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Season 1 – Gilligan's Island

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Seven people set sail on what is scheduled to be a three-hour sightseeing tour on the charter boat The Minnow, get caught in a storm and end up stranded on an uncharted tropical island together. The comedy comes from the failed attempts at escaping the island and the interaction of the very diverse group: comprised of a rotund but happy-go-lucky skipper, Jonas Grumby (known as "The Skipper"); his bumbling but well-meaning first mate, Gilligan; a snobby well-to-do millionaire, Thurston Howell III and his wife, Lovey; a buxom sexy movie star bombshell, Ginger; a high-school science professor, Roy Hinkley (called "The Professor"); and a nice country girl, Mary Ann. Viewers of the venerable series would be correct to ponder the impossible number of guests who visited the islands, the incredible versatility of the common coconut and the fact that the castaways somehow managed to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Brandon Nowalk AV Club 11/12/2018
In season one, the writers were still taking the castaway premise relatively seriously (as a launchpad for slapstick, at least), but several of the season's scripts read like social experiments: Go to Full Review Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle 09/17/2018
"Gilligan's Island" isn't just a wacky old TV series, it's an industry. Go to Full Review Ed Olmstead The Hollywood Reporter 02/20/2018
A sampling of nautical nonsense that promised gags, gals, guffaws also helped set stage, hopefully, for success while novelty song lyrics, voiced over picture, chorused the series idea, where it was going, why, and identified each castmember. Go to Full Review Stuart Galbraith DVDTalk.com 11/12/2018
The heart of the show, though, is the superb chemistry among the cast, especially Alan Hale and Bob Denver, who are like a TV version of Laurel and Hardy. Go to Full Review Nik Dessle Common Sense Media 09/17/2018
4/5
Still, despite corny jokes and ridiculous situations -- or perhaps because of them -- Gilligan's Island stands the test of time. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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R V. @areveedubs Aug 24 On the surface, Gilligan’s Island looks like a goofy sitcom with slapstick mishaps and over-the-top characters, but underneath, it’s one of the most philosophically layered shows in television history. The island itself functions as a microcosm of human society, a place where questions of governance, morality, and human nature are constantly tested. Each character embodies an archetype — the intellectual (the Professor), the wealthy elite (the Howells), the working-class everyman (the Skipper), the innocent (Mary Ann), the celebrity (Ginger), and the perpetual saboteur (Gilligan). Their endless failure to escape is not just comedic, it reflects the existential idea of eternal recurrence, raising questions about whether humans are truly capable of change or whether they are bound by flaws that doom them to repeat their mistakes indefinitely. See more 06/19/2022 Fun show with charming characters. Sometimes overly goofy, but obviously iconic. See more russell h 10/23/2019 Lot's of nostalgia for me here. I love the black and white season one for it's atmosphere and hilarious characters. Gilligan is a clown. See more 04/23/2018 Classic comedy, lovable characters, great soundtrack. Everything about this season is perfect. See more 04/18/2018 Slightly worse than the other seasons because they are in color and this is not. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Bob Denver

Gilligan

Alan Hale Jr.

