Gilligan's Island was a show made on the cheap, so there wasn't a lot of time for re-do's. Also, on a cheap note, the lagoon was actually made in a back parking lot and the interiors and othe scenes we filmed inside CBS Studios in Studio City, on Fairfax.
As an old Navy man I can explain why he's just called Gilligan. It's simple, sailors are just called by their last name and our last names are stenciled on our shirts and pants. Skipper and Professor's names were only mentioned in the very first episode.
This series has been a fun stop along my Gilligan's Island nostalgia tour. Thanks for making these videos. I haven't begun watching the series in order yet, but I saw lots of the reruns as a kid. Personally, I'm enchanted by the old school slip ups that wound up on TV. I think comedy has changed a bit since then, so any Hollywood remake isn't gonna have the same sense of goofiness.
I can't believe as long as I've been watching Gilligan's island I never once caught those....thanks for bringing us slow people up to speed on these they're great. ..oh and I've been watching Gilligan's island since it's airing in the 60's...I think it was 63 or so?
Thanks for watching. But as I said, it was someone else who watched these video that caught the Lovey Howell "can't speak French" gaff. I couldn't believe I missed it!
The 🐛 bugs and butterflies on the wall of the Professor’s hut were collected during season One / black and white. Lord Beesley was in color. Came later. So that answers why he collected them himself but not why he didn’t show them to the lepidopterist when he arrived on the island later. Thanks
I see others have already beaten me to the punch about AM radio having a lot more music in the '60s than it has today. So I'll point out something about the show's music instead (in keeping with your point on The Girls whistling the show's theme): in the episode "Gilligan vs Gilligan" (season three, episode two), when Gilligan and his Soviet spy double are chasing one another through the jungle, the music playing is a mashup of the series theme with the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", better known fifty years later as the theme from the game Tetris.
None of the wires and stuff could be seen on a 19" portable TV with ghost rabbit ear antennas even with Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil crinkle smashed and hanging off in all crazy looking angles! TV picture really sucked back then.
And it was always necessary to personally find the right place in the room to stand in an uncomfortable contorted configuration to get the reception to be optimal.
During the regular series, Thurston wore black rimmed glasses. In "Rescued", he wore aviator-style glasses, a fashion prevalent in the 1970's. Did an optician visit the island?
I watched all of your vids on Gilligan's Island. Glad your audio got better, but all of your vids are informative and easy to watch and listen to. Good job, I've enjoyed them. I watch all of them at least once a year.
Actually your comment about the radio playing music on an AM radio. I know back in the early 1970's our local AM radio played music, so it is plauseable that their AM radio would be getting music, considering the show took place in the early to mid sixties.
In a first season episode, the Professor complains to Gilligan that his martini is much too dry. Yet in an episode later in the series (I believe it was the one with the Russian cosmonauts), the Professor claims he's allergic to alcohol!
Just watched "The Big Gold Strike". When the Castaways are in the raft and about to leave the Island. In several shots you can see a person standing next to the lagoon. He appears to be dressed like the Skipper, maybe his stunt double. I apologize if you have already addressed this somewhere. Love your videos. I am 52 years old and grew up watching the show. My 10 year old daughter was just introduced to the show last Summer. It only took viewing the first episode and she was hooked!
They are all in the lifeboat. As it starts to sink you can see someone on the shore in the background. Looks like a person dressed like The Skipper. Maybe a stunt double or just a crew member on hand for safety.
That falls more into the "oddity" realm. As most people noted, the Howell's wouldn't be caught dead on a vessel like the Minnow to begin with. But it doesn't take much viewing to realize the Howell's are inexplicably strange people who might do just about anything.
Clearly the continuity of this show was not a major concern. I think this was "just a job" to many of the crew members and they simply didn't care about such minutiae. This would explain why there are so many inconsistencies. Also, the shows were written by many different people and I don't think they had any goal beyond selling their story and making a paycheck. It's fun to analyze it now, and call it a mistake, but I don't think anyone involved in the production would have dreamed this show would be analyzed with such attention to detail 50 years later.
this is also another prop mess up in season two when Gilligan has his sling shot. skipper grabs it from him and the band breaks, but in the next shot the band is fixed and skipper wraps it around the sling shot.
We did not care or notice we loved watching good and funny. Show. ..it was wonderful. We did notice some of the outfits ginger and the howels wore on an island.. I guess the little ship /boat saved the clothes. Her clothes her hair nails and Mr howel looking like a rich man at all times.. but we didn't care.. we loved it perfect actors for each characters. Unusual people showing up at.loogoon then they leave without h we lying them getting home..
When the skipper is allergic to gilligan and he is sneezing in the hut with the candle he keeps blowing out, when gilligan puts up a board between the skipper and the candle, you can see someone from the right blowing out the candle as the skipper is sneezing.
I'll have to take a look at that. I would have guessed they would have used an air jet of some kind. It reminds me of a scene from one of the old Mr. Wong detective movies. Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) is trying to break a glass bubble that he suspects are used to kill by being filled with poison gas, by using different musical instruments to break the glass. Nothing works... but then the parrot squawks and that shatters the glass - but you can see the way it shatters straight to the right of the screen that someone probably shot it with a pellet gun.
I wonder if you ever notice this? There was a dream sequence with professor, he walks out of a door and all the girls are surrounding her start to go crazy, he tells there something about he can't tell if he's a .......(something)....... or a ..... (something)...... That second something sounds line he says a Vibrator. I had a friend listen to it and he said the same thing. But I can't believe the censors would have let that slide. s
A bit of a Freudian slip here, fellas? Actually, after the girls say "I get chills, I get goosebumps, I feel so weak, the professor, doing his Cary Grant impersonation says, "Dear me, I don't know if I'm an actor or a virus." The 1960's censors are vindicated. (lol) Thanks for watching.
