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Gilligan and Skipper set sail on a raft in an attempt to find help.
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The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review The first episode of Gilligan's Island was not the first episode of Gilligan's Island. Americans met the Skipper and the other kooky castaways on September 26, 1964, when the Sherwood Schwartz sitcom made its debut with "Two on a Raft." In that series premiere, audiences saw the SS Minnow leave its Hawaiian harbor for a three-hour tour that, as we all know, lasted three seasons. But, similar to Star Trek and its rejected pilot "The Cage," Gilligan's Island had a failed false start. A year prior, Schwartz had written and filmed a pilot for his wacky lost-at-sea concept. This episode, "Marooned," featured significant differences from the final product. The ship sailed in the Caribbean, for starters. A wildly different theme song (composed by John Williams!) followed suit with a calypso vibe. Oh, and there were different actors in familiar roles. Tina Louise, Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson were nowhere to be found. Kit Smythe played Ginger. John Gabriel, perhaps best known as WJM-TV sportscaster Andy Rivers on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, portrayed the Professor. The blonde Nancy McCarthy bounced on the beach as… "Bunny"? Schwartz retooled the casting, characters and setting to craft the Gilligan's Island we all known and love. "Marooned" was stowed away unseen for three decades. Well, not entirely. Like any thrifty production, Gilligan's Island recycled. "Two on a Raft" used a few shots from "Marooned." Carefully examine the moment when the Skipper awakes following the boat wreck. You can see it in the image at the top of this post. The rest of the passengers doze on the deck. Indeed, the sleeping sailors are Smythe, McCarthy and Gabriel. Neither the alternate Ginger nor "Bunny" did much else on television. Though, they did appear in some classic series. You can spot McCarthy twice on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and My Three Sons. Smythe briefly but memorably played a friend of Samantha, "Gertrude," in season one of Bewitched. She was also on a Gunsmoke. Imagine how different their careers — and pop culture — might have been had they stayed on the island. They might have at least met the Harlem Globetrotters.
Marooned is the original unaired 1963 pilot of "Gilligan's Island." It was not publicly broadcast until October 16, 1992 on TBS. Synopsis[]On the deserted beach of an unspecified island, the Skipper wakes up to find the S.S. Minnow beached after a big storm. His First Mate, Gilligan, however, wakes to find him missing and calling for him, so he dives off the boat thinking he's in the ocean, diving into the sand of the beach on the island. Worried they might be lost, the Skipper confesses to Gilligan he fears it might take a while to get home with the damage to the boat. Later on after the the passengers have woken, the radio reveals their identities one by one to the public and the belief that they are lost to the public. The Professor eventually takes the challenge of trying to fix the transmitter while Gilligan and Skipper search the island for signs of human life. The Skipper orders Gilligan to climb to the top of the tallest tree he has found to get a better view of the whole island, but Gilligan accidentally knocks down coconuts in his ascent which hit him in the head. Once aloft, Gilligan says he sees a boat, but it turns out it's just the Minnow and the passengers. Eventually sent fishing, Gilligan intrigues the Howells by catching and wrestling with a shark swimming off-shore. While fishing, he accidentally latches on to the transmitter and radio just as the Professor gets them working and tosses them in the tide on the end of his fishing pole, losing them in the surf. Gilligan is soon fast proving himself to be a problem the harder he tries to help, blowing out a match too quickly before the Skipper can get a fire started. However, he does get in good graces again by recovering the lost radio inside the body of a fish he caught while fishing. The Professor deduces the fish swallowed the radio and its possible that another fish might have similarly swallowed the transmitter. They rally the Girls and the Howells to help search for it. As they search, a plane flies overhead, and they race to use the fish to spell "help," but Gilligan forms the "P" backward. Message[]Highlights[]
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The pilot episode that tells the tale of a tiny ship which set off on a three-hour tour but got caught in a storm and beached on an island. The pilot was filmed in November 1963, and not air... Read allThe pilot episode that tells the tale of a tiny ship which set off on a three-hour tour but got caught in a storm and beached on an island. The pilot was filmed in November 1963, and not aired until almost 30 years later.The pilot episode that tells the tale of a tiny ship which set off on a three-hour tour but got caught in a storm and beached on an island. The pilot was filmed in November 1963, and not aired until almost 30 years later.
I have a confession.... I don't enjoy "Gilligan's Island" and only watched it when I was too young to realize how bad the show was. So why would I watch this? Well, I do love seeing pilot episodes...especially when they are so different from the later show. In this case, the cast isn't the same...though the pilot is possibly dumber than the show....yes, dumber. In fact, it's so dumb that I'm surprised that the networks gave the green light after seeing this pilot...it's painfully bad.When "Marooned" begins, you can tell it's VERY different from the actual later episodes. Instead of the familiar theme song, this one is a calypso song and the show is set in the Caribbean instead of the Pacific. Now considering how small the Caribbean is, you can figure out why they changed the location to the Pacific in the show.Soon after the shock of the theme song wears off, the show begins with the SS Minnow crashed on the beach of a deserted island. And, you see that SOME of the cast is familiar...some VERY different. While Gilligan, the Skipper and the Howells are there, you have a DIFFERENT Professor and Ginger...and there is no Mary Ann...just some blonde named 'Bunny'.This episode sets the stage for the show and much of it is devoted to the various folks trying to make a home for themselves or find a way off the island. As for the Howells, they are lazier and more clueless than usual....and do absolutely nothing to help. On the other extreme is the very helpful Gilligan...who destroys everything...their radio, the transmitter and more.So why did I hate this show so much? Well, even compared to "Gilligan's Island", it just didn't make any sense. When Gilligan is fishing, due to the very sloppy use of stock footage, you see him catch porpoise about 10 feet from shore...and it turns into a shark...a big rubber shark when Gilligan 'lands it'. And here's the kicker...it turns out a fish swallowed their radio. Now this is dumb because the radio STILL works after having been in salt water AND the fish's mouth is about 1/3 the width of the radio!! Huh?? The bottom line is that this is just sloppy...as if Sherwood Schwartz simply didn't care...and I can only assume he didn't.Overall, sloppy, annoying and bad...and yet, somehow, the network liked it! I have no idea why or how. If you want to see this, I could only find it on the first DVD of the "Gilligan's Island" DVD set on Netflix. You have no recently viewed pages |
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