Distributor:
Warner Certificate: Not Rated | 811
minutes | Region 1 | NTSC
Created by Sherwood
Schwartz Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Bob
Denver, Jim Backus, Alan Hale, Natalie Schaefer, Tina Louise, Russell
Johnson, Dawn Wells
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
When
their small charter boat The
Minnow is caught in a storm
whilst on a sight seeing trip
the people on board (the
skipper, sexy movie star Ginger,
millionaire Thirston Howell III
and his wife lovey, high school
teacher The Professor, country
girl Mary Ann and crew member
Gilligan) find themselves
stranded on an uncharted South
Pacific Island, all of this of
course took place before the
shows opening credits had even
finished rolling, thanks to
creator Scherwood Schwartz’s
clever idea of explaining all
this within the shows jaunty
theme tune, the episodes
themselves concentrate on the
groups attempts to survive on
the island as well as looking
for an escape route.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Season
2 of Gilligan’s Island is really the one that cemented it as a TV
classic, now shot in colour, the situations seemed to become a little
more farcical and Gilligan became a little more stupid and of course the
gang never seemed to get their clothes dirty, the show also had a great
cast going for it too, their ensemble playing really lifting the whole
thing and with Tina Louise’s Ginger they also had one of the sexiest
women on TV in the 60’s.
One
of the true classics of its day, the 32 episodes on this set from
Warners pretty much prove that series 2 was the show at its funniest and
most inventive, the cast and writers all very familiar with their world.
Well
worth adding to your collection.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
The
set features an introduction to the season by The Professor himself,
Russell Johnson, as well as an audio commentary on episode 3’s The
Little Dictator by the legendary Sherwood Schwartz himself.
