Gilligan's Island: The Complete Series Collection (Repackage)

This show could have easily been forgotten but now it's impossible because of the great cast this show had. Gilligan (Bob Denver) and the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.) were terrific at slap stick comedy. And then there are the sophisticated millionaires Thurston Howell the third (Jim Backus) and his wife "Lovey", (Natalie Schafer) and there also is the movie star Ginger. (Tina Louise) And for some strange reason Russell Johnson (the Professor) and Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) aren't credited in the first season but they have just as big a role as any other character. So as you can see there's something for everyone in this show, and the cast all did an extraordinary job at making their characters so beloved. If you don't know the plot of this show I don't know where you've been because this has been one of the most re-run shows of all time, so even though I was born in 1995 I watched many episodes. It's a shame this show only lasted three seasons and it didn't get canceled because it wasn't popular, it was very successful but for some crazy reason it was cancelled for re-runs of Gunsmoke. But fortunately we now have the entire first season on DVD for us to enjoy from now on. When I watch Gilligan's Island I think for some stupid reason they will get off the island even though I knew they wouldn't (oops! I spoiled the show, I'm so sorry) so it just never got tiresome watching them almost get back to society only for their hopes and dreams to be dashed by Gilligan's blunders. I also love this show for the cheesy inventions created by the Professor, like the shell phone (I don't remember which season this episode is from) and not just inventions, they always have everything they need, an endless amount of clothes, makeup, and an endless amount of guest stars. : ) I don't recall any episodes being edited and the bonus features are decent, so there is good incentive to buy this set. Also included with this set is the series pilot. The theme song is way different than the one we all grew up with but it's enjoyable to listen to for one episode. And the pilot also has a commentary with the creator of Gilligan's Island Sherwood Schwartz, he makes interesting commentaries and I would recommend listening to them. There also is a short feature about how the series was created. Oh, two other small bonus features are a Gilligan's Island survival guide and tropical tidbits. (On-screen factoids) Now I know everybody's got their own favorite episode, but I'd like to chime in and tell you mine. I love both of the episodes when Hans Conried guest stars as Wrongway Feldman. "President Gilligan" is another great episode. The Skipper and Mr. Howell both want to be in charge of the island, so they decide to have an election and by the title of the episode, I think you know who gets elected. There are just so many outlandish plots, so it's hard to choose which ones my favorite, and it's pretty hard to watch just one episode at a time, but those are just some of my favorite episodes. Well, now that I've discussed my favorites, I'll list the episode descriptions for season one. Two on a Raft - Airdate: 9/26/1964 - The Skipper and Gilligan sail for help on a raft, only to wind up back on the same island. Home Sweet Hut - Airdate: 10/3/1964 - The castaways build a hut for all, but tensions mount and soon they all build their own huts. Voodoo Something for Me - Airdate: 10/10/1964 - Skipper believes the island is under the spell of Voodoo and that Gilligan has been turned into a chimp. Goodnight Sweet Skipper - Airdate: 10/17/1964 - Skipper turns the radio into a transmitter. The catch is that he can only do it when he sleepwalks. Wrongway Feldman - Airdate: 10/24/1964 - Famed aviator Wrongway Feldman is discovered living on the island. The castaways try and help him fix his plane so he can fly for help. President Gilligan - Airdate: 10/31/1964 - When Mr. Howell and the Skipper square off over who is in charge, the castaways decide they need to elect a leader. The Sound of Quacking - Airdate: 11/7/1964 - A duck lands on the island. Everyone wants to eat the duck because food is scarce, but Gilligan is determined to protect the duck. Goodbye Island - Airdate: 11/21/1964 - Gilligan discovers the perfect, permanent glue to fix the boat while he was trying to make pancake syrup. The Big Gold Strike - Airdate: 11/28/1964 - Mr. Howell discovers a gold mine on the island. Soon everyone has gold fever. Waiting for Watubi - Airdate: 12/5/1964 - Skipper finds a Tiki idol, a small statue of Kona, the god of evil. Skipper believes he is cursed. Only a visit from Watubi can lift the spell. Angel on the Island - Airdate: 12/12/1964 - Mr. Howell agrees to back Ginger's off- Broadway, on-island play. However, his wife soon believes that she should be the star of her husband's play. Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk - Airdate: 12/19/1964 - It's the first Christmas on the island and the castaways remember their first days on the island. Soon Santa visits to remind them of what they have to be thankful for. Three Million Dollars More or Less - Airdate: 12/26/1964 - Gilligan wins $3 million from Mr. Howell in a putting contest. Water, Water Everywhere - Airdate: 1/2/1965 - Drinking water is suddenly scarce. But a frog comes to the rescue. So Sorry, My Island Now - Airdate: 1/9/1965 - A Japanese sailor captures the castaways. Plant You Now, Dig You Later - Airdate: 1/16/1965 - Gilligan uncovers a treasure chest while digging for Mr. Howell. A court is held, with the professor as the judge to decide rightful ownership. Little Island, Big Gun - Airdate: 1/23/1965 - Trying to evade the police after a heist, a gangster is dropped off on the island, planning to hide out for a while. When he discovers that the island is occupied, he poses as a doctor. X Marks the Spot - Airdate: 1/20/1965 - The Island is the target of new Air Force missile. But it doesn't explode when it lands. Now Gilligan must defuse it. Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy - Airdate: 2/6/1965 - A jungle boy learns language and manners from the women and in return he shows them helium like gas which could be used to rescue the castaways off the Island. St. Gilligan and the Dragon - Airdate: 2/13/1965 - The women tire of being held subservient to the men and decide to separate and build their own camp. Big Men on a Little Stick - Airdate: 2/20/1965 - Super Surfer Duke Williams rides a tsunami onto the island. Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend - Airdate: 2/27/1965 - A gorilla is loose on the island, and he likes Mrs. Howell's perfume. How to Be a Hero - Airdate: 3/6/1965 - Gilligan has to be rescued while he is rescuing Mary Ann. This failure leaves him feeling down in the dumps so the other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero. The Return of Wrongway Feldman - Airdate: 3/13/1965 - Wrongway is back, this time trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world. So now the castaways must convince him that civilization is better than life on the island. The Matchmaker - Airdate: 3/20/1965 - Mrs. Howell is determined to be a matchmaker and set up Gilligan and Mary Ann. Music Hath Charms - Airdate: 3/27/1965 - Mrs. Howell wants to civilize the island with an orchestra. But the sounds attract the wrong kind of audience. New Neighbor Sam - Airdate: 4/3/1965 - The castaways are hearing voices of gangsters but they don't know who they are. They're Off and Running - Airdate: 4/10/1965 - The Skipper loses Gilligan to Mr. Howell wagering on turtle races. Three to Get Ready - Airdate: 4/17/1965 - Gilligan finds a lucky stone, "The Eye of the Idol", that entitles him to three wishes before the end of the day. Forget Me Not - Airdate: 4/24/1965 - The Skipper has amnesia and the Professor resorts to hypnosis to cure him. However, this causes more problems than it solves. Diagnoses, Won't You Please Go Home - Airdate: 5/1/1965 - Everyone remembers the day the Japanese sailor came differently. Gilligan is keeping a diary, and everyone wants to know what he has to say. Physical Fatness - Airdate: 5/8/1965 - Gilligan helps the Skipper lose enough weight to get back into the navy once they are rescued. And they all help Gilligan gain weight so he too can return to navy life. It's Magic - Airdate: 5/15/1965 - A magician's trunk washes ashore and the castaways learn tricks to scare away natives. Goodbye Old Paint - Airdate: 5/22/1965 - Dubov, a reclusive artist, visits the island. Now the castaways must convince him to return to civilization. My Fair Gilligan - Airdate: 6/5/1965 - Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life and the Howells decide to adopt him. A Nose by Any Other Name - Airdate: 6/12/1965 - Gilligan's nose swells and his ego fades after he falls out of a coconut tree. He insists that the professor perform plastic surgery on his now deformed nose. So while yet the extras for this set aren't incredible there decent enough along with the thirty six re-mastered episodes to make Gilligan's Island season one a very good buy.

