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Created by: Sherwood Schwartz
Starring: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Hans Conried, Vito Scotti, Larry Storch, Kurt Russell, Denny Miller, Harold J. Stone, Eddie Little Sky, Janos Prohaska, Nehemiah Persoff, Booth Colman, Arthur Peterson Jr, Vincent Beck, Les Brown Jr, The Wellingtons, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mike Mazurki, Richard Kiel, Rory Calhoun, Phil Silvers, John McGiver, Don Rickles, Strother Martin, Michael Forest, Stanley Adams
98 episodes
(TV-G - suitable for all ages)
PLOT:
Marooned on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific, seven castaways make various attempts to get rescued but, are usually held back by the direct or indirect actions of a bumbling shipmate.
season 1 -
Following a violent storm that maroons crew and passengers on an uncharted island, Skipper Jonas Grumby and First Mate Willy Gilligan sail for help on a raft. On the island, the remaining castaways are worried about possible headhunters. Skipper and Gilligan wind up back on the island. Each group now believe the other are the headhunters. The seven castaways decide that they're unwilling to all share the same dwelling, so they break up into teams to construct four separate huts. A violent storm is on the horizon, so time is of the essence, and with Gilligan trying to help, there are plenty of setbacks. After a robbery of their supplies, the castaways believe a convict is loose on the island, while Skipper thinks it's voodoo. The Skipper believes that Gilligan has been turned into a chimpanzee. Later, Gilligan thinks the Skipper was turned into the chimp. Skipper is able to turn the radio into a transmitter. The catch is that he can only do it when he sleepwalks. Gilligan gets some tranquilizers from Mr. Howell. The only problem is that everyone drops a couple pills in the Skippers drink. Will he be able to make contact with aviatrix Alice McNeil on her around the world flight or will Gilligan mess things up? Famed aviator Wrongway Feldman is discovered living on the island with a damaged plane, so the castaways offer to help fix it. But each time Wrongway is about to take off, something goes wrong with the plane as if it had be sabotaged. Turns out it was Wrongway that did it, as he doesn't feel he can fly anymore after all that time. He does eventually take off and makes it back to New York. However, he can't give accurate directions back to the island. When Mr. Howell and the Skipper square off over who is in charge, the castaways decide they need to elect a leader. Howell and Skipper both try to influence the others votes. When the castaways cast their votes, the result is surprising. Gilligan, the new president, takes his job seriously, but no one else on the island pays any attention to his ideas. There is a blight on the island and food is scarce. A duck lands on the island. The Professor wants to attach a message to the duck and hope for a rescue, while most of the others want to eat it. Gilligan is determined to protect the duck. In the end, the duck helps them with their food shortage. Gilligan discovers the perfect, permanent glue from tree sap when trying to make pancake syrup. The castaways decide to use this "glue" to patch the wreckage of the Minnow. Shortly before they are to sail off, Gilligan discovers that the glue is not so permanent after all, causing the Minnow to completely fall apart before it can set sail. Mr. Howell and Gilligan discover a gold mine on the island and soon greed and 'gold fever' overcome the castaways. Meanwhile, Mary Ann, Ginger and the Skipper find the S.S. Minnow's inflatable life raft in the lagoon. Despite warnings not to take weighty things aboard the raft, everyone tries to smuggle some gold onto the raft, causing it to sink. Skipper finds a tiki idol, a small statue of Kona, the god of evil. Skipper believes he is cursed as he disturbed its resting place. The Skipper also believes only a visit from the Great Watubi can lift the spell. The Professor has Gilligan, disguised in fanciful headdress and makeup, pretend to be Watubi. Ginger is sad because she isn't able to appear in a play that would have made her a star. Mr. Howell agrees to back Ginger's off-Broadway, on-island show. However, his wife soon believes that she should be the star of her husband's show, and he is forced to oblige. When Mrs. Howell realizes how badly Ginger wanted to play the part, she fakes laryngitis. Gilligan's Christmas wish appears to be coming true when a radio broadcast tells them their rescue is imminent. While they wait, they recall the first days on the island when Gilligan lost and recovered the radio and transmitter. In the end, it turns out it was another set of castaways that get rescued. It's Christmas Eve and Santa, who bears a striking resemblance to the Skipper, tries to cheer everyone up. He tells them that they could have wound up on an island without food or fresh water. This certainly makes their situation easier to bear. Gilligan wins $3 million from Mr. Howell in a putting contest, but Mr. Howell schemes to get it back. Everybody else wants a piece of Gilligan and his newfound riches. When the water supply runs short, the castaeways are forced to ration. Skipper believes a divining rod is the answer, but Gilligan breaks it. The castaways resort to stealing some of the last remaining water, but the Skipper catches them. Gilligan finds a frog that leads him to a cave full of fresh water. A Japanese sailor, who thinks it's still WWII, captures everyone except Gilligan and the Skipper. Skipper and Gilligan manage to free the others while the sailor is asleep. The sailor gets back into his sub and leaves. Gilligan uncovers a treasure chest while digging a pit for Mr. Howell. Both Gilligan and Mr. Howell lay claim to the chest. A court is held, with the Professor as the judge, to decide rightful ownership. The Professor rules that the chest should belong to everyone. But after Mr. Howell offers the others $500,000 for their shares, it is revealed that the chest contained cannonballs. Trying to evade the police after a heist, gangster Jackson Farrell is dropped off on the island, planning to hide out for a while. Gilligan hears who Jackson is on their radio. Jackson holds the castaways prisoner until his partner can come back. Thanks to Gilligan, as Jackson is leaving the island, his money gets destroyed. The castaways hear on their radio that the Pentagon is set to launch a new deadly missile that will destroy everything within 100 miles of its path. From the coordinates given, Skipper figures the island is ground zero. There's a glitch in the warhead, but the Pentagon will fire the missile anyway to test it's guidance system and not announce that the warhead is not functional. The missile crashes onto the island, and believing it still may explode, the Professor has Gilligan try to disarm it. Gilligan finds a jungle boy who takes him to a natural source of helium on the island. The Professor plans to use it to get rescued with a makeshift hot-air balloon. However, only the jungle boy goes up and away, which is no help for rescue as he can't speak any real English. The women tire of being held subservient to the men and, inspired by the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, decide to separate and build their own camp. The men soon realize how much they need the women, and so they try to scare the women back by dressing as a dragon. However, Ginger was wise to their plan. Each man has a dream sequence showing how much they miss the girls. Both the men and women are reunited when they are frightened by something strange on the island. It turns out to be a lost weather balloon, but Gilligan destroys it before they can put it to use. Super surfer Duke Williams rides a tsunami onto the island, but when the chance arrives for him to leave on another tsunami, his attraction to Ginger and Mary Ann keeps him wanting to stay there. The girls come up with a plan to make Duke want to leave, by pretending to be in relationships with Gilligan and the Professor. Unfortunately, when Duke returns to Hawaii, he hits his head on a rock and develops amnesia. A gorilla is loose on the island and he steals Mrs. Howell's diamond brooch. Mr. Howell offers a reward to the other castaways for finding it. Meanwhile the gorilla kidnaps Mrs. Howell. It's the Professor who hits on the solution, that the attraction is not for Mrs. Howell but for her perfume. When Gilligan spills the perfume on himself, the gorilla makes off with him. While Gilligan is trying to rescue Mary Ann from drowning, he starts to drown as well. Gilligan becomes jealous of the Skipper when he saves both of them. The other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero, but Gilligan bungles them all. But Gilligan may really get his chance to be a hero yet when a headhunter takes the other castaways prisoner. Wrongway Feldman is back, this time trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world. The castaways attempt to convince him that back home is better than life on the island. They devise a plan to bring as much noisy civilization to the island as they can to make Wrongway want to go back. He leaves the island but instead of going to Hawaii and rescuing the castaways, he lands on another uncharted island and stays there. Mrs. Howell plays matchmaker to Gilligan and Mary Ann, which ironically leads to a separation between the Howells. This leads to everyone else fighting. The Skipper wants to stop things from going even further, so he devises a plan to get the Howells back together. Mrs. Howell wants to civilize the island with an orchestra. But Gilligan's drumbeats are mistaken by a tribe on another island as a declaration of war. The natives surround and land on the island. All seems lost after each of the male castaways gets captured due to Gilligan's ineptitude. Can music help the situation? The castaways are scared that a group of gangsters are on the island. It turns out just to be a parrot who also squawks wildly when he hears the words "boat" and "jewelry". After the castaways capture the parrot, they believe he was owned by the gangsters. They hope to get information from the bird about the gangsters boat. Gilligan is forced to become the Howells' man-servant when the Skipper loses a bet to Mr. Howell in a turtle race. A lonely Skipper no longer has anyone to yell at. Gilligan has an idea. He asks Mr. Howell that, considering all he has, he could maybe lose a race and let the Skipper win Gilligan back. Without knowing what the other did, both Howell's and then Gilligan end up switching the turtles. The result being that Howell's champion comes out on top yet again. Mr. Howell finds a reason to let the Skipper have Gilligan back. The Skipper believes that Gilligan found a lucky stone, "The Eye of the Idol", that entitles him to three wishes before the end of the day. However, the Professor believes it is just a silly superstition. Gilligan wishes for a gallon of ice cream, which miraculously washes up in the lagoon. A spontaneous wish for another gallon of ice cream also comes true, leaving only one left. Gilligan loses the lucky stone before wish number three. After finding it, Gilligan wishes they were off the island. The land the castaways are standing on floats into the lagoon, making them "off the island". The Skipper has amnesia and the Professor resorts to hypnosis to cure him. The first attempt regresses him all the way to childhood. A second try puts the Skipper back fighting in WW2 and he winds up believing that the other castaways are Japanese soldiers. A third attempt at hypnosis and the Professor winds up with three Skippers, none of whom is the real one. As Gilligan was the cause of the Skippers amnesia, he is also the cure. Gilligan is keeping a diary and everyone wants to know what he wrote about them. Not wishing to have anyone reading about his innermost thoughts, Gilligan tosses his diary into the lagoon. This inspires the others to write diaries of their own. Everyone has different memories of the day the Japanese sailor came to the island, in a style reminiscent of the Akira Kurosawa film "Rashomon". Mary Ann finds the missing diary and it reveals that Gilligan wrote only nice things about his fellow castaways. The Professor makes a phosphorescent dye marker to help get rescued. When they think rescue is imminent, Gilligan helps the Skipper lose enough weight to get back into the Navy once they are rescued. Gilligan must also gain weight so he too can return to Navy life. While being force fed, Gilligan accidentally eats the dye marker. While fishing, Gilligan reels in a magician's chest from the lagoon. It might help the castaways convince any head hunters that they have magic powers. Everyone practices doing some tricks. But eventually Gilligan overhears that everybody is fed up with his unsuccessful attempts at magic, and he decides to run away. They find him in a one room cave, but he refuses to rejoin the others. They have to come up with a plan to bring Gilligan back. Alexandre Gregor Dubov, a reclusive, snobbish painter, is found on the island. He brought with him a transmitter, but won't let anyone use it. To convince him to return to civilization, they set up Gilligan as a rival avant-garde artist. Dubov agrees to give up his transmitter if Gilligan gives him painting lessons. The transmitter is rusted and falling apart. Inside is a note that says Dubov tied his paintings together and floated to another island. Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life and the Howells decide to adopt him, and change him into "G. Thurston Howell IV" — an endeavor which results in problems for all concerned. Gilligan does not enjoy studying finances and misses his simpler lifestyle with the others. After a nightmare, with Gilligan as a king, with tragic consequences, Gilligan decides he wants to just be himself, but he doesn't want to hurt the Howell's. The other castaways come up with a plan to help Gilligan. Gilligan's nose swells and his ego fades after he falls out of a coconut tree. The Professor gives everyone first aid lessons, but things don't go well. The women try to cheer Gilligan up by telling him he looks much better this way. But he finds out, and feels even worse. Gilligan insists that the Professor perform surgery on his deformed nose.
