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American television serial, 1964 to 1967

Gilligan's Island
Created by	Sherwood Schwartz
Directed by	Rod Amateau Ida Lupino Stanley Z. Blood-red Richard Donner
Starring	Bob Denver Alan Hale Jr. Jim Backus Natalie Schafer Tina Louise Russell Johnson Dawn Wells
Theme music composer	Sherwood Schwartz George Wyle
Opening theme	"The Carol of Gilligan's Isle"
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	iii
No. of episodes	98 plus a 1963 pilot (first circulate in 1964) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Sherwood Schwartz
Producer	Sherwood Schwartz
Camera setup	Film; Single-camera
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Gladasya Productions CBS Productions United Artists Television
Benefactor	Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Blackness and white (1964–1965) Color (1965–1967)
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 26, 1964 (1964-09-26) – Apr 17, 1967 (1967-04-17)
Chronology
Followed past	The New Adventures of Gilligan

Russell Johnson equally The Professor

Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced past Sherwood Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967. The series follows the comic adventures of seven castaways as they endeavor to survive on an isle where they are shipwrecked. Most episodes revolve around the dissimilar castaways' conflicts and their unsuccessful attempts to escape their plight, with Gilligan usually being responsible for the failures.^[i]

Gilligan's Island ran for 98 episodes. All 36 episodes of the start season were filmed in black and white and were later on colorized for syndication. The testify's second and third seasons (62 episodes) and the three tv film sequels (aired between 1978 and 1982) were filmed in color.

The testify received solid ratings during its original run, then grew in popularity during decades of syndication, especially in the 1970s and 1980s when many markets ran the prove in the late afternoon. Today, the title grapheme of Gilligan is recognized as an American cultural icon.

Premise [edit]

The two-man crew of the charter boat SS Minnow and five passengers on a "three-hr tour" from Honolulu see a typhoon and are shipwrecked on an uncharted isle somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. (The exact location is said to be in conflicting longitudes/latitudes in three episodes.)^[2] Their efforts to be rescued are typically thwarted by the inadvertent behave of the hapless offset mate, Gilligan. In 1997, bear witness creator Sherwood Schwartz explained that the underlying concept, people with unlike characters and backgrounds beingness in a situation where they need to learn how to get along and cooperate with each other to survive, is still "the most important idea in the globe today".^[3]

Cast and characters [edit]

• Bob Denver every bit Gilligan, the hapless showtime mate of the South.S. Minnow
• Alan Hale Jr. as Captain Jonas Grumby ("The Skipper"), the captain of the S.S. Minnow
• Jim Backus as Thurston Howell 3, a Wall Street millionaire
• Natalie Schafer as Eunice "Lovey" Howell, Thurston's wife
• Tina Louise as Ginger Grant, a Hollywood movie star
• Russell Johnson as Professor Roy Hinkley, Ph.D. ("The Professor")
• Dawn Wells as Mary Ann Summers, a wholesome farm girl from Winfield, Kansas, who won the trip and bout in a lottery
• Charles Maxwell (uncredited) every bit the voice of the recurring radio announcer

Episodes [edit]

Pilot episode [edit]

The pilot episode, "Marooned", was filmed in November 1963. The pilot featured vii characters (as in the series), but only four of the characters—and their associated actors—were carried forward into the series: Gilligan (Denver), the Skipper (Hale), and the Howells (Backus and Schafer).

Because of the three meaning grapheme and casting changes between the pilot episode and the first series episode, the pilot was not shown before the serial first aired on September 26, 1964. The original pilot somewhen aired over 29 years afterwards on TBS.

The 3 characters who did non comport forrard from the airplane pilot were ii secretaries and a high school teacher. In the pilot, the scientifically inclined Professor was instead a loftier school teacher played by John Gabriel. Ginger the movie star was still cerise-haired Ginger, but she worked as a secretary and was played by Kit Smythe. She was more sarcastic than the after incarnation. Mary Ann the Kansas farm girl was instead Bunny, Ginger's co-worker, played as a cheerful "impaired blonde" by Nancy McCarthy.

The pilot's opening and ending songs were two similar calypso-styled tracks written by John Williams and performed by Sherwood Schwartz impersonating singer Sir Lancelot. The lyrics of both differ from those of the Tv series, and the pilot's opening theme song was longer. The short scenes during this initial music include Gilligan taking the Howells' luggage to the boat before cast-off and Gilligan trying to give a cup of coffee to the Skipper during the storm that would ultimately maroon the gunkhole.

