Gilligans Island

A native chief's daughter comes to the island with her family and wants to marry Gilligan, but first he must pass the "marriage test"--which becomes more complicated when another suitor arrives and challenges Gilligan for her hand.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Budd Grossman

Ginger, Mary Ann, and Mrs Howell decide to hold a beauty contest to see who will be named "Miss Castaway." Gilligan has to cast the deciding vote, so everybody else tries to influence his vote.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Joanna Lee

A Latin American dictator is exiled to the island, and he immediately declares himself dictator of the island, with Gilligan as his puppet leader in training.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Bob Rodgers, Sidney A. Mandel

A satellite bound for Mars lands on the island. The castaways hope to use it to provide visual evidence to the world that they are still alive.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Al Schwartz, Bruce Howard

Gilligan wins a million-dollar sweepstakes and is invited to the Howell's country club. After feeling lonely he issues IOUs to the others so they may also attend. He quickly misplaces the winning ticket and they all get evicted.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Walter Black

The professor's data indicates that the island is sinking, but the men don't want to break the news to the women, who have the men in the middle of a landscaping project. The Professor ends up hurting his back, helping with a rock garden.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): George Cahan
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Stan Burns, Mike Marmer

The castaways find two crates of silent film equipment in a sunken boat in the lagoon. The Professor then comes up with the idea to make a film telling their story, send it out on a raft, and hope for rescue.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Herbert Finn, Alan Dinehart

A Howell Industries stock collapse leaves the Howells broke. The fellow castaways try to cheer them up and try to teach them how to live like the working class.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Roland MacLane

Two Soviet cosmonauts land on the island, way off course from their target. The castaways hope to leave the island with them when they call their submarine, but the cosmonauts have other ideas.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Adele T. Strassfield, Robert Riordan

While the castaways take precautions against a coming typhoon, an accidental blow to the head causes Gilligan's mouth to act as a radio receiver.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Mary C. McCall Jr.

The Skipper trains Gilligan to be his replacement leader in case he is captured by savages. But when The Skipper is actually captured by savages, can Gilligan actually take control?

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser

The rock band "The Mosquitoes" arrive on the island for some much-needed R&R. But the castaways try to make their lives miserable so they'll want to leave--and take them with them.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Steve Binder
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Brad Radnitz

After Gilligan is bitten by a rare, deadly insect, The Professor informs him that he has 24 hours left to live.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Gary Nelson
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Jack Gross Jr., Michael R. Stein

While The Professor tries to round up enough metal to make an anchor for a raft with an S.O.S. message attached to it, Gilligan reels in a World War II underwater mine from the lagoon.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Wilbur D'Arcy
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, David Braverman, Bob Marcus

Beautiful socialite Erika Tiffany-Smith arrives and wants to buy the island to build a resort. The Skipper falls for her and tries to impress her, but she only has eyes for The Professor.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, David P. Harmon

The castaways discover that they are all wanted for questioning in a murder that took place right before they left Hawaii.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Stanley Z. Cherry
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Roland MacLane

A telephone cable washes up on the island after a bad storm. The castaways try to use it to call home for help.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz

The bachelors on the island try to cheer Mary Ann up after they hear on the radio that her boyfriend is marrying someone else. However, Mary Ann misreads their intentions and concludes that she is dying from eating poisonous mushrooms.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Herbert Finn, Alan Dinehart

Gilligan finds sunflower seeds on the island that gives him the ability to read minds, and when the fellow castaways find out, they want in on the action.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz

When everybody mistakenly believes that The Skipper wasn't invited to the Howells' cotillion, they hold a masquerade party of their own and don't invite the Howells.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Anton Leader
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Herbert Finn, Alan Dinehart

The castaways try to find a way to get a robot who has landed on the island to provide them with their rescue.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Bob Stevens, David P. Harmon

The castaways form a military unit led by Mr. Howell when an unidentified enemy begins attacking them with hand grenades.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jerry Hopper
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Jack Raymond, David P. Harmon

The Professor believes the castaways may be beginning to suffer from "Island Madness," so he convinces Ginger to use her "psychic powers" to convince them that a boat is coming to rescue them.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Charles Tannen, George O'Hanlon

A crate containing a lion bound for a zoo washes up on the island. But while the other castaways are scared for their lives, the lion immediately makes a bond with Gilligan.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Robert Lees, Richard Sanville

Gilligan discovers an underground source of hot water on the island, but The Professor soon learns that the source of the hot water is an active volcano on the other side of the island.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Stanley Z. Cherry
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Terence Maples, Joan Maples

An impostor posing as Mr. Howell claims to having been rescued and begins selling off Mr. Howell's stocks. The real Mr. Howell offers his fellow castaways a hefty reward to get him off the island and save his fortune.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Budd Grossman

A ghost on the island has the castaways scared for their lives, but it actually gives them a boat so that they can get off the island.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Leslie Goodwins
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Roland MacLane

Gilligan moves to the other side of the island when the other castaways suddenly become allergic to him.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Budd Grossman

A mad scientist invites the castaways to his island, where he hopes to conduct strange experiments on them.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz

The Professor tells his fellow castaways that if they don't find a way to grow more oranges and other fruits on the island, they risk dying from vitamin deficiencies.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Barney Slater

The Howells discover that they are not legally married. But as The Skipper prepares to marry them in the lagoon, a fight causes them to call off the wedding altogether.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Gary Nelson
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Jack Gross Jr., Michael R. Stein

A meteor crashes onto the island. The Professor soon concludes that the meteor's cosmic rays are accelerating the aging process on the island, and that the castaways will die of old age in one week.

Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Writer(s): Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz