Season 2 (1965/66)
The second season was broadcast on CBS, Thursdays at 8:00 PM.
There were 32 episodes and the entire season was filmed and broadcast in color.
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| 2.01 | "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law" | 1625-0752 | September 16, 1965 | Native Family:
Father (Russ Greive), Mother (Henny Backus), Daughter (Mary Forna), Haruki (Eddie Little Sky) |
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| A native family arrives on the island looking for a husband for their ample (overweight) daughter. But soon a native suitor shows up to challenge Gilligan to a duel. Jim Backus's real-life wife has a cameo as the wife of the chief. Jim Backus impersonates entertainer Ted Lewis in this episode. | ||||||||
| 2.02 | "Beauty Is As Beauty Does" | 1625-0757 | September 23, 1965 | Chimpanzee | ||||
| After each of the other men nominate a different woman as the fairest on the island, Gilligan suggests a beauty contest to decide Miss Castaway. With the other three men each backing a different woman, Gilligan finds himself in the uncomfortable position of judge. After a contest where the men attempt to sabotage the other women's chances, Gilligan chooses an island ape as Miss Castaway, as she is the only truly qualifying island native. | ||||||||
| 2.03 | "The Little Dictator" | 1625-0755 | September 30, 1965 |
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| When El Presidente Pancho Hernando Gonzales Enrico Rodriguez of Ecuarico is exiled on the island, he foments a revolution and convinces Gilligan to become his puppet leader. This episode is in effect a satire of the military politics of many Latin American countries during the 1960s. | ||||||||
| 2.04 | "Smile, You're on Mars Camera" | 1625-0751 | October 14, 1965 | Gilligan becomes a human cuckoo clock bird. | ||||
| When a Mars Lander accidentally crashes on the island instead of landing on Mars, the castaways are mistaken for life on Mars. | ||||||||
| 2.05 | "The Sweepstakes" | 1625-0758 | October 21, 1965 | Howell as a prospector who loses his assay receipt. A plot hole is Howell losing his "receipt"-when it fact he is seen placing it in his pocket. | ||||
| Gilligan wins the lottery and then loses the ticket. | ||||||||
| 2.06 | "Quick Before it Sinks" | 1625-0756 | October 28, 1965 | |||||
| The Professor mistakenly believes that the island is sinking when Gilligan uses the Professor's high water measuring stick to mark the lobster traps. | ||||||||
| 2.07 | "Castaways Pictures Presents" | 1625-0754 | November 4, 1965 | The professor designs a pedal driven air pump for underwater breathing. | ||||
| Gilligan discovers a sunken ship in the lagoon. The ship is only half there, but the cargo is intact. Two crates of movie production equipment and costumes. Exit South Seas Film Productions and enter Castaways Pictures. The group uses the equipment to make a movie about themselves and their predicament in hopes that it will spark a rescue. Instead, the film wins a Cannes Film Festival Award. | ||||||||
| 2.08 | "Agonized Labor" | 1625-0753 | November 11, 1965 | |||||
| The Howells are broke, or so the radio says. The rest of the group tries to train them for other lines of work for after they are rescued. | ||||||||
| 2.09 | "Nyet, Nyet – Not Yet" | 1625-0763 | November 18, 1965 | Russian Cosmonauts
(Danny Klega) is Ivan. (Vincent Beck) is Igor. |
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| Two Russian Cosmonauts land on the island. The castaways hope it will lead to a rescue. For once Gilligan does something right when he switches water for vodka, but in the end he still messes things up as usual. | ||||||||
| 2.10 | "Hi-Fi Gilligan" | 1625-0762 | November 25, 1965 | |||||
| Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio when a filling in a tooth is knocked loose. Just in time too, as the regular radio is broken and a monster typhoon is on its way. | ||||||||
| 2.11 | "The Chain of Command" | 1625-0761 | December 2, 1965 | Gorilla | ||||
| The Skipper wants to train Gilligan to take charge should anything happen to him. Gilligan's mettle is tested when the Skipper disappears, apparently kidnapped by natives. | ||||||||
| 2.12 | "Don't Bug the Mosquitoes" | 1625-0764 | December 9, 1965 | The Mosquitoes
(Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving) (Les Brown Jr. & The Wellingtons) |
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| In a parody of The Beatles and Beatlemania, the music sensation "The Mosquitoes" land on the island for much needed peace and quiet. What they get instead are the girls having formed a group of their own, "The Honeybees". | ||||||||
| 2.13 | "Gilligan Gets Bugged" | 1625-0766 | December 16, 1965 | |||||
| Gilligan has been bitten by the dreaded, and deadly, Mantis Khani. Now he has 24 hours to live. The problem is, the Mantis Khani only travels in swarms of thousands of bugs. | ||||||||
| 2.14 | "Mine Hero" | 1625-0759 | December 23, 1965 | Professor has created a forge for melting metal to make an anchor. The Howells have a badminton net and racquets. | ||||
| Gilligan catches a WWII mine while fishing. Now they must get rid of it before it destroys them all. | ||||||||
| 2.15 | "Erika Tiffany-Smith to the Rescue" | 1625-0765 | December 30, 1965 | Erika Tiffany Smith (Zsa Zsa Gabor); | ||||
