Mr. Gidding remarried in 1998. He is the father of Joshua Gidding, a
writer and college professor in New York. He is a longtime friend of
director Robert Wise.
Mr. Gidding is also the author of the novel "End over End".
He was considered by Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman to hire as a staff writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Gidding wasn't interested in a staff position, but was willing to contribute to either the pilot or a future episode, despite pitching a story idea, nothing ultimately materialized.