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Though Gilligan and his fellow castaways will remain forever marooned in syndication, the series' network run actually did come to an end in 1967 after a three-year run and 98 episodes. The final 30--which for Gilligan fanatics, include many of the show's best--are compiled in this three-disc set, along with input from creator Sherwood Schwartz. It's not known if Schwartz knew that the series was headed for cancellation, but he and the writers definitely appear to pour on the steam in season 3 to produce some of the series' most imaginative episodes, many of which break out of the island sets through dream sequences; these include the season kickoff, "Up at Bat" (after being bitten by a bat, Gilligan dreams of being a vampire); "Pass the Vegetables, Please" (the castaways gain extraordinary powers after eating radioactive produce); "The Producer: (Phil Silvers guests as a Hollywood director whom the castaways attempt to win over with a musical production of Hamlet); "The Invasion" (the discovery of a government briefcase leads to Gilligan dreaming about spy capers); "The Secret of Gilligan's Island" (a stone table leads to a caveman dream), and so on. A cruise ship's worth of engaging guest stars (Don Rickles, Rory Calhoun, Strother Martin) and amusing performances by the always-game cast make this final season a worthwhile addition to any Gilligan groupie's collection. And doubling its value is commentary by Schwartz on "The Producer" (arguably, one of the best episodes of the entire series), and a featurette about the show's impact on pop culture. --Paul Gaita

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A family classic returns with the final season set offering! Gilligan's Island: The Complete Third Season features all episodes in color and the continued adventures of the castaways as they struggle to survive disasters--both natural and man-made--but never stop trying to find a way to escape in this wonderfully wacky comedy series.

 

Third Season (1966-1967)

The Third season was broadcast on CBS, Mondays at 7:30 PM

There were 30 Episodes and entire season was filmed and broadcast in Color.

# Title Prod # Original Airdate
Visitors
Animals
Dreams
Bamboo Inventions
Synopsis
 
3.01 "Up At Bat" 1625-0508 12 September 1966 Gilligan dreams that he is Dracula, Ginger is Lady Dracula, Skipper is Watson to the Professor's Sherlock Holmes. Mary Ann is the "old Lady" maid.
Gilligan is bitten by a bat, and he believes he's turning into a vampire. This invokes a dream by Gilligan that he is Dracula.
 
3.02 "Gilligan vs. Gilligan" 1625-05xx 19 September 1966 Soviet Agent (Gilligan lookalike)

(Bob Denver)

Gilligan has a double. A Soviet agent sent to discover the true mission of the castaways.
 
3.03 "Pass the Vegetables Please" 1625-0503 26 September 1966  
A crate of radioactive experimental vegetable seeds washes ashore. The castaways plant them, and they grow remarkably fast. Then they begin to eat them before they discover the "radioactive experimental" part of the crate they came in.
 
3.04 "The Producer" 1625-0512 3 October 1966 Harold Hecuba,

Hollywood Producer (Phil Silvers)

Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba lands on the island for some rest and solitude. The castaways convince him to return to civilization by staging a musical production of Hamlet.
 
3.05 "Voodoo" 1625-0501 10 October 1966 Native Witchdoctor

(Eddie Littlesky)

A witch-doctor has come to the island and stolen a personal item from each castaway and is now casting voodoo spells over them. The Professor, who doesn't believe in voodoo, is turned into a zombie.
 
3.06 "Where There's a Will" 1625-05xx 17 October 1966  
Mr. Howell decides to put the castaways into his will. When they try to throw him a banquet, he thinks they are trying to kill him.
 
3.07 "Man With a Net" 1625-05xx 24 October 1966 Lord Beasley (John McGiver) is a fanatic butterfly collector.
Lord Beasley, a world famous butterfly collector, comes to the island in search of the world's rarest butterfly, the pussycat swallowtail. The castaways pull out all the stops to help him find one.
 
3.08 "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" 1625-0507 31 October 1966  
Gilligan wakes up with white hair, then soon has NO hair. It's not long before the Skipper becomes afflicted too.
 
3.09 "Ring Around Gilligan" 1625-05xx 7 November 1966
Dr. Boris Balinkoff

(Vito Scotti).

Footpedaled Bamboo "car" driven by Gilligan
Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff is back. This time his scheme is to turn the castaways into hypnotized robots he will use to assist him in looting Fort Knox. "Igor" is represented by a monkey.
 
3.10 "Topsy-Turvy" 1625-05xx 14 November 1966 Headhunters

(Roman Gabriel, Eddie Little Sky, Allen Jaffe)

Gilligan bumps his head and sees everything upside down. The Professor concocts a potion to cure him but instead Gilligan sees multiple images. To make matters worse, headhunters come to the island and capture everyone but Gilligan. (LA Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel plays one of the headhunters)
 
3.11 "The Invasion" 1625-05xx 21 November 1966 Gilligan dreams that he is Agent 014 and must deliver the secret briefcase. With the exception of Professor and Gilligan, everyone else — secretary (Mary Ann), Gilligan's "mother" (the Skipper), Gilligan's fiancee (Ginger) — are agents of "Mr. Evil" (Mr & Mrs Howell). A spoof of 007 movies.
When a locked briefcase washes ashore, the castaways are dying to find out what's inside.
 
3.12 "The Kidnapper" 1625-0515 28 November 1966 The Kidnapper, Norbert Wiley

(Don Rickles)

A kidnapper is loose on the island, holding first one, then another castaway for ransom. They set out to trap him at his own game.
 
3.13 "And Then There Were None" 1625-0517 5 December 1966 Gilligan dreams that he is Dr. Jekyll who turns into Mr. Hyde at the mention of food. Ginger is a witness (the lady in red) with Mrs. Howell as Mary Poppins, the defense attorney. Mr. Howell is the judge, Skipper the bailiff, and Professor as prosecutor.
The castaways are disappearing one by one. Gilligan becomes convinced that he is responsible for their disappearances. Soon he becomes convinced that HE has become a Mr. Hyde.
 
