Episode guide
Gilligan's Island
98 episodes · 3 seasons · 1964–1967 · CBS
Season
Season 1
36 episodes
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S01E01 Two on a Raft The castaways wake up with the Minnow beached on the island, the Skipper and Gilligan work on a raft then take off with it to find help. The professor discovers artifacts from a tribe of head hunters called the Marubi in a cave and sets a trap for the head hunters in case they show up.
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S01E02 Home Sweet Hut The Skipper wants the castaways to build a community hut because the is a bad tropical storm on the way. However, none of them can work together so they all start building their own huts.
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S01E03 Voodoo Something to Me Gilligan stands night watch as they are unfamiliar with the island yet. During the night, someone steals from the supply hut and the Skipper believes that it is voodoo.
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S01E04 Goodnight Sweet Skipper The Skipper starts sleepwalking and reliving a World War II experience, he thinks Gilligan is one of his Navy mates and tries to have Gilligan help him convert the receiver into a transmitter.
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S01E05 Wrongway Feldman Gilligan discovers a airplane while going through the jungle, the plane turns out to belong to Wrongway Feldman. Feldman disappeared years before.
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S01E06 President Gilligan The Skipper and Mr. Howell run for president of the island with surprising results.
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S01E07 The Sound of Quacking Gilligan finds a duck while a blight is hitting the island and the rest of the islanders start hungrily eyeing his pet duck.
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S01E08 Goodbye Island The professor tries to make nails that can be used to repair the Minnow. A glue like sap is then discovered by Gilligan that seems to work like magic.
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S01E09 The Big Gold Strike While doing work for Mr. Howell, Gilligan falls in a hole and discovers one of the island's valuable resources; meanwhile, the girls are fishing and latch onto a possible way off the island for the castaways.
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S01E10 Waiting for Watubi While digging near the lagoon, the idol of Kona is discovered and the Skipper who is deeply superstitious believes that something really bad will happen unless the idol is put to rest.
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S01E11 Angel on the Island Ginger is depressed because a play written especially with her in mind for the lead is not going to star her. Gilligan talks Mr. Howell into putting on the play there on the island to see if it is something he would like to produce back home. Then during practice, Mr. Howell looses track of why they are putting on the play and puts Lovey in the lead role instead of Ginger.
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S01E12 Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk The castaways reminisce about things that have happened to them on the island once they hear a news broadcast about a Coast Guard cutter being on the way to rescue the Minnow survivors.
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S01E13 Three Million Dollars More or Less Mr. Howell ends up betting on sinking golf putts with Gilligan and Gilligan wins 3 million dollars, Mr. Howell tries to figure out a way to trick Gilligan out of the money.
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S01E14 Water, Water Everywhere The castaways well runs out of water, Gilligan is put on guard duty over the remaining water supply.
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S01E15 So Sorry, My Island Now Gilligan is in the lagoon trying to catch food and see's what he thinks is a sea serpent. Later it turns out to be a Japanese world war II mini one man submarine who's pilot is not aware that World War II has been over for more than 20 years.
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S01E16 Plant You Now, Dig You Later While digging a barbque pit for Mr. Howell, Gilligan comes across a treasure chest. A battle ensues over who's property the chest is.
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S01E17 Little Island, Big Gun A gangster comes to the island posing as a doctor.
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S01E18 X Marks the Spot It is a normal day on the island, the Skipper and Gilligan are working on their normal projects for their little community. Meanwhile, the Pentagon decides to test a new missile, the target they choose is the Castaways island.
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S01E19 Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy Gilligan see's a jungle boy while he is out and about on the island and no one believes him when he tells the castaways about the boy.
- S01E20 St. Gilligan and the Dragon
Tired of waiting for huts of their own, the women go on strike and then it is men vs. women as the guys come up with a plan to get them back.
- S01E21 Big Man on a Little Stick
A surfer rides his board into the lagoon and then becomes more infatuated with Ginger and Mary Ann than returning to civilization so the castaways can be rescued.
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S01E22 Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend Mrs. Howell's diamond broach disappears and then Mrs. Howell disappears.
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S01E23 How to Be a Hero When Gilligan's attempt to rescue Mary Ann fails and both of them has to be rescued by the Skipper, Gilligan gets a inferiority complex and the castaways devise schemes to help him feel like a hero.
