Gilligans Island Season 3 |
Gilligans Island Season 3 : |
This is a list of episodes from the third and final season of Gilligan's Island. |
Episode 1 - [Up At Bat] |
Details : Gilligan is bitten by a bat and then dreams that he has turned into a vampire. Fortunately the Professor knows about bats (what DOESN'T he know about?!) and is able to identify the bat that bit Gilligan as a common red fruit bat rather than a vampire bat. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Sep. 12, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
Episode 2 - [Gilligan vs Gilligan] |
Details : Gilligan meets his double a foreign spy who has undergone plastic surgery in order to look like Gilligan (why we're not sure!). Gilligan gets in lots of trouble as his double steals Mary Ann's pies etc . . .. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Henry Corden | Writer : Joanna Lee | Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Sep. 19, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 3 - [Pass The Vegetables Please] |
Details : Gilligan finds a crate of radioactive vegetable seeds. The plants grow quickly and grossly misshapen but the Castaways are so hungry for new items in their diet that they consume them quickly. The plants when eaten give the castaways super-human powers. Of course after he realizes that the vegetables are radioactive the Professor saves the day by making a homemade soup to absorb the radioactivity. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Leslie Goodwins | |
Air Date : Sep. 26, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 4 - [The Producer] |
Details : Famous Hollywood director Herald Hecuba lands on the island during his world-wide talent search. The castaways put on a musical version of Hamlet in order to impress the director with hopes that he will take them back to Hollywood when he leaves. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Phil Silvers | Writer : Gerald Gardner | Writer : Dee Caruso | Director : Ida Lupino | |
Air Date : Oct. 03, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 5 - [Voodoo] |
Details : A witch doctor makes voodoo dolls from the Castaways' personal objects which he has stolen from their huts. Gilligan stumbles upon the hidden voodoo dolls and brings them back to the Castaways. He then fashions a voodoo doll in the likeness of the witch doctor to fight fire with fire! Even though the Professor was turned into a motionless zombie for a short time he refuses to acknowledge a scientific acceptance of voodoo. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Eddie Little Sky | |
Air Date : Oct. 10, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 6 - [Where There's A Will] |
Details : Mr. Howell revises his will and leaves a large chunk of his estate to each castaway. They decide to throw him a party to show their appreciation but when he overhears them talking about which one of them is going to have to cut the pigs throat he thinks they are planning to kill him in order to collect their inheritance. Later he discovers that they have actually trapped a wild boar in an effort to serve him bar-b-que spareribs as a surprise. |
Air Date : Oct. 17, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
Episode 7 - [Man With A Net] |
Details : Lord Beasley Waterford a famous butterfly collector lands on the island searching for the world's rarest butterfly the pussycat swallowtail. While he vows that he will not leave the island until he has found his prey the castaways eagerly try everything to persuade him to fire his flare gun early. He (like all of the other visitors to the island) leaves without sending help. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John McGiver | Director : Leslie Goodwins | |
Air Date : Oct. 24, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 8 - [Hair Today Gone Tomorrow] |
Details : Gilligan wakes up with white hair and thinks he overhears the Professor say that he has a rare disease that has made him age quickly (the disease? follicular albinism). When Mrs. Howell attempts to fix the problem by dyeing Gilligan's hair brown the dye causes his hair to fall out. A classic line occurred as the other Castaways tried to act as though they don't notice Gilligan's baldness … Mrs. Howell's famous breakfast order: I think I'll have a hard-bald egg. Later the Skipper exhibits the same symptoms. The Professor determines the problems are caused by the crude bleach that Gilligan and the Skipper have been using while washing the castaways clothing. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Anton Leader | |
Air Date : Oct. 31, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 9 - [Ring Around Gilligan] |
Details : A mad scientist lands on the island and makes the castaways work for him through the use of rings that when placed on their fingers cause them to fall under a hypnotic trance. What are his evil plans? To use the hypnotized castaways to rob Fort Knox! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Vito Scotti | |
Air Date : Nov. 07, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 10 - [Topsy-Turvy] |
Details : Gilligan bumps his head and suddenly sees everything upside down. The Professor tries to help by brewing an antidote made of keptibora berry extract but the antidote causes Gilligan to see double. After consuming more juice he sees four of everything. Meanwhile the island is invaded by three headhunters who slowly capture all of the other castaways. Gilligan saves the day by serving the headhunters lots and lots of keptibora berry extract which causes them to see hundreds of castaways running toward them! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Roman Gabriel | Eddie Little Sky | Director : Gary Nelson | |
