"Gilligan's Island" (1964) TV series 1964-1967

Creator:

Sherwood Schwartz
(more)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

26 September 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family

Plot:

Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Professor | Castaway | Millionaire | Movie Star

Awards:

4 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Bob Denver	...	Gilligan (99 episodes, 1964-1967)
Alan Hale Jr.	...	Jonas 'The Skipper' Grumby (99 episodes, 1964-1967)
Jim Backus	...	Thurston Howell III (99 episodes, 1964-1967)
Natalie Schafer	...	Mrs. Lovey Howell (99 episodes, 1964-1967)
Tina Louise	...	Ginger Grant / ... (98 episodes, 1964-1967)
Russell Johnson	...	Professor Roy Hinkley / ... (98 episodes, 1964-1967)
Dawn Wells	...	Mary Ann Summers (98 episodes, 1964-1967)

Series Directed by
Jack Arnold		(26 episodes, 1964-1966)
Leslie Goodwins		(11 episodes, 1965-1967)
Gary Nelson		(8 episodes, 1965-1967)
Jerry Hopper		(7 episodes, 1966-1967)
Anton Leader		(6 episodes, 1965-1966)
Stanley Z. Cherry		(5 episodes, 1964-1967)
Ida Lupino		(4 episodes, 1964-1966)
John Rich		(4 episodes, 1964)
Richard Donner		(3 episodes, 1964-1965)
Tom Montgomery		(3 episodes, 1964-1965)
George Cahan		(3 episodes, 1965-1966)
Steve Binder		(2 episodes, 1965-1967)
Hal Cooper		(2 episodes, 1965-1967)
Wilbur D'Arcy		(2 episodes, 1965-1967)
Lawrence Dobkin		(2 episodes, 1965)
Charles Norton		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
David Orrick McDearmon		(2 episodes, 1967)

Series Writing credits
Sherwood Schwartz		(37 episodes, 1964-1965)
Elroy Schwartz		(13 episodes, 1964-1966)
Alan Dinehart		(8 episodes, 1964-1967)
Herbert Finn		(8 episodes, 1964-1967)
Roland MacLane		(7 episodes, 1964-1967)
Charles Tannen		(5 episodes, 1964-1966)
Lawrence J. Cohen		(5 episodes, 1964-1965)
Fred Freeman		(5 episodes, 1964-1965)
Bruce Howard		(5 episodes, 1965-1967)
Joanna Lee		(5 episodes, 1965-1966)
David P. Harmon		(5 episodes, 1965)
Brad Radnitz		(4 episodes, 1965-1967)
Budd Grossman		(4 episodes, 1965-1966)
Al Schwartz		(4 episodes, 1965)
Sam Locke		(3 episodes, 1964-1967)
Joel Rapp		(3 episodes, 1964-1967)
Austin Kalish		(3 episodes, 1964)
Sidney A. Mandel		(3 episodes, 1965-1967)
Ron Friedman		(3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Dick Conway		(2 episodes, 1964-1965)
Bill Davenport		(2 episodes, 1964)
Roland Wolpert		(2 episodes, 1964)
Bob Rodgers		(2 episodes, 1965-1967)
Jack Gross Jr.		(2 episodes, 1965-1966)
George O'Hanlon		(2 episodes, 1965-1966)
Michael R. Stein		(2 episodes, 1965-1966)
Walter Black		(2 episodes, 1965)
Howard Harris		(2 episodes, 1965)
Arnold Peyser		(2 episodes, 1965)
Lois Peyser		(2 episodes, 1965)
Roy Kammerman		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
John Fenton Murray		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Jack Raymond		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)

Series Produced by
Sherwood Schwartz	....	producer / executive producer (99 episodes, 1964-1967)
Robert L. Rosen	....	associate producer (46 episodes, 1965-1967)
Jack Arnold	....	producer (23 episodes, 1964-1965)
William Froug	....	executive producer (14 episodes, 1964-1965)
Cy Brooskin	....	associate producer (12 episodes, 1966-1967)

Series Original Music by
Gerald Fried		(39 episodes, 1965-1967)
John Williams		(20 episodes, 1964-1965)
Frank Comstock		(3 episodes, 1964)

Series Cinematography by
Richard L. Rawlings		(98 episodes, 1964-1967)

Series Film Editing by
Larry Heath		(34 episodes, 1964-1967)
Everett Sutherland		(18 episodes, 1964-1965)
Frank Capacchione		(11 episodes, 1965-1966)
Donald W. Ernst		(9 episodes, 1966-1967)
Gene Fowler Jr.		(5 episodes, 1966)