@@davidcaldarola5188 . There is an episode of "Gilligan's Island" wherein Gilligan becomes a human radio -- just as a perilous storm approaches the island! . Well, the castaways attempt to jam into a little cave, but all their bodies along with boxes of supplies forces the men to draw straws as to see who'll ride out the storm outside -- Gilligan loses (he cheats by tearing his straw as to be smaller, given his belief he's expendable). . Well, there are a number of episodes wherein BIG caves are revealed (such as the one in which the giant spider lives), thereby showing that, if a mega-storm were indeed heading in, the castaways could have found refuge in a cave large enough for all! . Love the show anyway -- my favourite, actually!
gilligan sitting in a chair that is ant their the skipper standing directly over the spot gilligan moving the fruits. and the seance scene theres a shadow of a man on the curtain
I think the thing about Gilligan throwing the unattached anchor overboard is very important. Had it been properly thrown they might have been able to wait out the storm. Again, this isn't an area of expertise of mine. That is the general argument of how Gilligan got the shipwrecked in the first place, but I don't know if in the storm, the anchor line would simply have snapped or not or if it's safe for a small boat to try and 'anchor down' in a storm.
The average anchor line of 150-200' would have missed hitting the bottom of the Pacific in that region by approximately 2,500'. At best, the anchor could have served as a sea anchor to help keep the Minnow's head into the wind.
Thank you, that was a fun video! Cannot believe the white building in the background!! Also, the crazy scientist episode is really hard to find. Any idea where this one can be located?
Your comment about the antenna on an am radio is correct but as a amateur radio operator, I can tell you by adding a telescoping antenna to the loop antenna in the radio, you increase the gain and are able to receive at a much further distance. So maybe the professor added the antenna to be able to receive further distances.
You can see clearly the lining of the Lagoon up around the shore over by the waterfall. Also its obvious there is a light shining just off camera to illuminate the waterfall in opening shots. The cliff where Thurston and the skipper go to jump off is also up that hill to the top of the waterfall back side shot in the evening for natural setting sunlight.
Back in the 60s music was very prevalent on AM radios. FM became more popular in the 70s and 80s and today. AM radios were built much better in the 40s 50s and 60s and sounded very good for music.
I believe they were aware of several, perhaps many of these mentioned tidbits, with many of them being intentional. They just didn't didn't care, especially about continuity issues back then because the show aired on TV and it was over. There were no VCR's yet, let alone DVR's for anyone to re-watch and compare or analyze anything. Never the less, I enjoyed your video.
Great videos, very interesting. I guess when they filmed the series in the 1960's, the producers took advantage of low-resolution black and white as well as primitive color television. I'm sure they were well aware of their mistakes, but felt nobody would ever know the difference. Television has come along way since the 1960's. Thankfully.
Mostly true, Joe. My point though is that GI has to be one of the sloppiest series ever made; yet, it remains a classic. One has to presume the producers weren't oblivious to errors for they would have been afraid that sloppy mistakes might cut the series short. Seems they were having so much fun with the series that they didn't care. Thanks for viewing.
At about 14:00 they hear on the radio the bomb is doing to be dropped at 140° Lattitude, 10° longitude. There IS no 140° lattitude. It starts at 0° at the equator and ends at 90° at either pole. HOWEVER, if you reverse the coordinates, 10°N and 140°W, it's a location in the Pacific 1200 or so miles southeast of Hawaii.
That's one fast drift. They left Hawaii going about 8mph to 10 mph and since it was a tour , that means they went 12 to 15 miles one way at most. The Skipper says they drifted for three days or 72 hours. That current would have been about 16 miles per hour. The fastest ocean current is less than 6mph.
Yeah, but the real gaffe is that the Skipper (a seasoned seaman who should know better) repeats the obviously incorrect coordinates verbatim, and then estimates that that's close to where they are. Also, the professor, who is otherwise a universal genius, hears the same goofy coordinates and has no reaction whatsoever.
@ 8:44 The ship title is missing from the rear panel of the boat, no propellers, no engine(s), no way to steer from the top of the boat in the opening title cinematic. Why did they have that old fashioned ships wheel on a modern boat? If it had turned freely in one direction, the boat would had turned donuts in the sea.
That radio never had the kitchen drawer handle on the top either. It was added by the prop department. I also remember on the episode where they are trying to talk to the lady pilot they had a quite large radio transmitter. Of course it was smashed, as was the first transmitter they had. I also find the evolution of their phonograph amusing. The first one with the horn had to be constantly cranked to turn the record, This could have worked. Later the phonograph still with the horn,, was cranked and it played like most crank phonographs. Where did they get the mainspring for that? Later the gave up on the crank phono and they had a portable stereo record changer. Where exactly did they plug it in? Where did the mosquitos plug in their amps? They are after all playing electric guitars. Where did they get the records they played? Most small ships didn't have record players.
Still makes one wonder why the prop department did the things they did. Generally speaking, though, I didn't bother with the inventions and the obvious electricity problems. I was more focused on breaks in story continuity.
AM radio was the dominant band for music during that time period. Also, the two ships shown look different and they look like they have different sized holes. Could be the angle but if anyone knows for sure, it would be interesting to see if im not the only one who thinks that.
And it's been on reruns ever since. It took me the bulk of those 60 years to notice this stuff. It's all in fun. It just amazed me how many goofs they committed. As a writer, I naturally look for breaks in continuity, or plot gaffs. Dark Shadows certainly has the most production errors like boom mic shadows, cameras switching to the wrong person, blurry scenes or actors tripping on their lines. I recently noticed a story gaffe in my favorite episode of Deep Space 9. Like I said, it's all just for the fun of it. Thanks for watching.