season 2 -
A native family arrives on the island looking for a husband for their ample (overweight) daughter. They choose Gilligan, who must then pass a "marriage test". The castaways want Gilligan to play along in hopes that they might be able to get off the island. But soon a native suitor shows up to challenge Gilligan to a duel. After each of the other men nominate a different woman as the fairest on the island, with the Skipper nominating Ginger, Mr. Howell nominating his wife, and the Professor nominating Mary Ann, Gilligan suggests a beauty contest to decide Miss Castaway. Gilligan has to cast the deciding vote, so everybody else tries to influence his vote. Gilligan winds up picking Gladys the Monkey as the winner, simply because she's the only true native to the island. When El Presidente Pancho Hernando Gonzales Enrico Rodriguez of Ecuarico is exiled on the island, he foments a revolution and tries to get Gilligan to become his puppet leader. Gilligan dreams that he is the ruler of a small country and the Skipper is Secretary of the Navy. Some of Rodriguez's men come back for him and he tells the castaways he will send a boat back for them. They later hear on their radio that Rodriguez had been exiled once again. A Mars Lander accidentally crashes on the island instead of landing on Mars. However, the scientists believe it has landed on Mars. The castaways hope to use it to provide visual evidence to the world that they are still alive. Gilligan and his boiling glue, coupled with a multitude of feathers, has the scientists reaching the conclusion that they've discovered a race of chicken people. Gilligan wins a million-dollars in a sweepstakes and is invited to the Howell's exclusive island country club. After feeling lonely he issues IOUs to the others so they may also become members. He quickly misplaces the winning ticket and they all get evicted. Mr. Howell is mad at himself for letting Gilligan into his club without actually seeing the ticket. He has a dream he's in the Old West and is in a similar situation as Gilligan is. Mr. Howell lets Gilligan and the others back into his club. The Professor mistakenly believes that the island is sinking when Gilligan uses the Professor's high water measuring stick to mark the lobster traps. The Professor comes up with the idea to keep above the water as long as possible by building a hut on the island's highest point. Plus, the men don't want to break the news to the women, who have the men in the middle of a landscaping project. After finally telling the women, they decide to build an ark, but it falls apart. In the end, it turns out the island isn't sinking, but Gilligan was using the Professor's stick to catch lobster, and was moving it. Gilligan discovers a sunken ship in the lagoon. The ship is only half there, but the cargo is intact: two crates of movie production equipment and costumes. The Professor then comes up with the idea to make a film telling their story, send it out on a raft, and hope for rescue. Technical difficulties result in what can only be viewed as a comedy. The film is found and proceeds to win the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The radio says Howell Industries has collapsed, and the Howells are broke. After the rest of the group stops Mr. Howell's suicide attempts, they try to train them for other lines of work for after they are rescued. In the end, they hear on the radio that it was Powell Industries collapsed, and the Howells' wealth is still intact. Two Soviet cosmonauts land on the island, way off course from their target. Both party's believe the other are there to possibly set up a base. The castaways still hope to leave the island with them when they call their submarine, but the cosmonauts have other ideas. For once, Gilligan does something right when he switches water for vodka, but in the end he still messes things up, as usual. Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio when a filling in a tooth is knocked loose. Everyone wants Gilligan to provide their own station, from exercise programs to the Academy Awards. But at night, Gilligan's open mouth and constant blaring of music prevents anyone from sleeping. A second accident restores Gilligan to normal but he has now also damaged the radio. After several attempts to make Gilligan a radio again, Gilligan himself does it. When the storm hits, something Gilligan does winds up saving everyone. The castaways are afraid of possible native invasion. The Skipper wants to train Gilligan to take charge should anything happen to him. Gilligan's mettle is tested when the Skipper disappears, apparently kidnapped by the natives. Turns out there were no natives and the Skipper just staged the whole thing to test Gilligan. In a parody of The Beatles and Beatlemania, the music sensation "The Mosquitoes" land on the island for much needed peace and quiet. The guys insist on staying on the island for several months. The castaways hope to make The Mosquitoes' lives miserable so they'll want to leave--and take the castaways with them. When they fails, the girls form a group of their own, "The Honeybees" to act as an opening for the Mosquitoes.The Mosquitoes end up leaving without them because they see The Honeybees as competition. Gilligan has been bitten by the dreaded, and deadly, Mantis Khani and fears he has only 24 hours to live. A 'going away party' ends with everyone drifting away in tears, leaving the guest of honor alone and wondering where they all went. Things grow worse when the Professor learns that the Mantis Khani travels in such swarms that by nightfall all of them will have been bitten and are doomed. One by one the others wind up bitten. Later on, the Professor allows one to bite him, revealing that these bugs are not poisonous after all. The Professor tries to round up enough metal to make an anchor for a raft with an S.O.S. message attached to it. Gilligan catches a World War II mine while fishing and accidentally triggers it. Now they must get rid of it before it destroys them all. Gilligan uses the raft to tow the mine out to sea. The mine floats back, explodes and covers the beach with fish. Socialite Erika Tiffany-Smith arrives on the island, looking for a place to build a resort. The Skipper falls for her and tries to impress her but instead she falls in love with, and becomes engaged to, the Professor. While at first excited, the Professor comes to realize that they are not meant for each other. Erika leaves, promising to be back soon. While listening to the radio, the Professor hears that Erika can't remember how to get back to the island. Who killed Randolph Blake? According to a newspaper that washed ashore, one of the castaways did it the night before the fateful tour. Five of the castaways actually knew Mr. Blake, and each had a motive to kill him. So, they recreate the crime in order to find out who among them is the murderer. When none of the five seem to have done it, the Skipper and Gilligan discover that slamming the door is what caused the spear gun to fire, killing the victim, so no one is guilty. A storm washes an international underwater telephone cable onto the shore of the lagoon. So, naturally, they try to call for help. Meanwhile, Ginger hears on the radio that Hollywood will film "The Ginger Grant Story". The castaways get several calls out, but none of them produce any results. Another storm comes and washes the cable back out to sea. The castaways assume a repair crew will be dispatched to repair the wires, but courtesty of Gilligan's sealing it, there's no need for one. Gilligan and the Skipper hear on the radio that Mary Ann's boyfriend is getting married. Gilligan, Skipper, and the Professor try to boost her confidence by competing for her attention, each taking a different romantic approach. Mary Ann believes they are trying to tell her she is dying from eating poisonous mushrooms. Mary Ann dreams that she is a terminally ill patient on her favorite radio soap opera. When she is finally told, Mary Ann reveals she didn't think all that much of him. She only pretended there was a romance because she didn't want the others to think she had no one. Gilligan has found a bush that provides seeds that enable anyone who eats the seeds to read people's minds. Everyone wants in on the action. But everyone begins to fight and argue when they start reading each others minds. Gilligan burns the bush with the seeds so they can all be friends again. Everybody mistakenly believes that The Skipper wasn't invited to the Howells' cotillion. They plan to hold a masquerade party of their own and not invite the Howells. When everyone R.S.V.P.s that they won't attend the cotillion, the Howell's have a fight and separate. Gilligan later finds The Skipper's dropped invitation. Now everyone must find a way to reunite the Howells. The masquerade party goes on as planned. The Howells attend and get back together. A robot parachutes on to the island and the Professor learns it can be taught to do anything a man can do. A radio broadcast reveals that a search for the lost robot will not be conducted. The Professor insists that they can program it to rescue them. He puts a message about the castaways in the robots memory bank and then sends it off to walk under water to Hawaii. In the end Gilligan's rabbit's foot turns out to be not so lucky after all, when he attaches it to the robot for good luck, but it consequently fouls up the robot's message. Someone is shelling the castaways with hand grenades and machine gun fire. Mr. Howell organizes an army and appoints himself General. He instructs the ladies to become nurses and Ginger to entertain the troops. It turns out that a gorilla has found a stash of World War II weapons in a cave. The problem lies in trying to remove the grenades before they can be used again. It's actually Gilligan who comes up with the solution, teaching the gorilla to throw the grenades into the lagoon, where their explosions merely cause splashing. The Professor believes the castaways may be beginning to suffer from "Island Madness". He convinces Ginger to use a crystal ball to give everyone something to hope for. He wants Ginger to convince them that a boat is coming to rescue them. The castaways then hear a broadcast announcing an actual ship on its way. They later hear that the