Gilligan's Island (Season 2) DVD

Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 811 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (1965)

Britt Gillette's Gilligan's Island (Season 2) DVD Review

Nominated for zero Emmys in its short three-season stint, Gilligan's Island nonetheless has carved itself a notable niche in the television hall of fame. The brainchild of TV icon Sherwood Schwartz, longtime TV writer and creator of The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island quickly gathered a strong cult following, reaching successive generations of fans via syndication following its cancellation and even spawning a cable TV reality show four decades later. An original CBS series, the show was shuffled between time slots (much like its contemporary program Star Trek), but later became more popular than ever in its syndicated reruns. With a memorable theme song the average viewer will find stuck in his head for days, Gilligan's Island is classic family-friendly television entertainment the way it used to be…

Gilligan's Island follows the adventures of a tour group of varying personalities whose boat, the SS Minnow, falls victim to a torrential rain storm during a three hour tour. Shipwrecked upon a deserted Pacific island, the seven guests and crew spend their days and nights trying to escape the island or be rescued by passersby. In addition to Gilligan (Bob Denver) who is the SS Minnow's first mate, the island plays host to the Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr.), millionaire couple Thurston (Jim Backus) and Eunice Howell (Natalie Schafer), college professor Roy Hinkley (Russell Johnson), movie star Ginger Grant (Tina Louise), and Mary Ann Summers (Dawn Wells). Most every episode revolves around the group's feeble attempts to escape the island, undertakings usually thwarted and foiled by Gilligan's trademark buffoonery…

The Gilligan's Island (Season 2) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law" in which a local islander family arrives from a neighboring island in the hopes of marrying off their plump and stocky daughter, and they've selected Gilligan as the chosen one… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include "Agonized Labor" in which Gilligan and the Skipper overhear a radio broadcast describing the financial collapse of the Howell business interests, prompting the other castaways to teach the Howells how to work in the "real world," and "Allergy Time" in which everyone on the island develops an allergy to Gilligan…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Gilligan's Island (Season 2) DVD:

Episode 37 (Gilligan's Mother-in-Law) Air Date: 09-16-1965
Episode 38 (Beauty is as Beauty Does) Air Date: 09-23-1965
Episode 39 (The Little Dictator) Air Date: 09-30-1965
Episode 40 (Smile, You're on Mars Camera) Air Date: 10-07-1965
Episode 41 (The Sweepstakes) Air Date: 10-14-1965
Episode 42 (Quick Before It Sinks) Air Date: 10-28-1965
Episode 43 (Castaways Pictures Presents) Air Date: 11-04-1965
Episode 44 (Agonized Labor) Air Date: 11-11-1965
Episode 45 (Nyet, Nyet - Not Yet) Air Date: 11-18-1965
Episode 46 (Hi-Fi Gilligan) Air Date: 11-25-1965
Episode 47 (The Chain of Command) Air Date: 12-02-1965
Episode 48 (Don't Bug the Mosquitoes) Air Date: 12-09-1965
Episode 49 (Gilligan Gets Bugged) Air Date: 12-16-1965
Episode 50 (Mine Hero) Air Date: 12-23-1965
Episode 51 (Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue) Air Date: 12-30-1965
Episode 52 (Not Guilty) Air Date: 01-06-1966
Episode 53 (You've Been Disconnected) Air Date: 01-13-1966
Episode 54 (The Postman Cometh) Air Date: 01-20-1966
Episode 55 (Seer Gilligan) Air Date: 01-27-1966
Episode 56 (Love Me, Love My Skipper) Air Date: 02-03-1966
Episode 57 (Gilligan's Living Doll) Air Date: 02-10-1966
Episode 58 (Forward March) Air Date: 02-17-1966
Episode 59 (Ship Ahoax) Air Date: 02-24-1966
Episode 60 (Feed the Kitty) Air Date: 03-03-1966
Episode 61 (Operation: Steam Heat) Air Date: 03-10-1966
Episode 62 (Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up?) Air Date: 03-17-1966
Episode 63 (Ghost a Go-Go) Air Date: 03-24-1966
Episode 64 (Allergy Time) Air Date: 03-31-1966
Episode 65 (The Friendly Physician) Air Date: 04-07-1966
Episode 66 ("V" for Vitamins) Air Date: 04-14-1966
Episode 67 (Mr. and Mrs.???) Air Date: 04-21-1966
Episode 68 (Meet the Meteor) Air Date: 04-28-1966

Britt Gillette

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Posted on 26 May 2005