Great old time tv series lot of laughs the actors were pretty funny. You don’t find this tv series on all the time . It was really worth getting.

Watched all episodes! Great product! Great Price! Fast Shipping! Highly recommended. Best comedy sitcom of the 60's.

love it as a kid, still kinda of funny

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND: THE COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION is a highly-recommended, excellent nostalgia dvd set of the classic 1960s comedy tv series about castaways stranded on a remote Pacific island. The set includes all 98 episodes and the tv pilot which had different actors for the Professor, Ginger and Mary Ann. The set includes some informative commentaries including creator Sherwood Schwartz and the video quality is very good for a dvd of a 1960s tv series. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND trivia: (1) Dawn Wells beat out Raquel Welch for the role of Mary Ann. (2) Jayne Mansfield was offered the role of Ginger, but her husband advised her to turn it down. (3) Before GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, Russell Johnson played another castaway on a remote Pacific island in Roger Corman's ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS in 1957. (4) John Williams (STAR WARS, JAWS) wrote the original theme for GILLIGAN'S ISLAND in the tv pilot, but it was replaced by "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" co-written by creator Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle. (4) Tina Louise played Ginger in the tv series and Judith Baldwin played Ginger in the two tv movie sequels. Tine Louise and Judith Chapman both appeared in the movie THE STEPFORD WIVES. (5) In 2024, Sherwood Schwartz and his son were reportedly developing a reboot of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND with Michael Cera as Gilligan and Beyonce as Ginger, but nothing came of it.

