List of Gilligan's Island episodes

Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The series aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to September 4, 1967.

The first season aired Saturdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST). All episodes were filmed in black-and-white.

The second season aired Thursdays at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).

The third season aired Mondays at 7:30-8:00 pm (EST).

There were 3 sequel films.The first (1978) had them rescued and proved so successful that it spawned a second (1979) and third (1981). By the third film, the charm was lost, ratings were down, and no more were made.

In 2001, Dawn Wells co-produced a television film bio-pic, where she, Bob Denver, and Russell Johnson appear as themselves as hosts and remember what life was like during the series. In the memory scenes, they and the rest of the cast and crew are played by actors, while Dawn narrates.

The castaways turn the huts into rafts and are finally rescued, to great fanfare. On the first anniversary of their rescue they all meet in Hawaii for a reunion, and decide to take a short cruise. The weather starts to get rough, and they get stranded on the same island again.

The castaways are once again rescued from the island, but this time they return voluntarily to build a resort on the island.

The Harlem Globetrotters crashland on the island. When a millionaire tries to take over the resort, the rivalry is settled by a game between the Globetrotters and the rival's robot team.
Jim Backus (Thurston Howell) has only a walk-on part at the end of the film as he was suffering the advanced stages of Parkinson's disease by then. His role on the island was filled by creating "Thurston Howell IV", played by David Ruprecht, the couple's supposed son. (Conflict with the first season episode in which Gilligan was adopted by the Howells after saving Lovey's life. He was said at that time to be their only son.)

This series has been released on DVD by Warner Home Video, in three season box sets (the first of which includes the pilot episode) and in a complete series set. There has also been a single-disc release containing only the first two episodes.

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