Jonas "The Skipper" Grumby

Jim Backus

Thurston Howell III

Natalie Schafer

Mrs. Lovey Howell

Tina Louise

Ginger Grant

Russell Johnson

Roy "The Professor" Hinkley

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 26, 1964 Two on a Raft Gilligan and Skipper set sail on a raft in an attempt to find help. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 3, 1964 Home Sweet Hut The Skipper orders the castaways to build a community hut due to impending tropical storms. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 10, 1964 Voodoo Something to Me The Skipper and Gilligan fear that voodoo is responsible when the supply hut is burglarized. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 17, 1964 Goodnight Sweet Skipper The Skipper has to relive a World War II experience to repair the radio transmitter. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 24, 1964 Wrongway Feldman The castaways discover a long-forgotten aviator living on the island. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 31, 1964 President Gilligan A competition for president of the island between Skipper and Mr. Howell leaves a surprising result. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 7, 1964 Sound of Quacking A captured duck may mean rescue or dinner after it lands on the island. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 21, 1964 Goodbye Island Gilligan discovers a substance that is stronger than glue when he attempts to turn sap into maple syrup. The castaways use the substance to patch up the Minnow and prepare to escape the island. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 28, 1964 The Big Gold Strike Mr. Howell discovers a gold mine; complications occur with an attempt to leave the island in a raft. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 5, 1964 Waiting for Watubi Skipper believes a curse has fallen on him for disturbing the resting place of a carved Tiki god. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 12, 1964 Angel on the Island Mr. Howell consents to back Ginger's Broadway play for its out-of-New York tryout on the island. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 19, 1964 Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk The castaways learn that the Coast Guard has sighted them and is sending a cutter to the rescue. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 26, 1964 3 Million Dollars More or Less Mr. Howell loses $3 million to Gilligan in a putting contest. Details Episode 14 Aired Jan 2, 1965 Water, Water Everywhere Though surrounded by water, the castaways suddenly discover that there isn't a spare drop to drink. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 9, 1965 So Sorry, My Island Now A Japanese submariner holds the castaways prisoner on their own island. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 16, 1965 Plant You Now, Dig You Later Gilligan unearths a chest, which the castaways think contains a pirate's treasure. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 23, 1965 Little Island, Big Gun A mob leader and his henchmen fleeing from the police land on the island. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 30, 1965 X Marks the Spot In a test of a deadly new missile, the Air Force zeros in on the castaways' island. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 6, 1965 Gilligan Meets the Jungle Boy Gilligan meets a jungle boy and the castaways try to teach him English. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 13, 1965 St. Gilligan and the Dragon Angry because the men haven't kept their promise to build them private houses, the women move away. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 20, 1965 Big Man on a Little Stick The castaways have an unexpected visitor: a surfer from Hawaii who came in on a tsunami. Details Episode 22 Aired Feb 27, 1965 Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend A gorilla is enchanted by Mrs. Howell's perfume and kidnaps her. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 6, 1965 How to Be a Hero Gilligan is embarrassed when has to be rescued while he tries to save a drowning Mary Ann, so the other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero; he gets the chance to be a real hero when a headhunter arrives on the island. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 13, 1965 The Return of Wrongway Feldman Wrongway Feldman returns to sample the island life and he decides to live on the island forever. Details Episode 25 Aired Mar 20, 1965 The Matchmaker Mrs. Howell engineers a romance between Gilligan and Mary Ann. Details Episode 26 Aired Mar 27, 1965 Music Hath Charm The castaways form a band, but Gilligan's drumming is mistaken by local natives as a sign of war. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 3, 1965 New Neighbor Sam The castaways overhear the voices of gangsters threatening their lives. Details Episode 28 Aired Apr 10, 1965 They're Off and Running Mr. Howell wins all of the Skipper's possessions betting on turtle races. Details Episode 29 Aired Apr 17, 1965 Three to Get Ready The Skipper insists a stone found by Gilligan will grant the finder three wishes before sundown. Details Episode 30 Aired Apr 24, 1965 Forget Me Not The Professor tries to cure the Skipper's amnesia by hypnotizing him and taking him through time. Details Episode 31 Aired May 1, 1965 Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home? The castaways discover that Gilligan has been keeping a secret diary. Details Episode 32 Aired May 8, 1965 Physical Fatness Gilligan puts skipper on a crash diet after they plan on joining the Navy when they are rescued. Details Episode 33 Aired May 15, 1965 It's Magic The castaways find a crate of magician's props. They each decide to learn one of the tricks and put on a show. Details Episode 34 Aired May 22, 1965 Goodbye, Old Paint A famous painter, who has renounced civilization, visits the island. Details Episode 35 Aired Jun 5, 1965 My Fair Gilligan Mr. Howell puts Gilligan through basic training to be a millionaire's socialite son. Details Episode 36 Aired Jun 12, 1965 A Nose by Any Other Name A fall from a coconut tree gives Gilligan an inflated nose and a deflated ego. Details

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Gilligan's Island — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Jack Arnold, Tony Leader, Larry Dobkin, John Rich
Executive Producer
Sherwood Schwartz
Screenwriter
David P Harmon, Al Schwartz, Roland Wolpert, Austin Kalish, Joanna Lee, Dick Conway, Herbert Finn, Bill Davenport, Elroy Schwartz, Lawrence J. Cohen, Charles Tannen, Alan Dinehart, Fred Freeman
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 26, 1964