Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom that aired from 1964 to 1967. The series was produced by United Artists Television. The series ran for a total of three seasons with 98 episodes.

The series is popular worldwide. The main character, Gilligan, is even considered as an American pop culture icon.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == There is a group of seven people during a trip by a heavy storm shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The company consists of two crew members of the ship (Gilligan and The Skipper) and five passengers (the professor, Ginger Grant, Mary Ann Summers, Thurston j. Howell III and Lovey Howell), all with very different personalities. Forced to build them a place to stay on the island and hope that salvation comes quickly. That, however, remains to save the group must see from and on the island. This produces settled for the viewer hilarious situations on.
 * 2 Characters
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Pilot
 * 3.2 Production
 * 3.3 title song
 * 3.4 abandonment
 * 4 Episodes
 * 5 spin-offs
 * 6 Trivia
 * 7 external links

The many attempts by the group to leave the island on their own are a common thread in the series. Opportunities to present themselves arranged to leave the island, but these run (usually at the hands of Gilligan) always in the hundred. Succeeds only once their attempt, but this only results in that group on another island ends up.

A number of running gags in the series are the fact that the group can make pretty much anything by bamboo (even unusual things such as pedal cars), the fact that regular visitors on the island who do nothing to help the Group escape, the unusual fauna of the island, and the dream scenes, in which one of the characters dream that he or she is a character that is part of the storyline of that episode. ==Characters[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Pilot<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was introduced with a pilot episodenever aired. It was shot on location in Hawaii. In the pilot was still the role of the professor played by John Gabriel and instead of the characters Ginger Grant and Mary Ann Summers were the two female assistants to professor present at the group.
 * Bob Denver as Gilligan: the clumsy crew member of the S.S. Minnow and the central character in the series. Denver was not the first choice for the role. Actually got offered the role, Jerry Van Dyke but he pointed this off because he thought the show would be unsuccessful. The character would actually "Gil Eggan" come to be called, but this was soon shortened to "Gilligan".
 * Alan Hale, Jr. as Jonas Grumby, the "Skipper". The captain of the S.S. Minnow and a kind father figure to Gilligan. Hale already had a career as an actor in B-westerns. Hale continued to perform regularly at meetings the character after the series was discontinued.
 * Jim Backus as Thurston Howell, III: a miserly millionaire and one of the five passengers of the S.S. Minnow. Backus was already a well-known actor when he accepted the role. He was best known as the voice of the character Mr. Magoo.
 * Natalie Schafer as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell: Thurston's wife. Schafer had in her contract that no closeups of her would be made, presumably because of her age (she was 62 when the series began).
 * Tina Louise as Ginger Grant: a movie star. When the shooting started had Louise disagreement with the producers as they understood that her character at the fore in the series. Her character was originally very sarcastic and rap of tongue, but Louise found this inappropriate. They eventually went to agreement to play its role as a kind of cross between Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball. Louise was the only one of the actors who refused to return for the made-for-TV movies.
 * Russell Johnson as Roy Hinkley (The Professor): a scholar who should be governed by the group with his inventions. John Gabriel would actually play the role, but the producers found him too young.
 * Dawn Wells as Mary Ann Summers. Wells was a former Miss Nevada when she auditioned for the role.
 * Charles Maxwell as the "Radio announcer": an announcer whose radio messages are captured by the Group and which give rise to the story of that episode.

<p lang="en" len="85" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The plot of the pilot was later used for the Christmas-special of the show. ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The shooting took place in the CBSRadford Studio complex in Studio City, California<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]. The set was later also used for the show The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The cave scenes were shot in Newport Beach.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first season of the series was shot in black and white. The other seasons were in colour.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the S.S. Minnow were four different boats used. One was used for the intro movie and the pilot. Another was used in the intro movie of the second season. A boat was used for the beach scenes. The fourth lay in the studio from CBS. ===Title song<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title song of the series was "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle. The producers insisted that in the intro would be sung where the show was about so also later viewers would understand where the show was.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are two versions of the title song. A for the first season and one for the second and third season. The title song of the first season was recorded by The Wellingtons and had a folksound. The second version was not attributed to a particular group, but according to the book Here on Gilligan's Isle was recorded by a group called The Eligibles. ===Cessation<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Under pressure from network president William s. Paley took out CBS series Gunsmoke in 1967 to an earlier time trip there the series otherwise would be stopped. It took the series in the original broadcast time of Gilligan's Island. Gilligan's Island was then still pretty popular, but there the viewing figures yet what were dropped, the series was discontinued. Many actors had already reckoned that a fourth season would come and the news came as a surprise for them. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Spin-offs<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="72" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The success of the series has led to a number of spin-offs and cloning:

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Dusty's Trail: a series that ran from 1973 to 1974. In this series came in almost identical roles as Gilligan's Island.
 * The New Adventures of Gilligan: an animated series by Filmation, which ran from 1974 to 1977 with a total of 24 episodes.
 * Rescue from Gilligan's Island: a 1978 television film in which the Group finally being rescued from the island, but then struggling to reintegrate in society.
 * The Castaways on Gilligan's Island: a second television film from 1979. This film served as a pilot for a possible new series, but that came not.
 * The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island: a third television movie in 1981.
 * Gilligan's Planet: an animated series from 1982 with a more science fiction-like version of the story from Gilligan's Island.
 * Gilligan's Island: The Musical: a musical produced in the early 1990s.
 * Gilligan's Island: Underneath the Grass Skirt (1999).
 * The Real Gilligan's Island: a reality series in the style of Expedition Robinson.
 * In the United States is the question "Ginger or Mary Ann" long after the show used to men asking what type of woman they prefer and to women with what type they most identify.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hiassen_2-0" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USNews_3-0" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]
 * In the episode "Ballad of Gilligan's island" of the sitcom Alf have actors Denver, Hale, Johnson and Wells a guest role in their roles from Gilligan's Island. In the episode dreams Alf that he ends up on the island.
 * A similar reference to the series is processed in the sitcom Roseanne, in which the actors from Roseanne reenact the characters from Gilligan's Island. In the credits we see the actors from Roseanne reenact the characters from Gilligan's Island.
 * Many other media contain references to the series.
 * There is a Pinball game made in 1991 after this series: Bally's Gilligan's Island