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2. Home Sweet Hut With a tropical storm heading their way, the castaways decide to build a community hut, but when they start getting on each other's nerves, they decide to build individual huts. Directed by Richard Donner |
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3. Voodoo Something to Me The Skipper admits his belief in native superstitions and thinks Gilligan has been transformed into a monkey via voodoo witchcraft. Directed by John Rich |
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4. Goodnight Sweet Skipper Believe it or not, the Professor can't fix the radio in this episode, but he can hypnotize the Skipper so he'll recall how to transform the radio into a transmitter in order to contact a female pilot, The Vagabond Lady, who is flying over the island. Directed by stage and screen great, Ida Lupino |
5. Wrongway Feldman The castaways aren't alone on the island after all. Forgotten aviator Wrongway Feldman disappeared 33 years earlier and is living on the island as well. With the Professor's help, Wrongway finally makes it off the ground, but can't remember the island's coordinates when he meets up with authorities. Guest Starring Hans Conried - Directed by Ida Lupino |
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6. President Gilligan Since nobody will dig a well for fresh water, an island election for president is set. One Castaway bribes another and finally Gilligan is elected by a write-in vote. Directed by Richard Donner |
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7. The Sound of Quacking (dream sequence) The Castaways are running out of food when a wild duck lands on the island and they have to decide whether to eat it or use it like a carrier pigeon to carry a message back to the mainland. Of course, Gilligan befriends the bird, and in the series' first dream sequence plays the Marshal who tries to protect the duck from outlaws in this "Gunsmoke" take-off. Directed by Ray Montgomery |
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8. Goodbye Island The Professor tries to make nails from an outcropping of ferrous oxide he finds on the island. His nails are too limp, but Mary Ann and Gilligan discover tree sap that bonds like glue, albeit only temporarily. Directed by John Rich |
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9. The Big Gold Strike While the Castawys prepare to leave the island on the Minnow's inflatable life raft, Gilligan discovers a gold mine when he falls into a pit. Mr. Howell stakes a claim and has Gilligan mine it for him. Everyone becomes greedy, stowing away bags of gold on the raft until it eventually sinks. No rescue this time. Directed by Stanley Z. Cherry |
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10. Waiting for Watubi Skipper unearths an ancient tiki god he recognizes as Kona and feels sure he has been cursed for the discovery. Only the witch doctor, Watubi can remove the curse, so Gilligan dresses up as Watubi and performs the ritual to break the spell. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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11. Angel on the Island Ginger is distraught when she misses her Broadway debut because of the shipwreck. To cheer her up, the Castaways put on a production of Cleopatra with Mr. Howell as the angel (backer) of the production. Mel Blanc, the famous voice-characterizationist who spoke for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Barney Rubble and hundreds more, provided the voice of the parrot at the end of the epiosde . Directed by Jack Arnold |
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12. Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk The only Christmas-themed episode ever filmed. Through flashbacks (including much of the original pilot film), the audience finds out exactly what happened when the S.S. Minnow was wrecked. Blooper: Look very closely at the people who are sleeping on the Minnow's outer deckwhen Gilligan wakes up. Clearly the original Professor, Ginger and Mary Ann from the pilot. Original pilot footage directed by Rod Amateau; new footage directed by John Rich |
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13. Three Million Dollars More or Less Mr. Howell bets Gilligan, beginning with a 25 cent wager. Within 48 hours, it has swelled to 3 million dollars, which Mr. Howell owes Gilligan. Mr. Howell tries to unload a supposedly worthless oil company, but then the radio reports it's a gusher. Directed by Ray Mongomery |
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14. Water, Water Everywhere While the island is going through a drought, Gilligan manages to waste every bit of water that has been saved. Finally, a frog leads Gilligan to a fresh-water underground spring. The frog's 'ribbot' was supplied by voice-man Mel Blanc. Directed by Stanley Z. Cherry |
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15. So Sorry, My Island Now A Japanese soldier who thinks WWII never ended arrives on the island in a one-man submarine and captures the castaways. Note: This was one of those epsidoes filmed in the lagoon while the water was ice-cold. If you look closely at Bob's red shirt, you'll see that his collar is buttoned all the way to the top to conceal the wet suit he had to wear underneath. Guest starring Vito Scotti, the great character actor; directed by Alan Crosland, Jr. |
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16.Plant You Now, Dig You Later While working for Mr. Howell, Gilligan finds a treasure chest that Mr. Howell claims as Howell property. The Professor settles the matter by becoming judge and ruling that they 'share and share alike' - it's community property. Mr. Howell offers each Castaway $100,000 for his/her portion and finds out the chest is filled with old cannonballs. Directed by Lawrence Dobkin |
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17. Little Island, Big Gun Gangster Jackson Farrell arrives on the island with his accomplices, planning to hide the sack of money from a bank they robbed, but the sack of dough ends up getting chewed up by the propeller of their boat. Guest starring Larry Storch and Jack Sheldon; Directed by Abner Biberman |
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18. X Marks the Spot The Air Force drops an experimental missile on the island in a strategic test called "Operation Powder Keg". Written by Sherwood and Elroy Schwartz (his brother) Directed by Jack Arnold |