After the opening theme song and credits cease, the airplane pilot proper begins with the seven castaways waking upwards on the beached SS Minnow. It continues with them performing diverse tasks, including exploring the island, trying to fix the transmitter, building huts, and finding nutrient. Opposite to some descriptions, the pilot's storylines independent no detailed accounts of the pilot characters' backgrounds. The pilot concludes with the catastrophe theme vocal and credits. The groundwork music and fifty-fifty the laugh tracks of the airplane pilot appear all but identical to those used during the series.

Kickoff broadcast episode [edit]

The first episode actually circulate, "Two on a Raft", is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the series pilot. This episode begins with the same scene of Gilligan and the Skipper enkindling on the boat as in the pilot (though slightly differently cut, to eliminate most shots of the departed actors) and continues with the characters sitting on the embankment listening to a radio news report about their disappearance. No equivalent scene or background information is in the pilot, except for the description of the passengers in the original theme song. Rather than reshooting the rest of the airplane pilot story for broadcast, the evidence just proceeded. The plot thus skips over the topics of the pilot; the bulk of the episode tells of Gilligan and the Skipper setting off on a raft to try to bring assist but unknowingly landing back on the other side of the same island.

The scene with the radio report is i of two scenes that reveal the names of the Skipper (Jonas Grumby) and the Professor (Roy Hinkley); the names are used in a similar radio written report early in the series. The name Jonas Grumby appears nowhere else in the series except for an episode in which the Maritime Board of Review blames the Skipper for the loss of the Minnow. The name Roy Hinkley is used one other time when Mr. Howell introduces the Professor as Roy Huntley, and the Professor corrects him, to which Mr. Howell replies, "Brinkley, Brinkley."

The plot for the airplane pilot episode was recycled into that season'due south Christmas episode, "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk", in which the story of the pilot episode, apropos the practical bug on landing, is related through a series of flashbacks. Footage featuring characters that had been recast was reshot using the electric current actors. For scenes including simply Denver, Hale, Backus, and Schafer, the original footage was reused.

Last broadcast episode [edit]

The last episode of the show, "Gilligan the Goddess", aired on April 17, 1967, and ended just like the balance, with the castaways still stranded on the island. It was not known at the fourth dimension that it would exist the series finale, as a fourth season was expected only so canceled.^[4]

In its last twelvemonth, Gilligan'southward Island was the lead-in for the CBS Mon nighttime schedule. It was followed for the starting time 16 weeks by the sitcom Run, Buddy, Run. The time slot from 7:30 to 8:30 p.grand. Eastern was filled in the 1967–1968 flavour by Gunsmoke, moved from its traditional Saturday 10 p.g. time slot.

Typical plots [edit]

The shipwrecked castaways desire to exit the isle, and various opportunities present themselves but neglect due to some bumbling fault committed past Gilligan. Sometimes this results in Gilligan saving the others from some unforeseen flaw in their plan.^[5]

Most episodes of Gilligan's Island utilize variations of five recurring bones plots:

• Life on the island. A running gag is the castaways' ability to mode an array of useful objects from bamboo, gourds, vines, and other local materials. Some are everyday items, such equally eating and cooking utensils, while others (such equally a remarkably efficient prevarication detector apparatus) are stretches of the imagination. Russell Johnson noted in his autobiography that the production crew enjoyed the challenge of edifice these props. These bamboo items include framed huts with thatched grass sides and roofs, forth with bamboo closets potent enough to withstand hurricane-force winds and rain, the communal dining table and chairs, pipes for Gilligan's hot water, a stethoscope, and a pedal-powered car.
• Visitors to the uncharted island. Some other challenge to a viewer's break of disbelief is the remarkable frequency with which the remote island is visited by an assortment of people who repeatedly fail to help the castaways in leaving the island.
• Dream sequences in which ane of the castaways dreams they are some grapheme related to that week's story line. All of the castaways appeared as other characters within the dream. In later interviews and memoirs, nearly all the actors stated that the dream episodes were amidst their favorites.
• A piece of news concerning the castaways arrives from the exterior world via the radio and causes distress or discord.
• The appearance or arrival of strange objects to the island, such as a Earth State of war Two naval mine, an onetime silent motion picture photographic camera and costumes, a crate of radioactive vegetable seeds, plastic explosives, a robot, a live king of beasts, a jet pack, or a "Mars Rover" that the scientists dorsum in the Us retrieve is sending them pictures of Mars.