ship found what it was looking for and is no longer going to be close to the island. Eventually Ginger confides that she's a fake, but the islanders are no longer fighting amongst each other. A cage carrying a lion washes off a ship and onto the island. But while the other castaways are scared for their lives, the lion immediately makes a bond with Gilligan. Gilligan befriended the lion by pulling a thorn from its paw. Unwilling to have his new friend put in a cage, Gilligan wanders off and uses cans of corned beef to train it to star in a new circus financed by Mr. Howell. Eventually when Gilligan runs out of corned beef, and thinks the lion ate the Skipper, he agrees to have the lion caged, and a high tide takes the cage out to sea. Gilligan finds a thermal vent and soon everyone wants piping-hot water for showers, washing dishes and baths. The Professor is not so excited, because this means there is an active volcano on the island. He wants to build a bomb to help stop the eruptions from the volcano. Things get quite chaotic when The Professor and The Skipper try to deploy the bomb. Gilligan and Ginger only add to the chaos. In the end the bomb is successfully dropped, and the eruptions are stopped. An impostor posing as Mr. Howell claims to having been rescued and begins selling off Mr. Howell's stocks. The real Mr. Howell offers his fellow castaways a hefty reward to get him off the island so he can save his fortune. When the imposter goes on a cruise, he falls overboard and guess where he lands? The castaways don't know which is the real Mr. Howell. But, another radio report answers the question. A ghost on the island has the castaways scared for their lives. The ghost tells Gilligan that the castaways must leave the island. It actually gives them a boat so that they can get off the island. The Professor is suspicious and wants to send the boat out with dummies on it first. A short way out and the boat blows up. First the Skipper, then the rest of the castaways develop an allergy to Gilligan. Gilligan moves to the other side of the island. The Professor comes up with a vaccine for everyone to take and they proceed to do so. After the others have taken their painful shot, Gilligan tells them he has discovered that it was the papaya nut oil he was using as a hair tonic that caused the sneezing, much to everyone else's dismay. Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff comes to "rescue" the castaways. At first Boris brings the Skipper and Gilligan to his nearby island. There they meet the Doctor's servant Igor and a dog that meows. Balinkoff explains that he's been doing mind transfer experiments on animals. After Boris brings the other castaways to the island, they learn he will experiment on them. They all have their minds transferred. With the help of Ginger (in Igor's body), they are returned to normal and escape the island to their own. The Professor tells his fellow castaways that if they don't find a way to grow more oranges and other citrus fruits on the island, they risk dying from vitamin deficiencies. The Skipper, as the heavest one on the island is starting to fall ill from the deficiency, and the others will soon follow. After their last orange shriveled up in the sun, they plant the seeds. That night, Gilligan must guard the seeds and make sure they stay warm. Gilligan falls asleep and has a "Jack and the Beanstalk" type of dream. The Professor finds some Grapefruit and Lemon trees. The radio announces that the minister who married the Howells was a fraud, so the Howell's marriage is invalid. The Skipper, as Captain of a ship, can marry couples, so he prepares to marry them in the lagoon. However, a fight causes the wedding to be called off altogether. The castaways come up with a plan to make the Howell's jealous by having them 'date' other people. When that plan fails, the Skipper dresses up like a headhunter to scare them together. In the end, they hear on the radio that it was another minister with a similar name who was the real fraud. A meteor crashes onto the island. Observing that some seedling trees near the meteor have rapidly grown into full grown trees, the Professor concludes that the meteor's cosmic rays are speeding up the aging process on the island, and once the rays reach the castaways, they too will age rapidly, and will die of old age in one week. The news that an electrical storm will be passing over the island inspires them to build a lightning rod hoping that a bolt of lightning will destroy the meteor. Gilligan dreams that the castaways are 50 years older. Just as the storm hits, Gilligan gets the rod in place and it works.
season 3 -
After a bat bites Gilligan in the neck in a cave, he is convinced that he will become a vampire. He moves away to save his fellow castaways. Gilligan is haunted by a dream that he is indeed a vampire living in a European castle in 1895 where unsuspecting travelers and a famous detective and his doctor assistant appear at his doorstep. It eventually turns out the bat was a small fruit bat. A Russian agent who looks and dresses exactly like Gilligan is on the island to try and find out what the castaway's mission is. Gilligan sees him, but no one will believe his story. The agent holds Gilligan captive, then he tries to question the other castaways. The castaways think there is something wrong with Gilligan, but the Professor says to play along. The real Gilligan escapes and tries to tell the others about the Russian agent. The agent returns to his ship before Gilligan can prove he was there. Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetable seeds from the lagoon, but fails to notice the warning on the crate that the seeds are radioactive. The castaways plant them and eat the vegetables, but then hear a radio report about the missing radioactive seeds. Soon they develop unusual abilities such as Mary Ann's exceptional eyesight from carrots, Gilligan's great strength from spinach, and Mrs. Howell’s super speed from sugar beets. The Professor comes up with a cure. The castaways have to eat some of their plant based soap. While circling the world for new talent, egocentric Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba lands on the island when his plane goes down. After promising the castaways they will be rescued, Harold has them doing anything he says. He is unimpressed with Ginger's acting abilities, so she decides she won't leave the island even if they're rescued. The castaways put on their own musical production of Hamlet to get the producer's attention. Hecuba then does his own version of the musical. The next morning Hecuba leaves the island without the castaways because he wants the idea of a musical Hamlet for his own. A witch-doctor has come to the island and steals a personal item from each castaway. He is now casting voodoo spells over dolls that resemble them. The Skipper believes they've all been cursed because he and Gilligan dug up some artifacts in a cave. The Professor scoffs at the Skipper's superstitions and is turned into a zombie. When Gilligan puts the last of the artifacts back in the cave, he finds the voodoo dolls and the castaways personal belongings. Mr. Howell decides to put the castaways into his will. Grateful, they try to plan a surprise party for him, and kill a wild boar on the island for spareribs, but a number of unfortunate events and overheard discussions convince Mr. Howell they want to murder him for the money. Mr. Howell leaves for the other side of the island. While searching for him, the castaways believe he fell into some quick sand. During a funeral service for Mr. Howell, the others all say how they can't except the things he gave them in his will. Overhearing the service, Mr. Howell realizes that the castaways really care for him. Lord Beasley Waterford, a world famous butterfly collector, comes to the island in search of the world's rarest butterfly, the pussycat swallowtail. He arrived by boat, with a flare pistol to signal when he's ready to leave. Beasley says he will not leave the island until he finds the butterfly. The castaways pull out all the stops to help him find one. They try to get Beasley drunk so they can get his flare gun. The only problem is that he can out drink them and the castaways all pass out. Beasley then finds his butterfly and sets off his flare. He is forced to leave without the castaways, as they are out cold. Gilligan's hair turns completely white overnight. Overhearing a conversation about a disease that can transform a young man overnight into an old man, Gilligan begins to talk and act like an elderly man. The Professor comes up with a brown hair dye to change Gilligan's hair color, only to wind up completely bald by morning. Soon, the Skipper loses his hair as well. The Professor finally figures out it had to do with the bleach Gilligan was using for the laundry. Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff is back. This time his scheme is to turn the castaways into hypnotized robots he will use to assist him in looting Fort Knox. Instead of mind transference, the doctor has now created a ring that, when worn on the finger, makes the wearer a mindless robot slave to the mad scientist's will. Balinkoff has the castaways rehearse the robbery using coconuts instead of gold bars. The Doctor is foiled by an assault of coconuts, crushing his mechanical control device. "Igor" is represented by a monkey. Gilligan bumps his head and sees everything upside down. The Professor concocts a potion from Captibora berries to cure him but instead Gilligan sees multiple images. To make matters worse, headhunters come to the island and capture everyone but Gilligan. Gilligan lures the headhunters into drinking the potion and the sight of 35 castaways forces them to flee in terror. When a locked official Government briefcase washes ashore, the castaways are dying to find out what is inside. The Professor says that they shouldn't open it, because when the Government comes to find it, they will want it intact. But, everyone tries to get the case and open it. Gilligan accidentally handcuffs himself to the briefcase and he becomes afraid that the enemy will come to the island and kill him. Gilligan dreams that he is Good Guy Spy 014 (a spoof of James Bond 007). When the case does get opened it reveals that it's from World War 1 and of no use to anyone. A smooth-talking kidnapper named Norbett Wiley comes to the island and holds the women on the island hostage in exchange for ransom money. When Norbett is captured and put in a jail, the castaways decide to try and reform him instead of holding him prisoner. The Professor remains wary of his many stories, though the others succumb to his outward charm. The castaways let Wiley go and plan to give him a welcome back to society party. At the party, Wiley steals things from many of the others. He then excuses himself from the party, and before anyone knows what happened, Wiley leaves in his boat. One by one the three women disappear, and there is no evidence of head hunters on the island. The Professor theorizes that one of the men must be responsible, an unknowing fiend who has done away with the girls, a genuine Jekyll and Hyde. Soon only Gilligan is left. Gilligan starts hearing voices out of thin air, so he assumes that he's killed all his friends and is now being haunted by them. Gilligan dreams that he is Dr. Gilligan and is on trial for being Mr. Hyde. It turns out everyone fell through a trap door into an old World War Two Japanese munitions pit. A homely and lovelorn woman named Eva Grubb comes to the island to escape society. She's willing to give the castaways the key to her boat, so long as they leave quickly and never come back. Professor advises that in her present state of mind it might not be wise for her to be alone and they should send a boat back for her once they reach the mainland. Gilligan accidentally spills the beans about their plans, so Eva buries the spark plugs so that no one can leave the island. After the girls give her a makeover, she looks just like Ginger. By the time of the going away party, Eva believes herself to be such an effective actress that she can sail away as Ginger and no one will ever suspect the truth. The castaways decide to establish law and order on the island, with the Skipper as the island Sheriff and Gilligan as his deputy. Unfortunately Deputy Gilligan takes his new responsibility too seriously, and, as a result, everyone ends up in jail...including, eventually, himself. Meanwhile, the discovery of phosphorescent rocks to signal a search plane due to fly overhead looks like a surefire idea to get rescued, except that there's no one around to set it up. The Take-A-Dare radio show has put a contestant named George Barkley on a deserted island to survive for one week without any help from anyone. If he can do this he will win $10,000. Trouble is, the island the contestant is on is not exactly deserted. A rash of disappearances have the castaways mystified, but soon they discover George with all the stolen items. He refuses to let the castaways use his transmitter because he would have to forfeit the prize. Nothing the castaways do can convince George to help them and after the week is over, he leaves the island. Skipper and Gilligan hear on the radio that the Maritime Board has pinned the loss of the Minnow on the Skipper. The Professor recreates the Minnow voyage to disprove the Maritime Board charge. When the blame seems to shift to Gilligan, he decides he wants to run away. The Skipper says they were both to blame and goes with him. Gilligan dreams that he is back in the Golden Age of Pirates. Pirates have boarded his ship and taken the women captive. He tries to save them. Another radio report says that because of new information, the crew of the Minnow were not to blame. Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid lands on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game": a human. He decides to go after Gilligan, locking up the rest of the castaways, but promising to rescue everyone if Gilligan can survive 24 hours. Gilligan lasts the 24 hours. Kincaid leaves without the castaways, saying that no one can know he hunted a human. Mrs. Howell has a secret admirer who is sending letters to her. Mr. Howell is outraged and jealous. So the Professor invents a lie detector, and this and a trap combine to reveal the truth. Mr. Howell had been writing the notes because he felt that with Mrs. Howell being older, she might appreciate the attention. This, of course, infuriates her and she kicks Mr. Howell out. All of this causes her to dream that she is Cinderella. Tongo the Ape Man, actually a movie actor researching a role, visits the island. He tries to fool the castaways into believing he is really a "savage" jungle lord (a la Tarzan). All of the castaways are menaced by Tongo, until a plan is hatched to trap him in a cage. Once he's left alone, Tongo takes out a tape recorder, and starts to keep track of his exploits. The castaways are amazed at how easily he adjusts to their teachings. But the island's resident gorilla gives him away and reveals Tongo to be a coward. He drops his tape recorder and the castaways find out all about him. He escapes by helicopter, unwilling to rescue the castaways for fear that they might tell about his cowardice with the real ape. Gilligan and his bowling ball are magnetically attached to each other after he is struck by lightning. Also, touching Gilligan means an electric shock. All looks hopeless until another bolt of lightning dislodges the ball but renders Gilligan invisible. The Professor designs a lead sheathed bandage that should absorb the charge that continues to surge through Gilligan's body. A frightened Ginger unravels the bandage. But, the bandages apparently were on long enough, as Gilligan is later cured. When the Professor determines that a manned American spacecraft will pass directly over their island, the castaways set out to build a radio signal to let the astronauts know they are there. When that doesn't work, they try to build a flaming SOS signal. But, Gilligan messes that up. However, they may get another chance when an unmanned capsule lands on the island. They plan to float the capsule out to sea with Gilligan and the Skipper in it. But, before that can happen, NASA remotely blows up the capsule. Skipper and Gilligan find a totem pole in the jungle, and the head at the top of the pole is a dead ringer for Gilligan. Gilligan is mortified, and decapitates the totem pole, unable to face it. Several native headhunters are enraged to see their pole destroyed, and start to capture the castaways. Gilligan is able rescue them by masquerading as the headhunter king, scaring the natives away. After Mary Ann watches Ginger perform on the island, she bumps her head, and now she thinks she is Ginger. The Professor diagnoses her as having a bad case of Ginger envy. He suggests humoring her to prevent any kind of psychological trauma. When the Professor attempts to hypnotize Mary Ann, his hypnotic suggestion bounces off her and hits an eavesdropping Gilligan, who then believes he is Mary Ann. The Professor comes up with the idea to have Mary Ann sing and dance as Ginger. When Mary Ann can't actually perform, her memory comes back. The castaways find parts of an ancient Hieroglyphic stone tablet that may tell them the way to get off the island. Gilligan dreams the castaways are prehistoric cave people. The Professor realizes that he made a mistake and the tablets actually tell how to get on the island. Gilligan rescues Kalani, a Matoba native girl, from drowning, and she vows to be his slave for life. The Professor tells Gilligan the only way he can free himself of his predicament is to be killed in mortal combat. Mr. Howell is happy to oblige so he can be Kilani's master. They set up a fake fencing duel were Gilligan is killed. Her ex, Ugundi, shows up on the island and challenges Mr. Howell to a duel to the death. Mr. Howell gets off the hook when Gilligan reveals he is not dead. The Professor gives Gilligan a serum to make him appear dead. But, now Ugundi wants to cremate Gilligan. Just as the fire starts, Gilligan comes to. Now the natives believe Gilligan is a Fire God and run away. A James Bond-like jet pack lands on the island, and the castaways believe they can use it to signal the Navy search party looking for it. However, Gilligan accidentally activates it, using up most of the jet fuel in the process. They now have just enough to allow Gilligan to hover in the air for a few minutes for a potential passing plane to notice. A plane does pass, but it misses Gilligan, who floats into a cloud. When a homing pigeon comes to the island, the castaways begin to correspond with the bird's owner, who is an inmate at Alcatraz. The convict has been messaging back and forth with a certain 'old lady Hawkins,' and believes the castaways' story to be one of her tall tales. Mr. Howell writes the next message, wrapping a $1000 bill inside, and that also fails to convince. The castaways now want to send a picture of themselves in front of the Minnow. Gilligan goes to get the pigeon, but he finds it has become trapped in a cave by a giant spider. Now they have to find a way to trap the spider. They get the bird back and send it on its way, but the convict is paroled before he can read the last note. The U.S. government invents a new type of plastic explosive that can be molded into every day items. Unfortunately, a crate of it falls overboard a navy ship. The crate washes ashore and the castaways waste no time in molding it into things they need, including fillings for Gilligan's teeth. A playful monkey shows them that, once hardened, the clay is a deadly explosive, set off by the slightest bump. The Professor tries to figure out a way to remove Gilligan's fillings. The monkey has stored a bunch of the explosives on the roof of a hut and starts throwing them at the castaways. Gilligan starts to climb up the hut to stop the monkey. He then sneezes out his fillings. King Killiwani, the Chief from a nearby island, comes in search of a 'White Goddess' to take back to his island to marry. The castaways believe they could be rescued if a goddess comes forward. All three of the ladies vie to be the goddess. But they find out there is a catch. The goddess will also be sacrificed to a volcano. To protect the women, the men dress up as girls. Killiwani takes an instant shine to Gilliana, decides to betray the gods, and keep Gilliana for himself. When Gilligan gets out of his dress and runs off, the King believes there is bad magic on the island and leaves.
