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A comedy (?) of errors ensues when Gidget (Sally Field) agrees to accompany her friend Shirley (Beverly Washburn) when the latter heads out to pick up her first car. Thanks to unforeseen circumstances, Gidget ends up being driven around town in her pajamas by Shrley's parents. And thanks to a series typical sitcom misunderstandings, Gidget's dad Russ (Don Porter)--who had made her promise to tell him where she was at all times--jumps to the conclusion that his daughter has been kidnapped. Seen as Shirley's mom and dad are Jeff Donnell, who'd played the title character's mother in the 1961 theatrical feature Gidget Goes Hawaiian, and Paul Lynde, who would later show up as "The Gidge"'s father in the made-for-TV Gidget Gets Married.