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Gilligan's Island - The Complete First Season

directed by: Abner Biberman, Ida Lupino, Jerry Hopper, Stanley Z. Cherry, George Cahan

: Gilligan's Island - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780645882
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 078064588X
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 916 minutes
Sales Rank: 2133
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1964



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Product Description:
After a three-hour pleasure tour the SS Minnow is washed ashore on an uncharted South Pacific island leaving behind what would become TV's most famous castaways.Running Time: 916 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 053939673425

Amazon.com:
Despite critical barbs as sharp as a Maroobi spear, Gilligan's Island has proven unsinkable. Its first season was 1964's top-rated show. The expository theme song is one of television's most quoted, and its characters--the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.), first mate Gilligan (Bob Denver), the millionaire (Jim Backus) and his wife (Natalie Schaefer), a movie star (Tina Louise), 'and the rest' (Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells, as the Professor and Mary Ann, wouldn't get their opening credit props until season two)--are pop culture icons. Revisiting the first season's 36 episodes is a not-guilty-at-all pleasure. Some sure and surprising hands piloted these inaugural episodes, including Ida Lupino, Jack Arnold (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), Christian Nyby (The Thing), and Richard Donner (who went on to direct Superman and Lethal Weapon).

The 'seven stranded castaways' from the ill-fated S.S. Minnow (slyly named for former Federal Communications Commission head Newton 'vast wasteland' Minow) received memorable visits from the likes of Hans Conreid as errant pilot Wrong Way Feldman, a young Kurt Russell as Jungle Boy, and Larry Storch as a Cagney-esque bank robber. But these were mere diversions from the heart of the series; the no-man-is-an-island social microcosm that creator Sherwood Schwartz conceived as an anti-war parable (this courtesy of his optional commentary during the fabled unaired series pilot). In the Christmas episode 'Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk,' Santa Claus himself drops in to lift the disheartened castaways' spirits. 'You could have been enemies,' he tells them, 'instead of a family group who all learned to get along.' This is they key to this series' enduring popularity. That, and the unending debate: Ginger or Mary Ann? --Donald Liebenson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wonderful Show
I used to watch Gilligan all the time as a child. I was excited to see it released onto DVD. I had ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Memories...

I have these episodes memorized.

The kids love it. I can't stand too many episodes ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - If you loved Gilligan's Island, get this set!
As a kid, I loved to watch reruns after school each day of Gilligan's Island. Oh how I wished I could visit ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - missing episode
we love these shows but for some reason episode 33 'its majic' gets skipped over in the 1st season. we tried ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...
I loved it! The only thing I would change is to not have the theme song play before and after each episode.

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