Air Date : Nov. 14, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 11 - [The Invasion] |
Details : While fishing Gilligan and the Skipper reel in a briefcase stamped with the words Property of the U.S. Government. Everyone believes that the case contains top secret government material. Gilligan accidentally handcuffs the briefcase to his wrist and has a wild dream about secret agents evil enemy spies and deadly spy games! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Leslie Goodwins | Writer : Sam Locke | |
Air Date : Nov. 21, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 12 - [The Kidnapper] |
Details : Someone kidnaps Mrs. Howell Mary Ann and Ginger and then demands ransom money. The kidnaper turns out to be a compulsive gambler who fled civilization to avoid temptation. While the Castaways attempt to rehabilitate him he ends up leaving the island accompanied by Mrs. Howell's pearl necklace Mr. Howell's wallet and Ginger's earrings! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Don Rickles | Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Nov. 28, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 13 - [And Then There Were None] |
Details : One by one all of the Castaways mysteriously disappear. Gilligan then dreams that he is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the end Gilligan rescues them from the hidden World War II munitions pit that they have all fallen into. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Dec. 05, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 14 - [All About Eva] |
Details : A drab plain-jane woman lands on the island seeking privacy. The girls give her a beauty make-over to lift her spirits and she ends up looking like Ginger's twin. While the castaways were hoping to lift her spirits enough so that she would want to return to civilization (she has a boat but has hidden the key) she ends up leaving them on the island and going back to Hollywood to attempt to assume Ginger Grant's movie career. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Joanna Lee | Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Dec. 12, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 15 - [Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho] |
Details : Gilligan is made a deputy sheriff and begins to take his job too seriously. He ends up locking everyone up in a make-shift jail including himself! Of course while the castaways are locked up tight another potential rescue plane flies over the island. |
Guest Cast and Crew : George N. Neise | Director : Robert Scheerer | |
Air Date : Dec. 26, 1966 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 16 - [Take A Dare] |
Details : George Barkley enters the Take a Dare Contest. He will receive $10000 if he can spend a week alone on an island fending for himself. However he is not alone on the island on which they drop him. Once again however rescue eludes the castaways as Mr. Barkley deduces that he can not tell anyone about the castaways without having to forfeit the $10000 for not spending the week alone. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Strother Martin | |
Air Date : Jan. 02, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 17 - [Court-Martial] |
Details : The Castaways hear on the radio that the Maritime Board of Inquiry has blamed the Skipper for the Minnow crash. In an attempt to disprove the board's verdict they reenact the shipwreck themselves only to find out that the cause appears to be Gilligan's ineptness. Later a radio update reports that the Board of Inquiry has cleared the Skipper of the charges as the Weather Service mistakenly read the wrong forecast that morning causing the crew to be unaware of the impending storms. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gary Nelson | |
Air Date : Jan. 09, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
Episode 18 - [The Hunter] |
Details : Famous big-game hunter Jonathan Kincaid and his assistant Ramoo land on the island in search of new game to hunt. Since they have hunted just about every kind of animal on earth they then decide that the ultimate challenge would be to hunt a human. After much debate they choose Gilligan as their target and state that if Gilligan can stay alive for 24 hours they will rescue the castaways. After Gilligan manages to outwit and outrun the armed hunters for 24 hours Kincaid does not uphold his promise of rescue for fear they will report him to the authorities. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rory Calhoun | Harold Sakata | Writer : Ben Gershman | Director : Leslie Goodwins | |
Air Date : Jan. 16, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 19 - [Lovey's Secret Admirer] |
Details : Mrs. Howell starts receiving mysterious love notes and the source remains a mystery until Mr. Howell is caught in the act. Mrs. Howell dreams that she is Cinderella and Gilligan is her fairy godfather. The Professor rigs up a lie detector using the ship's horn and batteries from the radio. |
Air Date : Jan. 23, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 20 - [Our Vines Have Tender Apes] |
Details : An loin-cloth clad ape-man (Tongo) comes to the island and makes off with their food and supplies. Actually he is an out of work actor who tries to convince the Castaways that he is a real uncivilized ape-man while studying for an upcoming role. After he cowers when confronted by a real gorilla he leaves the island and the Castaways behind. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Denny Miller | Janos Prohaska | |