INTRO:
Starring: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Hans Conried, Vito Scotti, Larry Storch, Kurt Russell, Denny Miller, Harold J. Stone, Eddie Little Sky, Janos Prohaska, Nehemiah Persoff, Booth Colman, Arthur Peterson Jr, Vincent Beck, Les Brown Jr, The Wellingtons, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mike Mazurki, Richard Kiel, Rory Calhoun, Phil Silvers, John McGiver, Don Rickles, Strother Martin, Michael Forest, Stanley Adams
98 episodes
(TV-G - suitable for all ages)
PLOT:
Marooned on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific, seven castaways make various attempts to get rescued but, are usually held back by the direct or indirect actions of a bumbling shipmate.
season 1 -
Following a violent storm that maroons crew and passengers on an uncharted island, Skipper Jonas Grumby and First Mate Willy Gilligan sail for help on a raft. On the island, the remaining castaways are worried about possible headhunters. Skipper and Gilligan wind up back on the island. Each group now believe the other are the headhunters. The seven castaways decide that they're unwilling to all share the same dwelling, so they break up into teams to construct four separate huts. A violent storm is on the horizon, so time is of the essence, and with Gilligan trying to help, there are plenty of setbacks. After a robbery of their supplies, the castaways believe a convict is loose on the island, while Skipper thinks it's voodoo. The Skipper believes that Gilligan has been turned into a chimpanzee. Later, Gilligan thinks the Skipper was turned into the chimp. Skipper is able to turn the radio into a transmitter. The catch is that he can only do it when he sleepwalks. Gilligan gets some tranquilizers from Mr. Howell. The only problem is that everyone drops a couple pills in the Skippers drink. Will he be able to make contact with aviatrix Alice McNeil on her around the world flight or will Gilligan mess things up? Famed aviator Wrongway Feldman is discovered living on the island with a damaged plane, so the castaways offer to help fix it. But each time Wrongway is about to take off, something goes wrong with the plane as if it had be sabotaged. Turns out it was Wrongway that did it, as he doesn't feel he can fly anymore after all that time. He does eventually take off and makes it back to New York. However, he can't give accurate directions back to the island. When Mr. Howell and the Skipper square off over who is in charge, the castaways decide they need to elect a leader. Howell and Skipper both try to influence the others votes. When the castaways cast their votes, the result is surprising. Gilligan, the new president, takes his job seriously, but no one else on the island pays any attention to his ideas. There is a blight on the island and food is scarce. A duck lands on the island. The Professor wants to attach a message to the duck and hope for a rescue, while most of the others want to eat it. Gilligan is determined to protect the duck. In the end, the duck helps them with their food shortage. Gilligan discovers the perfect, permanent glue from tree sap when trying to make pancake syrup. The castaways decide to use this "glue" to patch the wreckage of the Minnow. Shortly before they are to sail off, Gilligan discovers that the glue is not so permanent after all, causing the Minnow to completely fall apart before it can set sail. Mr. Howell and Gilligan discover a gold mine on the island and soon greed and 'gold fever' overcome the castaways. Meanwhile, Mary Ann, Ginger and the Skipper find the S.S. Minnow's inflatable life raft in the lagoon. Despite warnings not to take weighty things aboard the raft, everyone tries to smuggle some gold onto the raft, causing it to sink. Skipper finds a tiki idol, a small statue of Kona, the god of evil. Skipper believes he is cursed as he disturbed its resting place. The Skipper also believes only a visit from the Great Watubi can lift the spell. The Professor has Gilligan, disguised in fanciful headdress and makeup, pretend to be Watubi. Ginger is sad because she isn't able to appear in a play that would have made her a star. Mr. Howell agrees to back Ginger's off-Broadway, on-island show. However, his wife soon believes that she should be the star of her husband's show, and he is forced to oblige. When Mrs. Howell realizes how badly Ginger wanted to play the part, she fakes laryngitis. Gilligan's Christmas wish appears to be coming true when a radio broadcast tells them their rescue is imminent. While they wait, they recall the first days on the island when Gilligan lost and recovered the radio and transmitter. In the end, it turns out it was another set of castaways that get rescued. It's Christmas Eve and Santa, who bears a striking resemblance to the Skipper, tries to cheer everyone up. He tells them that they could have wound up on an island without food or fresh water. This certainly makes their situation easier to bear. Gilligan wins $3 million from Mr. Howell in a putting contest, but Mr. Howell schemes to get it back. Everybody else wants a piece of Gilligan and his newfound riches. When the water supply runs short, the castaeways are forced to ration. Skipper believes a divining rod is the answer, but Gilligan breaks it. The castaways resort to stealing some of the last remaining water, but the Skipper catches them. Gilligan finds a frog that leads him to a cave full of fresh water. A Japanese sailor, who thinks it's still WWII, captures everyone except Gilligan and the Skipper. Skipper and Gilligan manage to free the others while the sailor is asleep. The sailor gets back into his sub and leaves. Gilligan uncovers a treasure chest while digging a pit for Mr. Howell. Both Gilligan and Mr. Howell lay claim to the chest. A court is held, with the Professor as the judge, to decide rightful ownership. The Professor rules that the chest should belong to everyone. But after Mr. Howell offers the others $500,000 for their shares, it is revealed that the chest contained cannonballs. Trying to evade the police after a heist, gangster Jackson Farrell is dropped off on the island, planning to hide out for a while. Gilligan hears who Jackson is on their radio. Jackson holds the castaways prisoner until his partner can come back. Thanks to Gilligan, as Jackson is leaving the island, his money gets destroyed. The castaways hear on their radio that the Pentagon is set to launch a new deadly missile that will destroy everything within 100 miles of its path. From the coordinates given, Skipper figures the island is ground zero. There's a glitch in the warhead, but the Pentagon will fire the missile anyway to test it's guidance system and not announce that the warhead is not functional. The missile crashes onto the island, and believing it still may explode, the Professor has Gilligan try to disarm it. Gilligan finds a jungle boy who takes him to a natural source of helium on the island. The Professor plans to use it to get rescued with a makeshift hot-air balloon. However, only the jungle boy goes up and away, which is no help for rescue as he can't speak any real English. The women tire of being held subservient to the men and, inspired by the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, decide to separate and build their own camp. The men soon realize how much they need the women, and so they try to scare the women back by dressing as a dragon. However, Ginger was wise to their plan. Each man has a dream sequence showing how much they miss the girls. Both the men and women are reunited when they are frightened by something strange on the island. It turns out to be a lost weather balloon, but Gilligan destroys it before they can put it to use. Super surfer Duke Williams rides a tsunami onto the island, but when the chance arrives for him to leave on another tsunami, his attraction to Ginger and Mary Ann keeps him wanting to stay there. The girls come up with a plan to make Duke want to leave, by pretending to be in relationships with Gilligan and the Professor. Unfortunately, when Duke returns to Hawaii, he hits his head on a rock and develops amnesia. A gorilla is loose on the island and he steals Mrs. Howell's diamond brooch. Mr. Howell offers a reward to the other castaways for finding it. Meanwhile the gorilla kidnaps Mrs. Howell. It's the Professor who hits on the solution, that the attraction is not for Mrs. Howell but for her perfume. When Gilligan spills the perfume on himself, the gorilla makes off with him. While Gilligan is trying to rescue Mary Ann from drowning, he starts to drown as well. Gilligan becomes jealous of the Skipper when he saves both of them. The other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero, but Gilligan bungles them all. But Gilligan may really get his chance to be a hero yet when a headhunter takes the other castaways prisoner. Wrongway Feldman is back, this time trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world. The castaways attempt to convince him that back home is better than life on the island. They devise a plan to bring as much noisy civilization to the island as they can to make Wrongway want to go back. He leaves the island but instead of going to Hawaii and rescuing the castaways, he lands on another uncharted island and stays there. Mrs. Howell plays matchmaker to Gilligan and Mary Ann, which ironically leads to a separation between the Howells. This leads to everyone else fighting. The Skipper wants to stop things from going even further, so he devises a plan to get the Howells back together. Mrs. Howell wants to civilize the island with an orchestra. But Gilligan's drumbeats are mistaken by a tribe on another island as a declaration of war. The natives surround and land on the island. All seems lost after each of the male castaways gets captured due to Gilligan's ineptitude. Can music help the situation? The castaways are scared that a group of gangsters are on the island. It turns out just to be a parrot who also squawks wildly when he hears the words "boat" and "jewelry". After the castaways capture the parrot, they believe he was owned by the gangsters. They hope to get information from the bird about the gangsters boat. Gilligan is forced to become the Howells' man-servant when the Skipper loses a bet to Mr. Howell in a turtle race. A lonely Skipper no longer has anyone to yell at. Gilligan has an idea. He asks Mr. Howell that, considering all he has, he could maybe lose a race and let the Skipper win Gilligan back. Without knowing what the other did, both Howell's and then Gilligan end up switching the turtles. The result being that Howell's champion comes out on top yet again. Mr. Howell finds a reason to let the Skipper have Gilligan back. The Skipper believes that Gilligan found a lucky stone, "The Eye of the Idol", that entitles him to three wishes before the end of the day. However, the Professor believes it is just a silly superstition. Gilligan wishes for a gallon of ice cream, which miraculously washes up in the lagoon. A spontaneous wish for another gallon of ice cream also comes true, leaving only one left. Gilligan loses the lucky stone before wish number three. After finding it, Gilligan wishes they were off the island. The land the castaways are standing on floats into the lagoon, making them "off the island". The Skipper has amnesia and the Professor resorts to hypnosis to cure him. The first attempt regresses him all the way to childhood. A second try puts the Skipper back fighting in WW2 and he winds up believing that the other castaways are Japanese soldiers. A third attempt at hypnosis and the Professor winds up with three Skippers, none of whom is the real one. As Gilligan was the cause of the Skippers amnesia, he is also the cure. Gilligan is keeping a diary and everyone wants to know what he wrote about them. Not wishing to have anyone reading about his innermost thoughts, Gilligan tosses his diary into the lagoon. This inspires the others to write diaries of their own. Everyone has different memories of the day the Japanese sailor came to the island, in a style reminiscent of the Akira Kurosawa film "Rashomon". Mary Ann finds the missing diary and it reveals that Gilligan wrote only nice things about his fellow castaways. The Professor makes a phosphorescent dye marker to help get rescued. When they think rescue is imminent, Gilligan helps the Skipper lose enough weight to get back into the Navy once they are rescued. Gilligan must also gain weight so he too can return to Navy life. While being force fed, Gilligan accidentally eats the dye marker. While fishing, Gilligan reels in a magician's chest from the lagoon. It might help the castaways convince any head hunters that they have magic powers. Everyone practices doing some tricks. But eventually Gilligan overhears that everybody is fed up with his unsuccessful attempts at magic, and he decides to run away. They find him in a one room cave, but he refuses to rejoin the others. They have to come up with a plan to bring Gilligan back. Alexandre Gregor Dubov, a reclusive, snobbish painter, is found on the island. He brought with him a transmitter, but won't let anyone use it. To convince him to return to civilization, they set up Gilligan as a rival avant-garde artist. Dubov agrees to give up his transmitter if Gilligan gives him painting lessons. The transmitter is rusted and falling apart. Inside is a note that says Dubov tied his paintings together and floated to another island. Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life and the Howells decide to adopt him, and change him into "G. Thurston Howell IV" — an endeavor which results in problems for all concerned. Gilligan does not enjoy studying finances and misses his simpler lifestyle with the others. After a nightmare, with Gilligan as a king, with tragic consequences, Gilligan decides he wants to just be himself, but he doesn't want to hurt the Howell's. The other castaways come up with a plan to help Gilligan. Gilligan's nose swells and his ego fades after he falls out of a coconut tree. The Professor gives everyone first aid lessons, but things don't go well. The women try to cheer Gilligan up by telling him he looks much better this way. But he finds out, and feels even worse. Gilligan insists that the Professor perform surgery on his deformed nose.