| Socialite Erika Tiffany-Smith arrives on the island, looking for a place to build a resort. But instead she falls in love with, and becomes engaged to, the Professor. Once she returns to civilization, however, Smith's logbook can't help the castaways - not only are the directions hopelessly vague, but it's written in Hungarian. | ||||||||
| 2.16 | "Not Guilty" | 1625-0767 | January 6, 1966 | The girls are boiling plants to make rat poison. The Professor has created a guillotine. They have a bamboo speargun. | ||||
| Who killed Randolph Blake? According to a newspaper that washed ashore, one of the castaways did it the night before the fateful 3-hour tour. So they recreate the crime in order to find out who among them is the murderer. | ||||||||
| 2.17 | "You've Been Disconnected" | 1625-0756 | January 13, 1966 | Professor builds a pedal-operated power saw (with diamond necklace as the blade), fashions a blow-torch out of a glass bottle filled with natural gas, and makes a telephone to attach to the cable. | ||||
| A storm washes an international underwater telephone cable onto the shore of the lagoon. So naturally they try to call for help. | ||||||||
| 2.18 | "The Postman Cometh" | 1625-0769 | January 20, 1966 | Mary Ann is a hospital patient with Roomis-Igloomis and the men are TV doctors. | ||||
| Gilligan and the Skipper hear on the radio that Mary Ann's boyfriend is getting married. Wondering how to break the news to her, the two go to the Professor and Mr. Howell. Mary Ann overhears them discussing it and believes they are trying to tell her she has eaten poisonous mushrooms! | ||||||||
| 2.19 | "Seer Gilligan" | 1625-0772 | January 27, 1966 | |||||
| Gilligan has found a bush that provides seeds that enable anyone who eats the seeds to read people's minds. | ||||||||
| 2.20 | "Love Me, Love My Skipper" | 1625-0770 | February 3, 1966 | |||||
| The Howells are planning a cotillion, but Mr. Howell accidentally loses the Skipper's invitation. | ||||||||
| 2.21 | "Gilligan's Living Doll" | 1625-0768 | February 10, 1966 | A very sophisticated man-like robot | ||||
| A robot lands on the island, and the castaways must figure out how to use him to get rescued. Watch out for Gilligan's lucky rabbit's foot, which will magically reappear in episode 3.05. | ||||||||
| 2.22 | "Forward March" | 1625-0771 | February 17, 1966 | Gorilla | ||||
| Someone is shelling the castaways with hand grenades. It turns out that a gorilla (Mrs. Howell's kidnapper?) has found a stash of WWII weapons in a cave. | ||||||||
| 2.23 | "Ship Ahoax" | 1625-0773 | February 24, 1966 | |||||
| When "Island Madness" threatens to destroy harmony on the island, Ginger uses a crystal ball to give everyone something to hope for. | ||||||||
| 2.24 | "Feed the Kitty" | 1625-0776 | March 3, 1966 | Lion | ||||
| A cage carrying a lion washes off a ship and onto the island. Gilligan befriends it by pulling a thorn from its paw. The castaways then decide to stage a circus. Note: During filming of this episode, the lion tried to attack Bob Denver. The lion's trainer asked the cast to keep this a secret from his employer, fearing he would be fired. | ||||||||
| 2.25 | "Operation: Steam Heat" | 1625-0777 | March 10, 1966 | |||||
| Gilligan finds a thermal vent and soon everyone has piping hot water. But the Professor isn't so excited. | ||||||||
| 2.26 | "Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up" | 1625–0778 | March 17, 1966 | Thurston Howell impostor
(Jim Backus). |
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| Mr. Howell has a double back home spending his money. When the gent goes on a cruise, guess where he lands? The real Mr Howell twice attempts to swim the Pacific to stop the impostor. | ||||||||
| 2.27 | "Ghost a Go-Go" | 1625–0779 | March 24, 1966 | Ghost (Soviet Agent)
(Richard Kiel) |
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| A ghost is terrorizing the castaways, so the castaways decide to terrorize the ghost. | ||||||||
| 2.28 | "Allergy Time" | 1625-0780 | March 31, 1966 | The Professor makes a hypodermic needle from bamboo. | ||||
| First the Skipper, then the rest of the castaways develop an allergy to Gilligan. | ||||||||
| 2.29 | "The Friendly Physician" | 1625-0775 | April 7, 1966 | Dr. Boris Balinkoff
(Vito Scotti); Igor (Mike Mazurki) |
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| Mad scientist Dr. Boris Balinkoff "rescues" the castaways. But in reality he kidnaps them to his own nearby island for mind transfer experiments. | ||||||||
| 2.30 | ""V" for Vitamins" | 1625-0781 | April 14, 1966 | Gilligan is "Jack" in the Beanstalk. Skipper is the Giant. | ||||
| Gilligan must guard the last precious orange when the Professor determines that the castaways are in need of vitamins. (Bob Denver's real-life son Patrick plays small Gilligan in the dream sequence.) | ||||||||
| 2.31 | "Mr. and Mrs. ??" | 1625-0774 | April 21, 1966 | |||||
| The radio announces that the minister who married the Howells was a phony, so they aren't really married. When they attempt to get remarried by the Skipper in a ceremony "at sea" in the middle of the lagoon, havoc ensues and they break up instead. So Mr. Howell takes Ginger on a date, while Miss Wentworth dates the Professor; each in an effort to make the other jealous. | ||||||||
| 2.32 | "Meet the Meteor" | 1625-0782 | May 2, 1966 |
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| A meteor crashes into the island making everything near it age very rapidly, including people. | ||||||||
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