I've seen almost every episode through out the years but I've never seen the last episode. I've always wondered about it, I heard they finally get rescued. Any ideas on where I can find it?
shareSince it was abruptly canceled, there wasn't a "last episode".
I suppose you could consider "Gilligan The Goddess" the last episode, but they hardly get rescued.
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I've heard about a TV movie that aired years after the series ended, but have no idea where you could find it or any info about it. Maybe the archives department at your local library?
I've heard about that movie too, but figured it was just a rumor.
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You guys are thinking of "Rescue From Dusty's Trail."
shareLook, El...we gotta help the OP get info on the last episode of Gilligan's Island. I was at the library yesterday and looked through a ton of microfilm.
Found out the show finished sometime in '67. I'm gonna go back today and search their section of old TV guides. While I'm there, I might as well look up that "Dusty's Trail" thing.
Is it a series, or an old Jimmy Stewart western, or...?
*update -- just read RickEL's first reply. Knowing the title of the episode will really help me out later!
There are actually 3 reunion movies.
shareThere are actually 3 reunion movies.
Correct. The three reunion TV-movies are: Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978),
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979, and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981).
"Gilligan the GOddess" was indeed the last AIRED (April 17,1967) but NOT the last produced--a clue is Sherwood Schwartz, then recent creator/EXECUTIVE (not caps) producer, revert back to his other CREATED AND PRODUCED by, and in fact I've read on one site the production ID's (I also have the entire series) and G/GOddess was not the last produced. Some "Creator/Executive Producer" credit episode is the last, maybe "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Super Gilligan" which btw unlike others has a black guy in the NASA, showing how much later this was produced (a small hint, being the same season, but tmes were changin..I mean, by 1967 both Ginger AND my own Mary Ann were hotter than a volaco, with their hairdo's--check out "Bang Bang Bang
"--the one about the chimp and exploding clay with the Professor as dentist-one, they finally about about the miniskirt invasion that had been happening the previous season (no doubt by radio or magazaines floating into the lagoon LOL) and the hair dos are cute there in that exploding objects/teeth episode. ) That wasn't the case with the last aired one, where the girls sport their treaditiional do's.
There are in fact post-WWII era Warner Bros.,MGM, Disnry,etc.US cartoons where, having shared TechnicolorTM, were taking longer, so some of these, WB, Columbia (yes, they did have a 1930s-40s studio), Paramount (now known as Harvey/Famous) userd lower budget Cinecolor so that those cartoons got released out of order.
And the debut of Gilligan was longtime disputed by creator/prod. Sherwood Schwartz himself, who wanted the Christmas episode to air, and CBS showed
the Skipper/Gilligan on a raft one ("Two Men on a Raft", Sept.26,1964) first..which makes more sense since this DOES start the saga, even with the 1963 pilot of "Bunny" and "Nancy", the ORIGINAL Ginger/Mary Ann on the Minnow itself .
(Now suddenly wishing for BOTH the third season versions of Mary Ann and Ginger from those last few. I love how in one of those Gilligan has mini-pants, FInally catching up with the times...which woiuld be a thing for another thread, since thye were stranded and had so little contact with fashiomn.]
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My best guess is that "It's A Bird, It's A Plane!" was the last episode produced. It seems as though they shot the show in the most efficient way possible, with scenes from more than one episode being shot at the same time, so it might be hard to say what was the last scene they shot.
"Gilligan the Goddess" has a very low production number, suggesting that it began shooting early in the third season. It's possible the production was interrupted (maybe Stanley Adams got sick) and it was only completed much later in the season.
It's also possible that they thought "Gilligan the Goddess" was a poor episode and that they held it back to increase their chance of getting renewed (which might actually have worked if not for Gunsmoke).
Re-constructing the pilot (this time with Dawn, Tina and Russell) in time to be their premiere episode just doesn't seem to have been a priority (possibly because no one thought that much of the pilot). Filming "Goodbye Island" on the beach in Malibu was apparently slow and expensive and they were trying to re-shoot scenes from the pilot at the same time. There's an interview with Bob Denver from December 1964 in which he laughs about the fact that they've only just now (in December) completed their "pilot" (meaning "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk").
It's weird that we don't know what the last scene or the last episode shot was. You'd think Dawn or Tina would know, but it's also possible that the final shooting day didn't involve them.
I can tell you the very last shot they ever filmed for the original Star Trek. William Shatner recalls that the cast and crew could hear the Enterprise set being torn down around them as they shot it.
It got cancelled because of the wife of the head of CBS.
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