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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sherwood Schwartz

Theme Song: “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” (Version 1) written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle, performed by The Wellingtons

• 000. Marooned – UNAIRED PILOT 1964
  • After the S.S. Minnow, a charter ship that has departed from Honolulu, Hawaii, is caught in a storm and directed off course, Skipper Jonas Grumby and First Mate Gilligan awaken on a uncharted desert island with their passengers Thurston & Lovey Howell, a high school professor (John Gabriel), Ginger (Kit Smythe), and Bunny (Nancy McCarthy). Gilligan foils the Professor’s attempts at fixing the transmitter by accidentally snagging it – along with the radio – with his fishing pole and inadvertently feeding it to the fish. Eventually Gilligan finds the radio inside of one of the fish that he catches, and the crew begins listening to the fish to see if they can locate the transmitter. NOTE: The calypso theme song of the pilot was written by John Williams and performed by Sherwood Schwartz. 4/14/13
• 001. Two on a Raft – 9/26/1964
  • After the S.S. Minnow, a charter ship that has departed from Honolulu, is caught in a storm and directed off course, Skipper Jonas Grumby (Alan Hale Jr.) and First Mate Gilligan (Bob Denver) awaken on a uncharted desert island with their passengers Thurston & Lovey Howell (Jim Backus, Natalie Schaeffer), Professor Roy Hinkley (Russell Johnson), actress Ginger Grant (Tina Louise), and farm girl Mary Ann Summers (Dawn Wells). Gilligan and Skipper build and raft and set sail to find help. After a shark attack, they are washed ashore on the other side of the same island. The parties on the island mistake each other for a headhunter tribe feared to be in the region. Eventually everyone ends up in the same cave and a melee ensues. NOTE: The opening scenes on the island were lifted directly from the unaired pilot Marooned and the original actors can be glimpsed on the Minnow as the Skipper and Gilligan wake up. 4/14/13
• 002. Home Sweet Hut – 10/3/1964
  • When they are caught in a downpour, the group decides that they need to build a dwelling to protect them from the weather. Skipper convinces them that in order to save time and materials, they should just build one dwelling that they can all share. Gilligan’s ineptness nearly stymies the building of the hut, but eventually it gets finished. Gilligan and Skipper have a difficult time getting into their hammocks, and then everyone is awakened by the Howells fighting with each other. The next day they decide to build their own individual huts, but Gilligan and Skipper can’t get it off the ground because Gilligan keeps lending out all of their tools. As Gilligan visits the other huts, he accidentally knocks them all down, so in order to prepare for an incoming storm, they build another community hut. It survives the storm, but floats out into the lagoon. The group then resumes building their own huts… but Gilligan lends out their tools again. 4/21/13
• 003. Voodoo Something to Me – 10/10/1964
  • Gilligan keep falling asleep while on guard duty, and one night as he sleeps, the supply hut is ransacked and the group’s flares are stolen. The Skipper thinks that it might be voodoo-related. The next night Gilligan hears rustling in the brushes and has an encounter with the robber, which turns out to be a chimpanzee. When the chimp steals Gilligan’s clothes and puts them on, the Skipper thinks that Gilligan has been turned into a monkey, with voodoo still being the culprit. Skipper professes that he will still continue to take care of monkey-Gilligan, and in a heartfelt gesture gives him his hat. The real Gilligan sees the chimp wearing the hat and assumes that the voodoo has turned Skipper into a monkey. Eventually the men run into each other and rejoice that neither is the monkey, who has now gotten hold of the flare gun. Gilligan coaxes the gun from him and then accidentally blows up the supply hut. 4/21/13
• 004. Goodnight, Sweet Skipper – 10/17/1964
  • Gilligan follows the Skipper as he is walking and talking in his sleep as he re-enacts a task that he performed in the war of turning a radio into a transmitter. At first Skipper is convinced that it was Gilligan who is sleepwalking, then realizes that he holds the key in creating a transmitter. Although he can’t remember how to do it from memory, he is convinced that if he falls asleep again, the others can get the information from him. He has trouble falling asleep until he gets some of Mr. Howell’s tranquilizers. Eventually he does, but the directions fail to work. However when Gilligan hits the radio, he is able to communicate with a female pilot who is flying over the island, but when he demonstrates how he hit the radio, it falls apart. 12/28/13
• 005. Wrongway Feldman – 10/24/1964
  • Gilligan finds a one-seat plane on the island, which the gang figures out was crashed by a famous pilot known as Wrongway Feldman (Hans Conreid). It turns out that Feldman has been on the island for 33 years. Using parts from the Minnow, they are able to repair the plane’s engine. Mr. Howell and Ginger both try to bribe Feldman to let them return with him. As Feldman is taking off, the propeller falls off the plane, and later an unseen person is seen sabotaging the plane, so Skipper and Gilligan guard the plane at night. Feldman then disappears, and during a search Gilligan locates him and Feldman admits that he was the one sabotaging the plane because he was scared to fly again. He attempts to teach Gilligan to fly, but at the last minute he takes off himself. The castaways hear via radio that Feldman has returned to the Bronx to national fanfare, but it is assumed that his tale of the castaways are a product of his imagination. 12/29/13
• 006. President Gilligan – 10/31/1964
  • The Skipper, who is trying to dig a well, and Mr. Howell, who is trying to build an estate, fight overusing Gilligan for help. Everyone realizes that no one is in charge, so they decide to have an election with Skipper and Howell as the candidates. Gilligan campaigns for the Skipper and Ginger campaigns for Mr. Howell when he promised to buy Hollywood. With Mrs. Howell and Mary Ann writing in Gilligan in the election, Gilligan ends up winning. Gilligan tries to come up with a plan for the well, but no one will listen to him, and everyone is more interested in the government seats that Gilligan can appoint them to. In the end, Gilligan digs the well himself while everyone else makes excuses why they are too busy. Gilligan gets frustrated and quits but later holds a cabinet meeting and suggests building a lookout tower, but everyone is too busy to do any of the work on that as well. 12/29/13
• 007. The Sound of Quacking – 11/7/1964
  • The vegetation on the island is stricken with blight, and rations are getting scarce. When a duck shows up, the castaways are divided on whether they should cook it and eat it or tie a message with their location to the duck and hope it migrates to civilization. They decide to tie the message to it, but it keeps returning to the island. Gilligan becomes protective of it, even naming it Everett – changing it to Emily when it lays an egg – and dreaming that he’s an old west Marshall protecting it from the other castaways. Since the duck won’t leave, they decide to cook it and eat it. Gilligan substitutes a shoe covered in feathers, and everyone is relieved as they’ve become too attached to eat him as well. Gilligan finally figures out that a string on its head was keeping the duck flying in circles. Once he fixes it, the duck flies off…but Gilligan has forgot to attach the message. 1/17/14
• 008. Goodbye Island – 11/21/1964
  • As the professor tries to perfect creating nails that can be used to patch the Minnow back together, Gilligan taps into a tree to create a pancake syrup. The syrup ends up hardening and acting as an adhesive, so the Professor thinks they can use that to fix the Minnow before the high tide hits. Gilligan and the Skipper wind up sticking themselves to the ship as they are working on it, but the Professor gets them loose by using perfume to dissolve the glue. The Skipper sends Gilligan out of his way and while sulking, Gilligan realizes the the pancake plate is no longer sticking to the utensils, meaning that the glue only holds together temporarily. Gilligan warns everyone that if they sail off in the ship, it will fall apart…which it does before they even take off. 1/18/14
• 009. The Big Gold Strike – 11/28/1964
  • While Gilligan is caddying for Mr. Howell’s golf game, the two discover an underground cave filled with gold in the walls. Howell convinces Gilligan not to tell the others. At the same time, the Skipper reels in a life raft from the Minnow while fishing with Ginger and Mary Ann. Gilligan works on repairing the raft by day and secretly digging out gold for Mr. Howell by night. When the others notice how sleepy Gilligan is, they follow him to the gold mine that night. Mr. Howell refuses to share the gold, so everyone begins charging the Howells for tools, food, and candles. When the raft is ready, everyone agrees that gold will sink the raft everyone is told to leave it behind. As they set out, the raft begins to sink. When they swim back to shore, each one admits that they have smuggled their gold onto the raft. They don’t learn their lesson however because when Gilligan finds a pearl in his oyster, everyone scrambles to the cove to search for more. 2/8/14
• 010. Waiting for Watubi – 12/5/1964
  • While digging an ice locker, the superstitious Skipper unearths Kona, an ancient tiki god of evil. Both bad luck, in the form of earthquakes, accidents, and quicksand, and the idol itself seem to follow Skipper. When they attempt to bury it, the Howells steal it and Skipper finds it; Gilligan attempts to bury it but loses it; Ginger and Mary Ann find it and give it to Skipper at a surprise party for him; Skipper falls into the hole with it. Distraught, Skipper feels the only way to lift its curse is if the witch doctor Watubi lifts the curse. When he doesn’t come, Gilligan dresses in native attire and pretends to be Watubi and lifts the curse…with the help of some fortuitous random earthquakes. The gang later asks Gilligan to bring a nice breeze to cool things off, and when he commands it, a windstorm occurs. 2/8/14
• 011. Angel on the Island – 12/12/1964
  • Ginger is upset because the Broadway play in which she was supposed to star would have been having its premier back home. Mr. Howell agrees to ‘back’ the play on the island – ie. off-Broadway- and then if it goes over well, finance it back home. The play is Antony and Cleopatra, and Ginger takes the lead role of Cleopatra and Skipper is Mark Antony. While rehearsing, Mrs. Howell becomes dissatisfied with her role as a servant girl, and demands that Mr. Howell give her the lead. This causes Ginger to retreat to her hut crying. Gilligan talks Mrs. Howell out of the lead, and she feigns laryngitis so that Ginger can resume the lead. On opening night, the Howells watch the cast, including Gilligan, who plays multiple roles – both male and female – perform the play, which seems to be a success. Gilligan however doesn’t think much of the Skipper’s acting – as a parrot (voice by Mel Blanc) reveals. 3/16/14
• 012. Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk – 12/19/1964
  • It is nearing Christmas on the island and the gang is celebrating with a bamboo Christmas tree. Gilligan makes a Christmas wish that they get rescued, and no sooner do they hear a radio announcement that the Coast Guard is en route to rescue them. The Skipper and Gilligan reminisce about their arrival on the island, about when the transmitter and radio were swallowed by fish – incorporating footage from the pilot episode Marooned and the premiere episode Two on a Raft. Eventually they hear an announcement that the castaways have been rescued – other castaways who have been stranded for 11 years. Sullen, the group is visited by Skipper dressed as Santa Claus telling the crew to count their blessings. The second he disappears, the real Skipper come from behind them, and they all watch the sleigh take off. 3/16/14
• 013. Three Million Dollars, More or Less – 12/26/1964
  • As Gilligan is building a watchtower, he is distracted by Mr. Howell’s putting green where he seems to be able to hit the ball in every single time. Mr. Howell is annoyed by his beginner’s luck and keeps betting him double-or-nothing that he will miss. Before long, the debt had gone from 25 cents to three million dollars. When everyone finds out that Gilligan is ‘rich,’ they all start giving him special treatment, with Skipper even suggesting that Gilligan call him ‘Dad.’ While Skipper is away, Mr. Howell cons Gilligan into accepting a worthless deed to the Tahatchapuku Oil & Mining Company in ‘Dust Bowl, Oklahoma.’  During a radio broadcast tower, they find that oil has been struck on the land, which is now valued at 12 million dollars. Mr. Howell invites Gilligan and the Skipper over for dinner and gambling, to which Skipper says he will only gamble on billiard. Howell uncovers a pool table and then takes Skipper to the cleaners, forcing Gilligan to relinquish the deed. It is all for naught though, as a subsequent radio broadcast indicates that it was only a buried oil rig that was found on the land, now valued as worthless. 6/9/14
• 014. Water, Water Everywhere – 1/2/1965
  • While Gilligan is pumping water for the garden, the well suddenly runs dry. The Professor and Skipper declare that all water must be rationed, and Gilligan is put in charge of watching over it. Mr. Howell distracts Gilligan while Mrs. Howell steals some of the water, and then Ginger and Mary Ann do the same. Skipper catches them and makes them return the water, but Gilligan actually punctures the water container with a diving ride that he carved. Gilligan is depressed and writes his mother a note saying that everyone would be better off without him. Just then a frog appears and leads Gilligan to a deep hole full of water, which he naturally falls into. When the Skipper responds to his calls for help, he too falls in. They are able to light a match, and the gases in the well cause them to blow up into a tree. But all is well as now the castaways have water. 6/9/14
• 015. So Sorry, My Island Now – 1/9/1965
  • Gilligan thinks that he spotted a sea monster in the lagoon, and thinks that he is eating the castaways one by one. It turns out that the ‘monster’ is actually a Japanese midget sub piloted by a Japanese sailor (Vito Scotti) who thinks that World War 2 is still going on. One by one, he captures all of the castaways except for Skipper and Gilligan. While Gilligan and the Skipper unsuccessfully try to pilot the sub, Ginger does her best to woo him to let them go, but he keeps them locked up in cages that he built from bamboo. Eventually Gilligan and Skipper find the others, and while Skipper tries to dig his way into the cages to avoid the hand grenade that the sailor has used to booby trap the cage, Gilligan simply steals the prison key while the sailor is sleeping. The sailor then heads home, leaving behind their hopes of getting off the island in the submarine. Gilligan attributes the sailor’s erratic driving to the fact that Gilligan has his glasses. 8/28/14
• 016. Plant You Now, Dig You Later – 1/16/1965
  • While digging a barbecue pit for Mr. Howell, Gilligan stumbles upon a buried chest that everyone is convinced is filled with treasure. As they attempt to open it, Mr. Howell claims that it is his since Gilligan was working for him when he found it. Skipper comes to Gilligan’s aid and offers to play Mr. Howell in poker for it. The Professor thinks it would be wiser to hold a court hearing in which he would act as judge. They agree and Skipper begins to coach Gilligan on what to say in court. Howell and Skipper both object to each other’s actions and file separate charges to be heard in additional cases. All present a good case, but Professor ultimately decides that the treasure should be split evenly among everyone on the island. Before they open the treasure, Howell buys out everyone’s share for $100,000 each, before finding that the box is filled with cannonballs. Everyone lets Howell off the hook from paying them, and they use the balls to use on their bowling alley. 8/28/14
• 017. Little Island, Big Gun – 1/23/1965
  • Notorious bank robber Jackson Ferrell (Larry Storch) and his accomplice (K.L. Smith) land on the island with the intention being that Ferrell will hide out with the money while his gang has their boat searched, and then when the coast is clear pick him up again. Ferrell runs into Gilligan who is shooting figs from a tree and tells him that he is a doctor who is going to be treating natives on a nearby island. A radio broadcast gives away Ferrell’s true identity and he holds the castaways at gunpoint. They make various attempts to subdue him and take away his gun, but all fail. When two members of the Indigo Mob, Hank (Louis Quinn) and Lucky (Jack Sheldon) come looking for Ferrell, the castaways are forced to impersonate natives while Mary Ann is held at gunpoint. Eventually his accomplice returns to leave with Ferrell, but when Gilligan throws their anchor into the boat, the bag of money is dragged into the lagoon and chopped up by the boat propellers. 9/22/14
• 018. X Marks the Spot – 1/30/1965
  • In Washington D.C., government agents discuss a project known as Project Powder Keg, during which they will launch and detonate a missile in the South Seas. On the island, the batteries die in the castaways’ radio, and they are forced to recharge them using sea water. When it comes back on, they hear the announcement about the missile, and Skipper realizes that this could be dangerously close to them. Back on the mainland, there is a problem with the missile, so they remove the explosive but still send it out to test their navigation system. On the island, some of the castaways are counting on it being the end, so Mary Ann bakes Skipper and Gilligan pies, Skipper gives Gilligan his pie – which winds up in his face- and the Howells write their will for their money to go to charitable organizations. The Professor realizes that there will likely be a scouting plane before the missile launch, so he uses a mirror that he had been working on to try and signal the plane. It is ultimately broken by Gilligan and the plane does not spot them. The missile finally lands and works its way to the shore but does not explode. Gilligan has to get inside the missile to disarm it, but he sends it back into the water…with him inside. Later he shows up, having gotten out of the missile and swam back to shore. Harry Lauter is Major Adams; Russell Thorson is General Bryan. 9/24/14
• 019. Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy – 2/6/1965
  • Gilligan finds a boy (Kurt Russell) on the island who is unable to talk. He takes Gilligan around and shows him an area where helium or hydrogen seems to come up out of the ground. No one believes Gilligan at first, until they all see the boy as well. The Professor gets the idea to make a balloon with the gas and let one person float to civilization so that they might all be rescued. They argue has to whom will go up, but Skipper ends up being the one. However, he is too heavy to be taken up…and the Professor realizes that only the jungle boy is light enough. Gilligan gets the idea that no one really has to go up and that they can just send a note with their whereabouts. The boy overhears this and sneaks off in the balloon by himself…before they can give him the note. They hear via radio that the boy has been rescued, but that he cannot communicate to tell where he came from. 11/1/14
• 020. St. Gilligan and the Dragon – 2/13/1965
  • Upset that the men have not built them their own huts, the women boycott doing the cooking and cleaning and build their own hut away from the men. The men have their own dreams about women being subservient to them: the Skipper with his own harem, Mr. Howell getting a pedicure, manicure, and massage, the Professor at the stage door, and Gilligan as a bullfighter. Gilligan and the Skipper dress up as a dragon-like creature to try and scare them, but the women are on to them and attack. Eventually the men decide to apologize, but they just end throwing water on Mr. Howell. Then they spot another ‘creature’ in the woods, but this time the men are not the culprits. After Gilligan destroys it, they realize that it is a military weather balloon that could have helped with their rescue. They try to fix it, but then find out that Gilligan has cut it into little pieces for spare cloth. 11/28/14
• 021. Big Man on a Little Stick – 2/20/1965
  • While Skipper and Gilligan are fishing, a man named Duke Williams (Denny Miller) from Topeka, Kansas, rides a tsunami wave in from Hawaii and lands on the island. Ginger and Mary Ann are smitten with him, and Gilligan is inspired to start bodybuilding. The Howells think he is an actual Duke and invite him for dinner. The Professor figures out that the tsunami is going to be returning to Hawaii and tries to get him prepared to ride his surfboard back and tell everyone about them, but Duke doesn’t want to go. But once he starts coming on strong to the girls, they want him to leave too. Ginger and Mary Ann pretend they are involved with the Professor and Gilligan, respectively. He finally agrees to surf back, but when he gets to Hawaii, he hits his head and develops amnesia. 11/28/14
• 022. Diamonds Are an Ape’s Best Friend – 2/27/1965
  • In the middle of the night a gorilla (Janos Prohaska) appears on the island and steals Mrs. Howell’s diamond broach. At first the gorilla only appears to Gilligan, causing the professor to think that Gilligan is crazy. Mr. Howells accuse the other castaways of theft, but then recants and offers a $10,000 reward to whomever locates the broach. Mr. Howell lays the reward money on the table and offers to blow out the lights so that whoever has found the broach can return it without embarrassment. While the lights are out, the gorilla kidnaps Mrs. Howell. It will let no one near her, even as Ginger tries to lure it away so they can capture it with a net. But when Gilligan spills Mrs. Howell’s perfume on him, the gorilla loses interest in Lovey and kidnaps Gilligan. As the Skipper and Professor plan a way to retrieve Gilligan, he escapes…thanks to the gorilla running off with yet another gorilla on the island. 10/29/14
• 023. How to Be a Hero – 3/6/1965
  • A native headhunter (Russ Grieve) arrives on the island in time to watch Mary Ann nearly drown in the lagoon. Gilligan attempts to rescue her but fails, and both are saved by the Skipper, who gets a hero’s reception from the other castaways. This causes Gilligan to feel jealous and depressed. Mrs. Howell diagnoses him, and the others decide to make Gilligan look like a hero. The Skipper pretends to be stuck under a fallen tree, but Gilligan only manages to get himself stuck as well. Mrs. Howell pretends to be scared by a spider, and Gilligan knocks himself out. All the while the headhunter is watching them, but only Gilligan has seen him, and he can’t get others to believe him. The Skipper has the idea to dress up like a headhunter and kidnap the others and let Gilligan be the hero, a plot that is overheard by Gilligan. The real headhunter ends up capturing everyone and Gilligan thinks that he is the Skipper. When the Skipper appears also dressed as a headhunter, Gilligan runs away but returns to knock the real headhunter into a fire, causing him to flee the island. A testimonial dinner is held for Gilligan, and he bores everyone with his speech. 1/11/15
• 024. The Return of Wrongway Feldman – 3/13/1965
  • Tired of the hustle and bustle of New York city life, Wrongway Feldman returns to the island, having not revealed its location because of his desire to keep it private and peaceful. His tales of Mr. Howell’s rent-controlled apartments, Ginger’s fellow movie star friends, and thick juicy steaks make the castaways long for home even more. Mr. Howell tries to bribe him, and Ginger tries to seduce him, but both efforts end in their tears. The Skipper feigns appendicitis, hoping that it will convince Feldman to go back for a doctor, but he just tries to remove the appendix himself. Gilligan then fakes having Bola Bola fever, which does finally convince him to fly back…but he only returns with medicine, having quietly slipped back to the island. The castaways then try to drive Feldman out by building a ‘city and freeway’ and causing constant noise while doing it, putting Feldman to work from morning through night. Feldman finally departs in the plane, which the Skipper has loaded with maps and information how to find the island. They expect a rescue but it never comes. Instead they find a note in a bottle that Feldman has sent from a neighborhood island that he had landed on when he got lost, and is now very happy enjoying the solitude with island dancers. 1/11/15
• 025. The Matchmaker – 3/20/1965
  • Bored and longing for the social life, Lovey decides that the island needs a wedding. She tries to arrange to match Gilligan and Mary Ann by having him deliver flowers to her. Gilligan mistakenly thinks that it is Ginger who likes him, but ends up on an awkward date with Mary Ann. When the Howells attempt to talk about their first dates, they end up in a fight that spreads to everyone on the island. In order to keep the peace, Skipper has everyone re-create the Howell’s date at the Tour D’Argent restaurant by roll-playing. During practice, Gilligan spills soup on the Skipper. The dinner goes nicely with Ginger singing Alouette and doing a dance routine from her film The Hula Girl and the Fullback. Gilligan spills more soup on the Skipper. The Howells reconcile and Lovey then sets her sights on convincing the Professor and Ginger of the bliss of marriage. 3/5/15
• 026. Music Hath Charms – 3/27/1965
  • When Mrs. Howell hears Gilligan playing his drums, she comes up with the idea to create their own Philharmonic orchestra. On a nearby island, the natives interpret the drums as a war call and plan a preemptive attack on the castaways. Skipper and Mr. Howell argue over who gets to be the conductor, and Mrs. Howell ends up with the task. Ginger plays the xylophone, Mary Ann plays the saw, Skipper the conch shells, and Mr. Howell the triangle. As they play The Blue Danube, Gilligan goes into a drum solo as the natives arrive and attack the island from every direction.  They retreat to a cave to hide where they struggle to keep warm and fight off hunger. They attempt to convince the natives they are gods by scaring them with the radio, flashlight, and fire extinguisher but thanks to Gilligan’s goof-ups they fail and the Skipper, Professor, and Mr. Howell are kidnapped. The others find the trio playing music and the natives dancing. They eventually leave peacefully, and Gilligan plays another drum selection for them… which invokes the warpath of yet another island of natives. Russ Grieve, Paul Daniel, and Frank Corsentino play natives. 3/7/15
• 027. New Neighbor Sam – 4/3/1965
  • Gilligan and the Skipper overhear a group of gangsters – including Artie, Louie, Gus, and Sid – planning to shoot anyone they come into contact with on the island. The castaways do everything they can think of to steer clear of the gangsters while searching for their boat, but eventually learn that the gangsters are one lone parrot named Sam (voiced by Mel Blanc) doing imitations of gangsters. They realize that Sam reacts whenever boats or jewelry are mentioned. They try to use the parrot to locate the boat on the island that originally brought the gangsters there, while Mr. Howell is more interested in kidnapping Sam to find the jewelry. Sam leads them into a cave where they find a newspaper detailing the gangsters’ escape… but it is from 1906. Sam also leads to them to a box of Jewel brand crackers. 4/15/15
