Sally Field picked a pretty good show to start her ... appears as Durf the Dog. Gidget also embraced a technique where Sally Field, in character, would talk right to the TV audience.

Gidget (Sally Field) is at odds with her English teacher Mr. Donald Hardy (character actor and later director Noam Pitlik). He seems to hold her to a higher standard since her father is English ...

At the same time, she played Larue Wilson on The New Gidget from 1986-87, a sequel to the Sally Field-led 1960s ABC sitcom ... where she received a B.S. in Radio, TV and Film Performance before ...