That is not a cable in the back round. It's the seam of the backdrop. They had to overlap it to get it to fit. You can see that the image of the tree does not line up.
Thanks for the overview of the series errors, but it would be nice if you could go into more detail, possibly an episode-by-episode examination? Just a thought.
Funny you should suggest that... I've gotten a lot of remarks about I've too much time on my hands, or I should get a life. I don't think I could go through an episode by episode review. I just wanted to point out the goofs, errors, and oddities. Thanks for viewing the vids.
David Caldarola I'll watch the show now more carefully than I did before. I think it would be a rare episode indeed without at least a few continuity errors.
+David Caldarola That doesn't make much sense sites it? If Lovie spoke french throughout the run of Gilligan's island WHY at the part taking to that woman would she say what would the French say then turn around and tell her she doesn't speak french? I grew up with that show and at being 52 you would have thought I'd have caught on to some of those but nope...not me but I still enjoy the show and I hope you can do more on this or actually any situation comedy ESPECIALLY my favorite sitcom of the 50's I love lucy...thanks for your time and videos Dave they are GREAT!
Speaking French or any language is very different from just saying a few phrases now and then. My mom would do that in the middle of the department store, she'd tell me to go left in French I'd stop in my tracks and ask "which way"?
David Caldarola -- really enjoyed your videos, as I'm sure every GI fan would. But here's an oddity that was never addressed: Why do all the characters on the show refer to him as "Gilligan" when that wasn't actually his first name? According to what I've read, the character portrayed by Bob Denver was named "Willy Gilligan". If this is true, isn't it rather strange no one even once called him "Willy"? Or even "Mr Gilligan"? Instead, "Gilligan" just casually rolls off their tongues, and the viewers (myself included) are led to believe that must have been his first name. I'm sure everyone calls you Dave or David, and not "Caldarola" ! Did you ever consider this an oddity about the show, or do you (or any commenters) have any insights into why it was done this way?
No really. There is nothing odd about calling "Skipper" or "Professor" by their occupations. It would sound a bit pretentious to call that goofy sailor Mr. Gilligan. One then can only assume that if Gilligan never complains about being call Gilligan, then its OK with him. I remember a great guy I was in Air Force schooling with. He hated his first named and preferred to be called Jay. But his last name, Jarvis, is often times a first name, so he was often times called Jarvis. Besides, "Willy's Island" wouldn't have had the same appeal. Thanks for watching.
Maybe the same reason Lee Liberace was called simply Liberace or in the original "MacGuyver" TV show why Angus MacGuyver is usually called simply Macgyver or sometimes Mac. :) Just a thought from your Friendly Neighborhood Cheesehead. :)
The biggest good of all is in the episode "Allergy Time" where a stagehand blows out the candle. You actually see him lean in and blow out the candle. Don't tell me you missed that one !?!
Interesting...at the start at 0:47 ref the same background being used again and again, as a Film Student (Bachelor of Film (Production), currently doing a Master of Moving Image (MMI)) I believe they have done they following. As they are very likely using the "Single Camera" method (literally just one camera) and they are shooting on film, to save time in terms of not having to set up / light, and re-position the camera for the two shots, they have instead shot "The Hunter" in a Mid Shot (MS - waist up / top half) looking to camera left (our left), and they've given him "looking room" to camera left, then once all his shots & lines are done, they've placed Gilligan, and then the Skipper in. All they've done is re-frame / move the camera / Pan - camera right, got Gilligan & The Skipper to look to camera right, give them "looking room" to camera right to give the illusion that the actors are facing each other. This would save a lot of time, allowing the crew to use the same lighting and camera position, all they do is Pan camera slightly camera left & camera right, get the actors to look in a direction, and provide "looking room". They may have done this so as to meet their busy film schedule. Also by filming them in Mid Shots, the actors "fill the frame" so you are less likely to notice the background, especially at the time on the old small curved screen CRT TV's.
I would be more apt to think they just let one actor say his lines, placed the second actor in front of the same set, but at a different angle, let him say all of his lines... and then just edit them together. Either that, or they invested induplicate sets.
Hi, yes, pretty much as per my explanation which I know is more detailed / comprehensive. As actors are required to stand on a "Mark", not only to judge focus but also to adjust their lighting, which would be at least 3 x point lighting (front Key / Primary, front Fill and rear Fill). Then it's just a matter of having each actor turn to face their imaginary actor, and Pan the camera slightly left or right for their "looking Room", etc.
There was the episode where Professor has asked Ginger to make fake predictions to give the quarreling castaways some hope of a rescue. He is shaving with a straight razor and comments to Maryann "I see you've been using the razor to cut bamboo again." So we can account for the shaving. But your second observation is legit, and has been made by others. When the girls move to separate quarters and Gilligan does the washing, the professor's shirt is ripped to pieces. And there were times when both Skipper and Mr. Howell had some of their clothes damaged - by Gilligan, of course. (Don't forget all of the damage to clothes from the 2nd episode where Gilligan causes the trap at the mouth of the cave to trip and everyone comes out in tatters!)
Yeah, but razors get worn down...i noticed this because of the ABC series LOST where the men where mostly forced to grow beards because of the lack of fresh razors.
@@3dartistguy If you don't have shaving cream you can use soap. I believe the professor made some kind of home-made soap. You DO realize it is just a comedy show, right????