• 028. They’re Off and Running – 4/10/1965
  • Mr. Howell has defeated the Skipper once again in turtle races, and the Skipper no longer has anything left to bet. When Skipper realizes that the turtle will race toward carrots, he challenges Howell to a rematch, using Gilligan’s services as a houseboy as collateral. Howell find out the Skipper’s secret through Ginger and buys all of Mary Ann’s vegetables. However, Skipper and Gilligan learn that the turtle also likes moss, but Gilligan over-feeds it during practice and Skipper loses Gilligan to Howell. Skipper later learns that his horoscope predicts victory, so he challenges him once again, using Gilligan’s pocketknife as the bet. Gilligan convinces Howell to throw the game since he already has everything, and Skipper has nothing. Howell refuses so he doesn’t look week, but secretly switches the turtles before the match. Unbeknownst to him, Lovey has also switched them. Gilligan tells Skipper that the turtles have been switched and the Skipper changes them back, not wanting an advantage. Howell switches them one more time but ends up winning accidentally. He then wins a game of ‘guess which hand’ and gives Gilligan away, saying that the loser gets to keep Gilligan after he has ruined Howell’s clothes. 4/15/15
• 029. Three to Get Ready – 4/17/1965
  • While digging a bait trap, Gilligan finds a piece of quartz that the Professor thinks is a Cat’s Eye worth about $11, while the Skipper thinks it is the Eye of the Idol Mentuzar and that the person who finds it will be granted three wishes. When Gilligan wishes for ice cream and a bucket of it washes up on shore, Skipper is convinced and tells him that the third wish needs for them to be rescued. Skipper and Ginger vie for Gilligan to make wishes for them as the second wish, while Mr. Howell steals the jewel from him. While Gilligan is repeating his first wish as an example, a second bucket of ice cream washes up on shore. Skipper makes sure he is careful with his third wish, but then Gilligan loses the jewel. The gang splits up and searches for it in a tree, in an oyster bed, and in a cave, all places where Gilligan had been collecting souvenirs. Eventually the jewel is recovered and everyone but the Professor waits near the lagoon for Gilligan to make his final wish. One by one the castaways vote to stay on the island if the Professor won’t ‘go’ with them, so he finally caves in. When Gilligan makes the wish to be off the island, a piece of it breaks off and floats into the lagoon. Gilligan later throws the gem away, meaning the next person who finds it should theoretically join in. Although still skeptical, the Professor joins the search. 7/10/15
• 030. Forget Me Not – 4/24/1965
  • The Skipper is building a platform in order to signal some Navy ships on a training exercise, when he gets hit in the head by a bamboo pole thanks to Gilligan. The blow to Skipper causes amnesia, and he is the only one who knows the signals the Navy. The Howells try to hit him on the head to bring back his memory, and the Professor hypnotizes him. At first the Skipper believes everyone else are children, then believes they are all enemy Japanese soldiers. The Skipper imprisons everyone as the Navy ships are arriving. When the Professor tries to hypnotize the Skipper again, he ends up hypnotizing Gilligan and Mr. Howell to think they are the Skipper. Gilligan hits the Skipper over the head and brings back his memory, and the Skipper knocks Gilligan and Howell’s heads together which restores their memory. They have missed the Navy ships. Gilligan then falls of the platform and loses his memory. 7/10/15
• 031. Diogenes, Won’t You Please Go Home? – 5/1/1965
  • Gilligan is hiding something small and valuable, and everyone wants to find out what it is. He finally reveals to the Professor that it is a diary he is keeping. Suddenly everyone then becomes concerned with how they are portrayed in the diary, and they set out to try and find it. Gilligan eventually tosses it into the lagoon to get rid of it. The Skipper, Mr. Howell, and Ginger each start writing their own diary where each distorts the story of how it was each of them who was the true hero who had rescued Gilligan from the Japanese Sailor (from the episode So Sorry, My Island Now). Mary Ann then finds the diary washed up onto the beach and reads sections of it to everyone which reveals that Gilligan had actually spoken very highly of everyone. They all become interested in the diary, even though Gilligan keeps losing it. 9/7/15
• 032. Physical Fatness – 5/8/1965
  • The Professor invents a glow-in-the-dark dye marker to help aid in a rescue. The Skipper and Gilligan plan to join the Navy once they get rescued, but Skipper discovers that he is 22 pounds overweight for Navy regulations. Gilligan helps keep Skipper on a strict diet and exercise regimen, until he gets within two pounds of his 199-pound goal. Then they realize that Gilligan is five pound underweight for Navy regulations so everyone stuffs him full of food… while Skipper continues to starve. The Professor finishes his solution and sets it next to Gilligan who promptly eats it. When they get ready to apply it on the lookout tower, they call over Gilligan to bring them the solution… and he shows up glowing in the dark. They end up using Gilligan himself at the top of the tower in hopes of signalling a plane. 9/7/15
• 033. It’s Magic – 5/15/1965
  • While fishing, Gilligan pulls a giant box out of the lagoon that is labeled The Amazing Raftini, which turns out to be a magician’s trunk. The Professor thinks that if each person on the island were to learn a magic trick, it might ward off an attack from natives down the road. Each person attempts to learn one, but Gilligan irritates everyone when he pulls the tablecloth out from under them and ruins their breakfast. Gilligan overhears everyone talking bad about him so when he assists Ginger in a disappearing act, he decides to disappear for good and become a ‘lone wolf’. He takes residence in a cave and everyone tries their best to apologize and lure him out. The try to throw a party for him but the only way to get him to come is for the other men to don monster masks that they found in the trunk and scare him out. Gilligan decides to finally come back, but not before accidentally causing the girls to make his cake with flash powder… which blows up in his face. 12/6/15
• 034. Goodbye Old Paint – 5/22/1965
  • The castaways discover another inhabitant on the island, a temperamental artist named Alexander Gregor Dubov (Harold J. Stone), who has been there for ten years in order to escape the brutal art critics back in civilization. They also find out that he has a transmitter hidden on the island that he can use to summon a ship to pick him up, but he refuses to give it up until he is ready to leave. They all try to make him feel like his artwork has reached new heights when he paints Ginger, but Gilligan lets it slip that it was a ruse. Then they have Gilligan start painting and hail him as a genius in order to goad Dubov into getting them back to civilization so that art critics can judge between them. However eventually Dubov starts to think that Gilligan’s childlike paintings really are genius, so he makes a deal to give Gilligan the transmitter in exchange for art lessons. Unfortunately the transmitter has rusted away and no longer works, and Dubov leaves the island by making a raft out of his paintings. 12/6/15
• 035. My Fair Gilligan – 6/5/1965
  • After Gilligan pushes Mrs. Howell out of the way from a falling boulder, Mr. Howell decides to adopt Gilligan as the son they never had, renaming him G. Howell IV. When the others on the island realize how rich this makes Gilligan, they start to pamper him and won’t let him do any work. Eventually Gilligan comes to resent his new role and just want things to get back to normal, yet doesn’t want to hurt the Howell’s feelings. This leads to a dream where Gilligan is the spoiled son of the King and Queen Howell and eventually orders taking off the heads of his subjects, the other castaways. His friends hatch a plot whereby Gilligan will act obnoxious and spoiled, which threatens to tarnish the Howell name. Eventually Mr. Howell has to take back his offer for Gilligan to be their son, knowing all along that Gilligan was merely acting to spare their feelings. Mr. Howell later extends the same offer to the Skipper when he too saves Mrs. Howell’s life. 2/6/16
• 036. A Nose by Any Other Name – 6/12/1965
  • Gilligan falls out of a coconut tree, which causes his nose to swell up to giant proportions. The Professor thinks that the castaways should learn some first aid techniques and uses a manual to show the girls how to turn over their patient, summarily spraining the arms of the the Skipper, Mr. Howell and the Professor. Gilligan insists that his nose is broken and wants the Professor to perform surgery on it. The girls all try to fool Gilligan by pretending that they are attracted to his ‘rugged’ nose. Eventually the Professor agrees that surgery must be performed. The Skipper makes a cement bust of Gilligan’s face, but while wearing the cement, Gilligan manages to scare the girls. The girls create noses of the movie stars, and Gilligan settles on a Richard Burton nose. The Professor creates an anesthesia, and everyone assists with the surgery. After a week, Gilligan is anxious to see his new nose, but when he takes off the bandages it is the same old Gilligan nose. The Professor had tricked him so that he would stop focusing on the nose, and it naturally healed. While practicing golf, the Skipper hits the Professor in the nose, and his nose similarly swells up. 2/6/16

SEASON 2

Theme song: “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” (Version 2) written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle, performed by The Eligibles

• 037. Gilligan’s Mother-in-Law – 9/16/1965
  • A native Chief (Russ Grieve), his wife (Henny Backus), and their daughter (Mary Foran) visit the island in search of a groom for the daughter. The Skipper initially thinks it is him and tries to get out of it even though they know this might be a good chance to visit their island and possibly find a transmitter and get home. It turns out that they want Gilligan to be the groom, and despite his reluctance, the Skipper forces him to go along with their customs and ‘marriage test’ by carrying the future bride, submitting to the test of knives, and attending a party for the couple. The daughter’s old suitor, a native warrior named Harouki (Eddie Little Sky) shows up on the island and challenges Gilligan to a spear duel for her hand. Knowing that Gilligan can’t throw a spear, Harouki allows Gilligan to throw first, but he only strikes a coconut tree. As Harouki is getting ready to throw his spear at Gilligan, a coconut knocks him out. Gilligan wins the duel, but the daughter decides she wants Harouki anyway. Harouki picks Gilligan to be his best man and starts to take him back to their island, but Gilligan then learns that he will have to pass the ‘best man test’ with poison darts… and flees the boat and swims back to the island. 5/4/16
• 038. Beauty Is as Beauty Does – 9/23/1965
  • When the castaways hear news of a beauty contest back home, they each put forth who they believe is the beauty queen of the island. The Skipper votes for Ginger, the Professor votes for Mary Ann, and Mr. Howell votes for his wife, leading them to follow Gilligan’s suggestion to have a beauty contest. Everyone quickly realizes that Gilligan will have the deciding vote so they attempt to butter him up, and each gives reasons why his contestant should be chosen. During the contest, the men attempt to sabotage the other contestant. When Mary Ann performs a dance, Mr. Howell spills glue on the stage. As Mrs. Howell recites Paul Revere’s Ride, the Professor blows pepper into her face. When Ginger sings Let Me Entertain You, the Professor and Mr. Howell blows spitwads at her. Gilligan’s deciding vote ends up being for Gladys the monkey, who he claims is the only one eligible since she is the only island native. 5/6/16
• 039. The Little Dictator – 9/30/1965
  • Pancho Hernando Golanez Enriques Rodriguez (Nehemiah Persoff), the president of the Latin American country the Republic of Equarico, is booted from power and exiled to the island. With possession of a gun, he sets himself as president of the island. The others plot to make Rodriguez use all of his bullet, using Ginger to seduce him. Howell, who has been set up as Secretary of the Treasury, and Gilligan plot to trap him, but when they are caught, Rodriguez attempts to shoot Gilligan, only to find that he had only had four bullets and that he is now out of them. With no bullets, Rodriguez is offered to become one of the island people, but Rodriguez tries to convince Gilligan to become his puppet president. Gilligan a dream about running a country, which ends up with the people in revolution and Rodriguez killing off Gilligan’s cabinet and revealing that Gilligan has been no more than a puppet ruler. When Gilligan wakes up he declines the offer… but it is irrelevant as the loyalists are restored and Rodriguez’s men return to pick him up. He promises to send a ship to pick them up, and the castaways study Spanish to prepare. However they hear on the radio that Rodriguez has been ousted from power again after being accused of being crazy for saying that he had been dictator of a deserted island, and has now been exiled in the Andes mountains. 8/7/16
• 040. Smile, You’re on Mars Camera – 10/7/1965
