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gilligans island the complete first season
Gilligan's Island - The Complete First Season
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List Price: $39.98
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780645882
Format: Box set
ISBN: 078064588X
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-02-03
Running Time: 916
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1964-09-26
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EPISODE SYNOPSES Pilot: Ginger, Maryann and the Professor are different people. Mary-Ann's name is Bunny and her character is more like the current Ginger. Ginger is more like Mary-Ann but still called Ginger. The Professor is very much a ladies man. Since the episode never aired, the show was drastically altered, characters were replaced and so was the now, unforgettable theme song. Episode 1: "Two on a Raft" - The castaways find themselves marooned on the island. Gilligan and the Skipper set sail on a home-made raft in an attempt to find help. After sailing for days and battling obstacles such as sharks and Gilligan's unending hunger, they land back on Gilligan's island without realizing it. Episode 2: "Home Sweet Hut" - A hurricane is coming, so the Castaways must quickly build one large community hut in which to weather the storm. However, they soon get on each-others nerves, so they later decide to branch out and build individual huts. Episode 3: "Voodoo Something to Me" - The Skipper fears that the island is full of 'voodoo' when he thinks that Gilligan has been turned into a monkey. Episode 4: "Goodnight Sweet Skipper" - The castaways hear on the radio that a plane is going to be flying over their island, but they will be unable to contact them because their transmitter is broken. Episode 5: "Wrongway Feldman" - When Gilligan finds an old airplane hidden in the jungle, the Castaways discover a long-forgotten aviator living on the island. Episode 6: "President Gilligan" - The castaways decide that they need someone to be the leader on the island, and so they hold elections. Episode 7: "The Sound of Quacking" - The Castaways are faced with running out of food, when a blight threatens to destroy many of their plants. When Gilligan finds a duck in the lagoon, a difficult decision must be made. Episode 8: "Goodbye Island" - Gilligan discovers a special tree sap that can be used to make a good tasting pancake syrup. Then the professor discovers that the same tree sap also makes a super glue, that may allow the castaways to repair the Minnow. Episode 9: "The Big Gold Strike" - Mr. Howell discovers a gold mine on the island. He then hires Gilligan to work in the mine. When gold fever strikes the castaways and Mr. Howell is unwilling to share the gold, they begin to charge outlandish prices for the supplies and food that Mr. Howell needs. Episode 10: "Waiting for Watubi" - While digging, the Skipper uncovers a carved statue of a Tiki God. He then believes a curse has fallen on him for disturbing the resting-place of Watubi, and that his days are numbered. Episode 11: "Angel on the Island" - Mr. Howell decides to put on a play, staring Ginger, after she begins to suffer from home sickness. Trouble begins, however, when Mrs. Howell decides she wants to play the starring role. Mel Blanc is the voice of the parrot. Episode 12: "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk" - During Christmas, the Castaways get homesick and remember the first day they were shipwrecked. When Santa Claus "appears" on the island, many suspect he is the Skipper in costume. However, just as Santa departs while wishing the Castaways a Merry Christmas, the Skipper appears from the other direction. Episode 13: "Three Million Dollars More or Less" - Mr. Howell loses $3 million to Gilligan in a golfing contest. Mr. Howell then tricks Gilligan into trading for a worthless oil well that he owns. Episode 14: "Water Water Everywhere" - Talk about a painful irony: though surrounded by water, the Castaways suddenly discover that their supply of fresh drinking water is running out. Episode 15: "So Sorry, My Island Now" - The Castaways are captured by a Japanese sailor who thinks that WWII never ended. When the other castaways are captured, it is up to Gilligan to save them. Episode 16: "Plant You Now, Dig You Later" - While working for Mr. Howell, Gilligan unearths a chest. The castaways think it must contain a pirate's treasure. Episode 17: "Little Island, Big Gun" - A mob leader and his henchmen, fleeing from the police, land on the island. Episode 18: "X Marks the Spot" - In a test of a deadly new missile, called "Operation Powder Keg," the Air Force chooses an "uninhabited island" which just happens to be Gilligan's Island. Episode 19: "Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy" - Gilligan discovers a jungle boy living on the island. He shows them a hole in the ground that causes objects to float, and