On the topic of Mrs. Howell's supposed French expertise ... remember the episode where everyone is allergic to Gilligan? Gilligan is attempting to sleep in Mr. & Mrs. Howell's hut, but then the couple starts sneezing uncontrollably. Between sneezes, Mr Howell then says, "Gilligan ... au revoir, will you?" Gilligan asks "Au revoir? What's that?". Mrs Howell quips "Au revoir, my dear boy, is French for 'Go sleep in a hotel'! "
'one hundred forty degrees latitude and ten degree longitude' This is an error. Latitude runs north or south from the equator. The North Pole is ninety degrees north latitude; the South Pole is ninety degrees south latitude. Latitude is bounded from zero to ninety. There can be no 'one hundred forty degrees latitude'. Also, latitude must be qualified as north or south; longitude must be qualified as east or west.
The antenna (which was a car aerial) as well as the handle on the Gilligan's Island radio was added by the props department. Recently saw a couple of listings for replicas made using the same model.
The Latitude / Longitude coordinates quoted @ about 8:12 (and repeated by the Skipper) cannot be correct. They seem to be reversed, and they probably meant 10 degrees Latitude and 140 degrees Longitude. However, that puts the island somewhere between Guam and Palau. Even at 100 miles east of this location, and drifting westerly for three days, this seems way too far from Hawaii, assuming the Minnow left from Hawaii, which also seems to be a point of contention. Other research has suggested the location is approximately 1400 kilometers south-east of Hawaii. Website gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/The Island states they are 110 Longitude by 10 Latitude, as per the episode “Big Man on a Little Stick”. This would put them a couple hundred miles off the coast of Vietnam. Not likely. Maybe they mean Negative 110 Long. and 10 Lat.? But this starts getting close to the Mexican coast, so probably not. In “It's a Bird, It's a Plane”, the location is reported as 250 miles south of Hawaii. The most likely answer is that the producers/writers didn’t really want to state an actual, specific location, and were having fun with us by keeping it intentionally vague.
I think you're being a little to critical with detail ,, it's only a comedy sitcom ,, no big deal if the production is not perfect ! I still loved this series it was absolutely brilliant !!
Very good point. I remember when Marry Martin played the part of Peter Pan you could see the wires. But we thought nothing of it because we were all focused on the story line. :)
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I have written three books, and about 50 poems. The first two books are out of print as they were first published over 15 years ago. My most recent book "Winter Solstice" is available on the web at places like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. If you subscribe - you should be able to access a video I made as an introduction to Winter Solstice. Thanks.
I'll keep that in mind, my mother that just passed used to read me some of your poems when I was younger. Now, my sister has the copy put away somewhere.
I'm afraid you have gotten me confused with someone else. I wrote my first poems as part of the book Winter Solstice which was released in the spring of 2012. The majority of my poetic efforts since then have not been published.
rvpstudios studios, different styles for different people. His is a graceful style, and non-frantic. Graceful and non-frantic should be universal goals.
I love these kinds of videos. And Gilligan's Island was always a favorite of mine 🙂
I used to publish a Gilligan's can club Island newsletter in the 80s and called my bloopers section "Oddities in the Episodes".
Strangely mesmerizing. Thank you!
Hard to believe these people are almost all gone. Gawd I'm so old! LOL! ME TV is awesome too lol.
RIP Mary Ann Dec 30, 2020. Gingers only left
The outdoor and outdoor studio scenes can be confusing
Gilligan's Island was a show made on the cheap, so there wasn't a lot of time for re-do's. Also, on a cheap note, the lagoon was actually made in a back parking lot and the interiors and othe scenes we filmed inside CBS Studios in Studio City, on Fairfax.
Thanks enjoying the moment and laughs
As an old Navy man I can explain why he's just called Gilligan. It's simple, sailors are just called by their last name and our last names are stenciled on our shirts and pants. Skipper and Professor's names were only mentioned in the very first episode.
Jonas Grumby and Roy Hinkley
Not true Zsa Zsa Gabor says his name on her episode
Gilligan's Island was the silliest and most lovable show of all time.
This series has been a fun stop along my Gilligan's Island nostalgia tour. Thanks for making these videos. I haven't begun watching the series in order yet, but I saw lots of the reruns as a kid. Personally, I'm enchanted by the old school slip ups that wound up on TV. I think comedy has changed a bit since then, so any Hollywood remake isn't gonna have the same sense of goofiness.
One thing the radioactive veggies are deadly yet you see Mrs Howell eating the Sugar beets
I can't believe as long as I've been watching Gilligan's island I never once caught those....thanks for bringing us slow people up to speed on these they're great. ..oh and I've been watching Gilligan's island since it's airing in the 60's...I think it was 63 or so?
Thanks for watching. But as I said, it was someone else who watched these video that caught the Lovey Howell "can't speak French" gaff. I couldn't believe I missed it!
David Caldarola Yea I know. .like I said I've been watching since I was a kid and just never caught on..thanks and I'm looking forward to more videos
Thank you again for another interesting installment!
Another good and informative watch. Thanks for posting!
David, I just love watching your videos. They give me a good laugh.
It doesn’t matter how many goofs they have made. Still love the show!
The 🐛 bugs and butterflies on the wall of the Professor’s hut were collected during
season One / black and white.
Lord Beesley was in color.
Came later.
So that answers why he collected them himself but not why he didn’t show them to the lepidopterist when he arrived on the island later. Thanks
I see others have already beaten me to the punch about AM radio having a lot more music in the '60s than it has today. So I'll point out something about the show's music instead (in keeping with your point on The Girls whistling the show's theme): in the episode "Gilligan vs Gilligan" (season three, episode two), when Gilligan and his Soviet spy double are chasing one another through the jungle, the music playing is a mashup of the series theme with the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", better known fifty years later as the theme from the game Tetris.
using the same camera angle in reverse shots saves lighting a new set up.
None of the wires and stuff could be seen on a 19" portable TV with ghost rabbit ear antennas even with Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil crinkle smashed and hanging off in all crazy looking angles! TV picture really sucked back then.