Bought this because of a nostalgia fit one night. So many times, the shows I loved as a young 'un haven't held up, but I put one of these discs on, and I'm watching for several hours. Can't watch just one episode, I wind up watching all seven episodes on each side of the disc. My sister thought her kids should see where so many of our pop culture references come from and borrowed Season One. Even her eleven year old internet/facebook/ipod/gadget-encrusted-cell-phone-addicted youngest loves the shows. She put on the first disc and immediately said, "Oh, no, black and white, this sucks", but as soon as it got going, she was hooked. Now I have to bring another disc every time I visit or I get read the riot act. And her kids are spouting Gilligan's Isle references and quotes that their friends don't get, so they bring their friends over to watch so they can get with the program. Disc one of season one has the original pilot(pre-Ginger/Mary Anne) and also has great pop-ups for the 'first' episode that give all kinds of interesting trivia info. Useless, but totally cool, that is. And watching all the stars that used to guest on the show is great. Watching a 12 year old Kurt Russell as 'Jungle Boy', Phil Silvers, Larry Storch, Don Rickles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and other great character actors, Gilligan was a show actors asked to do because it was good and for the exposure, because it KILLED in the ratings. My only complaint is on the flip-disc format. I know it's cheaper and there'd be twice as many discs otherwise, but in my experience they scratch SO much easier than regular discs, and even when it came, side one/disc three/season one had a big scratch too close to the edge of the disc for my 'Skip Doctor' to buff out, so one episode doesn't play. If not for that scratch, I'd have given this a full five star rating, as the shows deserve. But there are 35 other episodes in the season, so I can miss one and still be happy with the rest of the package. Seasons Two and Three are in color, and have the revised theme song. Overall, I'm VERY happy I bought this. And even though it's completely useless information, I now know Gilligan's first name, the Skipper's name, the Professor's name, and Mary Anne's last name. It doesn't matter that nobody under thirty has any idea what I'm talking about, it's great to me. Meteors, robots, headhunters, dictators, a Japanese soldier who doesn't know WWII is over, mad scientists, a grenade-throwing gorilla, the 'Gilligan' version of Hamlet-the Musical, it's pure entertainment.

Fifty years after first hitting the airwaves and with only two of the original seven cast members (Tina Louise, who played Ginger, and Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann) still alive, Gilligan's Island is still going strong and still building its fan base. I'd love to see any modern show, with all their violence, gore, and profanity, still so popular after fifty years. Gilligan's Island has none of the second two, and what passes for violence on the show is a few gunshots that never hit anybody, a few explosions that never kill anything but fish and palm trees, and a handful of fights which never take place on screen. And of course, the Skipper smacking Gilligan with his hat, which he does whenever Gilligan screws up, which is every time Gilligan does anything, naturally. My favorite "fight" is in the episode "The Little Dictator" from season two when a Latin American dictator takes Gilligan prisoner. As they march behind a large bush, the sounds of a scuffle can be heard, and a cloud of dust rises, followed by the dictator marching out with his hands held high, and right behind comes Gilligan, now brandishing the dictator's pistol! Of course, this is Gilligan we're talking about, so when the pair passes behind the next bush, the scene repeats itself, only now when they emerge, they are back to their original positions. This show proves what today's directors and producers seem to have forgotten: A high body count and constant swearing and sex talk are not necessary to make a movie or television show popular. Gilligan's Island also serves as yet another reason for me to wonder just what it is the movie and television critics are smoking. They love to point out the idiocy of the show, it's heavy reliance on slapstick comedy, and the improbability of it all. Guilty on all three counts. After all, that's what makes it so hilarious. Yes, it's highly unlikely that the Howells would have brought along a chest full of money and enough clothes for three years on a three hour tour, or that Ginger would have brought a range of glitzy dresses, or that the Professor would have thought to bring along books on every subject known to man, or that he could create Geiger counters, explosives, vaccines, battery chargers, etc. from nothing but coconuts and palm leaves, but couldn't figure out how to patch a hole in a boat. It's equally improbable that a tiny uncharted island would play host to a constant stream of visitors who somehow never take the castaways off or remember where it is, or that after months and even years the castaways would still be discovering things on the island they had never seen before. Having said that, is it any more fantastic than many popular movies and shows today? A couple of "good guys" who are crack shots taking on dozens or even hundreds of "bad guys" who somehow are unable to hit the broad side of a barn from ten feet away? Zombies? Vampires? Space aliens with the technology to travel across the galaxy and crush every military on Earth but are unable to defeat a tiny group of humans armed with comparatively primitive weapons? Seriously??? And Gilligan's Island is unlikely? At least the events of the show, however improbable they may be, are mostly within the realm of possibility. Yet once again, it's the very unlikely nature of Gilligan's Island that makes it so funny and appealing. I could watch every episode a hundred times over and still never get tired of it, and that seems to be the general consensus from pretty much everyone I've ever discussed this show with. If you're looking for a break from our insane modern world with it's focus on sex, violence, and profanity, plenty of good, clean fun, and hour after hour of laughter, you can't go wrong with this timeless classic.

An absolute gem of a sitcom. So pleased to finally own. Looking forward to years of enjoyment 😉 😀 😊 😄.