Most of the slapstick comedic sequences between Unhurt and Denver were inspired by Laurel and Hardy, particularly when Unhurt breaks the quaternary wall by looking direct into the camera expressing his frustration with Denver'south clumsiness as Oliver Hardy often did.^[half-dozen]

Production [edit]

The evidence was filmed at the CBS Radford Studios complex in Studio City, Los Angeles.^[7] The same stage was afterwards used for The Mary Tyler Moore Bear witness and Roseanne, the latter of which featured a fantasize parodying Gilligan'southward Island in ane episode. The lagoon was drained and used as a parking lot during the testify'southward off-season and was the concluding surviving element of the show when it was demolished in 1997 as part of an expansion project.^[viii]

Four boats were used as the SS Minnow. Ane was used in the opening credits and rented in Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in Honolulu. Some other, the Bluejacket, was used in the opening credits shown during the second and 3rd seasons and eventually turned upwards for auction on Vancouver Island in August 2006, afterwards running ashore on a reef in the Hecate Strait on the way southward from Alaska. One boat was used for beach scenes subsequently being towed to Kauai in Hawaii. The fourth Minnow was built on the CBS Studios set in the second flavor.^[ix] The Minnow was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U.S. FCC, in response to Minow'southward landmark 1961 speech "Television receiver and the Public Involvement"; the oral communication lambasted television producers for producing, among other things, "formula comedies about totally unbelievable" characters and creating a "vast wasteland" of bad tv set.^[x]

The terminal twenty-four hour period of filming the pilot was Friday, November 22, 1963, the mean solar day of the bump-off of President John F. Kennedy.^[xi] The bandage and crew learned of the assassination tardily that forenoon, Hawaii time.^[11] Between the filming of scenes, they crowded around a radio listening to news bulletins.^[11] A reminder of the tragedy appears in the opening sequence of the show's kickoff season, when the theme vocal is played. Every bit the Minnow is leaving the harbor and heading out to ocean, an American flag flying at half staff can be seen in the background.^{[xi] [12]}

The U.s. Coast Guard occasionally received telegrams and letters from concerned citizens, who apparently did not realize it was a scripted prove, pleading for them to rescue the people on the deserted island. The Coast Baby-sit forwarded these to producer Sherwood Schwartz.^[13] In homage to those telegrams, the motion picture Rescue from Gilligan's Island showed the successful rescue where Gilligan lights a fire aboard the castaways' makeshift raft and is chastised for a thoughtless, dangerous action by the others. However, the resultant smoke attracts the attention of a The states Coast Baby-sit helicopter, whose airplane pilot commends Gilligan'due south fire; otherwise, the castaways would accept been adrift and unnoticed.

Casting [edit]

Bob Denver was not the first choice to play Gilligan; player Jerry Van Dyke was offered the part, but he turned it downward, believing that the show would never be successful. He chose instead to play the atomic number 82 in My Mother the Motorcar, which premiered the post-obit year and is frequently cited equally i of the worst television shows of all fourth dimension; it was canceled later i flavor.^{[14] : 3:15-3:xl} The producers looked to Bob Denver, the actor who had played Maynard G. Krebs, the beatnik in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.^{[14] : 9:02–x:25}

Natalie Schafer had it written into her contract that no close-ups would be made of her, but afterward a while in the series it was forgotten. Schafer was 63 when the pilot was shot, although reportedly no one on the set or in the cast knew her real age, and she refused to divulge information technology. Originally, she only accepted the role because the pilot was filmed on location in Hawaii. She looked at the job as nothing more than a free vacation, as she was convinced that a bear witness this empty-headed would "never go".^[xv]

