Gilligan's Island

it was funny

This was a great show but sadly most of its actors are dead. Jim Backus died July 3, 1989. Alan Hale JR. died January 2, 1990. Natalie Schafer died April 10, 1991 and Bob Denver died September 2, 2005. Only Russell Johnson(Professor), Dawn Wells(Mary Ann), and Tina Louise(Ginger) remain. Part of the episodes were black & white and part of them were in color. The entire cast starred in an episode of ALF. I give Gilligan's Island a 4 star rating.

this is one of my favorites

Like a lot of things from supposed 'golden era's' of TV and movies it probably doesn't stand up well to viewing from a contemporary perspective. One reason is that it was pretty crappy even during the golden age.

I've seen a couple episodes since my little brother seemed to like watching the old re-runs, and that was enough for me. The show was just too goofy and corny to be able to take.

This was a show only a moron could love. I see there are a lot of them reviewing it here.

Pretty lame by todays standards.Not that great then either.The cast was good,but the writers were inane.

i could watch gilligan marathons of his dumbass all day

I never really cared for this show, and I never could understand why it was so popular.  It's about a group of idiots that couldn't see a speed boat if it jumped from the water and landed in their huts.  The only plus was Ginger and Mary Ann; they were worth watching.  Bob Denver and Alan Hayle in their Laurel & Hardy routine got old real quick for me.

"Well sit right back and you'll hear a tale of an uncharted desert Isle with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionare and his wife, th movie star, the professor and Mary Anne here on Gilligan's Island"

I know I liked it back in the day, and watched it alot, but I wouldnt want to watch it now.

Looking back ~ terrible! But for the time it was on ~ great

it was cute comedy

This show was great if you were really young when it began. As a teenager at the time I couldn't stand it. My kids loved the show when they were little as they can identify strongly with Gilligan. As a fan of Dobie Gillis, it killed me to see the totally cool Maynard G. Krebs turn into Gilligan. Mary Ann rules, I couldn't afford Ginger anyway.

hard to believe cool maynard g. krebs could come back as such an idiot. skipper bothered me. always envisioned him beating on his little buddy off camera. or something. jim backus was pretty funny though. felt most sorry for ginger and maryann.

i loved this show it was my fav of all times but hey im only 16 and i love this show

Have you ever played Ginger or Mary Ann in a bar? Next time try it and see which beauty the patrons prefer. I admit to being a Ginger man when I was younger, but as the years wore on, I gravitated to Mary Ann. The last bar poll we took was about Mary Ann 25, Ginger 20 although the Mary Ann stats might have been inflated by a batch of Japanese tourists, with their cameras around their necks, who voted en masse for Mary Ann!  Banzai!

A little too corny for my taste, but somewhat entertaining. 2 and a half stars

Given the limitations of the show's concept (i.e. a relatively closed cast in a closed environment), "Gilligan's Island" was an okay show in my opinion. Clearly more than a bit slapstick for my usual tastes, the tribulations of the castaways still hold some nostalgic appeal to me, as the series was in prime reruns during my childhood. Nevertheless, the plotlines were extremely repetitive (i.e. Gilligan ruining their chances of rescue again and again) and the stories increasingly farfetched to justify guest star appearances. In addition, the screenwriters had to use more and more dream sequences to escape the boundaries of the island setting. As for the cast, Bob Denver (Gilligan), Alan Hale (Skipper), and Jim Backus (Mr. Howell) were the standouts, and I've long been on record for being a Mary Ann man; however, Russell Johnson (the Professor) never was much of an actor. In the end, three stars if only for respect for this now cultural icon.

Have to confess I still watched it though... :D

OK but does not hold a candle to Lost!!!

In a very stupid way, this show always has made me laugh, and forget for a moment a hectic life I live.

Simply awful. . .could be used to interrogate Iraqi POW's. . .

I loved this show as a kid, and watched it almost obsessively. Re-watching it as an adult, however, it's banality personified. Like CandaSucks suggests, watching these episodes back to back could most definitely qualify as torture. Might've been more interesting if they had gotten Jayne Mansfield to play Ginger, as I believe was originally intended, instead of Tina Louise. Then again, maybe not...

Loved the episodes with the singing group the Mosquitos as well as Phil Silvers when the cast performed Hamlet to music from Carmen. Ginger was really hip.

Truly a TV classic. If you are watching the reruns for the first time you must keep mind what was available on TV at the time. My answer to the question ...MaryAnn

Sure, it is a cheesy show, but a classic nonetheless. Regardless, the show always did (and still does) put a smile on my face...and that is a good thing considering the crap that is on TV today. You always knew what was going to happen and how it would happen, but you still watched it hoping it would be different in each episode.

this is classic 60s tv. i have seen every rerun of this show at least twice. ive seen enuf but it was fun to watch at one time.

So funny, so fake. Was there ever a show with worse props? Ha, ha, ha, just made it funnier. My favorite was the food...coconut this and coconut that.

Are you pondering what I am pondering? Which made these morons bigger morons: the fact that they just couldn't get off that island, or the fact that they actually WANTED to get off that island??

