"Gilligan's Island" (1964)TV series 1964-1967

Creator:

Sherwood Schwartz

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

26 September 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family

Plot:

Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Beauty | Pretty Girl | Castaway | Professor

Awards:

3 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Bob Denver	...	Gilligan / ... (84 episodes, 1962-1967)
Alan Hale Jr.	...	The Skipper / ... (84 episodes, 1962-1967)
Jim Backus	...	Thurston Howell III / ... (84 episodes, 1962-1967)
Natalie Schafer	...	Lovey Howell / ... (84 episodes, 1962-1967)
Russell Johnson	...	Professor Roy Hinkley / ... (83 episodes, 1964-1967)
Tina Louise	...	Ginger Grant / ... (82 episodes, 1964-1967)
Dawn Wells	...	Mary Ann Summers (82 episodes, 1964-1967)

Also Known As:

Gilligan's Travels (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

30 min (98 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (1964-1965) | Color (1965-1967)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:G (season 1) | USA:TV-G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

CBS Television

Trivia:

'Alan Hale Jr.' was on location in Utah filming a movie when he got a call to come back to Los Angeles to do a screen test for "Gilligan's Island" (1964). Hale rode a horse to the highway, hitchhiked to Las Vegas and flew to L.A. to test with Bob Denver.

Goofs:

Continuity: In "Two on a Raft", when the castaways are listening to the radio, the Professor is shown standing up, then sitting in the next shot.

Quotes:

[the castaways have set up a courtroom and are conducting a trial]
Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel?
Professor Roy Hinkley: Why?
Thurston Howell III: That one's squirting milk all over me.
[Later in the same courtroom sequence]
Skipper Jonas Grumby: Ginger's very damaging to us.
Gilligan: Yeah, her testimony.
Skipper Jonas Grumby: No, her legs.
[And finally... ]
Thurston Howell III: I'd like to charge Mary Ann with murder.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Married with Children: The Goodbye Girl (#6.22)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle

Silly compared to what?

Why is Gilligan's Island considered so often as the silliest show on TV? Perhaps because it wasn't set in white suburbia?Because there was no house,no kids,no first dates,no report cards,no morning newspaper, no boss,etc.Was it really sillier than its rivals,such as Bewitched,Munsters,Flying Nun,Addams Family,Jeanie, etc,which were basicly stupid gimmick shows,featuring fantasy in the middle of pseudo-reality?

Some Gilligans Island episodes were very good and funny(by TV standards);some were stupid (by any standard).Yet unlike the other shows of its genre it clearly told all of us-this is fun,this is campy,this is a spoof of pop culture.It isn't reality. Maybe that's why we remember it(love it or hate it) and forget so many other shows.