Series Casting by
Pam Polifroni		(30 episodes, 1966-1967)
James Lister		(4 episodes, 1965)

Series Art Direction by
William Craig Smith		(97 episodes, 1964-1967)
Malcolm C. Bert		(3 episodes, 1965)

Series Set Decoration by
Herman N. Schoenbrun		(45 episodes, 1965-1967)
James Crowe		(21 episodes, 1964-1965)
Ray Molyneaux		(10 episodes, 1965)
Ned Parsons		(6 episodes, 1966-1967)
Hal Gausman		(5 episodes, 1965)
Buck Henshaw		(5 episodes, 1967)
John Lamphear		(5 episodes, 1967)

Series Makeup Department
Lillian Shore	....	head hair stylist (unknown episodes)
Keester Sweeney	....	makeup artist (unknown episodes)

Series Production Management
Robert L. Rosen	....	unit production manager (26 episodes, 1964-1965)
Cy Brooskin	....	unit production manager (10 episodes, 1965)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Wilbur D'Arcy	....	assistant director (74 episodes, 1964-1967)
Christopher N. Seiter	....	assistant director (4 episodes, 1967)

Series Sound Department
Richard Sperber	....	sound effects supervisor (1 episode, 1964)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Richard M. Rawlings Jr.	....	assistant camera (unknown episodes)
Tony Van Renterghem	....	assistant camera: IATSE (unknown episodes)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Frank Delmar	....	wardrobe (unknown episodes)
Robert Fuca	....	costume supervisor (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
Sherwood Schwartz	....	composer: theme music / composer: theme song "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" (98 episodes, 1964-1967)
George Wyle	....	composer: theme music / composer: theme song "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" (98 episodes, 1964-1967)
Herschel Burke Gilbert	....	music supervisor (32 episodes, 1964-1965)
Morton Stevens	....	music supervisor (11 episodes, 1966-1967)
Gerald Fried	....	conductor (3 episodes, 1966)

Series Transportation Department
Frank Khoury	....	driver (37 episodes, 1964-1965)

Series Other crew
David P. Harmon	....	script consultant (25 episodes, 1965-1967)
Elroy Schwartz	....	script consultant (17 episodes, 1966-1967)
William Froug	....	creative consultant / script consultant (11 episodes, 1964-1965)
Charles Tannen	....	script consultant (9 episodes, 1964-1965)
Bill Davenport	....	script consultant (6 episodes, 1964)

Production Companies

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
• Gladysya Productions
• United Artists Television

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1964-1967) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Estate of Phil Silvers
• MGM/UA Television
• Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV) (1966-1967) (Japan) (TV)
• Telepictures Distribution
• Turner Entertainment
• Turner Program Services (TPS)
• United Artists Television
• Warner Bros. Television
• Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• CBS Studio Center  filming location
• Kellogg's  original sponsor
• Philip Morris Cigarettes  original sponsor
• Phillips  original sponsor
• Procter & Gamble  original sponsor (Jif peanut butter, Zest soap and Crest toothpaste)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

30 min (98 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (1964-1965) | Color (1965-1967)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | USA:TV-G | New Zealand:G (season 1)

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Trivia:

The show was originally slated to return for the 1967-68 television season but canceled at the last minute by CBS head William Paley, to make room for the long-running "Gunsmoke" (1955).

Goofs:

Continuity: In "Gilligan's Island: Two on a Raft (#1.1)" (1964), just as the Skipper and Gilligan finish fighting off the sharks, the Skipper's hat falls off his head and into the water right in the path of one of the sharks, and it looks as though the shark was going to make off with it, but in the next shot the hat is back on the Skipper's head, or perhaps he had a spare hat, like a spare tire.

Quotes:

Gilligan:You're a big man with a big head and - -...
Skipper Jonas Grumby:Gilligan!
Gilligan:And a big heart.
Skipper Jonas Grumby:Oh, thank you.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Family Guy: I Never Met the Dead Man (#1.2)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle

A True Classic

This has got to be one of the campiest shows of all time. When you look at all this show you see a stereotype of the different types of people who make up our society. You have the working guys (Skipper and Gilligan), the intellectual (the Professor), the sex pot (Ginger), the sweet girl (Mary-Ann) and the upper crust capitalists (the Howells). Too bad this show didn't last another season. I would have loved to have seen them do a series finale instead of the horrid reunion movies. Maybe if they did it that way we could have gotten another season where Mr. Howell builds a resort on the island and Gilligan was the jack of all trades that really kept things rolling.

Also, the biggest question of all, Ginger or Mary-Ann?