Tina Louise clashed with producer Sherwood Schwartz because she initially believed that she was hired as the primal grapheme. The character of Ginger was originally written as a hard-nosed, sharp-tongued temptress, just Louise argued that this portrayal was besides harsh and refused to play her equally written. A compromise was reached; Louise agreed to play Ginger equally a Marilyn Monroe/Jayne Mansfield type. Her temperament reportedly made her difficult to work with, just when it came time to shoot, she was always professional. Louise connected to disagree with producers over her role and was the only cast member who refused to appear in any of the 3 postal service-serial TV movies, saying that the role had killed her career as a serious actress. Afterward many years of distancing herself from the show, she appeared in a reunion of the bandage on a late-night telly talk show in 1988 and on an episode of Roseanne in 1995 when the Roseanne cast re-enacted Gilligan'due south Island. In the airplane pilot episode, the graphic symbol of Ginger was played by actress Kit Smythe.^{[ citation needed ]}

John Gabriel was originally cast equally the academic character, a loftier school teacher. Subsequently testing, the network didn't believe the character scored well with the audience.^{[14] : 22:27 - 22:40} Auditions were held for the revised function of the Professor, which included Dabney Coleman, but was ultimately won by Russell Johnson. Prior to his acting career, Johnson had served equally a bombardier in 44 combat missions over the Pacific during World War Two. On March 4, 1945, the B-25 he was flying as the navigator was shot down, killing the copilot and breaking both of Johnson's ankles. At the time of his audition he was working in motion picture, and non very interested in a television receiver show unless it was going to be his own. His movie career had been going well, tallying several scientific discipline fiction and western film credits, including a office opposite Ronald Reagan in the 1953 film Constabulary and Lodge. In addition to film, Johnson had landed roles on multiple popular television serial such as The Adventures of Superman, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. With six other leads, his agent had to talk him into going to the audience, but later on meeting Sherwood Schwartz, he started to warm upwardly to the idea of playing the Professor. In discussing his role, he laughingly said he was unsure what was more difficult, remembering the Professor'south technically oriented lines, or looking up what they meant.^[14]

Dawn Wells was a one-time Miss Nevada when she auditioned for the Mary Ann role. Her contest included Raquel Welch and Pat Priest. The pilot episode featured a unlike character ("Bunny") played by actress Nancy McCarthy. Subsequently information technology was shot, the network decided to recast the roles of the Professor and the two immature women. Mary Ann became a elementary farm daughter from Winfield, Kansas.^{[ citation needed ]}

Theme song [edit]

The music and lyrics for the theme song, "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", were written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle. One version was used for the first flavor and another for the second and third seasons. In the original song, the Professor and Mary Ann, originally considered "second-billed co-stars", were referred to as "the remainder", simply with the growing popularity of those characters, their names were inserted into the lyrics in the second flavor. The Gilligan theme song underwent this one major change because star Bob Denver personally asked studio executives to add together Johnson and Wells to the song.^[16] When the studio at first refused, saying it would be too expensive to reshoot, Denver insisted, even going so far every bit to land that if Johnson and Wells were not included, he wanted his proper noun out of the song as well. The studio caved in, and "the Professor and Mary Ann" were added.^{[17] [eighteen] [xix]} The theme song in the original pilot did not fifty-fifty mention the character Ginger, with the last two mentioned past name existence "the Millionaire and Mrs. Millionaire" followed by "...and the other tourists".^[20]

The first-season version was recorded by the folk group The Wellingtons. The second-season version, which incorporated more of a sea shanty sound, was uncredited, just according to Russell Johnson in his book Here on Gilligan'south Isle, information technology was performed by a group called the Eligibles.^[21]

The show's original airplane pilot episode featured a calypso theme vocal by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics. The original length of the voyage was "a vi-hr ride", not "a three-hour tour".^[22] John Williams (or Johnny Williams as he was oft listed in the prove credits) too started out equally the composer of the incidental music for the testify (from 1964 to 1965), simply was replaced by Gerald Fried for the remaining seasons (1965–1967).^[23]

Later parody and homage [edit]