  • Gilligan has been collecting feathers so that Mr. Howell can make a special pillow for Lovey. Meanwhile a space probe intended for Mars lands on the island. Professors John Corwell (Booth Colman) and George Bancroft (Arthur Peterson) at Cape Kennedy monitor the probe, and are able to use the camera to survey the area, which includes the island’s hut, before the lens on the camera breaks. Gilligan finds the probe, and the Professor plans to use it to signal there whereabouts so they can be rescued. They go on a search for the lens, which Gilligan finds… and immediately breaks. Gilligan taps the trees for a glue substance that he heats to repair the lens. As they prepare for the probe to turn back on, the lid on the glue pot breaks and covers the castaways in glue. They chase Gilligan and wind up running through Mr. Howell’s feathers, so that when the camera comes on, the professors at Cape Kennedy think that there are half-human half-bird creatures living on Mars. Before the castaways can get their signs to show the cameras, Gilligan trips over the camera and breaks it. The Skipper punishes him by making him hoot like a cuckoo clock on each hour. 8/7/16
• 041. The Sweepstakes – 10/14/1965
  • While Gilligan is serving the Howell’s at their own private country club on the island, he figures out that he has the winning ticket to a sweepstakes back home, rendering him a millionaire. For the price of $50,000, Mr. Howell allows Gilligan to enter into his country club, but insists that all of the others are unworthy to join. Gilligan gives away his ‘money’ so that everyone can afford to join. Now that it is no longer exclusive, Howell demands to see the ticket, which Gilligan has now lost. Mr. Howell dreams that he is a poor prospector in the old west who struck gold. After using the money to win over all of those in town who have previously rejected him, he loses the deed to the mine. Howell wakes up as everyone is turning on him, and immediately heads over to apologize to Gilligan. Howell finds the ticket in the process and even though that he now realizes that the ticket is old and worthless, he still allows Gilligan to be in the country club. Gilligan finds out that he knows and realizes that Mr. Howell indeed has a heart. 10/15/16
• 042. Quick Before It Sinks – 10/28/1965
  • The Professor isn’t very cheery when Gilligan brings in a batch of lobster, because he has realized from a stick he placed in the lagoon that water levels are rising and soon the island will sink. The men try to keep this quiet from the women to avoid panic, agreeing to landscape around the huts to beautify them, while secretly at night they are building new huts on higher ground. The Professor then realizes that it is only a matter of five or six days before the island sinks, and finally decide to tell the women. However when Gilligan tells Ginger, she misunderstands and thinks they will no longer need the island because they are being rescued. Going along with that story now, the men fake having fixed the radio transmitter and Gilligan pretends to be a Frenchman on the other end of the radio. Eventually they find out the truth, and the group decides to build a floating hut. Gilligan and the Skipper put it through its trials by simulating the rocking of the ocean waves, and eventually it falls apart. Gilligan returns to trapping lobster, and the Professor realizes that the stick that Gilligan is using to anchor the trap is the same stick that he has been using to measure the water, which Gilligan has been gradually moving further into the deep water. 10/15/16
• 043. Castaways Pictures Presents – 11/4/1965
  • Gilligan discovers a sunken ship in the lagoon, and he and the Skipper go diving to retrieve its contents, which turns out to be silent movie equipment and costumes that was from a director’s abandoned yacht. The Professor comes up with an idea to make a film of their story in hopes that someone will see it and come rescue them. Mr. Howell acts as director and Gilligan does the filming. When they are done, they screen the film in black and white, and note that although it is riddled with errors including upside-down shots, backwards scenes, inverse negative shots, slow motion, fast motion, outtakes, and ridiculous close-ups, the Professor reminds them that its purpose is to get them rescued. They send the film out on a raft in hopes that it is discovered. They later hear that it has won the Cannes film festival award, but since certain parts were mysteriously blacked out, they can only speculate that it was directed by Ingmar Bergman or Vittorio De Seta. 1/16/17
• 044. Agonized Labor – 11/11/1965
  • Gilligan and the Skipper hear a radio announcement that Howell Industries has gone broke. After arguing over who will be the one to tell him, Gilligan finally get it out and the Howells are shattered. Furthermore the treasury vows to find the petty cash that they have with them. After having a series of accidents around the island making him look like a bum, he leaves a note that he is going to run off and kill himself. The others find him and assure him that they’ll still love him money or not, but that he’ll eventually have to get a job. The Skipper teaches him how to shovel coal, while Mary Ann teaches Mrs. Howell how to sew and Ginger teaches her how to act. While teaching the Howells to act as domestic servants, Mr. Howell makes a shambles of the salad and Mrs. Howell explodes a coconut, leading them to another suicide attempt. At the last minute they hear a radio announcement that it was actually the Powell Company that was in financial ruin. 1/16/17
• 045. Nyet, Nyet, Not Yet – 11/18/1965
  • A pair of Russian cosmonauts named Igor (Vincent Beck) and Ivan (Danny Klega) crash their space capsule in the lagoon, after missing their target. Although they all begin on friendly terms, they begin to secretly distrust one another. When the Professor attempts to sneak on board of the capsule, Gilligan accidentally breaks their transmitter. The Professor finally gets it fixed, and the cosmonauts agree to radio their submarine to come rescue everyone. Igor and Ivan fear that the castaways will expose their horrible landing mistake, so they plot to get the men drunk and tie them up. Gilligan overhears this plot and switches out one of their bottles of vodka with water. The plans works and the cosmonauts pass out, but it is all for naught, as Gilligan’s watch is three hours off and they are late for the submarine pick up. 4/26/17
• 046. Hi-Fi Gilligan – 11/25/1965
  • As the castaways prepare for a horrible typhoon, Gilligan is hit in the head while stashing supplies and begins to transmit radio signals with his teeth. Although at first everyone enjoys the novelty, especially with the actual radio tied up as the Professor listens for news of the typhoon, they begin to be irritated by Gilligan when he keeps them up all night with the radio playing out of his mouth. As he looks for a place to stay, he trips and falls, and succeeds to knock his teeth back in shape and eliminate his internal radio, as well as destroying the actual radio. When the Skipper refuses to punch Gilligan to try and get the radio signal back, Gilligan engineers his own tool to hit himself over the head. It actually works and the Professor is able to determine that the typhoon is on its way. The cave they had designated for shelter proves to be too small, so Gilligan cheats at a game of straws so that he is the one to leave the cave. The Skipper can’t bear to leave him outside alone, so she joins him, and eventually everyone moves from the cave to the outside. When the cave is destroyed by lightening, they credit Gilligan with saving their lives. Charles Maxwell is the radio announcer. 4/26/17
• 047. The Chain of Command – 12/2/1965
  • After finding a headdress on the island, the Professor, Skipper, and Gilligan work toward setting up a defense strategy. When the Skipper is almost crushed by a tree, he begins to worry that there will be no one to replace him if something should happen to him. Although Gilligan is vying for the job, the Skipper first turns to the Professor but thinks that his plans for a fortress aren’t aggressive enough, then Mr. Howell, who only is interested on what to wear to the capture. When Ginger and Mary Ann are both only interested in their hair, the Skipper finally decides that Gilligan could be the man for the job, as long as he lets the Skipper train him and put him through his paces. When the Skipper teaches him to run drills, Gilligan can’t get any respect from anyone. Later the Skipper disappears and leaves a note that he’s been captured by savages. Gilligan wants to take charge, but the Professor and Mr. Howell both have ideas of their own. Gilligan gets some advice from Mary Ann to be aggressive, which he does. After setting up a trap, they wind up capturing Skipper… who admits that the whole thing was put on as a test for Gilligan and that he has figured out that the headdress was merely a woman’s hat. Gilligan attempts to stay in command and is actually successful until he marches off a cliff. The Skipper continues to train him with the help of a gorilla. 12/26/17
• 048. Don’t Bug the Mosquitoes – 12/9/1965
  • Gilligan is obsessed with listening to the rock band The Mosquitoes (The Wellingtons) on the radio. The Skipper forces him to turn it off, but they continue to hear the music… because the band members Bingo (Les Brown Jr.), Bongo (Ed Wade), Bango (George Patterson), and Irving (Kirby Johnson) have come to the island to escape the fans and practice their music. The band agrees to get the castaways off the island if they will cooperate with them and let them practice. The girls immediately try to seduce them, while Mrs. Howell tries to cut their hair. The band puts on a concert for the castaways and play the songs Don’t Bug Me and He’s a Loser, and then informs them that they plan on staying on the island for another month. Although Gilligan is thrilled with the free concerts, the Skipper gets the idea to get everyone to annoy them, so they’ll leave earlier. It works and they decide to leave the next day, but they disappear the next days by themselves. They then re-surface and tell them that they are now staying for two months. The next idea is to form their own band to make the Mosquitoes look good by comparison, and thus ready to leave. Gilligan, the Professor, Mr. Howell, and the Skipper form a band called the Gnats who are absolutely terrible, causing The Mosquitoes to flee. Then the girls form a band called The Honey Bees and perform the song You Need Us, which evokes more interest from the Mosquitoes. However, when the helicopter comes back for provisions, The Mosquitoes decide to leave because they don’t want more competition from The Honey Bees. 12/26/17
• 049. Gilligan Gets Bugged – 12/16/1965
  • While building a bathtub, Gilligan has a large bug land on him, and when the Skipper swats it, Gilligan isn’t sure if he was bit or not. Based on the descriptions, the Professor identifies the bug as a Mantis Khani, a poisonous bug that will cause death within 24 hours. Unsure whether he was bitten, each of the castaways checks to see if he has the three symptoms: muscle aches, lack of appetite, and itchiness. He seems to possess all three, although he was only achy because he hit his hand with a hammer and was on his knees working on the tub, he had eaten a huge stack of bananas, and the cream pie that Mary Ann and Ginger brought him attracted ants and made him itch. The Professor then discovers that there is an antidote that could possibly be made from items on the island, but also that the Mantis Khanis usually come is swarms, so it is predicted that everyone will be bitten. Each person is subsequently bitten as they search for the antidote ingredients. When the bug lands on the Professor’s arm, he realizes that it is a different variety of Mantis and is not harmful. All is well and Gilligan finishes his bath. The Mantis Khani dies exactly 24 hours after having bitten Gilligan. 8/24/18
• 050. Mine Hero – 12/23/1965
  • As the Skipper works on a raft, Gilligan goes fishing… and pulls up an un-detonated WW2 mine. When his fishing pole falls on it, the mine begins ticking. He tries to tell everyone, but most ignore him, and the Howells believe he is talking about an iron mine. Meanwhile the Professor has the castaways collecting metal to act as an anchor on the Skipper’s raft, but when they can’t get enough, Gilligan brings the men to the mine. Panic ensues when they realize it has been activated. The Professor says that the entire island will explode if the mine does, and begins working on deactivating it. Because of the good luck charm Gilligan is wearing and Mr. Howell’s watch and ID bracelet, they are pulled to the magnetized mine and stuck there. The Professor frees them by using the radio’s frequency waves to neutralize the magnetic waves. The timing fitting is on the bottom of the mine, so they have Gilligan climb under to loosen it but fails. The Professor and Skipper decide that the mine needs towed out to sea, but Gilligan is so touched that they decide that they don’t want him to get hurt that he does it himself. The metal rudder on the raft attracts the mine so that it follows him everywhere in the lagoon. He eventually frees himself from it and the mine floats out to sea, making Gilligan the hero of the hour. Just as they are celebrating, they spot the mine in the lagoon, and it explodes… sending fish which can be used for dinner raining down on the island. 8/24/18
• 051. Erika Tiffany-Smith to the Rescue – 12/30/1965
  • Rich and famous socialite Erika Tiffany-Smith (Zsa Zsa Gabor) arrives on the island with her valet Johnny (Michael Witney) with plans to buy the island and build a resort. Mr. Howell is anxious to make the sale, Ginger is eager to impress her so that she’ll hire her at one of her movie studios, and the Skipper falls in love with her and seeks advice on how to impress her. However she falls for the Professor, who wants little more than to have her build a laboratory for him. However, when she mistakes his request for the lab for a proposal and accepts, he goes along with it. The Skipper is somewhat made to feel better when she offers to let him be the captain of her yacht while Gilligan is the First Mate. Soon it becomes clear that the Professor and Erika aren’t compatible as he only wants to discuss science. Ginger tries to help him become romantic by giving him a passionate kiss, but it doesn’t click. Eventually Erika asks Mr. Howell to tell the Professor that the wedding is off, and she leaves the island, promising to send a fleet back to pick them up. After a big storm, three days pass with no sign of her. The Professor hears her interviewed on the radio, and interview questions her logbook since the Coast Guard finds it imperceptible. Her notes are merely vague landmarks all written in Hungarian. Herman and Hilda are the turtles. 5/20/19
