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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9780312104825
ISBN: 0312104820
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 15, 1994
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Sales Rank: 457931
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product Description:
Join the creator of Gilligan's Island for a three-hour tour!
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful show,
That started as just one man's dream,
A long, long time ago.
That man was a mightily wily guy,
With smarts enough for eight.
If the brass upstairs let him be,
The program would be great.
The program would be great.
The meddlesome executives
Blew up a mighty storm,
If not for the courage of the fearless man,
The program would be lost.
The program would be lost.
The show's preserved in the leaves of this
Terrific kooky book.
With anecdotes, synopses too,
Rare photographs and drawings.
The whole story
And lots, lots more
Are here Inside Gilligan's Island!
Find out: Where the Howells got all those clothes!
Learn: Did Gilligan and the Skipper ever get hurt when the coconuts hit them on the head?
Discover: What was "Lovey's" real name?
Imagine: What kind of a pet the studio almost gave Gilligan!
Sing: The original lyrics to the theme song!
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
If you're going to buy this you probably want the inside scoop on how the show came to be made and what it was like while it was being made. That's what you get. ON the downside, I found the writing style to be very strange. If I was critiquing this as a story someone had written and submitted for review online, I probably would have moved on and critted another story because this one would have seemed a hopelessly huge undertaking to crit. There was one part where there were some frogs near a door. ... Read More
Rating: -
Sherwood Schwartz makes no high-culture claims about "Gilligan's Island." It is a fantasy sit-com (albeit one with an underlying theme of diversity and community). This book takes a wonderful look at what Mr. Schwartz went through to get his vision (like it or not, the concept was created by Mr. Schwartz, and Mr. Schwartz alone) on the air. From network executives who tried to change everything about his show, to casting, to scoring and more. Whether you like "Gilligan" or not, you have to admire ... Read More
Rating: -
Whatever you think of "Gilligan's Island" (a classic "idiot" sitcom comes to my mind) you have to appreciate that the show's creator Sherwood Schwartz is the one that wrote "Inside Gilligan's Island." The volume promotes itself as "A three-hour tour through the making of a television classic," and within these pages fans of the show will find out where the Howells got all those clothes, learn if Gilligan and the Skipper ever got hurt when the coconuts hit them on the head, discover what was "Lovey's" ... Read More
Rating:  -
Inside Gilligan's Island is an interesting but not spectacular book on the creation of a television phenom. If you are a Gilligan fan it will likely be a must read. If you are not it will be a mixed bag for you.
Mr. Schwartz does a great job describing the battles to get the show made and gets the pages turning as we wonder if his series will ever be what he wants it to be.
Unfortunately as the book reaches its later chapters it is evident that he has run out of things to ... Read More
Rating:  -
I have always been a great fan of Gilligan's Island but this book by its creator leaves a lot to be desired. Mr. Schwartz obviously went through a lot getting the show on the air but his description of his efforts seems to be very self-centered and like one man's battle against all odds. Even if this was true, it might have been better if someone else had written it. The book was not about the show so much as it was about Sherwood Schwartz.
Mr. Schwartz also seems to blame others for the show's ... Read More
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