Season 1 (1964/65)
The first season was broadcast on CBS, Saturdays at 8:30 PM. The first episode of season one aired on Sept. 26, 1964.
There were 36 episodes and the entire season was filmed and broadcast in Black/White.
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| 1.01 | "Two on a Raft" | 101 | September 26, 1964 | |||||
| Following a violent storm, the Skipper and Gilligan sail for help on a raft, only to wind up back on the same island—an important fact of which they are unaware. | ||||||||
| 1.02 | "Home Sweet Hut" | 1002 | October 3, 1964 | |||||
| The castaways build a hut for all, but tensions mount and soon they all build their own huts. | ||||||||
| 1.03 | "Voodoo Something to Me" | 1625-0701 | October 10, 1964 | Chimpanzee | ||||
| Skipper believes the island is under the spell of Voodoo and that Gilligan has been turned into a chimp. | ||||||||
| 1.04 | "Goodnight, Sweet Skipper" | 1004 | October 17, 1964 | |||||
| Skipper turns the radio into a transmitter. The catch is that he can only do it when he sleepwalks. With June Foray as the voice of aviatrix Alice McNeil. | ||||||||
| 1.05 | "Wrongway Feldman" | 1625-0708 | October 24, 1964 | Wrongway Feldman (Hans Conried) |
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| Famed aviator Wrongway Feldman is discovered living on the island. The castaways help him fix his plane so he can fly for help. Wrongway gets back to civilization after nearly 30 years, but his directions are so inexact that "Gilligan's Island" is located anywhere from the Bay of Naples to the Arctic Ocean! | ||||||||
| 1.06 | "President Gilligan" | 1625-0707 | October 31, 1964 | |||||
| When Mr. Howell and the Skipper square off over who is in charge, the castaways decide they need to elect a leader. | ||||||||
| 1.07 | "The Sound of Quacking" | 1625–0711 | November 7, 1964 |
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| A duck lands on the island. Food is scarce, but Gilligan is determined to protect the duck. Mel Blanc voices the duck. Ironically, the dream sequence was filmed on the set of Gunsmoke, which replaced Gilligan's Island in its time slot. | ||||||||
| 1.08 | "Good-Bye Island" | 1625-0702 | November 21, 1964 | |||||
| Gilligan discovers the perfect, permanent glue when trying to make pancake syrup. His goofy glue, however, turns out to be temporary instead of permanent and the Minnow breaks apart. | ||||||||
| 1.09 | "The Big Gold Strike" | 1625-0713 | November 28, 1964 | |||||
| Mr. Howell discovers a gold mine on the island. Soon everyone has gold fever. | ||||||||
| 1.10 | "Waiting for Watubi" | 1625-0715 | December 5, 1964 | |||||
| Skipper finds a tiki idol, a small statue of Kona, the god of evil. Skipper believes he is cursed. Only a visit from Watubi can lift the spell. | ||||||||
| 1.11 | "Angel on the Island" | 1625-0718 | December 12, 1964 | |||||
| Mr. Howell agrees to back Ginger's off-Broadway, on-island show. However, his wife soon believes that she should be the star of her husband's show. | ||||||||
| 1.12 | "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk" | 1625-0704 | December 19, 1964 |
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| It's the first Christmas on the island and the castaways remember their first days on the island. Soon Santa visits to remind them of what they have to be thankful for. Santa is the Skipper, or is he? | ||||||||
| 1.13 | "Three Million Dollars More or Less" | 1625-0710 | December 26, 1964 | They have fashioned golf clubs from clam shells and bamboo. Golf balls are avocado pits. | ||||
| Gilligan wins $3 million from Mr. Howell in a putting contest. | ||||||||
| 1.14 | "Water, Water Everywhere" | 1625-0714 | January 2, 1965 |
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| Drinking water is suddenly scarce. But a frog comes to the rescue. Mel Blanc voices the frog. | ||||||||
| 1.15 | "So Sorry, My Island Now" | 1625-0719 | January 9, 1965 | Japanese Sailor (Vito Scotti) |
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| A Japanese sailor (Vito Scotti in his first of four guest appearances) captures the island. Gilligan tries to use his submarine to return to civilization. | ||||||||
| 1.16 | "Plant You Now, Dig You Later" | 1625-0717 | January 16, 1965 | Once the chest is discovered to contain only cannonballs, the castaways build a bamboo bowling alley to make use of the balls. | ||||
| Gilligan uncovers a treasure chest while digging for Mr. Howell. A court is held, with the professor as the judge to decide rightful ownership. | ||||||||
| 1.17 | "Little Island, Big Gun" | 1625-0720 | January 23, 1965 | Jackson Farrell (Larry Storch) Hank, Lucky, and a third unnamed gangster, who do not stay on the island |
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| Trying to evade the police after a heist, a gangster is dropped off on the island, planning to hide out for a while. Discovering that the island is occupied, he poses as a doctor. When he is found out, the castaways get a firsthand taste of gangster culture. | ||||||||
| 1.18 | "X Marks the Spot" | 1615-0721 | January 30, 1965 | |||||
| The island is the target of a new Air Force missile, but it doesn't explode when it lands. Now Gilligan must defuse it. | ||||||||
