In 1965, the character was adapted for television in the Screen Gems sitcom series "Gidget", starring Sally Field. Don Porter, who had played Gidget's father in "Gidget Goes to Rome", reprised the role for the show. The series reintroduced Larue, a timid, awkward girl who often accompanied Gidget on her zany escapades, and an older married sister Anne Cooper ("Ann Cooper" in the novels), both of whom had appeared in the original 1957 novel but were absent from the motion pictures.