Season 3 (1966/67)
The Third season was broadcast on CBS, Mondays at 7:30 PM
There were 30 episodes and the entire season was filmed and broadcast in color.
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| 3.01 | "Up At Bat" | 1625-0508 | September 12, 1966 | Gilligan dreams that he is Dracula, Ginger is his bride, Skipper is Watson to the Professor's Sherlock Holmes. Mary Ann is the unattractive elderly housekeeper. | ||||
| 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" | 1625-0506 | September 19, 1966 | Soviet Agent (Gilligan lookalike)
(Bob Denver) |
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| Gilligan has a double. A Soviet agent sent to discover the true mission of the castaways. | ||||||||
| 3.03 | "Pass the Vegetables Please" | 1625-0503 | September 26, 1966 | |||||
| A crate of radioactive experimental vegetable seeds washes ashore. The castaways plant them, and they grow remarkably fast. Then they begin to sit down to a garden banquet, each castaway feasting on his or her favorite veggie, before they discover the "radioactive experimental" part of the crate they came in. | ||||||||
| 3.04 | "The Producer" | 1625-0512 | October 3, 1966 | Harold Hecuba,
Hollywood Producer (Phil Silvers, whose production company made Gilligan's Island) |
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| 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 | October 10, 1966 | Native Witchdoctor
(Eddie Little Sky) |
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| 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" | 1625-0505 | October 17, 1966 | |||||
| Mr. Howell decides to put the castaways into his will. Grateful, they try to plan a surprise party for him, but a number of unfortunate happenstances convince Mr. Howell they want to murder him for the money. | ||||||||
| 3.07 | "Man With a Net" | 1625-0513 | October 24, 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 | October 31, 1966 | |||||
| Gilligan wakes up with white hair, then he wakes up bald. It's not long before the Skipper becomes afflicted too. | ||||||||
| 3.09 | "Ring Around Gilligan" | 1625-0509 | November 7, 1966 |
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| 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" | 1625-0511 | November 14, 1966 | Headhunters
(Roman Gabriel, Eddie Little Sky, Allen Jaffe) |
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| 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. (Los Angeles Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel plays one of the headhunters) | ||||||||
| 3.11 | "The Invasion" | 1625-0518 | November 21, 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 official briefcase washes ashore, the castaways are dying to find out what's inside. | ||||||||
| 3.12 | "The Kidnapper" | 1625-0515 | November 28, 1966 | The Kidnapper, Norbert Wiley
(Don Rickles) |
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| 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 | December 5, 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, Mary Ann is Eliza Doolittle, Skipper the bailiff, and Professor as prosecutor. | ||||
| The castaways are disappearing one by one. Inspired by a comment of The Professor's, Gilligan begins to wonder if some mental dysfunction could be turning him into another Mr. Hyde. | ||||||||
| 3.14 | "All About Eva" | 1625-0516 | December 12, 1966 | Eva Grubb
(Tina Louise) |
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| A plain Jane named Eva Grubb 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 tries to be her. Eva fools everyone during a party but is exposed when Ginger escapes. She later escapes on her power boat, leaving behind a message saying she was going back to Hollyood to resume Ginger's career. | ||||||||
| 3.15 | "Gilligan Goes Gung Ho" | 1625-0510 | December 26, 1966 | Professor builds a padlock from bamboo. | ||||
| The castaways decide to establish law and order on the island, with the Skipper as the island Sheriff and Gilligan as his deputy. Unfortunately Deputy Gilligan takes his new responsibility too seriously, and, as a result, everyone ends up in jail...including, eventually, himself! | ||||||||
| 3.16 | "Take a Dare" | 1625-0504 | January 2, 1967 | Contestant George Barkley
(Strother Martin) |
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| 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. Trouble is, the island the contestant is on isn't exactly deserted. | ||||||||
| 3.17 | "Court-Martial" | 1625-0523 | January 9, 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 runs away. | ||||||||
| 3.18 | "The Hunter" | 1625-0519 | January 16, 1967 | Jonathan Kincaid
(Rory Calhoun) and his Trusty Sidekick Ramoo (Harold Sakata) |
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| 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. Gilligan survives but there's no rescue, Kincaid is fearful of going to jail if they told anyone about the hunt so he leaves them on the island. Later the castaways hear about how Kincaid shoots 100% at a trap shoot but has to be taken away mumbling "Gilligan". A spoof of The Most Dangerous Game. | ||||||||
| 3.19 | "Lovey's Secret Admirer" | 1625-0525 | January 23, 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, to Mr. Howell's outrage. So the Professor invents a lie detector, and this and a trap combine to reveal the truth. All the attention causes her to dream that she is Cinderella. | ||||||||
| 3.20 | "Our Vines Have Tender Apes" | 1625-0524 | January 30, 1967 |
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| Tongo the Ape Man, actually a movie actor researching a role, visits the island. He tries to fool the castaways into believing he is really a "savage" jungle lord (a la Tarzan), but the island's resident gorilla gives him away. | ||||||||
| 3.21 | "Gilligan's Personal Magnetism" | 1625-0526 | February 13, 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" | 1625-0522 | February 20, 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" | 1625-0520 | February 27, 1967 | Kupakai Headhunters
(Jim Lefebvre, Al Ferrara, Pete Sotos) |
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| 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 | March 6, 1967 | |||||
| Mary Ann bumps her head, and now she thinks she's Ginger. | ||||||||
| 3.25 | "The Secret of Gilligan's Island" | 1625-0514 | March 13, 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 | March 20, 1967 |
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| Gilligan rescues Kalani, a Matoba native girl, from drowning, and she vows to be his slave for life. When her ex, Ugundi, 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!" | 1625-0530 | March 27, 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 | April 3, 1967 | Homing Pigeon
Giant 6 foot spider |
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| 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. Sterling Holloway as Burt the inmate. Harry Swoger as guard | ||||||||
| 3.29 | "Bang! Bang! Bang!" | 1625-0528 | April 10, 1967 |
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| 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 | April 17, 1967 | King Killiwani
(Stanley Adams) |
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| 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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