Gidget All the Best Diseases Are Taken (1965–1966) watch online HD

The reason that Episode 10, "All the Best Diseases Are Taken," from November 1965, fails is for one reason, and for that, there are numerous contributors.

Gidge & LaRue (Lynette Winter) decided to protest when their local movie theater raises its ticket prices only for the Friday & Saturday evening showing that most of Gidget & her high school pals attend.

Gidge get protesting, folk singing hero Billy Roy Soames to join the cause.

However, in the end, Soames, who is staying Gidget & Prof Lawrence (the wonderful Don Porter) splits just before the rally, proving to be little better than a wandering bum to whom an actual commitment means nothing.

The episode's problem: As written by Tony Wilson, and as directed by journeyman E.W. Swackhamer, and as played by future cult film director Henry Jaglom, Soames is so thoroughly unlikable that the episode is ruined.

He's rude, crude, manner-less,and completely self-centered. He's disgusting and who can root for someone like that? And because of that, who can really enjoy this episode? What a shame.

Had guest Martin Milner in an earlier episode, "The Great Kahuna," played his legendary surf bum like that it would have ruined what is one of the show's finest episodes.

Gidget (Sally Field) wants to take up activism and finds a cause when her best friend Larue (Lynette Winter) tells her that the local theater is raising its rates on Saturday's early show- when mostly kids attend. She gathers her school's civics club and confront the theater owner who isn't shy in expressing that it's exactly why he's raising the rates. They picket the sidewalks with no success for their cause. Gidget and Larue go to talk with protest singer Billy Roy Soames (later independent director Henry Jaglom). The egotistical singer/songwriter has little interest in talking with Gidget and rudely sends her away. Billy comes to Gidget's house with a change of mind and sleeps overnight in the living room. They find difficulty in gaining momentum for their cause. Gidget's father (Don Porter) tries to reason with her.

The protest singer character is very unlikable, as a previous reviewer noted, whose drive seems to be more interested in the protest than the cause, part of what's wrong in present-day. It's an uninteresting, weak effort.