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S01E24 The Return of Wrongway Feldman Wrongway Feldman returns to enjoy the island life he had before and the castaways try to come up with ways to get him to go back to civilization to help with their rescue.
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S01E25 The Matchmaker Mrs. Howell gets bored because she is missing all her society activities and decides to get Gilligan and Mary Ann together as a couple.
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S01E26 Music Hath Charms Gilligan becomes infatuated with drumming and Mrs. Howell realizes that she misses music so she gets the castaways to form a island band. Gilligan's drumming is interpreted as war drums by natives on a nearby island.
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S01E27 New Neighbor Sam The castaways become concerned when Gilligan hears gangsters talking on the island and the Skipper confirms it. Once they discover the gangsters, Mr. Howell's greed kicks in and he wants to find their loot.
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S01E28 They're Off and Running After winning 39 turtle races, Mr. Howell wants to win the 40th. He talks the Skipper into betting Gilligan's services as a houseboy and soon starts to wish he had left well enough alone.
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S01E29 Three to Get Ready Gilligan finds the 'Eye of the Idol' which legend has it, can grant 3 wishes according to his best friend the Skipper. The professor objects and says there is no such thing as the wishes and that anything that might happen is pure coincidence.
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S01E30 Forget Me Not When the castaways have a possible chance of rescue because of Navy activities in the area, the Skipper gets amnesia and thinks everyone is Japanese soldiers.
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S01E31 Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home? Gilligan is keeping a secret that is driving the rest of the castaways up a wall with curiosity to discover what it is.
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S01E32 Physical Fatness The Skipper has to go on a crash diet when he realizes that he weighs too much to re-enlist in the Navy again. Meanwhile, the professor invents a phosphorescent dye that he hopes will work for signalling passing ships.
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S01E33 It's Magic While fishing Gilligan finds a magicians trunk with all types of stage props in it. Later Gilligan feels useless when he overhears the other castaways talking about him and uses Ginger's trick to vanish.
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S01E34 Goodbye, Old Paint An eccentric painter is discovered living on the island and the castaways attempt to get him to help them get rescued.
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S01E35 My Fair Gilligan After Gilligan saves Mrs. Howel's life, he is adopted by the Howell's. He soon discovers that life among the rich and famous is not all it is cracked up to be, even on a deserted island.
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S01E36 A Nose by Any Other Name Gilligan gets a injured nose when he falls out of a Palm Tree while collecting coconuts. His nose swells up causing him to have emotional issues with his looks. He then decides he wants the professor to give him a new nose.
Season
Season 2
32 episodes
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S02E01 Gilligan's Mother-in-Law A native family from a nearby island visits looking for a husband for their daughter. Gilligan becomes the prime candidate.
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S02E02 Beauty Is as Beauty Does The castaways decide to hold a beauty contest to decide who the prettiest woman on the island is with Gilligan being conned into being the judge.
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S02E03 The Little Dictator An exiled dictator is dropped off onto the island until it is safe for him to return to his country.
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S02E04 Smile, You're on Mars Camera A Mars probe mistakenly comes down on the island and when the professor repairs the camera, scientists believe they are getting images of Mars Meanwhile Mr. Howell has put Gilligan to work on a secret project for his anniversary.
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S02E05 The Sweepstakes Gilligan hears his sweepstakes ticket numbers called off on the radio and wins a million dollars, Mr. Howell then invites Gilligan to become a member of the Howell's exclusive millionaires club.
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S02E06 Quick Before It Sinks Gilligan is trying to catch some nice lobsters in the lagoon so everyone can have a great dinner. Meanwhile, the professor notices that the water is getting higher on the measuring stick out in the lagoon that he is using to figure out if the island is sinking or not. While all this is occurring the women decide that the island needs to be landscaped around the huts.
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S02E07 Castaways Pictures Presents Gilligan finds a ship and the castaways salvage the cargo then come up with a scheme to get rescued.
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S02E08 Agonized Labor A radio news report announces that Mr. Howell has lost all his fortune and the castaways have to deal with the results.
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S02E09 Nyet, Nyet - Not Yet When two Russian Cosmonauts land in the lagoon, the castaways hope for rescue blossoms. They try everything they can to appease the cosmonauts and appear as the harmless people that they are.
