LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88.

James Darren, the former teen idol and pop ... on television on The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker, died Monday. He was 88. Darren died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles ...