Gilligan's Island (Season 3) DVD

Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 780 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (1966)

Britt Gillette's Gilligan's Island (Season 3) 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 3) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "Up at Bat" in which a bat bites Gilligan, causing him to have a nightmare in which he's transformed into a vampire. But the professor is a bat aficionado, and he's able to identify the bat as a common fruit bat instead of the vampire bat Gilligan fears… Other notable episodes from Season 3 include "Ring Around Gilligan" in which a mad scientist lands on the island and uses mysterious hypnotic rings to make the group do his bidding, and "Gilligan's Personal Magnetism" in which lightning strikes Gilligan while he's bowling, prompting the bowling ball to become physically attached to his hand…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Gilligan's Island (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 69 (Up at Bat) Air Date: 09-12-1966
Episode 70 (Gilligan vs. Gilligan) Air Date: 09-19-1966
Episode 71 (Pass the Vegetables, Please) Air Date: 09-26-1966
Episode 72 (The Producer) Air Date: 10-03-1966
Episode 73 (Voodoo) Air Date: 10-10-1966
Episode 74 (Where There's a Will) Air Date: 10-17-1966
Episode 75 (Man with a Net) Air Date: 10-24-1966
Episode 76 (Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow) Air Date: 10-31-1966
Episode 77 (Ring Around Gilligan) Air Date: 11-07-1966
Episode 78 (Topsy-Turvy) Air Date: 11-14-1966
Episode 79 (The Invasion) Air Date: 11-21-1966
Episode 80 (The Kidnapper) Air Date: 11-28-1966
Episode 81 (And Then There Were None) Air Date: 12-05-1966
Episode 82 (All About Eva) Air Date: 12-12-1966
Episode 83 (Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho) Air Date: 12-26-1966
Episode 84 (Take a Dare) Air Date: 01-02-1967
Episode 85 (Court-Martial) Air Date: 01-09-1967
Episode 86 (The Hunter) Air Date: 01-16-1967
Episode 87 (Lovey's Secret Admirer) Air Date: 01-23-1967
Episode 88 (Our Vines Have Tender Apes) Air Date: 01-30-1967
Episode 89 (Gilligan's Personal Magnetism) Air Date: 02-06-1967
Episode 90 (Splashdown) Air Date: 02-20-1967
Episode 91 (High Man on the Totem Pole) Air Date: 02-27-1967
Episode 92 (The Second Ginger Grant) Air Date: 03-06-1967
Episode 93 (The Secret of Gilligan's Island) Air Date: 03-13-1967
Episode 94 (Slave Girl) Air Date: 03-20-1967
Episode 95 (It's a Bird, It's a Plane) Air Date: 03-27-1967
Episode 96 (The Pigeon) Air Date: 04-03-1967
Episode 97 (Bang! Bang! Bang!) Air Date: 04-10-1967
Episode 98 (Gilligan, the Goddess) Air Date: 04-17-1967

Britt Gillette

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Posted on 26 May 2005