The top, bottom and sidea of the picture were stretched out weirdly due to the convex screen
And it was always necessary to personally find the right place in the room to stand in an uncomfortable contorted configuration to get the reception to be optimal.
Very good point!
You have such a keen eye. Things I’ve never noticed, episodes I’ve seen over and over.
that's cause you and I couldn't take our eyes off of Mary Ann
During the regular series, Thurston wore black rimmed glasses. In "Rescued", he wore aviator-style glasses, a fashion prevalent in the 1970's. Did an optician visit the island?
LandondeeL They must of floated on sore , I know this answer is late..😁
Noticed that right away. To me that was a major blunder
When the skipper took off his cap you knew what was going to happen .
I hate people who take a great kids show as an adult and nit pick it apart! You dont see one kid DOING THIS. We watch and enjoy!
I watched all of your vids on Gilligan's Island. Glad your audio got better, but all of your vids are informative and easy to watch and listen to. Good job, I've enjoyed them. I watch all of them at least once a year.
I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for viewing my vids.
I loved your tribute to Alan Hale. Well done.
One thing ridiculous is skipper always banging on stuff with a hammer, and for what reason - I dunno..lol
To fix stuff. :) Same reason all us guys bang on stuff. If it doesn't fit get a bigger hammer. 😄
this was fun To watch...
Actually your comment about the radio playing music on an AM radio. I know back in the early 1970's our local AM radio played music, so it is plauseable that their AM radio would be getting music, considering the show took place in the early to mid sixties.
In a first season episode, the Professor complains to Gilligan that his martini is much too dry. Yet in an episode later in the series (I believe it was the one with the Russian cosmonauts), the Professor claims he's allergic to alcohol!
Just watched "The Big Gold Strike". When the Castaways are in the raft and about to leave the Island. In several shots you can see a person standing next to the lagoon. He appears to be dressed like the Skipper, maybe his stunt double. I apologize if you have already addressed this somewhere. Love your videos. I am 52 years old and grew up watching the show. My 10 year old daughter was just introduced to the show last Summer. It only took viewing the first episode and she was hooked!
I'll have to look for that one, Brian. Did it happen when they were about to board the lifeboat?
They are all in the lifeboat. As it starts to sink you can see someone on the shore in the background. Looks like a person dressed like The Skipper. Maybe a stunt double or just a crew member on hand for safety.
In the Jekyll and Hyde episode there is a stage hand lifting a large leaf and putting it back down again as Gilligan and the Skipper walk past.
I'll have to look for it. But I don't plan on any more videos. Thanks.
Thanks for mentioning me at 10:08
the biggest mystery is why all the lugage for a 3 hour tour
That falls more into the "oddity" realm. As most people noted, the Howell's wouldn't be caught dead on a vessel like the Minnow to begin with. But it doesn't take much viewing to realize the Howell's are inexplicably strange people who might do just about anything.
Earl Smith drug smugglers!
Luggage GN
Nicely done!
Clearly the continuity of this show was not a major concern. I think this was "just a job" to many of the crew members and they simply didn't care about such minutiae. This would explain why there are so many inconsistencies. Also, the shows were written by many different people and I don't think they had any goal beyond selling their story and making a paycheck. It's fun to analyze it now, and call it a mistake, but I don't think anyone involved in the production would have dreamed this show would be analyzed with such attention to detail 50 years later.
11:30 Ah, the good 'ol Packard Bell model AR-851 AM radio!
this is also another prop mess up in season two when Gilligan has his sling shot. skipper grabs it from him and the band breaks, but in the next shot the band is fixed and skipper wraps it around the sling shot.
I'll have to look for that one.
If you have nothing else to do but set around and around....and tear apart old tv show’s......then you really have absolutely not a single lifetime!
We did not care or notice we loved watching good and funny. Show. ..it was wonderful. We did notice some of the outfits ginger and the howels wore on an island.. I guess the little ship /boat saved the clothes. Her clothes her hair nails and Mr howel looking like a rich man at all times.. but we didn't care.. we loved it perfect actors for each characters. Unusual people showing up at.loogoon then they leave without h we lying them getting home..
Well done, well narrated.
@ 1:38 you can see that the "palm tree" is, in fact, something made of pipes. Also to the left of the tree, you can see the frame of the "tree."
When the skipper is allergic to gilligan and he is sneezing in the hut with the candle he keeps blowing out, when gilligan puts up a board between the skipper and the candle, you can see someone from the right blowing out the candle as the skipper is sneezing.
I'll have to take a look at that. I would have guessed they would have used an air jet of some kind. It reminds me of a scene from one of the old Mr. Wong detective movies. Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) is trying to break a glass bubble that he suspects are used to kill by being filled with poison gas, by using different musical instruments to break the glass. Nothing works... but then the parrot squawks and that shatters the glass - but you can see the way it shatters straight to the right of the screen that someone probably shot it with a pellet gun.
Being interested in TV production, I find these tidbits fascinating.
It's just the first live-action cartoon.
I wonder if you ever notice this? There was a dream sequence with professor, he walks out of a door and all the girls are surrounding her start to go crazy, he tells there something about he can't tell if he's a .......(something)....... or a ..... (something)...... That second something sounds line he says a Vibrator. I had a friend listen to it and he said the same thing. But I can't believe the censors would have let that slide. s
A bit of a Freudian slip here, fellas? Actually, after the girls say "I get chills, I get goosebumps, I feel so weak, the professor, doing his Cary Grant impersonation says, "Dear me, I don't know if I'm an actor or a virus." The 1960's censors are vindicated. (lol) Thanks for watching.
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There is an episode of "Gilligan's Island" wherein Gilligan becomes a human radio -- just as a perilous storm approaches the island!
