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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
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The Castaways on Gilligan's Island is a 1979 two-part television movie that continues the adventures of the shipwrecked castaways from the 1964-1967 TV series Gilligan's Island and the first reunion movie, Rescue From Gilligan's Island, featuring the original cast from the television series with the exception of Tina Louise, who was replaced in the role of Ginger Grant by Judith Baldwin.
| Bob Denver - Willy Gilligan (Gilligan) | |
| Alan Hale | – Skipper Jonas Grumby (Skipper) |
| Russell Johnson | – Dr. Roy Hinkley (Professor) |
| Jim Backus | – Thurston J. Howell III (Mr. Howell) |
| Natalie Schafer | – Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell (Mrs. Howell) |
| Judith Baldwin | – Ginger Grant (Ginger) |
| Dawn Wells | – Mary Ann Summers (Mary Ann) |
| Tom Bosley | – Henry Elliott |
| Marcia Wallace | – Myra Elliott |
| Ronnie Scribner | – Robbie Sloan |
| Judith Searle | – Mrs. Sloan |
| Rod Browning | – Dr. Tom Larsen |
| Joan Roberts | – Laura Larsen |
| Peter MacLean | – Fred Sloan |
| Natasha Ryan | – Little girl |
| Mokihana | – Naheeti |
The movie picks up directly after the end of Rescue From Gilligan's Island. The castaways are once again stranded on the same island that they had been on for so many years. The storm has contaminated all of the underground springs, and they are desperately searching for fresh water. Gilligan stumbles upon a couple of planes that are hidden in the jungle (and that they had somehow managed to overlook during all their time on the island) and the Professor believes that he can combine the two planes into one and fly them all back to civilization. He combines the planes and, dubbing it Minnow III, they head back.
However, during the attempt to fly back to Hawaii, the plane has engine trouble. The professor orders Gilligan to jettison some weight, and in doing so, Gilligan falls out and has to parachute down to the island. Against their better judgement, the gang decides to return to the island to get him. They find him stuck in a tree. After a little while, the engines of the plane fall off. Fortunately for them, the engines collapse after they land, meaning that although they are still stuck on the island, going back to get Gilligan saved them from plummeting to their deaths as the engines would have fallen off in midair. But now they are dismayed because the plane was their last hope of rescue. Their despair is quickly dispelled when a U.S. Navy captain appears saying that their plane was detected on radar long enough for them to follow it to the island. This closed the first half of the two part episode/movie.
The second half picks up a year later, with the island now a tropical resort spot fully linked to Civilization and owned by Mr. Howell. The rest of the castaways work as the staff of the resort and this second half of the show was originally intended as a pilot for a Love Boat type of weekly series.
| Gilligan's Island | |
|---|---|
| List of episodes | |
| Cast | Bob Denver (Gilligan), Alan Hale Jr. (Skipper), Russell Johnson (Professor), Tina Louise (Ginger Grant) Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III), Natalie Schafer (Lovey Howell) |
| Spin-offs | Rescue From Gilligan's Island, Gilligan's Planet, The Real Gilligan's Island, Gilligan's Wake, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island |
| Other | S. S. Minnow, The Adventures of Gilligan's Island (video game) |
| Crew | Sherwood Schwartz, Jack Arnold, William Froug, Gerald Fried, Richard Donner |