It's not a surprise that Gilligan or any other situation comedy of its time remain as popular as ever, even by fact that it only lasted 3 years (a relatively long tenure for a comedy series) on Old Columbia. Two goods managed to come out of the rough tides (rougher than the tides in the Telephone episodes) of cancellation: A trio of reunion pictures wrapping up the series' loose ending and the non-existence of memories of a possible 4th season episode without Miss Louise, who was on the brink of leaving her fellow Castaways behind shortly before Mr. Paley's axe. With difficulties with the red-headed one kept in the closet, Sherwood Schwartz's characters consisting of Skipper Grumby, crewmate & little buddy Gilligan, millionaires by the trunk load Thurston & Lovey, Professor Roy Hinkly, Kansas' very own Mary Ann, and the picture star mentioned earlier presented us with island stories & moments (from Feldman's airplane to the x-ray incident in the Castaway Pictures editing room) that nev... Read more

you let the guy who looked like the real gillian go.and maryann wasn't in bed with any of the castaways. kind of free with her self isn't she. just meet the guy then lay in bed with him.it's a joke oh and the real capt is the guy who had to leave. i watched gillian's island from day one untill it left the air. l mussaw

Will always be a classic no matter how dopey people say it is.

This show was OK the olny bad thing was that they never got off the island.

Ginger or MaryAnne? Loved them both...but Ginger was my babe!

Compared to today's TV shows, it probably wouldn't make it, but back in the late 60's it was the most watched TV show in each of its three timeslots. Yes, it wasnt realistic but are TV shows supposed to be realistic? Not a chance. Thats what makes it so good. Gilligan's Island ROCKS!!!

Now who do we have here, a bullying inept skipper, a cowardly male, a s******h movie star, a 'brillant' professor and some rich tycoons. What I find really disturbing is that they can all manage to survive on the island reached by a '3-hour tour' (the intro song is really annoying, by the way) yet none of them have the intelligence to escape from the island. That and they are always in good physical appearance. This is one show I wouldn't want to be acting in. The only redeeming feature is that it stopped production at least 3 decades ago. Enough said.

Cheezy acting boring plot lines it's always the same thing they try to get out of the island but always failed don't waist your'e time watching this junk your'e better of eating poison.

A classis TV show, kind of campy. People who criticize the show for being unrealistic miss the point--realism wasn't the goal. If they got off the island on the first episode, the show would end. This is a simple show designed to entertain kids; it isn't complex; who cares why the Howells brought luggage on a 3 hour trip? The lack of realism is part of the joke. Mary Ann is absolutely gorgeous--one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen; I saw Dawn Wells on TV forty years after the show began (March 2004); she's still beautiful. Ginger was also beautiful. Jayne Mansfield decided to turn down the part, so Tina Louise took it. It would've been interesting to see Jayne in that part. This is also a family show with morals; the castaways forgive Gilligan. In a typical contemporary TV show, people would get revenge and kill him. This show was fun and didn't take itself too seriously. I can let my kids watch reruns--try doing that with recent shows like Friends, Sex and the Ci... Read more

I watched this religiously every day after school as a kid, but as an adult, I can see that this was a supremely stupid TV program, and not even very funny. The characters supposedly got shipwrecked after taking a 3 hour cruise, yet upon arriving on the island they magically produce extensive wardrobes, and the female castaways are always impeccably groomed. Gilligan was an idiot, but don't ask me why he put up with Skipper's bullying ways. Overall, the characters were so foolish they deserved to be shipwrecked.

I grew up watching Gillian's Island so I like it a lot!

The number 1 show in syndication over the last 40 years. End of arguement.

Let's see we had a bloated ships captain who couldn't take charge of a canoe, an inept dimwitted mate, a selfish millionaire couple, a talentless Hollywood starlett, a Kansas farmgirl, and a supposedly brilliant professor all trapped for years on an island. They all had the know how to build their own huts, gather food and survive but not one of them, not even the professor had the know how to get off the island. Inane, often times annoying show. Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer were often the most enteraining. Bob Denver could do physical comedy but often times a one note actor as Gilligan. Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr are good actors but the characters of the skipper and the professor limited them. I'm at a loss as to why this show became so popular. They are 7 people I wouldn't want to be stranded with on an island.

They've been here for a LONG LONG time ... WAY TOO LONG!

ALWAYS WONDERED WHY THE CASTAWAYS DIDN'T DROWN GILLIGAN AFTER ALL THOSE TIMES HE SCREWED UP GETTING THEM RESCUED! AFTER ALL, WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN? DREADFUL SHOW! I CAN UNDERSTAND LOVING IT AS A KID BUT GROW UP!

ONE MINUTE THEY ARE HUNTING A WILD BOAR, THE NEXT THERE IS NO MEAT ON THE ISLAND. THE PROFESSOR CAN INVENT ANYTHING OUT OF TWIGS AND BARK YET CAN'T COME UP WITH A WAY TO REPAIR THE BOAT. ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LAND ON THE ISLAND YET SAY NOTHING ABOUT THE CASTAWAYS WHEN THEY RETURN TO CIVILIZATION MAKES IT SEEM AS THOUGH EVERYBODY IS HEARTLESS AND SELFISH. IT WAS THE PITS. I'D GIVE IT A ZERO IF I COULD.

This show was great for it's time but don't you ever wonder why everyone on the island always had several changes of clothes and the Skipper and Gilligan only had one pair of clothes each and also why other people could go to the island and always get off it but the castaways never could LOL

This show is really fun. Stupid, but fun! :)