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Well, the castaways attempt to jam into a little cave, but all their bodies along with boxes of supplies forces the men to draw straws as to see who'll ride out the storm outside -- Gilligan loses (he cheats by tearing his straw as to be smaller, given his belief he's expendable).
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Well, there are a number of episodes wherein BIG caves are revealed (such as the one in which the giant spider lives), thereby showing that, if a mega-storm were indeed heading in, the castaways could have found refuge in a cave large enough for all!
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Love the show anyway -- my favourite, actually!
Not leaves but a bird maybe, on the pole.
gilligan sitting in a chair that is ant their the skipper standing directly over the spot gilligan moving the fruits. and the seance scene theres a shadow of a man on the curtain
Funnier than the original! Good video.... 😆
Sorry to correct you but AM now is all talk and sports but back then AM had plenty of music.
check the name on the boat at the dock on the back then gone in lagoon ??
I think the thing about Gilligan throwing the unattached anchor overboard is very important. Had it been properly thrown they might have been able to wait out the storm. Again, this isn't an area of expertise of mine. That is the general argument of how Gilligan got the shipwrecked in the first place, but I don't know if in the storm, the anchor line would simply have snapped or not or if it's safe for a small boat to try and 'anchor down' in a storm.
The average anchor line of 150-200' would have missed hitting the bottom of the Pacific in that region by approximately 2,500'. At best, the anchor could have served as a sea anchor to help keep the Minnow's head into the wind.
Thank you, that was a fun video! Cannot believe the white building in the background!! Also, the crazy scientist episode is really hard to find. Any idea where this one can be located?
Dude, you really are a super-fan. It is impressive, but just a tad strange. Boy I'll bet you spanked the old dolphin to Maryann as a kid
I want my 15 minutes back
Your comment about the antenna on an am radio is correct but as a amateur radio operator, I can tell you by adding a telescoping antenna to the loop antenna in the radio, you increase the gain and are able to receive at a much further distance. So maybe the professor added the antenna to be able to receive further distances.
the lagoon has no water rolling in the beach like the open ocean where gilligan fishing for the radio
You can see clearly the lining of the Lagoon up around the shore over by the waterfall. Also its obvious there is a light shining just off camera to illuminate the waterfall in opening shots. The cliff where Thurston and the skipper go to jump off is also up that hill to the top of the waterfall back side shot in the evening for natural setting sunlight.
Maybe one of the many guest of the Island left them behind
Back in the 60s music was very prevalent on AM radios. FM became more popular in the 70s and 80s and today. AM radios were built much better in the 40s 50s and 60s and sounded very good for music.
I believe they were aware of several, perhaps many of these mentioned tidbits, with many of them being intentional. They just didn't didn't care, especially about continuity issues back then because the show aired on TV and it was over. There were no VCR's yet, let alone DVR's for anyone to re-watch and compare or analyze anything. Never the less, I enjoyed your video.
Great videos, very interesting. I guess when they filmed the series in the 1960's, the producers took advantage of low-resolution black and white as well as primitive color television. I'm sure they were well aware of their mistakes, but felt nobody would ever know the difference. Television has come along way since the 1960's. Thankfully.
Mostly true, Joe. My point though is that GI has to be one of the sloppiest series ever made; yet, it remains a classic. One has to presume the producers weren't oblivious to errors for they would have been afraid that sloppy mistakes might cut the series short. Seems they were having so much fun with the series that they didn't care. Thanks for viewing.
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At about 14:00 they hear on the radio the bomb is doing to be dropped at 140° Lattitude, 10° longitude. There IS no 140° lattitude. It starts at 0° at the equator and ends at 90° at either pole. HOWEVER, if you reverse the coordinates, 10°N and 140°W, it's a location in the Pacific 1200 or so miles southeast of Hawaii.
That's one fast drift. They left Hawaii going about 8mph to 10 mph and since it was a tour , that means they went 12 to 15 miles one way at most. The Skipper says they drifted for three days or 72 hours. That current would have been about 16 miles per hour. The fastest ocean current is less than 6mph.
you Found the island..now on to some coconut cream pies
Yeah, but the real gaffe is that the Skipper (a seasoned seaman who should know better) repeats the obviously incorrect coordinates verbatim, and then estimates that that's close to where they are. Also, the professor, who is otherwise a universal genius, hears the same goofy coordinates and has no reaction whatsoever.
Sherwood Schwartz said he intentionally made up fake coordinates for them because it was "Just A TV Show" and not real.
@ 8:44 The ship title is missing from the rear panel of the boat, no propellers, no engine(s), no way to steer from the top of the boat in the opening title cinematic. Why did they have that old fashioned ships wheel on a modern boat? If it had turned freely in one direction, the boat would had turned donuts in the sea.
That radio never had the kitchen drawer handle on the top either. It was added by the prop department. I also remember on the episode where they are trying to talk to the lady pilot they had a quite large radio transmitter. Of course it was smashed, as was the first transmitter they had. I also find the evolution of their phonograph amusing. The first one with the horn had to be constantly cranked to turn the record, This could have worked. Later the phonograph still with the horn,, was cranked and it played like most crank phonographs. Where did they get the mainspring for that? Later the gave up on the crank phono and they had a portable stereo record changer. Where exactly did they plug it in? Where did the mosquitos plug in their amps? They are after all playing electric guitars. Where did they get the records they played? Most small ships didn't have record players.
Still makes one wonder why the prop department did the things they did. Generally speaking, though, I didn't bother with the inventions and the obvious electricity problems. I was more focused on breaks in story continuity.
Bill Renfro The records came ashore as did their clothes and seeds and movie cameras.
