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Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm.
Gilligan’s Island is an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television.
It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967.
It was sponsored by Philip Morris & Company and Procter & Gamble.
The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously uninhabited island where they were shipwrecked.
Gilligan’s Island ran for a total of 98 episodes.
The first season (consisting of 36 episodes) was filmed in black-and-white though they were colorized in later syndication. However, the next two seasons (62 episodes) and three TV movie sequels were filmed in color.
Enjoying solid ratings during its original run, the show grew in popularity during decades of syndication. Today, the title character of Gilligan is widely recognized as a comedic American popular culture icon.
The two-man crew of the charter boat S.S. Minnow and five passengers on a “three hour tour” run into a tropical storm and are shipwrecked on an uncharted, uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
The episode “The Pigeon” places the island approximately 300 miles (480 km) southeast of Hawaii, while the episode “X Marks the Spot” gives a location near 140° longitude, 10° latitude, which puts it about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to the southeast.
Executive producer Sherwood Schwartz believed in avoiding exposition, and so he composed the sea shanty-style theme song, “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle”, as a capsule summary of the castaways’ predicament.
This was done so that first time viewers would instantly understand the premise. He took the same approach with the themes to “The Brady Bunch” and “It’s About Time”.
Gilligan’s Island was created by Sherwood Schwartz. It stars Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells.
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