the professor theorizes that it is expelling either helium or hydrogen. Kurt Russell is the guest star. Episode 20: "St. Gilligan and the Dragon" - Angry because the men haven't kept their promise to build them private houses, the women decide to move to the other side of the island in protest. Episode 21: "Big Man on Little Stick" - Handsome surfer Duke Williams rides a giant tsunami to the island. At first, the castaways are excited as Duke thinks he will turn around and surf back to Hawaii (and send help). However, after seeing Mary Ann and Ginger, he decides he may want to stay for a while. Episode 22: "Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend"- A gorilla is enchanted by Mrs. Howell's perfume and kidnaps her. After Gilligan accidentally spills the perfume all over his shirt, the gorilla decides to release Mrs. Howell and exchange prisoners. Episode 23: "How to be a Hero"- After Gilligan is unable to save Mary Ann from drowning in the lagoon, the Skipper must jump in and rescue both of them. The Castaways then devise schemes to boost Gilligan's ego, and help him feel like a hero. Episode 24: "The Return of Wrongway Feldman" - The castaways are revisited by 'Wrongway' Feldman. Episode 25: "The Matchmaker" - Mrs. Howell decides to engineer a romance between Gilligan and Mary Ann. Episode 26: "Music Hath Charm" - Mrs. Howell decides to form a symphony orchestra, to make up for the lack of culture on the island. Gilligan's drum beats, as they drift across the water, hold special meaning to angry natives on a nearby island. Episode 27: "New Neighbor Sam" - The Castaways overhear the voices of gangsters discussing buried treasure and threatening their lives. The voices turn out to belong to a parrot, who then leads the castaways to the "treasure." Episode 28: "They're Off and Running" - Mr. Howell wins all of the Skipper's possessions betting on turtle races. Even when he feels bad and switches the turtles so that Skipper will finally win, he still wins! Episode 29: "Three to Get Ready" - The Skipper insists a stone found by Gilligan will grant the finder three wishes before sundown. The professor, of course, insists it is just superstition. Episode 30: "Forget Me Not" -The Professor tries to cure the Skipper's amnesia by hypnotizing him and taking him through time. Episode 31: "Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home" - The Castaways discover that Gilligan has been keeping a secret diary. When they read it, they all seem to disagree with how certain events unfolded and tell their side of the story. Episode 32: "Physical Fatness" - Gilligan and the Skipper plan to join the Navy when they are rescued. However, when weighing themselves, they discover that Gilligan must gain weight, while the Skipper must diet. Episode 33: "It's Magic" - Gilligan finds a raft, oh wait, no, the Great Raftini's magic trunk. Ginger knows how to use the magical tricks and the castaways plan to use the magic to scare away angry natives if they ever got to their island again. Episode 34: "Goodbye Old Paint" - A famous painter who has renounced civilization, Dubov, visits the island (with a short-wave radio, of course). The castaways are hopeful that Dubov will give them his transmitter, but soon discover he does not wish to go back to civilization. Episode 35: "My Fair Gilligan" - After Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life, Mr. Howell decides to make him his son. He immediately puts Gilligan through basic training to be a millionaire's socialite son (dream sequence), changing the way he walks, talks and dresses. However, Gilligan and the rest of the castaways miss the "old Gilligan." Episode 36: "A Nose By Any Other Name" - A fall from a coconut tree gives Gilligan an inflated nose and a deflated ego. When Gilligan decides he wants the Professor to perform plastic surgery on his nose, the Professor pretends to perform the surgery, and instead, relies on the recuperation time behind the bandages to allow the swelling to go down. When the bandages are finally removed, Gilligan decides he is happy with his old nose!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: How could you not???
Comment: My kids had never seen a single episode of Gilligan, thus this purchase! Classic TV for the latest generation!!! Black and White...crisp and clear...and all of my children have the theme song memorized.
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Summary: "fun family fare" - 1964
Comment: In Sherwood Schwartz's interesting commentary, we hear that the idea was to present a "micocrosm" of society, odd couples if you will, forced to get along or perish, on an isolated spot in the Pacific. I always thought it was what Desi Arnaz said in a TV Guide article. It was about "a couple of sexy girls on an island".
Well, thanks, partner. That's what got me going in 1964 and got be buying this DVD-set. Funny, at age 57, it isn't "Mary Ann or Ginger", it was "Mrs. Howell".
Dawn Wells had Daisy Dukes before Catherine Bach! Or is it that Bach had "Mary Ann"(s). Either way, she was/is still way hot.
Gotta feel a little bad about Tina Louise, who expressed early on her disatisfaction with the show. As I recall, she said in an interview at vthe time, that the show was "like a cartoon"...not to be taken seriously. I may be wrong, but I believe she has never attended a G. I> convention.
The Series pilot, with different Mary Ann(s) and Ginger(s) was actually pretty good. I don't recall who was who, but the wisecracking Secretary and her [apparent] co-worker were very telegenic...and it's tough to say, but the show could have sustained with the originals, who brought in a bit more "realism". Ginger was all Marilyn Monroe. The Brunette was a New Yorker in temperment..would have traveled through time alot easier than "Ginger Grant".
Schwartz says, in effect, he created a great show with characters the equivalnet if Laurel and Hardy, Monroe, whoever. By the way, I'm surprised he didn't admit to referencing the first "Fat and Skinny"s final movie shot in France, 1950-51, involving a bunch of folks stranded on on atoll and including a glamorous model/singer, Suzie DeLair. If Schwartz didn't have that in mind...I'll eat my derby!
All episodes have a good story and some surprisingly clever dialogue. Guess I was too busy at the time, waiting for Mary Ann to climb a tree.
Interesting that Ida Lupino directed some of these black and white shows, though one was perhaps the very worst of the entire series: to force the Skipper to fall asleep to have his recurring dream about a World War II incident in which he managed, heroically, to turn a radio receiver into a transmitter, the residents use Mr. Howell's sleeping pills very carelessly and we are supposed to laugh when The Skipper passes out. I'm actually surprised that bit was left in the show, considering that children were obviously a big demographic for the show.
A better entry is "Wrong Way Feldman" with Hans Conried - his plane from the '30s is discovered by Gilligan, then the pilot shows up. Alot of wild business, resulting in "Wrong Way" returning home successfully. Too bad, he (characteristically) couldn't figure out his own coordinates, to send a rescue team back.
A nice episode called "President Gilligan" has some witty satire (and again recalls "Atoll K" with L & H: a great scene in that crazy flick also involves an "Election", though Hardy is victorious).
Jim Backus hd the best lines and delivered them in style; sometimes reminiscent of W. C. Fields, probably another childhood idol of Sherwood Schwartz.
Despite the huge success, not all the critics were wrong. There was alot of lame material not helped by that laughtrack. Gilligan trips on a rope...gales of laughter.
Good DVD quality and good packaging.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Welcome Home
Comment: Gilligan's Island was a fun show to watch with strange events for the people trapped on an Island. If you catch an episode on television it is alway a good half hour of fun.
All the charactors try to maintain there normal lives in a situation that is not quite normal. Of course the Professor (Russell Johnson) tries his best to create things to keep things like home with a proper dose of measured seriousness, and to get them home, but it is not quite home if you are millionaires (the Howells, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer ) or a movie star (Ginger Grant ,Tina Louise ) who always provided many laughs because of trying to maintain what they were.
Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) and the Skipper (Alan Hale) seemed to be the most grounded and of course Gilligan (Bob Denver) with his uncanny ability to thwart attempts to get off the island.
This collection and bonus material brings the entire first season to life and provides insights to the show.
Definate DVD to purchase if you like the older classic shows or Gilligan's Island.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gilligan's Island the complete first season
Comment: My grand daughter enjoyed how the shipwreck happened but was not interested anymore of the black and white episodes. I have to admit, after being spoiled with color, that the ones in black and white were not as enjoyable as the ones in color.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Show
Comment: I used to watch Gilligan all the time as a child. I was excited to see it released onto DVD. I had never seen any of the Black and White episodes before so season one was a pleasant surprise. The DVD's are double sided and hold a lot of episodes for the price. I think it is great that these older shows are being brought back on DVD so we can see all the episodes- and the lack of commercials only makes it sweeter.
If you liked the show, I highly recommend getting the DVD. Gilligan and the other castaways are very funny. This is much better quality TV than what we are forced to watch on prime time (with 20 minutes of commercial interruptions)!!
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