season 2 -
A native family arrives on the island looking for a husband for their ample (overweight) daughter. They choose Gilligan, who must then pass a "marriage test". The castaways want Gilligan to play along in hopes that they might be able to get off the island. But soon a native suitor shows up to challenge Gilligan to a duel. After each of the other men nominate a different woman as the fairest on the island, with the Skipper nominating Ginger, Mr. Howell nominating his wife, and the Professor nominating Mary Ann, Gilligan suggests a beauty contest to decide Miss Castaway. Gilligan has to cast the deciding vote, so everybody else tries to influence his vote. Gilligan winds up picking Gladys the Monkey as the winner, simply because she's the only true native to the island. When El Presidente Pancho Hernando Gonzales Enrico Rodriguez of Ecuarico is exiled on the island, he foments a revolution and tries to get Gilligan to become his puppet leader. Gilligan dreams that he is the ruler of a small country and the Skipper is Secretary of the Navy. Some of Rodriguez's men come back for him and he tells the castaways he will send a boat back for them. They later hear on their radio that Rodriguez had been exiled once again. A Mars Lander accidentally crashes on the island instead of landing on Mars. However, the scientists believe it has landed on Mars. The castaways hope to use it to provide visual evidence to the world that they are still alive. Gilligan and his boiling glue, coupled with a multitude of feathers, has the scientists reaching the conclusion that they've discovered a race of chicken people. Gilligan wins a million-dollars in a sweepstakes and is invited to the Howell's exclusive island country club. After feeling lonely he issues IOUs to the others so they may also become members. He quickly misplaces the winning ticket and they all get evicted. Mr. Howell is mad at himself for letting Gilligan into his club without actually seeing the ticket. He has a dream he's in the Old West and is in a similar situation as Gilligan is. Mr. Howell lets Gilligan and the others back into his club. The Professor mistakenly believes that the island is sinking when Gilligan uses the Professor's high water measuring stick to mark the lobster traps. The Professor comes up with the idea to keep above the water as long as possible by building a hut on the island's highest point. Plus, the men don't want to break the news to the women, who have the men in the middle of a landscaping project. After finally telling the women, they decide to build an ark, but it falls apart. In the end, it turns out the island isn't sinking, but Gilligan was using the Professor's stick to catch lobster, and was moving it. Gilligan discovers a sunken ship in the lagoon. The ship is only half there, but the cargo is intact: two crates of movie production equipment and costumes. The Professor then comes up with the idea to make a film telling their story, send it out on a raft, and hope for rescue. Technical difficulties result in what can only be viewed as a comedy. The film is found and proceeds to win the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The radio says Howell Industries has collapsed, and the Howells are broke. After the rest of the group stops Mr. Howell's suicide attempts, they try to train them for other lines of work for after they are rescued. In the end, they hear on the radio that it was Powell Industries collapsed, and the Howells' wealth is still intact. Two Soviet cosmonauts land on the island, way off course from their target. Both party's believe the other are there to possibly set up a base. The castaways still hope to leave the island with them when they call their submarine, but the cosmonauts have other ideas. For once, Gilligan does something right when he switches water for vodka, but in the end he still messes things up, as usual. Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio when a filling in a tooth is knocked loose. Everyone wants Gilligan to provide their own station, from exercise programs to the Academy Awards. But at night, Gilligan's open mouth and constant blaring of music prevents anyone from sleeping. A second accident restores Gilligan to normal but he has now also damaged the radio. After several attempts to make Gilligan a radio again, Gilligan himself does it. When the storm hits, something Gilligan does winds up saving everyone. The castaways are afraid of possible native invasion. The Skipper wants to train Gilligan to take charge should anything happen to him. Gilligan's mettle is tested when the Skipper disappears, apparently kidnapped by the natives. Turns out there were no natives and the Skipper just staged the whole thing to test Gilligan. In a parody of The Beatles and Beatlemania, the music sensation "The Mosquitoes" land on the island for much needed peace and quiet. The guys insist on staying on the island for several months. The castaways hope to make The Mosquitoes' lives miserable so they'll want to leave--and take the castaways with them. When they fails, the girls form a group of their own, "The Honeybees" to act as an opening for the Mosquitoes.The Mosquitoes end up leaving without them because they see The Honeybees as competition. Gilligan has been bitten by the dreaded, and deadly, Mantis Khani and fears he has only 24 hours to live. A 'going away party' ends with everyone drifting away in tears, leaving the guest of honor alone and wondering where they all went. Things grow worse when the Professor learns that the Mantis Khani travels in such swarms that by nightfall all of them will have been bitten and are doomed. One by one the others wind up bitten. Later on, the Professor allows one to bite him, revealing that these bugs are not poisonous after all. The Professor tries to round up enough metal to make an anchor for a raft with an S.O.S. message attached to it. Gilligan catches a World War II mine while fishing and accidentally triggers it. Now they must get rid of it before it destroys them all. Gilligan uses the raft to tow the mine out to sea. The mine floats back, explodes and covers the beach with fish. Socialite Erika Tiffany-Smith arrives on the island, looking for a place to build a resort. The Skipper falls for her and tries to impress her but instead she falls in love with, and becomes engaged to, the Professor. While at first excited, the Professor comes to realize that they are not meant for each other. Erika leaves, promising to be back soon. While listening to the radio, the Professor hears that Erika can't remember how to get back to the island. Who killed Randolph Blake? According to a newspaper that washed ashore, one of the castaways did it the night before the fateful tour. Five of the castaways actually knew Mr. Blake, and each had a motive to kill him. So, they recreate the crime in order to find out who among them is the murderer. When none of the five seem to have done it, the Skipper and Gilligan discover that slamming the door is what caused the spear gun to fire, killing the victim, so no one is guilty. A storm washes an international underwater telephone cable onto the shore of the lagoon. So, naturally, they try to call for help. Meanwhile, Ginger hears on the radio that Hollywood will film "The Ginger Grant Story". The castaways get several calls out, but none of them produce any results. Another storm comes and washes the cable back out to sea. The castaways assume a repair crew will be dispatched to repair the wires, but courtesty of Gilligan's sealing it, there's no need for one. Gilligan and the Skipper hear on the radio that Mary Ann's boyfriend is getting married. Gilligan, Skipper, and the Professor try to boost her confidence by competing for her attention, each taking a different romantic approach. Mary Ann believes they are trying to tell her she is dying from eating poisonous mushrooms. Mary Ann dreams that she is a terminally ill patient on her favorite radio soap opera. When she is finally told, Mary Ann reveals she didn't think all that much of him. She only pretended there was a romance because she didn't want the others to think she had no one. Gilligan has found a bush that provides seeds that enable anyone who eats the seeds to read people's minds. Everyone wants in on the action. But everyone begins to fight and argue when they start reading each others minds. Gilligan burns the bush with the seeds so they can all be friends again. Everybody mistakenly believes that The Skipper wasn't invited to the Howells' cotillion. They plan to hold a masquerade party of their own and not invite the Howells. When everyone R.S.V.P.s that they won't attend the cotillion, the Howell's have a fight and separate. Gilligan later finds The Skipper's dropped invitation. Now everyone must find a way to reunite the Howells. The masquerade party goes on as planned. The Howells attend and get back together. A robot parachutes on to the island and the Professor learns it can be taught to do anything a man can do. A radio broadcast reveals that a search for the lost robot will not be conducted. The Professor insists that they can program it to rescue them. He puts a message about the castaways in the robots memory bank and then sends it off to walk under water to Hawaii. In the end Gilligan's rabbit's foot turns out to be not so lucky after all, when he attaches it to the robot for good luck, but it consequently fouls up the robot's message. Someone is shelling the castaways with hand grenades and machine gun fire. Mr. Howell organizes an army and appoints himself General. He instructs the ladies to become nurses and Ginger to entertain the troops. It turns out that a gorilla has found a stash of World War II weapons in a cave. The problem lies in trying to remove the grenades before they can be used again. It's actually Gilligan who comes up with the solution, teaching the gorilla to throw the grenades into the lagoon, where their explosions merely cause splashing. The Professor believes the castaways may be beginning to suffer from "Island Madness". He convinces Ginger to use a crystal ball to give everyone something to hope for. He wants Ginger to convince them that a boat is coming to rescue them. The castaways then hear a broadcast announcing an actual ship on its way. They later hear that the ship found what