- A telephone cable washes up on the island after a bad storm. The castaways try to use it to call home for help.
- After a big storm tears up the Island, Gilligan (Bob Denver) finds the devastated beach easier to search for turtle eggs, but in the strewn detritus, he finds a telephone communications cable has been pulled up into the lagoon and left on the shore. He calls the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr) and Professor (Russell Johnson) to come check it out. The Professor believes they can break into the line to call for help. Meanwhile, Ginger (Tina Louise) is ecstatic to hear that Hollywood will be creating The Ginger Grant Story about her life and alleged demise and begins writing a diary about her adventures since she was stranded. Unfortunately, the Professor is having a hard time breaking into the cable, shattering all the blades on their hacksaw. He proposes using one of Mrs. Howell's (Natalie Schafer) diamond necklaces to cut through, but this attempt only leads to a revelation that they can burn through with a handmade blowtorch after they can't generate the heat or the speed to cut through the casing. Using parts from the Radio, they finally start tapping the lines, but a new problem arises when they realize how many foreign languages are going through them. The Professor now jury-rigs a dialing mechanism from tree resin hardened into plastic. Gilligan meanwhile is getting annoyed by hearing again about his previous screw-ups which Ginger is documenting for her movie. Using the dialing mechanism to call for help, he and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) soon realize they are only annoying the callers they reach and not being able to reach others. Despite the Skipper and Professor trying to estimate which lines are coming from the United States, Gilligan briefly contacts a St. Louis Theater Matron, who hangs up on him before he can respond, and a San Diego Telephone Operator, who asks for correct change. Unfortunately, even after Gilligan hurriedly tells her who he is, she thinks he's a nut and hangs up on him. Unfortunately, another storm suddenly hits the island, and after it abates, it's realized that the cable has been dragged back out to sea. The Professor responds that how the wires are exposed, the saltwater will eventually corrode and break the line, requiring the attention of the telephone company with workmen are sent out to fix it, enabling them to eventually still be rescued. At that moment, Gilligan remembers having covered the wires with the Professor's tree sap in order to prevent them from getting wet in the storm, effectively preventing them from having to be fixed. That afternoon as punishment, he is sent diving into the lagoon for the cable over and over to try and find it.
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