Gidget was a character in a teenage television series during the
sixties. The show was the first starring role for actress, Sally
Fields. Gidget's crowd were known as the surfing crowd. Gidget fell
in love with a surfer, Moondoggie, and soon managed to ingratiate
herself into the surfer culture. They had exacting criteria, and
mores, appearing to represent a specific subculture.