The band Lilliputian Roger and the Goosebumps recorded "Stairway to Gilligan's Island," a parody of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Sky", substituting the words to the Gilligan's Isle theme song.^[24] In 1987, The Iceman parodied Madonna'southward "La Isla Bonita" as "La Isla Gilligan." "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a song called "Island Thing", a parody of Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing", near a rapper whose girlfriend introduces him to the prove. Yankovic also mentions the show in his song "Stop Draggin' My Car Around", and he used i verse from the closing theme lyrics in "Amish Paradise" (1996), a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995). The song has as well been covered by many bands, including Bowling for Soup for the TBS show The Real Gilligan'south Island.^[25] Israel Kamakawiwoʻole as well recorded a comic tribute to the theme vocal on his album E Ala E. The TV serial ALF had a 2-function episode "Somewhere Over the Rerun"/"The Ballad of Gilligan'due south Island" in which ALF dreams he's on Gilligan's Island; guest stars Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson reprise their Gilligan'due south Isle roles. The chorus to rap grouping Big Tymers' Still Fly is said to be an interpolation of the department of the theme-vocal referring to the bandage members.^[26]

Cancellation [edit]

During the 1966–1967 television flavor, Gilligan'due south Island aired on Mondays at 7:30 p.yard. Eastern time. Though the sitcom's ratings had fallen well out of the top-30 programs, during the last few weeks of its third season, the series was yet winning its timeslot against its main competition, The Monkees, which aired at the same time on NBC-TV. Therefore, CBS bodacious Sherwood Schwartz that Gilligan's Isle would definitely be picked upward for a fourth yr.

CBS, however, had signaled its intention to cancel the long-running Western serial Gunsmoke, which had been airing belatedly on Saturday nights during the 1966–1967 television season. Under pressure from CBS network president William Southward. Paley and his wife Babe, along with many network affiliates and longtime fans of Gunsmoke, CBS rescheduled the Western to an earlier fourth dimension slot on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. eastern time. As a effect, Gilligan's Island was quietly canceled at practically the terminal infinitesimal, while the cast members were all on vacation. Some of the cast had bought houses virtually the set, based on Sherwood Schwartz's exact confirmation that the series would be renewed for a fourth season.^[27]

Nielsen ratings/television schedule [edit]

Season	Ep#	Season premiere	Season finale	Time slot	Rank	Rating	Households
1 (1964–1965)	36	September 26, 1964	June 12, 1965	Saturdays at eight:30 p.one thousand. eastern fourth dimension	#18	24.7 (necktie)	thirteen,227,700
ii (1965–1966)	32	September sixteen, 1965	Apr 28, 1966	Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. eastern time	#22	22.1	11,900,850
iii (1966–1967)	xxx	September 12, 1966	April 17, 1967	Mondays at vii:thirty p.m. eastern fourth dimension	#49[28]	N/A	N/A

Film sequels [edit]

Iii tv picture show sequels were fabricated—the first independently, the other ii past MCA/Universal Telly.

In a 1978 television pic, Rescue from Gilligan'due south Island, the castaways successfully leave the isle only accept difficulty reintegrating into society. During a reunion cruise on the showtime Christmas afterward their rescue, fate intervenes and they find themselves wrecked on the same isle at the end of the picture. It starred the original cast, except for Tina Louise, who refused to participate considering of her disputes with the producers and who was replaced past Judith Baldwin. The plot involved Soviet agents seeking a retentivity disc from a spy satellite that landed on the island and facilitated their rescue.

In a 1979 sequel, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island, they are rescued once again, and the Howells convert the island into a getaway resort with the other five castaways as "silent partners". Ginger was again played by Judith Baldwin.

In a second sequel, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981), villains played by Martin Landau and and so-wife Barbara Bain try to accept over the isle to gain admission to a vein of "supremium", a valuable but volatile fictional element. This time, Ginger was played by Constance Forslund. They are thwarted by the timely intervention of the Harlem Globetrotters. Jim Backus, who was in poor wellness at the time, was written out of the script by saying Thurston Howell Iii was disposed to Howell Industries back on the mainland. David Ruprecht played the part of his son, Thurston Howell IV, who was asked to manage the resort. However, Backus insisted on keeping continuity, and fabricated a cameo appearance at the end of the film.

In 2008, Sherwood Schwartz stated he would similar a modern-solar day movie adaptation of Gilligan'due south Island with Michael Cera equally Gilligan and Beyonce Knowles as Ginger.^{[29] [xxx] [31]}

Spin-offs and timelines [edit]

The New Adventures of Gilligan is a Filmation-produced blithe remake that aired on ABC on Sabbatum mornings from September 7, 1974, to September iv, 1977, for 24 episodes (16 installments ambulation in 1974–75 and eight new ones combined with repeats in 1975–76). The voices were provided by the original cast except for Ginger and Mary Ann (both were voiced past Jane Webb). Dawn Wells could not participate because she was in a touring product.^{[ citation needed ]} An additional character was Gilligan'due south pet, Snubby the Monkey.