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S02E10 Hi-Fi Gilligan Gilligan accidentally becomes a radio receiver after he has a accident when he and the Skipper are preparing for a coming typhoon.
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S02E11 The Chain of Command When the Skipper realizes that they have to have a chain of command on the island if something ever happens to him, Chaos ensues with Gilligan's help.
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S02E12 Don't Bug the Mosquitoes The members of a popular rock band known as the Mosquitoes (played by The Wellingtons, who do the Gilligan's Island theme for seasons 2-3) come to the island to get away from their fans so they can practice their music in peace. When the castaways find out that it will be quite a while before they can get off the island, they try to get the group to leave early.
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S02E13 Gilligan Gets Bugged Gilligan is bitten by a bug and the professor gives him 24 hours to live.
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S02E14 Mine Hero While fishing, Gilligan reels in a world war II mine and that ends up being activated.
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S02E15 Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue A rich playgirl comes to the island with the intent of turning it into a resort, the Howells prefer to be rescued by someone else.
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S02E16 Not Guilty The castaways suspect that a murder is among them when a newspaper makes its way onto the island.
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S02E17 You've Been Disconnected After a bad storm, a trans-ocean communications cable is washed up into the lagoon and the castaways try to contact civilization.
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S02E18 The Postman Cometh When the other castaways start acting odd around Mary Ann she thinks she has eaten poisonous mushrooms and is dying.
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S02E19 Seer Gilligan Gilligan discovers an island bush with seeds that make mind reading possible.
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S02E20 Love Me, Love My Skipper Everyone receives an invitation to the Howells' party except the Skipper.
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S02E21 Gilligan's Living Doll An experimental robot launched by the Air Force parachutes onto the island.
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S02E22 Forward March Mr. Howell organizes an army and appoints himself general after the castaways are attacked.
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S02E23 Ship Ahoax After so much time on the island with just the 7 people, the castaways are starting to go a bit island crazy. Snapping at each other for the littlest thing. The professor and Ginger come up with a way to relieve the pressure and tell everyone that Ginger is fortune teller. Gilligan is especially easy to convince.
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S02E24 Feed the Kitty A caged circus lion escapes after washing ashore on the island.
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S02E25 Operation: Steam Heat Hot water spurting from beneath the island warns the castaways that a volcano is about to erupt.
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S02E26 Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up? While listening to the radio, the castaways find out that a imposter has been posing as Mr. Howell in order to get his money.
- S02E27 Ghost a Go-Go
Gilligan starts seeing a ghost on the island but no one will believe him.
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S02E28 Allergy Time The Skipper becomes allergic to Gilligan and the Professor tries to figure out why.
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S02E29 The Friendly Physician A mad doctor visits the island and promises rescue, however when he takes the castaways to his nearby island they are in for a spooky surprise.
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S02E30 V for Vitamins The castaways are starting to suffer from vitamin C deficiency. They are getting weaker as time goes by and Gilligan has the last orange. After the last orange shrivels and Gilligan is standing guard over the seeds he has a Jack and the Giant dream. Of note is, when the giant Skipper is chasing small Gilligan around the orange cases, small Gilligan is played by Bob Denver's son.
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S02E31 Mr. and Mrs.??? While listening to the news on the radio, the castaways discover that the minister who married the Howells was not actually ordained so all the marriages are invalid.
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S02E32 Meet the Meteor When a radio active meteor hits the island, the castaways fear they have a limited time to live because of the radiation.
Season
Season 3
30 episodes
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S03E01 Up at Bat Gilligan is bitten by a bat and becomes obsessed with becoming a vampire because of it. He moves away from the rest of the castaways into a cave on the other side of the island. Gilligan then has a nightmare about being the Count living in a castle in Transylvania.
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S03E02 Gilligan vs. Gilligan Gilligan keeps seeing his double and the rest of the castaways do not believe him.
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S03E03 Pass the Vegetables, Please While fishing Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetables. The castaways are astonished at some of the properties of the vegetables until they discover that they are radioactive.
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S03E04 The Producer Harold Hecuba, a movie producer is shipwrecked on the island and the castaways try to get him to to help rescue them. They then end up putting on a musical to get his attention.
