The Pentagon is set to launch a new deadly missile that will destroy everything within 100 miles of its path, and the island is ground zero.The Pentagon is set to launch a new deadly missile that will destroy everything within 100 miles of its path, and the island is ground zero.The Pentagon is set to launch a new deadly missile that will destroy everything within 100 miles of its path, and the island is ground zero.
Harry Lauter
- Maj. Adams
- (uncredited)
Charles Maxwell
- Radio Announcer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Russell Thorson
- Gen. Bryan
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaGilligan breaks the Fourth Wall when his head is outside the missile & the Professor warns him that if he makes a wrong move while disarming the missile, that he could blow everyone up.
- GoofsThe radio announcer gives the target coordinates for the Powderkeg missile as 140 degrees latitude, 10 degrees longitude, which the Skipper (an old salt in these waters) and Professor confirm. Lines of latitude only go up to 90 degrees. Transposing the coordinates, though (to 10 degrees N latitude, 140 degrees W longitude) would place the missile several hundred miles southeast of Hawaii - the approximate location of their island.
- Quotes
Ginger Grant: If we had been doing these exercises all along, we'd be in good shape.
Mary Ann Summers: I don't see how you can exercise anyway in that dress. It's so tight. I'm surprised it doesn't cut off your circulation.
Ginger Grant: Honey, in Hollywood the tighter the dress, the more the girl circulates.
- Alternate versionsOn MeTv, TBS, and TNT, this episode airs in color.
- ConnectionsReferences Ben Casey (1961)
- SoundtracksThe Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
Words and Music by George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz
Featured review
Bombs away
"X Marks the Spot" was the final episode actually scripted by series creator Sherwood Schwartz himself, in collaboration with son Elroy, which begins in unusual fashion at the Pentagon in Washington, preparing to launch a nuclear warhead called Operation Powderkeg, its destination in the South Pacific bound for Gilligan's Island, ready to destroy everything within a 100 mile radius. Fortunately the actual explosive is removed due to a technical fault, but the castaways aren't made aware of that, surprised that it fails to detonate upon landing in the lagoon. The Professor deduces that only Gilligan can crawl inside the warhead to defuse the bomb, once he identifies the wires that need disconnected. Schwartz again miraculously mines laughs out of a serious situation, no easy task for a premise that CBS executives still despised. Good old fashioned slapstick with the Skipper and Gilligan both hit in the face by a pie, as earnestly as if they were Laurel and Hardy.
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