• 052. Not Guilty – 1/6/1966
  • Gilligan and the Skipper find an old box of coconuts wash up onto the shore with newspapers inside from Honolulu, one which features an article about the murder of a man named Randolph Blake with a spear gun. It also says that the suspect is one of the castaways who sailed out of port on the Minnow. They suspect the Professor because he has built a guillotine to slice coconuts, and then Ginger and Mary Ann because they are preparing poison soup out of oleander, meant to kill mice, and then the Howells when they find a gun in their hut. Soon others see the article and become fearful of the Professor’s guillotine. Once the suspicions are out in the open, nearly everyone admits that they had a motive to kill Blake: the Professor because he plagiarized one of his papers, the Howells because he worked from them and stole money, Ginger because they were engaged and he jilted her, and Mary Ann because he forced her father into bankruptcy. They decide to re-enact their last encounters with Blake, and every time it looks as though they might go for the spear gun, at the last minute, the simply chastise Blake, who is being portrayed by Gilligan, and storm out. Thinking they are back to square one, the Skipper slams the door of the hut, and the spear guns falls and nearly impales Gilligan. They surmise that the ‘killing’ was merely an accident. Later a radio announcement confirms that they were actually correct. 5/20/19
• 053. You’ve Been Disconnected – 1/13/1966
  • After a major storm, while looking for turtle eggs, Gilligan finds a giant cable coming out of the lagoon, which the Professor identifies as a communication cable full of phone lines. The Skipper tasks Gilligan with telling everyone the news, but it generally gets misinterpreted as there being a telephone at the lagoon. This is particularly appealing to Ginger who has found out that Hollywood intends to make a movie called The Ginger Grant Story. The Professor tries a variety of methods to break through the metal exterior of the pipe including a flimsy saw and Mrs. Howell’s diamond necklace, but it is only by melting it with a blow torch using bottled natural gas that is able to melt it… but not before the gas manages to knock out both Gilligan and the Skipper. The Professor then is able to manufacture a conch shell to pick up conversations, including a bank robbery plan. He also makes his own liquid rubber to create a phone dialing system, which Gilligan gets his hand stuck in. Once they are up and running, Gilligan tries to reach someone who can speak English, and despite reaching a cranky operator (Sandra Gould) and a movie house ticket taker, his attempts are fruitless. As it begins to storm, the castaways have to abandon their efforts temporarily. When the storm ends, they find that the cable has been pulled back into the sea. Thinking that the cables will rust and the phone company will have to visit the island to repair it, the still believe they will be saved… until Gilligan reveals that he applied the Professor’s glue to it to save it. As punishment, the castaways force Gilligan to repeatedly dive the lagoon to find the cable. 2/6/20
• 054. The Postman Cometh – 1/20/1966
  • Shortly after Mary Ann mails her boyfriend Horace Higgenbotham a letter in a bottle, Gilligan and the Skipper hear a newscast on the radio announcing Horace’s engagement to another woman. Gilligan is elected by Skipper and Professor to be the one to tell her, but he chickens out. The Professor tires to take on the task, but Mary Ann is already in tears from her radio program Old Doctor Young. Ginger tells the guys that it’s good they didn’t tell, because what Mary Ann needs is another man, so she identifies the three eligible bachelors. Gilligan is given romance lessons from Mrs. Howell, Mr. Howell works with Skipper, and Ginger has the Professor practice on her. As a result, Gilligan serenades her as a French lover, Skipper approaches her as a cowboy, and Professor romances her as Cary Grant. Mary Ann escapes them, but later overhears them talking about how they feel sorry for her, so Mary Ann assumes that she has eaten poison mushrooms and is dying. She resigns herself to be brave and tells Skipper and Gilligan that she knows what they have been hiding from her but is puzzled when everyone seems so cavalier about her ‘condition’. That night she dreams that she is in a hospital with Mrs. Howell as her nurse and Mr. Howell as her mad doctor. She asks to see Dr. Young from her radio program, but instead three important surgeons – Gilligan, Skipper, and Professor, each in character as they were when they acted as her suitors – come to see her. The sexy graduate nurse Ginger diverts the surgeons’ attentions, causing Mary Ann to plead for her life. In real life, Ginger wakes her up, and the guys tell her that the mushrooms she ate weren’t poisonous and fill her in on Horace. She couldn’t care less, as she says Horace is a real creep and she only invneted the romance because she was jealous that she didn’t have one of her own. 2/7/20
• 055. Seer Gilligan – 1/27/1966
  • Gilligan begins answering the Skipper’s questions before he even asks them, and soon realizes that he can hone into the thoughts of Skipper, and then the Professor, followed by everyone else. The Professor is skeptical but can’t deny that Gilligan even can repeat back the scientific facts that he is thinking, of which Gilligan has no understanding. Mr. Howell sees it as a way to make money so he tries to figure out how Gilligan is doing it, even trying to eat the same things that Gilligan is, but only winding up overly stuffed. Ginger tries to dig into his psyche through psychology with no luck, but then realizes that when she eats the same seeds that Gilligan is eating, she too can read minds. The Professor then remembers reading about seeds that could induce telepathic communications. Gilligan brings seeds back for everyone from the location he found them, so that everyone can participate in mind reading. However, it quickly leads to everyone bickering amongst themselves. As the seeds run out, the effect wears off, so Gilligan returns to the location of the seeds and burns down the plant. Initially everyone had been seeking more, but they all agree that it was the wisest thing to do. 5/17/20
• 056. Love Me, Love My Skipper – 2/3/1966
  • The Howells are planning to host their annual cotillion on the island and Mr. Howell hand-delivers all of the invitations. Unfortunately, he drops the Skipper’s, and it doesn’t get delivered. Skipper is hurt when everyone else has gotten one but him. In his honor, Gilligan decides to decline the invitation, and everyone else follows suit. When the rejections start rolling in, Mrs. Howell assumes it is because of something Mr. Howell has done to alienate everyone and it leads to a fight between them and Mr. Howell moving out of their hut. The rest decide to host their own masquerade party and not invite the Howells. The Skipper designs and pirate outfit, and as Gilligan is heading to the supply shed to get materials for his Tarzan costume, he stumbles on the Skipper’s invitation. Everyone feels terrible for assuming the worst about the Howells and feel responsible for their separation. Ginger has a plan to get them back together and talks Mrs. Howell into going to the masquerade party as an Oriental dancing girl. Ginger flirts with Mr. Howell and tells him that she dances with him and that he should look for a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette. Then Ginger manipulates the sizes of their dresses, so that she and Mrs. Howell are forced to switch costumes. When Mr. Howell in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit spot ‘Marie’, he rushes to dance with her… but then confesses that doesn’t feel right dancing with Ginger when he is mad for his wife. She unmasks and reveals herself as Lovey, and the two make up. The next morning Gilligan raves about how much fun he had at the party, but when Skipper makes him clean up from the party, he suddenly hates parties again. 5/17/20
• 057. Gilligan’s Living Doll – 2/10/1966
  • While Gilligan is doing the wash and drying off his lucky rabbit’s foot that went through the washer, and Skipper is complaining about being stuck with the wash when all he is doing is watching Gilligan work, they both spot a parachute come down somewhere on the island. They all search to find the parachuter, and Gilligan finds him, and he turns out to be a robot (Robert D’Arcy). The castaways hope someone will come looking for it, but they hear on the radio that the plane was unmanned, so they have no way of knowing where he landed. Everyone tries to find uses for the robot, as Mary Ann has it sweep, Ginger has it wash dishes, Mr. Howell uses it as a caddy, and the Skipper teaches it to do the laundry. They find a potentially more useful way of using it by asking it to build a boat. It does, but it is the size of a child’s toy, and determines it cannot make a large boat because of the lack of steel. Gilligan makes a suggest that they have it swim to Hawaii and tell of their whearabouts, but they cannot teach it to swim. Then Gilligan has the idea to make it walk under water to Hawaii. Although the notion sounds ridiculous at first, they do in fact have it do just that… and it works. Later they hear a broadcast that it has arrived in Hawaii, but its messages are all garbled. It turns out that Gilligan sent along his rabbit’s foot for luck, and it de-magnetized the robot’s receptor spools. 8/31/20
• 058. Forward March – 2/17/20
  • While Gilligan is skipping rocks in the lagoon, he and Skipper have an exploding grenade lobbed at them from an unknown source. Initially the castaways decide to put up a white flag to surrender, but then decide to launch a military strike against the enemy. Mr. Howell declares himself to be the General, and although the Skipper takes issue, the Professor talks him into ignoring Mr. Howell and helping him scout the island. Mr. Howell appoints the Skipper as the Chief of Intelligence, and Skipper as Secretary of the Navy. Mary Ann becomes a WAC, Ginger is the head of the USO, Lovey is assigned to the Nurse Corp, and Gilligan is a lowly soldier. Gilligan is scratched on the arm during a machine gun attack and sent to the infirmary where Ginger sings It Had to Be You to him. During another grenade attack, Gilligan spots the culprit, a gorilla (Janos Prohaska). The men find the source of the ammunition which the gorillas has hidden in a cave and plot to get it away from him. Gilligan stares down the ape, so the Skipper and Professor can grab the grenades, but he breaks concentration and the ape winds up chasing Gilligan around the island and taking him hostage. 8/31/20
• 059. Ship Ahoax – 2/24/1966
  • The Professor writes is journal about his concerns that soon the forced close proximity of the castaways will drive everyone to ‘island madness.’ It does seem true since Gilligan and the Skipper have separated their hut into two sides after a fight, and Gilligan visits to the Howells to see that they are in a fight, and Ginger and Mary Ann, who are also in a fight. Meanwhile Ginger has some fun by pretending to be a fortune teller and predicting an earth tremor, when in fact she is tipped off when they are coming by a vibrating vase. The Professor thinks this is a good idea to use her to give the other some hopeful positivity. He arranges a trick by pretending that the radio isn’t working, but privately getting the news for Ginger, so that she can correctly ‘predict’ the news when the Professor ‘fixes’ the radio. They arrange to put on a show for the other, whereby Ginger predicts their rescue. It turns out to be more accurate than she realized since the radio announces that a fleet of ships is setting out from Pearl Harbor to look for the lost ship USS York, which was last seen in the same vicinity that Minnow had been. Ginger thinks that she may truly have the powers to see the future, but when she predicts that Gilligan will be the captain of his own ship, the Skipper gets irritated. The Howells try to coax her into predicting stock futures. Gilligan wants to hear more, but accidentally breaks her crystal ball. The Professor then has her simulate a seance, so she can give an exact time of rescue. However, by now she feels guilty for being a fraud, so she passes a note to each castaway telling them not to tell the others that she is a fraud. Everyone sees their note except for Gilligan who shoves it in his pocket. Ginger predicts that the rescue ship will show up when the moon is blue. During the next blue moon, Gilligan rushes out to set up a signal fire, but the Skipper stops him and tells him the truth. When Gilligan takes a look at his note, and they both realize that she gave them the same note, they decide to be positive for the sake of the others. They head back to go to bed, just a giant ship passes by. 12/18/20
• 060. Feed the Kitty – 3/3/1966