Air Date : Jan. 30, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 21 - [Gilligan's Personal Magnetism] |
Details : Lightning strikes Gilligan during Skipper and Gilligan's bowling tournament and his stone bowling ball becomes molecularly attached to him. The Professor tries to help Gilligan but ends up causing him to become invisible. |
Air Date : Feb. 06, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 22 - [Splashdown] |
Details : The Professor determines that a manned space craft will pass over the island and attempts to fashion a telegraph machine. When that fails the Castaways try to spell out SOS using burning logs as a rescue signal but Gilligan catches fire and runs into the logs causing them to spell out SOL the name of one of the astronauts! Blooper watch: as Gilligan is lighting the logs you can see his pants smoking before he backs up into the flaming logs! |
Guest Cast and Crew : George N. Neise | Chick Hearn | Director : Jerry Hopper | |
Air Date : Feb. 20, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 23 - [High Man On The Totem Pole] |
Details : Gilligan and the Skipper find an ancient Kupaki totem pole which is topped with a head that looks just like Gilligan. When fierce Kupaki headhunters come to the island Gilligan must convince them that he is their mashuka or sacred ancestor. |
Air Date : Feb. 27, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 24 - [The Second Ginger Grant] |
Details : Mary Ann falls backwards while watching Ginger perform on stage and when she awakens she thinks that she is Ginger. Meanwhile Gilligan accidentally watches as the Professor attempts to hypnotize Mary Ann and thus he begins to think that he is Mary Ann. |
Air Date : Mar. 06, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 25 - [The Secret Of Gilligan's Island] |
Details : Gilligan discovers some ancient stone tablets that the Professor thinks may contain the secret of getting them off the island. That night Gilligan dreams that he is a caveman chiseling a story on a stone tablet three million years ago. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gary Nelson | |
Air Date : Mar. 13, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 26 - [Slave Girl] |
Details : After Gilligan saves a beautiful native girl from drowning she vows to be his slave forever. Later her ex-boyfriend comes to the island and challenges Gilligan to a duel to the death. The Professor concocts a drug to cause Gilligan to fall into a catatonic state so that the natives will think he is dead but they then insist on a native funeral . . . by burning the body! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Forest as Ugundi | Midori as Kalani | Writer : Michael Fessier | |
Air Date : Mar. 20, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
Episode 27 - [It's A Bird It's A Plane] |
Details : A U.S. Air Force jetpack washes ashore in the lagoon. After close inspection of the jetpack the Professor determines that the tanks contain just enough fuel to carry Gilligan to Hawaii. However that determination was made before Gilligan wasted most of the fuel while proceeding to goof-up several attempts to be discovered and rescued. While flying the jetpack near where Navy search vessels are reported to be lurking Gilligan is so scared by a radio report of an Unidentified Flying Object in the area that he blasts higher and hides in a cloud not realizing that the UFO the Navy ships see is actually him with the jetpack! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Walt Hazzard | Chick Hearn | Frank Maxwell | Edward Faulkner | Writer : Sam Locke | Director : Gary Nelson | |
Air Date : Mar. 27, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 28 - [The Pigeon] |
Details : The Professor sees the arrival of a homing pigeon on the island as an opportunity to be rescued and immediately begins to feed it a special diet designed to strengthen it so that it can fly again. In an attempt to speed the recovery time the other Castaways also feed the pigeon causing it to become too fat to fly. The pigeon is also trapped for a short while in a cave by a deadly six-foot black morning spider. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Sterling Holloway as Burt | Janos Prohaska | Director : Michael Kane | |
Air Date : Apr. 03, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 29 - [Bang! Bang! Bang!] |
Details : A crate that washes ashore contains a top secret plastic explosive developed by the US Government. The Castaways make use of the plastic in a variety of objects including nails for the Skipper dishes for Mary Ann jewelry for Ginger golf balls for Mr. Howell and even fillings for Gilligan's teeth unaware that once hardened it becomes a dangerous explosive which will detonate on impact! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Bartlett Robinson | |
Air Date : Apr. 10, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
Episode 30 - [Gilligan The Goddess] |
Details : King Killiwani and two other natives come to the island looking for a 'White Goddess.' Ginger and Mary Ann are likely candidates until the Castaways discover that the natives plan to take the White Goddess back to their island to marry a volcano and then be sacrificed into it. After seeing Gilligan in a wig and heels the natives choose him as the White Goddess. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Stanley Adams | Director : Gary Nelson | |
Air Date : Apr. 17, 1967 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |