Gilligan's Island - Memories

The Honeybees one.

 

My older cousin lived with us when I was a small child, and he would howl in laughter at Gilligan's Island (which my mother thought was extremely silly). I had an audiocassette recorder that I could hook up to our TV, and I used to record the audio of the after-school reruns of the show (I was about 7-8 years old). The episode I remember most fondly was the one in which the ladies of the island competed in a beauty contest.

 

Though they all got lei’d a few years later...

 

I like all of the episodes that have been mentioned so far-I pretty much like them all (some more than others of course)...

One that I'm not overly fond of is the one where Gilligan dreams that he's a dictator.

 

Original pilot with different cast and theme music streaming free on Amazon:

Watch Forgotten TV Pilots: Gilligan's Island and Daddy O | Prime Video

 

I was born in the '60s so I was too young to remember the original network airings. I saw the reruns in the '70s. In the mid-'70s, it was the No. 1-rated syndie rerun on television, and was playing on a lot of different stations. In my area, it was on everyday at 4:30 PM so kids could watch it after school. It was hugely popular - it seems everybody was watching it and talking about it. I probably saw each episode about 10 times in the '70s before I grew a bit tired of it. Sometimes I'll still watch it when I happen by it today. Great memories!

 

This show was front & center during my young, formative years as reruns in the 70's.

I always loved "The Producer" episode, where they put on a musical version of "Hamlet".
Dawn Wells' recent passing reminded me of MaryAnn's cockney "Eliza Doolittle" in the "And Then There Were None" episode.

 

What I remember most was watching this every morning in the 90s on TBS in the summer

 

As a grade-schooler in the early-to-mid '80s, it was still something every kid I knew was watching. I also remember it being on in the afternoons. I don't think we were religiously watching it and watching the same episodes over and over, but like The Brady Bunch, it was something every kid would sometimes watch and was familiar with. Except I never remember seeing black-and-white episodes. This was definitely before colorization. I just think they only played the color ones. I remember I was surprised to learn later there were black-and-white episodes made, which was probably only when clips would be shown in news reports or something like that.

I'm having trouble remembering specific episodes I saw as a kid, but the one with the giant spider stands out as a big one. And also the one where they do the musical of Shakespeare's plays. I also remember the first TV movie would sometimes air on cable channels.

It seems like it wasn't until the 2000s that it stopped being a show that was commonly watched by kids growing up.

 

One of the little pieces of trivia I learned about GI was that part of the pilot episode and early intro was filmed on Nov.22, 1963. If you watch the early black-and-white intro, you can see a flag flying at half-staff in the distance.

 

And both shows were created, written, and supervised by Sherwood Schwartz.

I recall seeing the cast on some 90s talk show, and they all fell back into their old characters. I guess that's what happens when you get a group of people who really liked working with each other...mostly.

I have both shows on DVD, and watched every single episode. Gilligan's Island I watched in countless reruns in the 70s, and I watched The Brady Bunch as they originally aired. Every kid I knew in school watched the show at 7:00PM every Friday night. I was at the right age to really appreciate the show. Both shows.

I may remember seeing Gilligan's Island in 1967, when my older sister was a fan.

 

I watched the three TV-movies where they're posted online recently and actually liked the third one enough to watch it a second time. It had the same kind of cartoony, campy humor as the show. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain as mustache-twirlers and a team of evil robots searching for "supremium" and trying to kill our heroes. The second TV-movie was the worst, where the characters were reduced to cameos in the middle of some melodramatic Love Boat-style plot. The first one was okay, but suffered from being away from the island setting for most of it. But only that last "Harlem Globetrotters" movie felt like a live-action cartoon the way the show did. The first two movies tried to be too realistic.

 

I loved the scene in "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" where the Howells kick their snooty friends out after they mock Gilligan and Skipper.

 

How was Vincent Price never on GI? Guess this was the closest he ever got?

 

Burt Ward on Family Feud: . Penguin (Burgess Meredith), Riddler (Frank Gorshin) or Joker (Cesar Romero) might have performed better. Jeez, Team Gilligan really cleaned team Batman's clock.

 

I think of Gilligan and the gang every time I drive over Tehachapi Pass on the way to/from the Mojave Desert. There's a derelict yacht that's been there for ages with "SS Minnow" painted on the side. A fire that burned through the area recently and it looks even worse than in this picture, but it's still there to revive the memory.

 

Memories and more. Jim Backus and Natalie Schaefer incredible.

 

What did you expect? They had a professor on their team

 

Holy Rolex Batman!

 

As good as he was and as much as I enjoyed Jim Backus in Gilligan's Island, my favourite thing of his is his small role in ' It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World '.
" I' m going to make some Old Fashioneds the way Dad used to make them ! "

 

Is this the one that has single sided DVDs? (I own all three seasons, but they're on the dual sided DVDs.)

 

The photo of the back cover shows it's on 17 discs so yes. I was lucky enough to get it at Best Buy a few years ago for around 20 bucks.

 

Can't have a discussion about Gilligan's Island without including this:

 

NICE! I have the separate seasons...oh well.

 

I have all three sets, and double-sided.