Gilligan's Planet is an animated scientific discipline-fiction version produced by Filmation and starring the voices of the Gilligan'south Island cast, save for Tina Louise (Dawn Wells voiced both Mary Ann and Ginger). In a follow-upwardly to The New Adventures of Gilligan, the castaways escape from the island by building a spaceship, and get shipwrecked on a distant planet. Simply 12 episodes aired on CBS betwixt September 18, 1982, and September 3, 1983. In the episode "Let Sleeping Minnows Prevarication", they travel to an isle, become shipwrecked there, and Gilligan observes, "Start nosotros were stranded on an island, and so we were stranded on a planet, and now we're stranded on an island on a planet."

Reunions and documentaries [edit]

Adept Morning America featured a Gilligan's Island reunion presided over by guest host Kathie Lee Gifford on November 26, 1982. The entire cast was present, except for Jim Backus who was unable to nourish simply appeared via a live video remote from Los Angeles.

All seven of the original cast members (forth with Sherwood Schwartz) reunited on television for i last fourth dimension on a 1988 episode of The Late Testify with Ross Shafer.

Gilligan'southward Island: Underneath the Grass Brim is a 1999 documentary featuring Denver and Louise.

E! True Hollywood Story presented a backstage history of the show in 2000, featuring interviews with some of the stars or their widows.

Surviving Gilligan's Isle (2001) is a docudrama in which Bob Denver, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson reminisce virtually the show.

[edit]

• Gilligan's Island: The Musical was offset produced in the early 1990s, with a script by Lloyd Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz'due south son, and songs past Schwartz's daughter and son-in-law, Hope and Laurence Juber.
• Gilligan's Wake is a 2003 parallel novel loosely based on the 1960s CBS sitcom, from the viewpoints of the 7 major characters, written by Esquire film and television critic Tom Carson. The championship is derived from the title of the TV show and Finnegans Wake, the seminal work of Irish novelist James Joyce.
• On November 30, 2004, the TBS network launched a reality serial titled The Real Gilligan's Island, which placed two groups of people on an island, leaving them to fend for themselves in the style of Survivor – the catch being that each islander matched a character type established in the original series (a klutz, a sea captain, a movie star, a millionaire's wife, etc.). While heavily marketed by TBS, the show turned out to be a flop with a very Survivor-like experience, but little of its success. A second season began June 8, 2005, with two-hour episodes for iv weeks. TBS announced in July 2005 that a third season of the show would not be produced.

Syndication [edit]

Syndication is handled past Warner Bros. Television (nether Turner Entertainment Co., which in 1986 acquired United Artists Television's share of the series as part of the classic pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library). Information technology aired on TBS from 1986 to 2003, where it also aired with colorization on season ane for a while. TBS would air Gilligan's Island weekday mornings at eight:05am/et throughout the 90s ofttimes paired with Bewitched. TNT aired information technology at some indicate in the 1990s, and as well aired the colorized season ane. Nick at Nite afterwards aired the series from 2000 to 2001. It then shifted to Idiot box Country, where it aired from 2001 to 2003 (and over again from January to June 2014). Then, in 2004, it aired on Hallmark Channel.

In 2015, the show started to air nationally on MeTV.^[1]

Warner/Turner also handles the two Filmation-produced animated sequel series. The three Tv movie sequels are handled past other companies.

In the UK Gilligan's Isle had a very brief run on ITV in April 1965 merely was dropped after thirteen episodes.

Information technology has briefly aired on MBC in the MENA region.

Home media [edit]

Warner Home Video released all three seasons of Gilligan'due south Isle on DVD in Region 1 between 2004 and 2005. The Complete Commencement Season features all 36 episodes unedited with the original theme song. And, unlike other releases of older sitcoms, the episodes are in their original black-and-white format. The special features include the rare pilot episode with commentary with creator Sherwood Schwartz and three other featurettes.

The Complete Second Season includes all 32 season-two episodes in color. Bonuses for this fix include: a season-two introduction with Russell Johnson and Sherwood Schwartz and audio commentary on the flavor'southward third episode, "The Piffling Dictator".