it was looking for and is no longer going to be close to the island. Eventually Ginger confides that she's a fake, but the islanders are no longer fighting amongst each other. A cage carrying a lion washes off a ship and onto the island. But while the other castaways are scared for their lives, the lion immediately makes a bond with Gilligan. Gilligan befriended the lion by pulling a thorn from its paw. Unwilling to have his new friend put in a cage, Gilligan wanders off and uses cans of corned beef to train it to star in a new circus financed by Mr. Howell. Eventually when Gilligan runs out of corned beef, and thinks the lion ate the Skipper, he agrees to have the lion caged, and a high tide takes the cage out to sea. Gilligan finds a thermal vent and soon everyone wants piping-hot water for showers, washing dishes and baths. The Professor is not so excited, because this means there is an active volcano on the island. He wants to build a bomb to help stop the eruptions from the volcano. Things get quite chaotic when The Professor and The Skipper try to deploy the bomb. Gilligan and Ginger only add to the chaos. In the end the bomb is successfully dropped, and the eruptions are stopped. An impostor posing as Mr. Howell claims to having been rescued and begins selling off Mr. Howell's stocks. The real Mr. Howell offers his fellow castaways a hefty reward to get him off the island so he can save his fortune. When the imposter goes on a cruise, he falls overboard and guess where he lands? The castaways don't know which is the real Mr. Howell. But, another radio report answers the question. A ghost on the island has the castaways scared for their lives. The ghost tells Gilligan that the castaways must leave the island. It actually gives them a boat so that they can get off the island. The Professor is suspicious and wants to send the boat out with dummies on it first. A short way out and the boat blows up. First the Skipper, then the rest of the castaways develop an allergy to Gilligan. Gilligan moves to the other side of the island. The Professor comes up with a vaccine for everyone to take and they proceed to do so. After the others have taken their painful shot, Gilligan tells them he has discovered that it was the papaya nut oil he was using as a hair tonic that caused the sneezing, much to everyone else's dismay. Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff comes to "rescue" the castaways. At first Boris brings the Skipper and Gilligan to his nearby island. There they meet the Doctor's servant Igor and a dog that meows. Balinkoff explains that he's been doing mind transfer experiments on animals. After Boris brings the other castaways to the island, they learn he will experiment on them. They all have their minds transferred. With the help of Ginger (in Igor's body), they are returned to normal and escape the island to their own. The Professor tells his fellow castaways that if they don't find a way to grow more oranges and other citrus fruits on the island, they risk dying from vitamin deficiencies. The Skipper, as the heavest one on the island is starting to fall ill from the deficiency, and the others will soon follow. After their last orange shriveled up in the sun, they plant the seeds. That night, Gilligan must guard the seeds and make sure they stay warm. Gilligan falls asleep and has a "Jack and the Beanstalk" type of dream. The Professor finds some Grapefruit and Lemon trees. The radio announces that the minister who married the Howells was a fraud, so the Howell's marriage is invalid. The Skipper, as Captain of a ship, can marry couples, so he prepares to marry them in the lagoon. However, a fight causes the wedding to be called off altogether. The castaways come up with a plan to make the Howell's jealous by having them 'date' other people. When that plan fails, the Skipper dresses up like a headhunter to scare them together. In the end, they hear on the radio that it was another minister with a similar name who was the real fraud. A meteor crashes onto the island. Observing that some seedling trees near the meteor have rapidly grown into full grown trees, the Professor concludes that the meteor's cosmic rays are speeding up the aging process on the island, and once the rays reach the castaways, they too will age rapidly, and will die of old age in one week. The news that an electrical storm will be passing over the island inspires them to build a lightning rod hoping that a bolt of lightning will destroy the meteor. Gilligan dreams that the castaways are 50 years older. Just as the storm hits, Gilligan gets the rod in place and it works.
season 3 -
After a bat bites Gilligan in the neck in a cave, he is convinced that he will become a vampire. He moves away to save his fellow castaways. Gilligan is haunted by a dream that he is indeed a vampire living in a European castle in 1895 where unsuspecting travelers and a famous detective and his doctor assistant appear at his doorstep. It eventually turns out the bat was a small fruit bat. A Russian agent who looks and dresses exactly like Gilligan is on the island to try and find out what the castaway's mission is. Gilligan sees him, but no one will believe his story. The agent holds Gilligan captive, then he tries to question the other castaways. The castaways think there is something wrong with Gilligan, but the Professor says to play along. The real Gilligan escapes and tries to tell the others about the Russian agent. The agent returns to his ship before Gilligan can prove he was there. Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetable seeds from the lagoon, but fails to notice the warning on the crate that the seeds are radioactive. The castaways plant them and eat the vegetables, but then hear a radio report about the missing radioactive seeds. Soon they develop unusual abilities such as Mary Ann's exceptional eyesight from carrots, Gilligan's great strength from spinach, and Mrs. Howell’s super speed from sugar beets. The Professor comes up with a cure. The castaways have to eat some of their plant based soap. While circling the world for new talent, egocentric Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba lands on the island when his plane goes down. After promising the castaways they will be rescued, Harold has them doing anything he says. He is unimpressed with Ginger's acting abilities, so she decides she won't leave the island even if they're rescued. The castaways put on their own musical production of Hamlet to get the producer's attention. Hecuba then does his own version of the musical. The next morning Hecuba leaves the island without the castaways because he wants the idea of a musical Hamlet for his own. A witch-doctor has come to the island and steals a personal item from each castaway. He is now casting voodoo spells over dolls that resemble them. The Skipper believes they've all been cursed because he and Gilligan dug up some artifacts in a cave. The Professor scoffs at the Skipper's superstitions and is turned into a zombie. When Gilligan puts the last of the artifacts back in the cave, he finds the voodoo dolls and the castaways personal belongings. Mr. Howell decides to put the castaways into his will. Grateful, they try to plan a surprise party for him, and kill a wild boar on the island for spareribs, but a number of unfortunate events and overheard discussions convince Mr. Howell they want to murder him for the money. Mr. Howell leaves for the other side of the island. While searching for him, the castaways believe he fell into some quick sand. During a funeral service for Mr. Howell, the others all say how they can't except the things he gave them in his will. Overhearing the service, Mr. Howell realizes that the castaways really care for him. Lord Beasley Waterford, a world famous butterfly collector, comes to the island in search of the world's rarest butterfly, the pussycat swallowtail. He arrived by boat, with a flare pistol to signal when he's ready to leave. Beasley says he will not leave the island until he finds the butterfly. The castaways pull out all the stops to help him find one. They try to get Beasley drunk so they can get his flare gun. The only problem is that he can out drink them and the castaways all pass out. Beasley then finds his butterfly and sets off his flare. He is forced to leave without the castaways, as they are out cold. Gilligan's hair turns completely white overnight. Overhearing a conversation about a disease that can transform a young man overnight into an old man, Gilligan begins to talk and act like an elderly man. The Professor comes up with a brown hair dye to change Gilligan's hair color, only to wind up completely bald by morning. Soon, the Skipper loses his hair as well. The Professor finally figures out it had to do with the bleach Gilligan was using for the laundry. Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff is back. This time his scheme is to turn the castaways into hypnotized robots he will use to assist him in looting Fort Knox. Instead of mind transference, the doctor has now created a ring that, when worn on the finger, makes the wearer a mindless robot slave to the mad scientist's will. Balinkoff has the castaways rehearse the robbery using coconuts instead of gold bars. The Doctor is foiled by an assault of coconuts, crushing his mechanical control device. "Igor" is represented by a monkey. Gilligan bumps his head and sees everything upside down. The Professor concocts a potion from Captibora berries to cure him but instead Gilligan sees multiple images. To make matters worse, headhunters come to the island and capture everyone but Gilligan. Gilligan lures the headhunters into drinking the potion and the sight of 35 castaways forces them to flee in terror. When a locked official Government briefcase washes ashore, the castaways are dying to find out what is inside. The Professor says that they shouldn't open it, because when the Government comes to find it, they will want it intact. But, everyone tries to get the case and open it. Gilligan accidentally handcuffs himself to the briefcase and he becomes afraid that the enemy will come to the island and kill him. Gilligan dreams that he is Good Guy Spy 014 (a spoof of James Bond 007). When the case does get opened it reveals that it's from World War 1 and of no use to anyone. A smooth-talking kidnapper named Norbett Wiley comes to the island and holds the women on the island hostage in exchange for ransom money. When Norbett is captured and put in a jail, the castaways decide to try and reform him instead of holding him prisoner. The Professor remains wary of his many stories, though the others succumb to his outward charm. The castaways let Wiley go and plan to give him a welcome back to society party. At the party, Wiley steals things from many of the others. He then excuses himself from the party, and before anyone knows what happened, Wiley leaves in his boat. One by one the three women disappear, and there is no evidence of head hunters on the island. The Professor theorizes that one of the men must be responsible, an unknowing fiend who has done away with the girls, a genuine Jekyll and Hyde. Soon only Gilligan is left. Gilligan starts hearing voices out of thin air, so he assumes that he's killed all his friends and is now being haunted by them. Gilligan dreams that he is Dr. Gilligan and is on trial for being Mr. Hyde. It turns out everyone fell through a trap door into an old World War Two Japanese munitions pit. A homely and lovelorn woman named Eva Grubb comes to the island to escape society. She's willing to give the castaways the key to her boat, so long as they leave quickly and never come back. Professor advises that in her present state of mind it might not be wise for her to be alone and they should send a boat back for her once they reach the mainland. Gilligan accidentally spills the beans about their plans, so Eva buries the spark plugs so that no one can leave the island. After the girls give her a makeover, she looks just like Ginger. By the time of the going away party, Eva believes herself to be such an effective actress that she can sail away as Ginger and no one will ever suspect the truth. The castaways decide to establish law and order on the island, with the Skipper as the island Sheriff and Gilligan as his deputy. Unfortunately Deputy Gilligan takes his new responsibility too seriously, and, as a result, everyone ends up in jail...including, eventually, himself. Meanwhile, the discovery of phosphorescent rocks to signal a search plane due to fly overhead looks like a surefire idea to get rescued, except that there's no one around to set it up. The Take-A-Dare radio show has put a contestant named George Barkley on a deserted island to survive for one week without any help from anyone. If he can do this he will win $10,000. Trouble is, the island the contestant is on is not exactly deserted. A rash of disappearances have the castaways mystified, but soon they discover George with all the stolen items. He refuses to let the castaways use his transmitter because he would have to forfeit the prize. Nothing the castaways do can convince George to help them and after the week is over, he leaves the island. Skipper and Gilligan hear on the radio that the Maritime Board has pinned the loss of the Minnow on the Skipper. The Professor recreates the Minnow voyage to disprove the Maritime Board charge. When the blame seems to shift to Gilligan, he decides he wants to run away. The Skipper says they were both to blame and goes with him. Gilligan dreams that he is back in the Golden Age of Pirates. Pirates have boarded his ship and taken the women captive. He tries to save them. Another radio report says that because of new information, the crew of the Minnow were not to blame. Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid lands on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game": a human. He decides to go after Gilligan, locking up the rest of the castaways, but promising to rescue everyone if Gilligan can survive 24 hours. Gilligan lasts the 24 hours. Kincaid leaves without the castaways, saying that no one can know he hunted a human. Mrs. Howell has a secret admirer who is sending letters to her. Mr. Howell is outraged and jealous. So the Professor invents a lie detector, and this and a trap combine to reveal the truth. Mr. Howell had been writing the notes because he felt that with Mrs. Howell being older, she might appreciate the attention. This, of course, infuriates her and she kicks Mr. Howell out. All of this causes her to dream that she is Cinderella. Tongo the Ape Man, actually a movie actor researching a role, visits the island. He tries to fool the castaways into believing he is really a "savage" jungle lord (a la Tarzan). All of the castaways are menaced by Tongo, until a plan is hatched to trap him in a cage. Once he's left alone, Tongo takes out a tape recorder, and starts to keep track of his exploits. The castaways are amazed at how easily he adjusts to their teachings. But the island's resident gorilla gives him away and reveals Tongo to be a coward. He drops his tape recorder and the castaways find out all about him. He escapes by helicopter, unwilling to rescue the castaways for fear that they might tell about his cowardice with the real ape. Gilligan and his bowling ball are magnetically attached to each other after he is struck by lightning. Also, touching Gilligan means an electric shock. All looks hopeless until another bolt of lightning dislodges the ball but renders Gilligan invisible. The Professor designs a lead sheathed bandage that should absorb the charge that continues to surge through Gilligan's body. A frightened Ginger unravels the bandage. But, the bandages apparently were on long enough, as Gilligan is later cured. When the Professor determines that a manned American spacecraft will pass directly over their island, the castaways set out to build a radio signal to let the astronauts know they are there. When that doesn't work, they try to build a flaming SOS signal. But, Gilligan messes that up. However, they may get another chance when an unmanned capsule lands on the island. They plan to float the capsule out to sea with Gilligan and the Skipper in it. But, before that can happen, NASA remotely blows up the capsule. Skipper and Gilligan find a totem pole in the jungle, and the head at the top of the pole is a dead ringer for Gilligan. Gilligan is mortified, and decapitates the totem pole, unable to face it. Several native headhunters are enraged to see their pole destroyed, and start to capture the castaways. Gilligan is able rescue them by masquerading as the headhunter king, scaring the natives away. After Mary Ann watches Ginger perform on the island, she bumps her head, and now she thinks she is Ginger. The Professor diagnoses her as having a bad case of Ginger envy. He suggests humoring her to prevent any kind of psychological trauma. When the Professor attempts to hypnotize Mary Ann, his hypnotic suggestion bounces off her and hits an eavesdropping Gilligan, who then believes he is Mary Ann. The Professor comes up with the idea to have Mary Ann sing and dance as Ginger. When Mary Ann can't actually perform, her memory comes back. The castaways find parts of an ancient Hieroglyphic stone tablet that may tell them the way to get off the island. Gilligan dreams the castaways are prehistoric cave people. The Professor realizes that he made a mistake and the tablets actually tell how to get on the island. Gilligan rescues Kalani, a Matoba native girl, from drowning, and she vows to be his slave for life. The Professor tells Gilligan the only way he can free himself of his predicament is to be killed in mortal combat. Mr. Howell is happy to oblige so he can be Kilani's master. They set up a fake fencing duel were Gilligan is killed. Her ex, Ugundi, shows up on the island and challenges Mr. Howell to a duel to the death. Mr. Howell gets off the hook when Gilligan reveals he is not dead. The Professor gives Gilligan a serum to make him appear dead. But, now Ugundi wants to cremate Gilligan. Just as the fire starts, Gilligan comes to. Now the natives believe Gilligan is a Fire God and run away. A James Bond-like jet pack lands on the island, and the castaways believe they can use it to signal the Navy search party looking for it. However, Gilligan accidentally activates it, using up most of the jet fuel in the process. They now have just enough to allow Gilligan to hover in the air for a few minutes for a potential passing plane to notice. A plane does pass, but it misses Gilligan, who floats into a cloud. When a homing pigeon comes to the island, the castaways begin to correspond with the bird's owner, who is an inmate at Alcatraz. The convict has been messaging back and forth with a certain 'old lady Hawkins,' and believes the castaways' story to be one of her tall tales. Mr. Howell writes the next message, wrapping a $1000 bill inside, and that also fails to convince. The castaways now want to send a picture of themselves in front of the Minnow. Gilligan goes to get the pigeon, but he finds it has become trapped in a cave by a giant spider. Now they have to find a way to trap the spider. They get the bird back and send it on its way, but the convict is paroled before he can read the last note. The U.S. government invents a new type of plastic explosive that can be molded into every day items. Unfortunately, a crate of it falls overboard a navy ship. The crate washes ashore and the castaways waste no time in molding it into things they need, including fillings for Gilligan's teeth. A playful monkey shows them that, once hardened, the clay is a deadly explosive, set off by the slightest bump. The Professor tries to figure out a way to remove Gilligan's fillings. The monkey has stored a bunch of the explosives on the roof of a hut and starts throwing them at the castaways. Gilligan starts to climb up the hut to stop the monkey. He then sneezes out his fillings. King Killiwani, the Chief from a nearby island, comes in search of a 'White Goddess' to take back to his island to marry. The castaways believe they could be rescued if a goddess comes forward. All three of the ladies vie to be the goddess. But they find out there is a catch. The goddess will also be sacrificed to a volcano. To protect the women, the men dress up as girls. Killiwani takes an instant shine to Gilliana, decides to betray the gods, and keep Gilliana for himself. When Gilligan gets out of his dress and runs off, the King believes there is bad magic on the island and leaves.
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