  • Gilligan runs to the Skipper scared to death because he has heard a lion roaring somewhere on the island, as Skipper finds the crate that he arrived meant for the Singapore Zoo. When they all hear the lion, the men go on safari in search of it, scared to death – as much by each other as the lion itself. Back at the camp, the women find the lion and manage to trap it in their hut. Gilligan hears the lion and locks himself in the hut, thinking it is on the outside. He and the lion make fast friends when he pulls a thorn from its paw. The other feel threatened by the lion so they want it gone, so Gilligan takes it so he can spend time with the lion, whom he names Leo, elsewhere on the island, where he trains it using cans of corned beef as reward. Mr. Howell comes to bring food and sees the potential for a successful circus, he he decides to sponsor Howell’s Show of Shows. They prepare to put on a circus with Gilligan as the lion tamer, Mr. Howell as the ringmaster, and Ginger as the Queen of the High Wire. Gilligan even talks the Skipper into becoming a clown who juggles coconuts. When he runs into the lion, the Skipper hides under a giant barrel the lion climbs atop. First Gilligan thinks that Leo is talking to him, then that he has swallowed the Skipper. When Gilligan runs out of corned beef, everyone agrees the lion should be caged. Gilligan spends time with him and feeds him, until the tide takes him and the cage out to sea. They later hear on the radio that a lion full of corned beef was picked up by a United States Destroyer. 12/18/20
• 061. Operation: Steam Heat – 3/10/1966
  • Gillian discovers an underground source of hot water that randomly spews forth like a mini geyser. This is convenient for him, as he no longer has to lug water from the lagoon and boil it, and everyone else wants to use the water too, the Skipper for a shower, Mr. Howell for a bath in his trunk, and Ginger and Mary Ann for doing dishes. However the Professor is concerned that the heating of the Earth’s crust may be indicative of a volcano that is about to erupt on the other side of the island… and he is right. Meanwhile, Gilligan constructs a pipeline out of bamboo, and figures out how to split it off into the three areas. However there isn’t any pressure due to all of the holes in the bamboo, so Gilligan works on patching them up. The Professor continue to monitor the situation, and soon enough the volcano begins to boil over, sending ash from the sky all over the island. The Professor thinks that by creating an explosion at the base of the volcano will neutralize the eruption, so he works on creating nitroglycerine. Ginger tells Gilligan about how a movie she was in saw characters jumping into the volcano to appease it. Gilligan worries that Ginger is going to do just that, but before he can stop her, he accidentally drinks the nitroglycerine. He tries to remain perfectly still, but then they all realize that he only drank the water that the Professor was using. Gilligan then goes to find Ginger, and the two of them wind up falling in a pit that leads to a cave. This is where the Professor tosses the bomb, which Gilligan then tosses back out. The Skipper and Professor frantically work to pull Gilligan and Ginger from the pit, and then get the bomb deposited into it. Eventually they are successful and the volcano begins sucking its fiery lava back in. Now out of danger, everyone continues to demand hot water from Gilligan. 4/12/21
• 062. Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up? – 3/17/1966
  • While building sandcastles, Gilligan hears a radio transmission where a reporter (George N. Neise) indicates that Thurston Howell had been rescued and was taking his company back over. Gilligan rushes the radio to the Howells, and sure enough, they hear an imposter (Jim Backus) that looks and sound exactly like Howell. This imposter claims that all of the other castaways including Lovey had drowned, and soon he begins making foolish deals, squandering Howell’s money, and romancing countless women. Mr. Howell grows more and more furious with each incident and attempts to swim from the lagoon across the Pacific but is stopped each time by the others. Howell offers a one-million-dollar reward for anyone who can come up with an idea to get him off of the island. Everyone seems to have a lamebrain idea, ranging from Gilligan’s designing faux wings to Mary Ann painting distress notes on the fish. The only viable idea seems to be from the Professor to build a pontoon, but as Howell takes off, it sinks into the lagoon. The Professor tries to figure out how to calm him down, and the solution seems to be to take the radio away. Gilligan and the Skipper attempt this overnight, but they are caught by Howell. He then hears on the radio that the imposter has fallen overboard during one of his pleasure cruises and thinks the nightmare is over. Unfortunately, the imposter makes his way to the island and tries to pass himself off as Howell. The radio announces that the imposter has been identified as not being the real Mr. Howell. Eventually the castaways make the right determination as to which one is the real Mr. Howell. They all give chase to the imposter, who himself attempts to swim across the Pacific. The Skipper reminds Mr. Howell that he can’t do any more damage now, even if he makes it, but Howell is upset that he has taken his wallet. They later hear a radio announcement that a man has been plucked from the sea by a native fishing boat, but no one can identify him. 4/12/21
• 063. Ghost a Go-Go – 3/24/1966
  • One night Gilligan sees a ghost covered in a sheet outside the hut. The Skipper doesn’t believe him, but then the others start saying that they saw something also. The Skipper tries to convince Gilligan that there is no such thing as a ghost and puts a sheet over himself… but then he sees the ghost and faints himself. Everyone else sees the ghost as well, and they try to beg the Skipper to allow them to all sleep in his hut. They all then try to figure out what they are seeing, and while they are searching the island, the Skipper finds a boat filled with supplies in the lagoon with a note telling them that they can take the boat and go home. Everyone is excited, and the Skipper tries to limit how much luggage everyone can take along. The Professor however says that they are not leaving since they know nothing about why this boat was secretly placed there for them. He suggests that they fill the boat with seven dummies that resemble them and see if anything happens when they set it out to sea. From afar, they watch the boat leave the lagoon… and promptly explode. The ghost then takes off his sheet and reveals himself to be an Eastern European (Richard Kiel) who calls his contact W9 to tell him that they can now claim the island for their country. The castaways decide to give the spy a taste of his own medicine, and they all don sheets and pretend to be the ghosts of themselves too. The spy hears their footsteps, and when he sees all seven ghosts, he runs to the lagoon and swims out to meet his partner. Later, Gilligan retrieves some of the clothes from the dummies, and thinks that the Skipper’s shirt is still haunted when it crawls toward him… but it turns out to be a tortoise under the shirt. 8/6/21
• 064. Allergy Time – 3/31/1966
  • The Skipper can’t stop sneezing or itching one night, and the Professor is afraid it might be a serious tropical disease. As he investigate further and determines that it is merely an allergy. The next morning he feels better as he’s working on a ping pong table, but then he begins sneezing once again when Gilligan approaches. They determine that the Skipper is suddenly allergic to Gilligan, or something he is now wearing. Gilligan bathes thoroughly but the Skipper still sneezes. The Professor suggests it may be psychosomatic since he often irritates the Skipper, so they blindfold the Skipper and bring various castaways near him, but he only sneezes around Gilligan. With no options left, Gilligan moves in with the Professor, but then he begins sneezing as well. The same goes for the Howells and Mary Ann and Ginger. Gilligan then feels bad and moves himself to the other side of the island. Everyone who visits him continues to sneeze. The Professor then invents a vaccine that will cure everyone of their allergy. All are disappointed that they have to take the shot, rather than Gilligan. After everyone has taken it and has sore arms, Gilligan realizes that he’s been using a new hair tonic with oil from the papaya nuts that is now even making Gilligan sneeze. To get back at him, the Professor and Skipper design a gigantic shot that they tell Gilligan he has to take because the tonic has soaked through the skin on his head. As they are laughing and acting like they’re going to stick him with it, Gilligan backs into one the real shots and gets stuck with that instead. 8/6/21
• 065. The Friendly Physician – 4/7/1966
  • One night while Gilligan is tending a rescue fire by the lagoon, and strange man named Dr. Boris Balinkoff (Vito Scotti) shows up in a boat and claims he is there to rescue everyone. Everyone is thrilled, and the girls reward him with ample kisses, but he then realizes there are too many to make it back to Hawaii in the ocean. He says he lives in a castle on an island in the Pacific, and that he has a yacht there. He offers to take the Skipper and Gilligan back to his place, and then they can take the yacht, pick up the others, and return home. Once the two get to his home, they meet Balinkoff’s butler Igor (Mike Mazurki). Balinkoff then says he forgot that he had loaned the yacht out and suggests that he take the boat to pick up the rest of the castaways. While he is gone, the Skipper and Gilligan feel like they are being watched in the house. They also encounter a dog that meows like a cat, and a cat that barks like a dog. They also find a trap door under the stairs that leads to a dungeon torture chamber. When Balinkoff returns, he has Igor tie them up on the chamber, and tells them that he’s perfected putting one creature’s mind into that of another and is now working on perfecting it with humans. This proves to be his intention with the castaways, and he makes the change with Mr. Howell and Gilligan first. He then does the same with Mrs. Howell and the Skipper, then Mary Ann and the Professor, but putting each person in a separate glass chamber and the throwing a switch. Igor changes himself with Ginger, but this proves to be their downfall, as now Ginger is strong enough to rip through the chains that bind everyone. They all are able to get to the lab and switch their bodies back. Finally, the force Igor – as Ginger – into one chamber, and then Ginger – as Igor – jumps in the other. They keep Igor locked in the chamber, and when Balinkoff tries to rescue him, they all push him in the chamber and lock it. The cat and dog run into the other chamber, and Gilligan throws the switch, making the two men into a cat and a dog. The castaways take the motor boat and head back to the island. They plan to use the boat to get back to Hawaii, but as soon as everyone leaves to pack, the Skipper and Gilligan see the boat sink to the bottom of the lagoon. 2/4/22
• 066. “V” for Vitamins – 4/14/1966
  • Shortly after Ginger gives him a haircut, the Skipper notices that he is unable to pick up a large log that both Gilligan and the Professor have no problem lifting. The Professor gives him an exam, and finds out that he is lacking in Vitamin C. In fact, he realizes that none of the castaways are getting enough Vitamin C on the island, but the Skipper has been affected first since he is the largest. Gilligan finds an orange in the jungle, but it happens to be the last one. Everyone wants the orange, and Mr. Howell tries to buy it, and Ginger tries to seduce him, but Gilligan decides to split it evenly. This isn’t good enough for everyone who all want it for themselves, and while they are arguing, the sun heats it and causes it to shrivel up. They then realize they can bury the seeds and grow orange trees out of them. After they buried it, they alternate standing guard over the seeds to make sure the fire keeping them warm does not go out. While Gilligan is one duty, he falls asleep and dreams his own version of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mrs. Howell is his mother in the dream, sending him out with her jewels to trade them for oranges, but Mr. Howell, portraying Lester J. Frothingham III, swindles him out of the jewels and gives him magic beans. The stalk grows and Gilligan climbs it, coming to a giant’s castle. He is greeted by the giant’s servant Mary Ann, who shows him the giant’s stash of oranges, but the giant – Skipper – sees him and gives chase. Gilligan manages to steal the Goose that lays the golden oranges. He also finds an old man and old woman locked in the dungeon. When he frees them, the old woman gives him a kiss and she turns young again, and reveals herself as Ginger. The old man, who is the Professor, gets a kiss from Mary Ann, but he doesn’t change. He just wanted the kiss. Gilligan is then woken up by the Skipper and sees that the fire has gone out. But this is okay because the Skipper and Professor have found other citrus fruits, namely grapefruit and lemons, in the jungle, which will give them all of the Vitamin C that they will need. Gilligan tries selling lemonade, but the demand quickly goes down. 2/6/22
• 067. Mr. and Mrs. ??? – 4/21/1966
