Moondoggie
Moondoggie is a fictional character created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel "Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas". He appears as a principal character in five of the eight Gidget novels, but is a minor character or is only mentioned in passing in "Cher Papa", "The Affairs of Gidget" and "Gidget Goes Parisienne". History. He is portrayed as a surfer who saves Gidget from drowning and later becomes romantically involved with her. In the novels, two of the television movies and "The New Gidget", his real name is Geoffrey H. Griffin (the middle initial is mentioned only  in the first novel), but in the three "Gidget" motion pictures and the 1960s sitcom "Gidget" his name is changed to Jeffrey Matthews, and in "Gidget Gets Married" his name is Jeff Stevens. In the novelization "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" we learn that his nickname refers to his fondness for surfing by moonlight. In the three motion pictures "Gidget", "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" and "Gidget Goes to Rome", Moondoggie is portrayed by James Darren, the only character to be played by the same actor in all three films. In the sitcom "Gidget", he is portrayed by Stephen Mines; in "Gidget Grows Up  by Paul Petersen, in Gidget Gets Married" by Michael Burns, and in "Gidget's Summer Reunion" and "The New Gidget" by Dean Butler. At the end of the last "Gidget" novel, "Gidget Goes New York", Moondoggie and Gidget are married. They are also portrayed as married in "Gidget Gets Married", "Gidget's Summer Reunion" and "The New Gidget".