So sorry to listen to that James Darren has died at age 88.
A matinee idol from the Sixties, Darren starred as Moondoggie within the “Gidget” seashore blanket films. His first Gidget was Sandra Dee (who, paradoxically, married singer Bobby Darin). Cliff Robertson was additionally featured. They turned in a single day stars.
James Darren additionally starred in a neat TV present of the mid 60s known as “The Time Tunnel.” It was remade in subsequent years in lots of kinds together with “Quantum Leap.” As youngsters had been glued to the set as Darren, Lee Merriwether, and Robert Colbert raced up a tunnel that appeared just like the TWA Airways terminal at JFK and turned up within the Nineties or wherever.
Darren additionally starred in “TJ Hooker” with William Shatner within the Eighties. He appeared in numerous TV collection by way of the 80s. His final massive job was 8 episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Area 9” within the late 90s.
However he was a pop icon of the the pre Beatles 60s. He was not solely a film star however a pop star, too. He had successful single with the theme to “Gidget.”
Condolences to my previous buddy, Jim Moret, of “Inside Version” on the lack of his father.
There have been numerous totally different seashore celebration films within the late 50s and the early 60s. They had been from an harmless time, earlier than the Kennedy assassination or anybody figuring out concerning the Vietnam battle, or the Beatles. Youngsters surfed and did the Twist on the seashore. Oh to return in time!