| 1.19 | "Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy" | 1625-0716 | February 6, 1965 | Jungle Boy (Kurt Russell) |
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| Kurt Russell is the Jungle Boy, a lad found living in the jungle. They accidentally send him back to civilization alone in a homemade balloon before they get finished teaching him English. | ||||||||
| 1.20 | "St. Gilligan and the Dragon" | 1625-0712 | February 13, 1965 |
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| The women tire of being held subservient to the men and decide to separate and build their own camp. The men realize how much they need the women, and so they try to scare the women back. | ||||||||
| 1.21 | "Big Man on Little Stick" | 1625-0722 | February 20, 1965 |
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| Super Surfer Duke Williams rides a tsunami onto the island, and off again. | ||||||||
| 1.22 | "Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend" | 1625-0725 | February 27, 1965 |
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| A gorilla is loose on the island, and he likes Mrs. Howell's perfume. | ||||||||
| 1.23 | "How To Be a Hero" | 1625-0724 | March 6, 1965 |
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| Gilligan has to be rescued while he is rescuing Mary Ann. This failure leaves him feeling down in the dumps so the other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero. | ||||||||
| 1.24 | "The Return of Wrongway Feldman" | 1625-0723 | March 13, 1965 |
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| Wrongway is back, this time trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world. So now the castaways must convince him that civilization is better than life on the island. They try various schemes to get him to return to civilization and rescue them. | ||||||||
| 1.25 | "The Matchmaker" | 1625-0727 | March 20, 1965 | The professor has made a record player out of bamboo. | ||||
| Mrs. Howell misses the busy social season of civilization, so she tries to pair up Gilligan and Mary Ann. This ends up creating trouble in the family between Mr. and Mrs. Howell resulting in a temporary battle between them until the castaways decide to recreate the scene of Mr. Howell's proposal: a fancy French restaurant called the Tour D'Argent. | ||||||||
| 1.26 | "Music Hath Charm" | 1625-0726 | March 27, 1965 | Natives from a few nearby islands | ||||
| Mrs. Howell wants to civilize the island with an orchestra. But the sounds attract the wrong kind of audience. | ||||||||
| 1.27 | "New Neighbor Sam" | 1625-0729 | April 3, 1965 | Parrot | ||||
| The castaways are hearing voices of gangsters, but it turns out to be a parrot. Mel Blanc voices the parrot. | ||||||||
| 1.28 | "They're Off and Running" | 1625–0728 | April 10, 1965 | |||||
| The Skipper loses Gilligan to Mr. Howell wagering on turtle races. | ||||||||
| 1.29 | "Three to Get Ready" | 1625-0731 | April 17, 1965 | The Professor reveals again his consistent disbelief in magic. | ||||
| Gilligan finds a lucky stone, "The Eye of the Idol", that entitles him to three wishes before the end of the day. | ||||||||
| 1.30 | "Forget Me Not" | 1625-0730 | April 24, 1965 | Under hypnosis, Skipper sees the castaways first as childhood classmates, then as Japanese soldiers from WWII. | ||||
| The Skipper has amnesia and the Professor resorts to hypnosis to cure him. However, trouble ensues as he keeps missing the moment of memory at which the Skipper should be. | ||||||||
| 1.31 | "Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?" | 1625-0709 | May 1, 1965 | Various versions of the visit by the Japanese sailor (Vito Scotti). | ||||
| Everyone remembers the day the Japanese sailor came differently. Gilligan is keeping a diary, and everyone wants to know what he has to say. | ||||||||
| 1.32 | "Physical Fatness" | 1625-0732 | May 8, 1965 | The Professor develops a phosphorus dye which Gilligan drinks and becomes a human lighthouse bulb. | ||||
| Gilligan helps the Skipper lose enough weight to get back into the navy once they are rescued. Also, they help Gilligan gain weight so he too can return to navy life. | ||||||||
| 1.33 | "It's Magic" | 1625-0733 | May 15, 1965 | |||||
| A magician's trunk washes ashore and the castaways learn tricks to scare away natives. | ||||||||
| 1.34 | "Good-Bye, Old Paint" | 1625-0734 | May 22, 1965 | Alexandri Gregor Dubov (Harold J. Stone) |
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| Dubov, a reclusive, snobbish painter, visits the island. To convince him to return to civilization, they set up Gilligan as a rival avant-garde artist. | ||||||||
| 1.35 | "My Fair Gilligan" | 1625-0735 | May 29, 1965 | Gilligan is a spoiled heir. | ||||
| Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life and the Howells decide to adopt him, and change him into "G. Thurston Howell IV"—an endeavor which results in problems for all concerned. | ||||||||
| 1.36 | "A Nose By Any Other Name" | 1625-0736 | June 12, 1965 | |||||
| Gilligan's nose swells and his ego fades after he falls out of a coconut tree. He insists that the professor perform plastic surgery on his now deformed nose. | ||||||||
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