  • One day as Mr. and Mrs. Howell are sitting outside discussing their wedded bliss with Gilligan, they hear a news segment called Oddities in the News in which they announce that a Boston reverend named Buckner Norris proved to be a complete fraud, meaning that everyone he ever married – including the Howells – was not legally married. Everyone on the island is shocked, not the least of which is Mr. and Mrs. Howell, who now wants to go by her maiden name Miss Wentworth. She also insists that Thurston move out of the hut, and that they split up all of their joint belongings including the cash money. However, the Skipper remembers that he is authorized to marry others, but the Professor reminds him that he only has the power to do so at sea, and not on land. Gilligan then suggests that they perform the wedding on a raft in the lagoon to make it legal. The Skipper rehearses the wedding using Gilligan and Mary Ann as subjects, although Gilligan is so afraid of marriage, he can barely say the word and backs away form kissing Mary Ann. When the time of the wedding comes, Gilligan cannot get Lovey’s wedding ring off her hand, and Mr. Howell’s blasé attitude about it, leads to an argument and him declaring that the wedding is off. Mr. Howell moves in with the Skipper and Gilligan, but when all he does is bark orders for them to wait on him like Lovey did, they move out. Over at Ginger and Mary Ann’s hut where Lovey has moved in, the girls get tired of hearing her talk about Thurston constantly. Ginger gets the idea to have Mr. Howell take her out to eat in order to make Lovey jealous and drive her back to him, while the Skipper thinks they could try the same thing to Lovey to make Thurston jealous. She wants her date to be the Professor, however. During the dinner, in which Gilligan acts as waiter for Mary Ann’s cooking, the two are so busy trying to make the other one jealous, that Mr. Howell barely notices his wife and the Professor flirting with each other. The Skipper finally gives up on this plan, and instead dresses up as a headhunter and attacks the dinner. Mr. Howell protects Lovey and throws a pineapple at the Skipper, who then mistakes Gilligan for Mary Ann after the conk on the head. Mr. and Mrs. Howell make up and plan to perform the wedding once again, but before they get a chance, they hears on the radio that the previous radio report had been incorrect, and that they are still married after all. They immediately start to move back in together, but they disagree on where everything should go, so Mr. Howell moves out again and heads back over to the Skipper and Gilligan’s hut. 6/13/22
• 068. Meet the Meteor – 4/28/1966
  • One day Gilligan and the Skipper witness a meteor heading straight for the island. It touches down and resembles a giant glowing rock. The Professor warns them that it may be radioactive, so he invents a Geiger counter device to check it out, leaving Gilligan to sit outside the hut and block anyone from coming in so no one finds out that they may be facing a deadly fallout. Of course, they all try to bully Gilligan into telling them what is going on, and Ginger comes away convinced they are planning a birthday party for her, Mary Ann believes they are planning a Christmas party, and the Howells think that they are planning an anniversary party for them. Once they get the Geiger counter working, he finds out that there is not danger from the radiation, but that it is full of cosmic rays, which could also be deadly. The Professor wants to plan to create a reflective screen to point the cosmic rays up into the air. They dig up as much lead as they can find in order to melt it, dip their clothes in it, and use it to protect themselves from the cosmic rays. Once they get into the wild looking silver suits, they put the lead-dipped bamboo screen around the meteor. Within minutes, the rays have aged the bamboo into sawdust, and aged a baby tree into a giant full grown tree. The Professor deduces that the rays will age them fifty years in the next week. When the guys hear on the radio that an electrical storm is coming, he thinks they may have a one in a million chance to kill the meteor by putting a lightning rod in it to try and draw the lightning to hit it and destroy it. Gilligan can’t keep the secret, so the girls are in tears thinking they are goners, and the Mr. Howell makes his final will and testament. Gilligan goes to plant the lightning rod and falls asleep. He dreams that everyone on the island has aged fifty years and are getting ready to celebrate their 50th year on the island. Gilligan wakes up when it begins to storm on the island, and the lightning hits the rod he is holding. He trips and the rod hits the meteor, causing it to disintegrate. The Professor tests the remains of the meteor and determines there are no more cosmic rays. 6/13/22 

SEASON 3

• 069. Up at Bat – 9/12/1966
  • Gilligan chases a dropped coconut into an unexplored cave and is bitten by what he believes is a vampire bat. He immediately becomes concerned that he is going to turn into a vampire himself. The Skipper isn’t so sure, so they go to see the Professor, who tells them both that vampires are the stuff of nightmarish fairy tales. Gilligan goes to see Ginger and Mary Ann to get them to dress the wound, and he uses Ginger’s mirror – one which has lost all of its silver – and Gilligan sees no reflection, further solidifying his concerns. When he and Skipper try to go to bed that night, they both worry about Gilligan being a vampire. When Gilligan sees the Skipper put on a scarf, he knows there is reason to worry. The Skipper ties their legs together so he can stop Gilligan if he gets up in the middle of the night. Gilligan does in fact wake up, simply removes the rope, and heads to the Howell’s hut, where he promptly attempts to bite Mrs. Howell’s neck as he’s sleepwalking. The Professor explains to the Skipper that Gilligan has his mind on being a vampire, so he decides to make an anti-vampire concoction, which is merely a sedative. Gilligan drinks the potion, and promptly falls asleep, so the Skipper puts him to bed. When he wakes up in the morning, Gilligan is gone and there is a bat in his place. The bat flies into the girls’ hut and the Professor captures it, and determines that it is actually fruit bat. Meanwhile, Gilligan is locking himself in the cave so he can’t hurt anyone. Gilligan falls asleep and dreams of Transylvania 1865, with the Howell’s showing up at his castle Belfry Hall and looking for lodging. Mary Ann is the old landlady who warns them to leave immediately. Ginger is the vampire Gilligan’s wife, who welcomes the Howells so that her husband can feed. Also arriving are the Professor as Detective Sherlock and the Skipper as his assistant Col. Watney, whom the landlady had sent for five years earlier. As they investigate and determine there are no vampires in the house, Gilligan the vampire attacks the Howells and he manages to bite Mrs. Howell. Sherlock and Watney come in at that moment and they all fight Batman-style. As Watney tries to wake up the vampire, the real Skipper is trying wake up the real Gilligan. When he comes to, he thinks he’s still in the dream and punches the Skipper, who then scares him off by pretending he is Frankenstein. As they attempt to go to bed that night, they find that the bat is stalking them outside the hut. 10/4/22
• 070. Gilligan vs. Gilligan – 9/19/1966
  • The Skipper is anxiously waiting for Mary Ann’s coconut and pineapple pie, but Mary Ann reports that it disappeared while it was cooling. When Gilligan shows up with the empty pie plate, everyone is sure he took the pie. However, when Gilligan follows the crumbs from the crust, he finds the real culprit: another man who looks exactly like him. The man turns out to be a Russian spy (Bob Denver) who has undergone plastic surgery to look exactly like Gilligan, and now has 48 hours to figure out what experiment the castaways are conducting on the island. When Gilligan tries to tell the others about his look-alike, no one believes him. The Professor suggests that he feels guilty about eating the pie so manifested this ‘other’ Gilligan out of his reflection in the water. However when Gilligan mentions that the other version of him had a gold pocket knife, the Professor starts to think that perhaps Gilligan didn’t make him up since he added a detail like that which Gilligan would never think of. The pocket knife turns out to be a microphone, recorder, and transmitter that looks like a gold pocket knife, which he uses to communicate with his Commandant. When Gilligan, the Skipper, and Professor go searching for further things out of the ordinary, Gilligan finds the spy’s backpack, but before he can show the others, the spy knocks him out and assumes his role in the community. He tries to get the Skipper, Ginger, and the Howells talk about why they are on the island. He also has an uncontrollable attraction to Ginger and keeps trying to hit on her. He also plays Chess with Mr. Howell and accuses him of cheating. The Professor worries that Gilligan might really have become delusional, so he tells everyone to agree with Gilligan. When he tries to tell everyone he was hit on the head and kidnapped, they all just humor him and agree with him. He then spots the spy and follows him into the girls hut, where the spy pretends to be Gilligan’s image in the mirror. The match movements for a while, and then the spy is told by his Commandant that the mission has ended, and he is sail away immediately. Gilligan chases him to his boat in the lagoon, but he gets away. Then the spy remembers that he was supposed to kill Gilligan, so he gets off the boat and threatens him with his knife corkscrew, which is actually a death ray. Gilligan just wants the others to see him, but when the boat starts to drive away, the spy swims out to it and boards. Later, the Skipper makes Gilligan say there was no knife, no death ray, and that Gilligan was actually Gilligan. The Professor then comes in and shows the Skipper the gold knife he found, which could once do 200 things… maybe even a death ray. 10/5/22
• 071. Pass the Vegetables, Please – 9/26/1966
  • While fishing in the lagoon, Gilligan pulls up a giant box filled with smaller boxes containing vegetable seeds. Everyone is thrilled at the prospect of having vegetables again, but no one notices that the box lid specifies a danger and that they contain radioactive seeds. The castaways immediately go to work, with the bulk of the labor going to Gilligan, to build a garden, and plant and water the seeds. They are all surprised when the seeds start to sprout within three days and the vegetables start to form. All of the vegetables seem mutated, but they all heartily dig in and have a huge meal of nothing but vegetables, concentrating on their own personal favorites. After they’ve eaten, they hear a radio bulletin to be on the lookout for these dangerous seeds that fell overboard while being transported on a ship. They all pass out when the Professor tells them that the seeds can actually be fatal. At first, they all confine themselves to their beds, but then the Professor remembers that they should be moving around so that the radioactivity doesn’t settle in one location in their bodies. While they are near the lagoon, Mary Ann spots a ship in the distance that neither the Skipper nor Gilligan can see. At first, they think that Mary Ann is hallucinating, but then they realize that she has developed super-vision, likely from the radioactive carrots she was eating. Likewise, Gilligan suddenly develops super strength after eating so much spinach. The sugar beets that Mrs. Howell ate has given extra energy, and she moves around and cleans at top speed. The Professor then realizes that their best protection from the radiation is in plant fats, so he suggests they all eat the soap they’ve been making. Everyone gathers around the table and eats soap until bubbles start coming from their mouths. Nevertheless, it does the trick and soon the Professor gives them a clean bill of health. Gilligan takes a liking to the soap, and the Skipper later catches him snacking on it. 1/31/23
• 072. The Producer – 10/3/1966
  • Gilligan and the Skipper spot a plane circling overhead, so they try to signal it, but it is for naught since the plane winds up making a crash landing. Aboard is a Hollywood producer named Harold “H.H.” Hecuba (Phil Silvers), who was out scouring for new faces to star in his films. Right away, he is as demanding as he is at work, and begins ordering Gilligan around. The Skipper takes issue with this, but when Hecuba tells them that he will be rescued shortly and he will take them along with him, they give in to his demands. He is even able to not only talk the Howells into letting him have their hut, but also that they will serve him as maid and butler. Ginger and Mary Ann are forced to do his cooking. Ginger wants to be the one to serve him so that she can put on some performances of her own. She first emulates Sophia Loren and then Marilyn Monroe while she is serving him food. When he laughs at her overacting, it hurts Ginger’s feelings, and she breaks down in tears. The guys believe if they can put on a musical play, it will really showcase Ginger’s acting ability, so they take the book Hamlet and Mr. Howell’s recordings of Carmen and The Tales of Hoffman, and they create a stage musical of the story. Ginger plays Ophelia, and the Skipper is her father Polonius, while Gilligan is Hamlet, Mary Ann portrays Laertes, and the Howells are Hamlet’s parents. They put the play on at night which wakes up Hecuba and lures him out to see them perform. He watches with interest and the tells them to stop immediately, and that he needs to produce it for them. He shows them how he wants it done by acting and singing all of the rules until he is so exhausted from costume changes that he merely passes out. The next morning, they find that Hecuba is gone. He left behind a note apologizing for leaving without them but said he didn’t have the heart to wake them up when the rescue ship came. Later they find out the reason: he has taken the idea of a musical Hamlet and is filming it back in Hollywood. 2/1/23
• 073. Voodoo – 10/10/1966
  • Gilligan has been digging inside a cave and has found some old treasures including jewelry and valuable pottery, but the Skipper warns him that the place is probably under the curse of an old witch doctor. Sure enough, there is a witch doctor (Eddie Little Sky) in the cave that has voodoo dolls of every one of the castaways. Furthermore, he has been swiping items owned by each of them which is enabling him to utilize the voodoo dolls. Before Gilligan leaves the cave, the witch doctor sticks the Gilligan doll in the neck…which Gilligan feels. The Skipper adamantly believes in the curses, while the Professor assures him that everything has a logical explanation and there is nothing supernatural going on. Meanwhile, when Ginger and Mary Ann try on the jewelry that Gilligan has given them, the witch doctor makes their jewelry get stuck together. Mr. Howell likes the treasures that Gilligan has found so much that he offers money to Gilligan and the Skipper to dig for more. When he reaches $20 an hour, the Skipper decides that it is worth it. They all wind up joining the expedition, causing the witch doctor to burn their voodoo dolls’ feet, and moves Gilligan around in strange gyrations. The Professor tries to put forth a logical explanation for this as well, but in the midst of talking, the witch doctor makes him freeze like a zombie. Everyone tries various methods to get him to wake up, but he won’t budge. The Skipper decides they should put all of the items they took from the cave back inside. When this doesn’t stop them, Mr. Howell puts a wad of cash in the cave, but the witch doctor is only interested in the rubber band ar9und the money. When the Professor is still frozen, the Skipper realizes that Mary Ann still has a piece of jewelry on. The Skipper sends Gilligan to return the last piece of jewelry, and while he is in the cave, he finds the stolen objects and the voodoo dolls and takes them with him. Once the Professor sees his missing poket knife, he snaps out of the trance, speaking in mid-sentence from when he froze. Gilligan designs a voodoo doll for the witch doctor, but the Skipper is skeptical that it will work. However, when Gilligan pokes it, the witch doctor comes screaming out of the woods and swims off in the lagoon. 7/12/23
• 074. Where There’s a Will – 10/17/1966
  • When the Professor and the other castaways all work together to nurse Mr. Howell out of an intestinal virus, he realizes how much everyone on the island means to him. He decides to give each of them something in his will including various lavish and valuable assets like oil wells, islands, diamond mines, and railroads. Each of the castaways think about what they will do with the money they earn from their inheritance. Mr. Howell feels rejuvenated and good about himself for his spirit of giving to all of his friends. Later, he sees Gilligan talking with the Skipper, but when he goes to talk to him, Gilligan says he hasn’t seen him lately. Just then an arrow shoots across the air into a tree and narrowly misses the Skipper. Mr. Howell believes that someone is trying to kill him. Further incidents happen whereby Mr. Howell falls into a deep hole that Ginger and Mary Ann have dug, and a giant rock that the Professor pushes off a hill almost crushes him. Mr. Howell fears for his life and decides to move to the other side of the island. Mrs. Howell decides to get to the bottom of what is going on, so she asks the other castaway point blank what is happening. She finds out that everyone want to express their love for Mr. Howell and were planning a surprise party for him. The Skipper had tried to shoot a wild boar so they could have ribs at the party, and the girls’ hole was meant to capture the boar since the Skipper missed him. The Professor had moved the rock in order to get some rare mushrooms to cook for the party. When they find out that Mr. Howell has moved to the other side of the island, which is full of wild animals and quicksand, they all go looking for him. When Mr. Howell hears them coming to find him, he throws his hat on top of some quicksand, leading them to believe that Mr. Howell is dead. They all hold a funeral for him, while Mr. Howell listens from a treetop nearby. The Skipper and others all deliver heartfelt speeches about how much Mr. Howell meant to them, and they even tear up the wills he gave to each of them, saying they don’t want his treasures, they just want him. Mr. Howell hears this and realizes they really love him, just as he falls out of the tree and reveals himself to his friends who are thrilled to see them. They move ahead with his party, presenting him with a giant cake that Lovey jumps out of. 7/12/23
• 075. Man with a Net – 10/24/1966
  • While fishing in the lagoon, Gilligan runs across a man named Lord Beasley Waterford (John McGiver), who has traveled from England to the island for the purpose of capturing the world’s rarest butterfly, the Pussycat Swallowtail. He tells Gilligan that he is sworn to stay on the island until he finds it, and only then will send out a signal flare for his people to come and pick him up. The Professor suggests that everyone try to assist Lord Beasley with finding his butterfly so that they can all go home and quickly as possible. McGiver is so enthralled with his work that he falls into a pit of quicksand while searching with the Howells, and then walks off a cliff while searching with Ginger and Mary Ann. In both cases, he is more interested that they pursue the butterfly rather than help him out of his predicaments. After searching nearly everywhere on the island now ready to search under water using Scuba gear, Gilligan notes that he hasn’t been to the top of the mountain, so he and the Skipper wind up accompanying him up the steep surface. The Howells then turn to trying to bribe him to fire off his flare, while Ginger tries to seduce him. When this fails, the Professor tries to learn all he can about butterflies in order to stimulate Lord Beasley intellectually. Lastly, Gilligan and the Skipper try to paint a fake butterfly to trick him, but he gets wise to them when it starts to rain, and the butterfly ends up turning white. Gilligan then suggests that they simply steal the flair gun and fire it themselves, but Lord Beasley has kept the flair separate from the gun. The final idea is to get Lord Beasley drunk while telling him that he is drinking tea and giving a barrage of toasts to drink to. Lord Beasley does in fact get drunk, but the castaways get more drunk and pass out. He then finds the Pussycat Swallowtail and captures it, then immediately sets off the flair. He tries to wake everyone up, but they wind up sleeping for two days. When they wake up, Lord Beasley is gone. They hear him on the radio where the interviewer tries to ask him about his adventure finding the butterfly, but he is too occupied with his next trip to the Antarctic where he has an even more rare specimen to find, completely forgetting to even mention the lost castaways. 11/9/23
• 076. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow – 10/31/1966
  • After a hard day of doing everyone’s laundry, Gilligan falls asleep, and when he awakens, he finds that he has completely white hair. Gilligan is embarrassed by the hair, but the Skipper says that the Professor will surely know what caused it. He, however, has no idea and says there’s a small chance that Gilligan aged rapidly into his nineties for some unknown reason. When Gilligan hears this, he starts to play the part, and begins to create his will to divvy up his belongings since he now thinks he is so old. The Skipper tells him that the girls won’t notice his white hair, but when they see it, they both faint into his arms. The Skipper, Professor, and Mrs. Howell cook up a scheme to dye his hair brown again, and the Professor mixes up the die. The next morning, Gilligan no longer has white… nor any hair at all. He has gone completely bald, causing the girls to pass out again. Although everyone tries to pretend that they don’t notice it. Ginger tries to create a wig for him using her hair, but he looks too much like Ginger’s sister. Mary Ann manufactures a hairpiece for him out of a coconut. Gilligan decides to move out of his hut and away from everyone since he hates to feel he is laughed out. The next morning when the Skipper wakes up, he too finds that he no longer has any hair either. He retreats to join Gilligan in the cave and vows to stay away from the others as long as he is bald. The Professor then reminds them how they group is suffering without them since they do the bulk of the workload on the island. The Professor gives them costume wigs that the Howells had from a masquerade that they attended, those of George and Marsha Washington. Although they are resistant, the guys agree to wear them and return to have dinner with the other castaways. Although some of them can’t help but make jokes about the wigs, they dutifully wear them even when they fall into the soup. When Mr. Howell realizes he has a hole in his trousers, the Professor realizes that it is the bleach that Gilligan was using that caused his hair to first turn white, and then fall out. The Professor assures them that their hair will return. Sure enough, a couple of weeks later, the Skipper and Gilligan’s hair has not only returned, but thanks to properties of the bleach, they have grown full beards as well. 11/9/23
• 077. Ring Around Gilligan – 11/7/1966
  • A mad scientist named Boris Balinkoff (Vito Scotti) and his monkey partner Igor (Jocko the Monkey) arrive on the island secretly as the Skipper and Gilligan are working on putting together a raft in order to try and catch a shift in the currents and get off the island. When Gilligan is alone, Balinkoff makes sure that Gilligan finds a decorative ring on the ground, which he then puts on. The ring turns Gilligan into a mindless robot who will follow orders as spoken by Balinkoff through a transmitter, using a computer that he has built in one of the caves. He summons Gilligan as a test and tells him that he plans to use him for the biggest crime of all time. Later, Mrs. Howell is getting a dress ready for their bon voyage party and ask Gilligan if she can wear his new ring. Not knowing that Mrs. Howell has the ring, Balinkoff orders her to rob Mr. Howell and bring him the money. Mr. Howell catches her in the act, but she uses Judo on him. After she gives the money to Balinkoff, he tells her to return the ring to Gilligan, which she does via the Skipper. When he dons the ring, Balinkoff orders him to destroy the raft so they can’t get off the island. After coming out of his trance, he orders Gilligan to rebuild it. Skipper gives Gilligan the ring, but he asks Ginger to hold it while he works on the raft. Ginger then takes an axe and destroys the raft he’s just rebuilt. Once Gilligan has rebuilt it again, he sees Mr. Howell coming and destroys the raft himself, much to the puzzlement of Mr. Howell. Ginger returns the ring to Gilligan, and Igor then finds the transmitter, and somehow manages to order Gilligan to act like a monkey and climb a tree. Gilligan is ordered to distribute six more rings like his and put them on the fingers of the other castaways. The next morning, all of them are now under Balinkoff’s power. He reveals that his great crime will be to have them rob Fort Knox. He has them gather coconuts to simulate gold bars and then stack them in the Skipper and Gilligan’s hut, which simulates Fort Knox. Balinkoff then has them load their bamboo-fashioned vehicle with coconuts and drive them to the lagoon. However, when he asks them to give him all of the ‘gold’, they throw the coconuts at him, not only damaging the transmitter, but forcing him to flee the island. Gilligan tries to chase him in the vehicle and drives it into the lagoon. 3/18/24
• 078. Topsy-Turvy – 11/14/1966
  • With the music of local headhunting natives (Eddie Little Sky, Allen Jaffe, Roman Gabriel) closing in, the men are making arrangements to hide everyone away in a newly discovered cave. Gilligan hits his head on a tree branch in the process and begins seeing everything upside-down. The Professor organizes a search to find Captibora plants which contains medicinal red berries with green dots on them. The natives arrive on the island and their drumming stops, only because they bust through their drum accidentally. The Professor attempts to make a healing elixir out of the Captibora berries, but in Gilligan’s dizzy state he can’t help but nearly destroy everything in the Professor’s hut. The Skipper takes him outside and stands on his head so that Gilligan can see him right side up in order to keep Gilligan busy so the Professor can make the medicine. Once Gilligan takes it, he then starts seeing double, even though everyone is right-side-up. The Professor then goes to find more berries to try and increase the original dose which should counteract the effect, telling Gilligan not to believe everything he sees until he can mix up some more medicine. Although Gilligan sees the natives, he thinks it is part of the hallucinations. Gilligan tries to eat some bananas that are sitting on the table, but he can’t determine which pile is real. The Howells and Mary Ann and Ginger all come to see him, and when they leave, the natives gather them up and put them in a cage. The Professor and Skipper return with more berries and give them to Gilligan, who then begins to see five images instead of just two. However, when he drinks water, he normal vision is finally restored. He tells the Professor and Skipper about hallucinating the natives, but they are both then captured and assure Gilligan that the natives her are seeing are real. With all six locked up in the cage and only Gilligan free, they think they are goners as the Professor understands them to say they are going to take them back to their home island for a ritual before they kill them. The Skipper has no faith in Gilligan to save them, and when Gilligan finally does show up, he is immediately grabbed by the natives. However, the natives see Gilligan is drinking the berry elixir and drink some themselves. They begin seeing five times of the castaways, leading them to believe they are outnumbered, which sends the natives running into the lagoon. Everyone congratulates Gilligan and brings him gifts for his bravery and ingenuity. Ginger and Mary Ann bring him a banana cream pie, but Gilligan drinks some of the berry medicine so that it will appear he has five pies. However, when he goes after a pie that isn’t there, he accidentally flings the real pie into the Skipper’s face. 3/18/24

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