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S03E05 Voodoo Gilligan causes problems for the rest of the castaways when he discovers a cave that is full of sacred native artifacts. Things get complicated as a native Witch Doctor who is visiting the island, starts to punish the group for taking and using the items.
- S03E06 Where There's a Will
Mr. Howell revises his will, leaving each castaway a piece of his valuable estate, then thing take a turn when a series of strange accidents aimed at Mr. Howell start to happen.
- S03E07 Man with a Net
A world famous butterfly hunter comes to the island and promises the castaways he will help them get off the island if they help him find and catch a rare butterfly.
- S03E08 Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
After Gilligan's hair turns white over night, he believes he is becoming an old man.
- S03E09 Ring Around Gilligan
Mad Doctor Balinkoff returns to the island and uses the castaways without their knowledge as part of his plan to rob Fort Knox.
- S03E10 Topsy-Turvy
When Gilligan has vision problems, special berries are needed to restore his vision, meanwhile the castaways are unaware of headhunters that have arrived on the island.
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S03E11 The Invasion Gilligan catches a old brief case while fishing that has U.S. Government Top Secret stamped on it and handcuffs on the handle. The castaways start speculating what the briefcase may contain.
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S03E12 The Kidnapper The Skipper finds a note saying Mrs. Howell has been kidnapped, Mr. Howell pays the ransom and she is returned. They then find out that all the women on the island are going to be kidnapped again and again.
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S03E13 And Then There Were None The castaways start disappearing one by one, since at first Gilligan is the only one who is with the women and he starts to think he is the cause of their vanishing. He then has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde nightmare.
- S03E14 All About Eva
The castaways work to help a plain woman who has arrived on the island to gain confidence in herself after a failed relationship so she will help them get off the island and return to civilization.
- S03E15 Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho
After the castaways decide that they need law and order on the island, Gilligan goes overboard when he is elected to be the Skipper's deputy.
- S03E16 Take a Dare
A man takes a dare in a radio contest and allows himself to be marooned on the island for a week in order to win $10,000.
- S03E17 Court-Martial
The Skipper becomes depressed after hearing a bulletin on the radio that blames him for the loss of the Minow and the stranding of the castaways.
- S03E18 The Hunter
After a big game hunter lands on the island, he decides to hunt the ultimate prey. Gilligan is then chosen as the one most likely to give a good hunt.
- S03E19 Lovey's Secret Admirer
Mr. Howell becomes upset with the rest of the male castaways when Lovey starts to find mysterious love notes under her pillow from a secret admirer.
- S03E20 Our Vines Have Tender Apes
A mysterious ape man appears on the island and steels food, supplies and Ginger.
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S03E21 Gilligan's Personal Magnetism Gilligan is hit by lightning and gets a stone bowling ball stuck on his hand. While the Professor and Skipper are trying to get the rock off, the rock is struck by lightning and Gilligan turns invisible.
- S03E22 Splashdown
The professor determines that a manned space capsule will pass over the island, then they start figuring out ways to get the astronauts attention.
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S03E23 High Man on the Totem Pole While taking the Howells for a drive, Gilligan discovers a head hunter totem pole with a replica of his head on it. Later the castaways are taken prisoner and Gilligan has to save them.
- S03E24 The Second Ginger Grant
After accidentally knocking herself out, Mary Ann revives thinking she is Ginger.
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S03E25 The Secret of Gilligan's Island Gilligan discovers an incomplete stone tablet with hieroglyphics on it. The Professor interprets the markings to be a map of how to get off the island. The castaways then search all the caves on the island for the missing pieces of the tablet.
- S03E26 Slave Girl
An island girl declares she is Gilligan's slave forever after he saves her from drowning.
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S03E27 It's a Bird, It's a Plane Gilligan finds a Buck Rogers style jet pack that was lost by the navy. The professor works to make fuel for it so they can be rescued from the island.
- S03E28 The Pigeon
When a injured homing pigeon is found on the island, the castaways hope the bird will lead to their rescue when they start communicating with it's keeper.
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S03E29 Bang! Bang! Bang! The navy has a crate of plastic explosives washed overboard and Gilligan finds it. The castaways make all kinds of things out of it before discovering what it actually is.
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S03E30 Gilligan, the Goddess Members of a nearby island tribe arrive on the island in search of a female to sacrifice to their volcano god, in hopes of a possible rescue, the castaways try to provide them with one.