The Complete Third Season includes all 30 flavor-three episodes. Special features include a flavour introduction with Russell Johnson and Sherwood Schwartz, commentary on the season's quaternary episode, "The Producer", guest-starring Phil Silvers, and a 15-minute documentary titled Gilligan's Island: A Pop Civilization Phenomenon.

The Complete Serial Collection contains nonetheless bonuses and featurettes for a complete serial box ready in 2007. In April 2012, the serial was reissued in new DVD releases.

The series is as well bachelor at the iTunes Store.^[32]

DVD proper name	Ep#	Release appointment
The Complete First Season	36	February three, 2004
The Complete Second Season	32	January 11, 2005
The Complete Third Flavor	30	July 26, 2005
The Consummate Series Collection	98	November six, 2007

Digitally remastered in high definition [edit]

In Baronial 2006, an executive at Warner Bros. announced plans that Gilligan's Island, in addition to other classic TV series owned past the studio, would be digitally re-mastered in Hard disk.^[33] The original TV series was shot on high-resolution moving-picture show but scaled downwardly for circulate.

On Jan 20, 2014, Boob tube Land became the showtime network to air theatrical-style widescreen HD remastered episodes of Gilligan's Island. This marked the first time the WB remastered episodes were seen by fans and the full general public.^[34]

HD remastered episodes take been made available for purchase through streaming media sources.

In other media [edit]

Two lath games based on the testify, both chosen The Gilligan's Island Game featuring a monkey, Thurston Howell III, Gilligan, and the Skipper on the box cover, were manufactured past Game Gems and released in 1965.^[35] The New Adventures of Gilligan, based on the short-lived drawing of the same name and featuring all castaways, was manufactured by Milton Bradley and was released in 1974.^[36]

A set of trading cards was released by Topps in 1965.^[37] A pinball automobile, manufactured by Bally and based on the show, was released in May 1991.^[38] A video game based on the series, called The Adventures of Gilligan's Island and manufactured by Bandai, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in July 1990. The game features the likenesses of all the original castaways except for Ginger, who is completely absent from the game.^[39] A video slot machine, manufactured past International Game Technology and loosely based on the show, was released in 2004.^[forty]

Ginger or Mary Ann? [edit]

The question of which of these ii characters fans of the bear witness prefer has endured long afterwards the end of the serial.^{[41] [42]} The question has inspired commercials,^[43] essays, videos, and a sermon.^[44] By most accounts, the wholesome Mary Ann has consistently outpolled the glamorous pic-star Ginger by a sizable margin.^[45] Bob Denver admitted he was a Mary Ann fan.^[42] According to Bob Denver in a 2001 interview, Wells received 3,000–5,000 fan letters weekly, whereas Louise may accept gotten 1,500 or 2,000.^{[46] [47]}

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Bibliography [edit]

• Denver, Bob (November 1993). Gilligan, Maynard & Me. Carol Publishing. ISBN0-8065-1413-2.
• Green, Joey (Apr 1988). Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook . Warner Books. ISBN0-446-38668-five.
• Johnson, Russell; Cox, Steve (July 1993). Here on Gilligan's Isle (1st ed.). Perennial. ISBN0-06-096993-8.
• Schwartz, Sherwood (April xv, 1994). Within Gilligan'due south Isle: A Three-60 minutes Bout Through The Making of A Television Classic. St. Martin'due south Griffin. ISBN0-312-10482-0.
• Stoddard, Sylvia (May 1996). TV Treasures – A Companion Guide to Gilligan'southward Isle. New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN0-312-95797-1.
• Gilligan'southward Island – The Complete Showtime Flavour (DVD), 2004, Turner Dwelling Entertainment, UPC 053939673425.
• Gilligan's Island – The Complete Second Flavor (DVD), 2005, Turner Home Entertainment, UPC 053939692624.
• Gilligan's Island – The Complete Third Season (DVD), 2005, Turner Home Entertainment, UPC 053939733129.

External links [edit]

• Gilligan's Island at IMDb
• Gilligan'due south Island: Underneath the Grass Brim (1999 documentary) at IMDb
• Gilligan'south Isle at The Interviews: An Oral History of Goggle box
• Sept 2014 interview with Dawn Wells

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