3.14 "All About Eva" 1625-0516 12 December 1966 Eva Grubb

(Tina Louise)

A plain Jane comes to the island to escape society. But when the girls give her a makeover, it turns out that Ginger has a double. And soon it's trouble for all when she knocks out Ginger and trys to be her.
 
3.15 "Gilligan Goes Gung Ho" 1625-05xx 26 December 1966 Professor builds a padlock from bamboo.
Deputy Gilligan takes his job a little too seriously, and soon everyone is in jail.
 
3.16 "Take a Dare" 1625-0504 2 January 1967 Contestant George Barkley

(Strother Martin)

The "Take-A-Dare" radio show has put a contestant on a deserted island to survive for one week without any help from anyone. If he can do this he will win $10,000. The problem is, the island the contestant is on isn't deserted.
 
3.17 "Court-Martial" 1625-0523 9 January 1967 Gilligan dreams that he is Lord Admiral Gilligan. The Skipper, the Professor and Mr. Howell are pirates {Long John Silver, Captain Kidd, Captain Hook), and the women are the royal cargo on the ship.
When they hear on the radio that the Maritime Board has pinned the loss of the Minnow on the Skipper, the castaways recreate the shipwreck to uncover the truth. When the blame seems to shift to Gilligan, he dreams about pirates.
 
3.18 "The Hunter" 1625-05xx 16 January 1967 Jonathan Kincaid

(Rory Calhoun)

and his Trusty Sidekick Ramoo (Harold Sakata)

Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid lands on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game", also known as Gilligan. If Gilligan can elude him for 24 hours then he will rescue them. A spoof of The Most Dangerous Game
 
3.19 " Lovey's Secret Admirer" 1625-05xx 23 January 1967 Lovey Howell dreams that she is Cinderella. Mr. Howell is Prince Charming. Gilligan is her Fairy Godfather. Ginger and Mary Ann are the ugly stepsisters. Skipper is the evil stepmother.
Mrs. Howell has a secret admirer. Mr. Howell is livid. So the Professor invents a lie detector, and soon the truth is known. All the attention causes her to dream that she is Cinderella.
 
3.20 "Our Vines Have Tender Apes" 1625-0524 30 January 1967
Tongo the TV apeman

(Denny Miller)

The island's mysterious resident Gorilla is back again.
Tongo, the TV apeman, visits the island. He tries to fool the castaways into believing he is really a "wild" man, but the island's resident Gorilla gives him away.
 
3.21 "Gilligan's Personal Magnetism" 1625-05xx 13 February 1967  
Gilligan and his bowling ball are magnetically attached to each other after Gilligan is struck by lightning. The Professor's cure turns Gilligan invisible.
 
3.22 "Splashdown" 1625-05xx 20 February 1967 The professor builds a large bamboo generator to boost the power of his Morse code transmitter. The generator is powered by 4 castaway pedaled unicycles.
The Professor determines that a manned American spacecraft will pass directly over their island. They set out to build a signal to let the astronauts know they are there. The unmanned spacecraft that the astronauts are to rendezvous with accidentally lands on the island.
 
3.23 "High Man on the Totem Pole" 1625-05xx 27 February 1967 Kupakai Headhunters

(Jim Lefebvre, Al Ferrara, Pete Sotos)

Skipper and Gilligan find a totem pole in the jungle, and the head at the top of the pole is a dead ringer for Gilligan, leading him to believe he is a Kupakai headhunter. Trouble begins when real Kupakai warriors show up and discover that someone has defaced their sacred pole.
 
3.24 "The Second Ginger Grant" 1625-0527 6 March 1967  
Mary Ann bumps her head, and now she thinks she's Ginger.
 
3.25 "The Secret of Gilligan's Island" 1625-0514 13 March 1967 Gilligan dreams that the castaways are cavemen determined to move to the other side of the island, against the wishes of the chief (Mr. Howell).
Gilligan finds a stone map that tells how to get "off" the island.
 
3.26 "Slave Girl" 1625-0529 20 March 1967
Kalani (Midori)

Ugandi (Michael Forest) and 2 Natives

the Professor has created a bamboo stethoscope
Gilligan rescues Kalani, a Matoba native girl, from drowning, and she vows to be his slave for life. When her ex, Ugandi, shows up on the island and challenges Gilligan to a duel-to-the-death, "for life" may be a short stint.
 
3.27 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Gilligan!" 1625-05xx 27 March 1967  
A James Bond-like jet pack lands on the island. The castaways believe they can use it to signal the Navy search party looking for it. Even with the jet pack Gilligan as usual messes up any rescue attempts.
 
3.28 "The Pigeon" 1625-0521 3 April 1967 Homing Pigeon

Giant 6 foot spider

When a homing pigeon comes to the island, the castaways begin to correspond with the bird's owner, who is an inmate at Alcatraz. Naturally he doesn't take their messages seriously.
 
3.29 "Bang! Bang! Bang!" 1625-0528 10 April 1967
Monkey
The Professor has made a pedal-powered dentist's drill.
A crate full of modeling clay washes ashore and the castaways waste no time in molding it into things they need, including fillings for Gilligan's teeth. A playful monkey shows them that, once hardened, the clay is a deadly explosive, set off by the slightest bump.
 
3.30 "Gilligan, the Goddess" 1625-0502 17 April 1967 King Killiwani

(Stanley Adams)

A Chief from a nearby island, King Killiwani, comes in search of a White Goddess to take back to his island to marry. Will he settle for "Gillianna"?
 

 

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