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19. Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy Yet another inhabitant of the island shows up when Gilligan finds Jungle Boy, who doesn't know how to speak the language. Jungle Boy shows the Professor a natural gas opening in the earth, and they make a hot-air balloon from sealed raincoats. Jungle Boy gets off the island, but can't tell anyone about the castaways stranded there. Guest starring Kurt Russell; Directed by Lawrence Dobkin |
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20. St. Gilligan and the Dragon The women protest, then vacate the community hut when the men don't keep their promise to build private residences. The men decide to drive the woman back by dressing up as a dragon and scaring them away from their primitive camp. Directed by Ray Montgomery |
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21. Big Man on Little Stick Duke Williams rides a giant tsunami to the island, recovers there and works out before he rides the tsunami back to Hawaii. But wouldn't you know he wipes out and hits his head, causing amnesia and never tells the tale of the Castaways? Guest starring Denny Scott Miller; directed by Tony Leader |
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22. Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend A gorilla on the island becomes enchanted by Mrs. Howell's jewels and perfume, steals them, then kidnaps Lovey. Written by Elroy Schwartz; directed by Jack Arnold |
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23. How To Be a Hero When Gilligan is unable to save Mary Ann from drowning in the lagoon, Skipper jumps in and saves them both, becoming the resident hero. Gilligan becomes insatiably jealous, so the Castaways set out to make him a hero. When he actually saves them from a headhunter, they believe he really IS a hero. Directed by Tony Leader |
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24. The Return of Wrongway Feldman Wrongway wants nothing more to do with civilization and comes back to the island. The Castaways are distraught and try to force him to fly back to the mainland and form a rescue mission for them, but Wrongway takes off and leaves them high and dry. Guest starring Hans Conried; Directed by Ida Lupino |
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25. The Matchmaker Since she's missed the year's social events and weddings, Mrs. Howell decides to engineer a romance between Gilligan and Mary Ann. The plan backfires and almost ruins the Howells' marriage, but they are reunited as the Castaways provide a romantic dinner and entertainment courtesy of Ginger. Directed by Tony Leader |
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26. Music Hath Charm The Castaways form an orchestra for fun, but Gilligan's drums attract angry native tribes from other islands, who think his drumbeats mean war. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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27. New Neighbor Sam The Castaways are petrified when they overhear voices of gangsters who are threatening to kill them. Turns out the 'voices' belong to a parrot speaking in two different voices. Parrot Voices courtesy of Mel Blanc and Herb Vigran; Directed by Ray Montgomery |
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28. They're Off and Running After turtle racing, Mr. Howell wins everything Skipper owns, including Gilligan. Howell wants Gilligan to be his permanent houseboy. Note: During the filming of this episode, the animal trainers stored turtles in Bob Denver's dressing room shower. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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29. Three To Get Ready Gilligan finds a rare gemstone and according to its legend, is granted three wishes. The first two he wastes on ice cream that mysteriously floats ashore. Finally for his last wish, Gilligan wishes the Castaways off the island. The patch of land they're standing on separates into the lagoon. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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30. Forget Me Not Skipper is struck on the head and suffers paranoid delusions, thinking the Castaways are Japanese soldiers out to get him. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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31. Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home? Gilligan is keeping a diary, recording the events of the Castaways day-to-day life stuck together on the island. Flashbacks reveal everyone's own version of how they escaped the Japanese soldier a while back. Guest starring Vito Scotti; Directed by Christian Nyby |
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32. Physical Fatness Skipper goes on a diet to lose weight while Gilligan tries to gain weight by eating everything in sight, including a phosphorescent dye the Professor has concocted. Directed by Gary Nelson |
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33. It's Magic The Castaways test every magic prop contained in a huge crate that's washed ashore. Of course, Gilligan screws up every attempt at prestidigation. Directed by Jack Arnold |
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34. Goodbye, Old Paint Yet another person is found on the island - abstract artist Alexandri Gregor Dubov, who has a short-wave radio, but won't let anyone use it to call for help. The Castaways scheme to make Dubov jealous of Gilligan's artistic talent. It works! He becomes so jealous that he flees the island on a raft he has made from his paintings. Guest starring Harold J. Stone; Directed by Jack Arnold |
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35. My Fair Gilligan Gilligan saves Lovey's life and the Howells are so grateful they decide to adopt him as a Howell. Gilligan dreams he has become a prince, the son of King Thurston and Queen Lovery, but wakes up and realizes he hates being a Howell and just wants to go back to being plain ol' first mate. Directed by Tony Leader |
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36. A Nose By Any Other Name Gilligan nearly breaks his nose when he falls out of a tree, so the Professor pretends to operate on Gilligan and give him a nose job at the same time. Written by Elroy Schwartz; Directed by Hal Cooper |
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