AM radio was the dominant band for music during that time period. Also, the two ships shown look different and they look like they have different sized holes. Could be the angle but if anyone knows for sure, it would be interesting to see if im not the only one who thinks that.
ok ya know this show was on like 60 years ago right
And it's been on reruns ever since. It took me the bulk of those 60 years to notice this stuff. It's all in fun. It just amazed me how many goofs they committed. As a writer, I naturally look for breaks in continuity, or plot gaffs. Dark Shadows certainly has the most production errors like boom mic shadows, cameras switching to the wrong person, blurry scenes or actors tripping on their lines. I recently noticed a story gaffe in my favorite episode of Deep Space 9. Like I said, it's all just for the fun of it. Thanks for watching.
I wonder how many of these were found at the standard 525 scan lines? The show was shot for 525. Still, it's interesting. Love Gilligan.
I came home from school and watched Gilligan's Island everyday. It really was an innocent time. What do kids today watch after school? Pure trash.
your spoiling the show for me
Dude is was not a documentary LOL
That is not a cable in the back round. It's the seam of the backdrop. They had to overlap it to get it to fit. You can see that the image of the tree does not line up.
Thanks for the overview of the series errors, but it would be nice if you could go into more detail, possibly an episode-by-episode examination? Just a thought.
Funny you should suggest that... I've gotten a lot of remarks about I've too much time on my hands, or I should get a life. I don't think I could go through an episode by episode review. I just wanted to point out the goofs, errors, and oddities. Thanks for viewing the vids.
David Caldarola I'll watch the show now more carefully than I did before. I think it would be a rare episode indeed without at least a few continuity errors.
Anyone remember AM93 KHJ Los Angeles?
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That doesn't make much sense sites it? If Lovie spoke french throughout the run of Gilligan's island WHY at the part taking to that woman would she say what would the French say then turn around and tell her she doesn't speak french? I grew up with that show and at being 52 you would have thought I'd have caught on to some of those but nope...not me but I still enjoy the show and I hope you can do more on this or actually any situation comedy ESPECIALLY my favorite sitcom of the 50's I love lucy...thanks for your time and videos Dave they are GREAT!
Speaking French or any language is very different from just saying a few phrases now and then. My mom would do that in the middle of the department store, she'd tell me to go left in French I'd stop in my tracks and ask "which way"?
Yes, but Mrs. Howell does say she speaks French in the telephone cable episode. Thanks for watching.
WOW! I didn't know the production company was so cheap.
David Caldarola -- really enjoyed your videos, as I'm sure every GI fan would. But here's an oddity that was never addressed: Why do all the characters on the show refer to him as "Gilligan" when that wasn't actually his first name? According to what I've read, the character portrayed by Bob Denver was named "Willy Gilligan". If this is true, isn't it rather strange no one even once called him "Willy"? Or even "Mr Gilligan"? Instead, "Gilligan" just casually rolls off their tongues, and the viewers (myself included) are led to believe that must have been his first name. I'm sure everyone calls you Dave or David, and not "Caldarola" ! Did you ever consider this an oddity about the show, or do you (or any commenters) have any insights into why it was done this way?
No really. There is nothing odd about calling "Skipper" or "Professor" by their occupations. It would sound a bit pretentious to call that goofy sailor Mr. Gilligan. One then can only assume that if Gilligan never complains about being call Gilligan, then its OK with him. I remember a great guy I was in Air Force schooling with. He hated his first named and preferred to be called Jay. But his last name, Jarvis, is often times a first name, so he was often times called Jarvis. Besides, "Willy's Island" wouldn't have had the same appeal. Thanks for watching.
Maybe the same reason Lee Liberace was called simply Liberace or in the original "MacGuyver" TV show why Angus MacGuyver is usually called simply Macgyver or sometimes Mac. :) Just a thought from your Friendly Neighborhood Cheesehead. :)
1401 lovy has 2 diferent colored eyes the right is dark while the left is bright
The biggest good of all is in the episode "Allergy Time" where a stagehand blows out the candle. You actually see him lean in and blow out the candle.
Don't tell me you missed that one !?!
I told him that one 2 years ago. Scroll down to me, ben franklin
and the same boat has coconut trees and no rocks and so on
Interesting...at the start at 0:47 ref the same background being used again and again, as a Film Student (Bachelor of Film (Production), currently doing a Master of Moving Image (MMI)) I believe they have done they following. As they are very likely using the "Single Camera" method (literally just one camera) and they are shooting on film, to save time in terms of not having to set up / light, and re-position the camera for the two shots, they have instead shot "The Hunter" in a Mid Shot (MS - waist up / top half) looking to camera left (our left), and they've given him "looking room" to camera left, then once all his shots & lines are done, they've placed Gilligan, and then the Skipper in. All they've done is re-frame / move the camera / Pan - camera right, got Gilligan & The Skipper to look to camera right, give them "looking room" to camera right to give the illusion that the actors are facing each other. This would save a lot of time, allowing the crew to use the same lighting and camera position, all they do is Pan camera slightly camera left & camera right, get the actors to look in a direction, and provide "looking room". They may have done this so as to meet their busy film schedule. Also by filming them in Mid Shots, the actors "fill the frame" so you are less likely to notice the background, especially at the time on the old small curved screen CRT TV's.
I would be more apt to think they just let one actor say his lines, placed the second actor in front of the same set, but at a different angle, let him say all of his lines... and then just edit them together. Either that, or they invested induplicate sets.
Hi, yes, pretty much as per my explanation which I know is more detailed / comprehensive. As actors are required to stand on a "Mark", not only to judge focus but also to adjust their lighting, which would be at least 3 x point lighting (front Key / Primary, front Fill and rear Fill). Then it's just a matter of having each actor turn to face their imaginary actor, and Pan the camera slightly left or right for their "looking Room", etc.
