain girl look beautiful for a school dance.

Gidget must punish Danni after she repeatedly doesn't obey, and lets a friend use Gidget's and Jeff's credit card.

Dani starts her own business in order to make enough money to buy an expensive stereo.

Gidget starts a campaign to save a local park after it is ordered destroyed by the planning board, which Jeff is a part.

Danni attempt to finish a household chore list in order to go on vacation to Balboa.

Jeff perseveres with his monotonous workout in the ball cage with the ""old standard pitching machine"" but wishes he had a real human being to challenge him. Being that it's Jeff & Gidget's 8th wedding anniversary, Gidget exhaustingly tries to get the most amazing gift of obtaining professional baseball pitcher Jerry McGibbon (Jeff Yagher) to pitch to Jeff.

Gail's band delights a children's birthday party as their first 'gig'. During the party, Danny joins the band bringing vocals and sparks an interested talent-scout from a TV show (Rock Hunt), which progresses the band to audition. A musical metamorphosis starts to take place in the band so that it leads ""some"" of the band members down a selfish, uncompromising path that excludes the only band member who really has the composing talent, Gail.

Gidget and Jeff try to improve themselves.

Jeff wins a '65 Mustang in a radio contest, but has it stolen just after getting the car.