How did they stay so clean? The men's beards never grew. Their clothes never faded or got worn.
There was the episode where Professor has asked Ginger to make fake predictions to give the quarreling castaways some hope of a rescue. He is shaving with a straight razor and comments to Maryann "I see you've been using the razor to cut bamboo again." So we can account for the shaving. But your second observation is legit, and has been made by others. When the girls move to separate quarters and Gilligan does the washing, the professor's shirt is ripped to pieces. And there were times when both Skipper and Mr. Howell had some of their clothes damaged - by Gilligan, of course. (Don't forget all of the damage to clothes from the 2nd episode where Gilligan causes the trap at the mouth of the cave to trip and everyone comes out in tatters!)
Yeah, but razors get worn down...i noticed this because of the ABC series LOST where the men where mostly forced to grow beards because of the lack of fresh razors.
@@3dartistguy A straight razor can be sharpened by an appropriate stone.
Linda R. But they didn’t have any shaving cream or anything and how did they keep their clothes so immaculate?
@@3dartistguy If you don't have shaving cream you can use soap. I believe the professor made some kind of home-made soap. You DO realize it is just a comedy show, right????
On the topic of Mrs. Howell's supposed French expertise ... remember the episode where everyone is allergic to Gilligan? Gilligan is attempting to sleep in Mr. & Mrs. Howell's hut, but then the couple starts sneezing uncontrollably. Between sneezes, Mr Howell then says, "Gilligan ... au revoir, will you?" Gilligan asks "Au revoir? What's that?". Mrs Howell quips "Au revoir, my dear boy, is French for 'Go sleep in a hotel'! "
one scene the entire beach have no trees and the colored vision theirs trees
Lovey- "As the French would say,
'私にキス', ...wait...that's not French."
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@@vickirees2332 Exactly
Face it...The show was absolute nonsense lacking credibility and continuity...So how is it I love it so much?
All tv shows have mistakes.
Should you have mentioned that the "Minnow" on this video is not the same boat at 8:00 as it is at 9:00?
That would be nit picking. Ain’t it
'one hundred forty degrees latitude and ten degree longitude'
This is an error.
Latitude runs north or south from the equator. The North Pole is ninety degrees north latitude; the South Pole is ninety degrees south latitude. Latitude is bounded from zero to ninety. There can be no 'one hundred forty degrees latitude'.
Also, latitude must be qualified as north or south; longitude must be qualified as east or west.
At 3:19 anyone else wonder about the chain behind Mr. Howell?
the trees look like a dog
and AM radios don't have external antennas
The antenna (which was a car aerial) as well as the handle on the Gilligan's Island radio was added by the props department. Recently saw a couple of listings for replicas made using the same model.
My transister AM radio in the early 70s had an extendable antenna
The Latitude / Longitude coordinates quoted @ about 8:12 (and repeated by the Skipper) cannot be correct. They seem to be reversed, and they probably meant 10 degrees Latitude and 140 degrees Longitude. However, that puts the island somewhere between Guam and Palau. Even at 100 miles east of this location, and drifting westerly for three days, this seems way too far from Hawaii, assuming the Minnow left from Hawaii, which also seems to be a point of contention.
Other research has suggested the location is approximately 1400 kilometers south-east of Hawaii. Website gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/The Island states they are 110 Longitude by 10 Latitude, as per the episode “Big Man on a Little Stick”. This would put them a couple hundred miles off the coast of Vietnam. Not likely. Maybe they mean Negative 110 Long. and 10 Lat.? But this starts getting close to the Mexican coast, so probably not. In “It's a Bird, It's a Plane”, the location is reported as 250 miles south of Hawaii.
The most likely answer is that the producers/writers didn’t really want to state an actual, specific location, and were having fun with us by keeping it intentionally vague.
You have too much time on your hands man, now go chase a stick.....
I think you're being a little to critical with detail ,, it's only a comedy sitcom ,, no big deal if the production is not perfect ! I still loved this series it was absolutely brilliant !!
There is really no criticism applied. It's more of a treasure hunt, looking for oddities that usually don't show in a TV series.
Ah Okay I see,, well you did a good job finding all these little oddity's anyway.. Cheers .
lighten up!
Very good point. I remember when Marry Martin played the part of Peter Pan you could see the wires. But we thought nothing of it because we were all focused on the story line. :)
WHAT!!!!!!! You mean Gilligan's Island isn't real
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I don't know what you are asking, Michael. "Do you author's website?" Are you asking me if I have some kind of personal website, or maybe am I part of an author's group on the web, or are you asking about my publisher? "From Houston," does that mean you are from Houston, or are you asking me if I am from Houston?
A website featuring your books. "From Houston" is my sign off.
I have written three books, and about 50 poems. The first two books are out of print as they were first published over 15 years ago. My most recent book "Winter Solstice" is available on the web at places like Amazon and Barnes&Noble. If you subscribe - you should be able to access a video I made as an introduction to Winter Solstice. Thanks.
I'll keep that in mind, my mother that just passed used to read me some of your poems when I was younger. Now, my sister has the copy put away somewhere.
I'm afraid you have gotten me confused with someone else. I wrote my first poems as part of the book Winter Solstice which was released in the spring of 2012. The majority of my poetic efforts since then have not been published.
You need to be a little more upbeat with your narration. You sound like you are ready to go to sleep.
rvpstudios studios, different styles for different people. His is a graceful style, and non-frantic. Graceful and non-frantic should be universal goals.
My my my You're taking it too seriously It was just a kid's TV program
140 degrees latitude is impossible. Maximum latitude is 90 degrees. 10 degrees longitude would put them in the Atlantic Ocean.