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I just received my second copy of the Gilligan's Island complete series DVDs. I briefly reviewed each of the discs and the quality seems to be excellent though single-sided discs would have been better.
FYI On the original set of discs I received side B, disc 3, Season 3 was supposed to have a documentary according to the packaging. I sent the set back to Amazon because that side was actually blank and reordered the DVD set. The new discs just arrived and the packaging is slightly different. The documentary is now listed as being on side A of disc 3 and it was indeed there. There is now nothing listed for side B.
Thanks to Amazon for the great return policy and amazing turnaround time. Future buyers may want to check which version of the packaging you get and whether the documentary is there or not.
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My children love this series just as much as I did when I was young, yet it has humor for adults, too. The show offers a delightful variety of character types, played by superb comic actors, thrown into fast-paced slapstick situations. There are jokes about academic eggheads (the always-inventive but rather obtuse Professor), movie stars (Marilyn Monroe channeler Ginger), simple farm folk (the sweet girl-next-door Mary Ann), and rich people (the hilarious Mr. & Mrs. Howell). At the center of the action, mixing things up, are a modern Laurel & Hardy duo (the bumbling sadsack Gilligan & his longsuffering Skipper).
Every episode has different complications: wild animals, hostile natives, personal and social conflicts, supply shortages, visiting eccentrics, each one conspiring to prevent the castaways' escape. (Guest stars include well-known character actors like Hans Conreid, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Strother Martin, Don Rickles, Phil Silvers, Larry Storch, and even a young Kurt Russell.) There are also witty comments on modern life in microcosm: elections, economics, superstitions, feminism, medicine, materialism, and many others.
All three seasons of this classic series as well as several bonus featurettes are packed onto nine double-sided discs for the bargain price of only $35 (as of this writing). There are 99 episodes, the first 37 in black and white, including the rarely-seen pilot; the remainder of the shows are in color. Perfect sound and picture, as well as subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. Commentaries for several episodes are provided by creator/producer Sherwood Schwartz. Snap up this great set for hours of family entertainment!
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I bought this as a Christmas gift for my 7 year old. I couldn't wait until Christmas though! He just loves it! Instead of watching cartoons in the morning, he puts in Gilligans Island. It's fun to share something from my childhood with my little guy and it's good clean humor!
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I had ordered this for my Husband for his b-day. Both of us grew up with Gilligans Island and wanted to show our 2 boys(age 9 and 6) what we used to watch. With so much "stuff" out there now for kids to watch, most of it is really not good. They absolutely love it. Every Sunday we enjoy movie afternoon and pop in a Gilligans Island DVD. And we will be bringing them camping with us also.. Thanks for a great family fun time..
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The charter boat S.S. Minnow, out of Honolulu, Hawaii, was on a sightseeing tour when it was caught in a storm & shipwrecked on an uncharted South Pacific island. Numerous questions abounded for nitpickers who found the show's simplicity annoying- chief among them were: If the cruise was only supposed to be for 3 hours, how & why did the passengers pack so much? Well, obviously they did not. Each episode, in a way, is a self-contained vignette, not necessarily related to the others, although some are. Producer Sherwood Schwartz has tried to cast his show as a sort of tv version of the Grimm Bros. fairy tales- with each show teaching a lesson. Others believe GI is akin to the Genesis myth- yet farcical rather than dramatic. GI shows a group of castaways exiled from the paradise of modern America, filled with fast food, modern appliances, & entertainments galore. Marooning replaces exile but instead of finding themselves lost from history they end up severed from their modernity. In truest Biblical fashion they long for Salvation- not of their souls, but of their corpi. & like mankind, eternally doomed by Adam & Eve's sin, the castaways are doomed by Gilligan's stupidity, & their own ethics for not offing him. In a way Gilligan & Co. are living cartoons- occasionally over-the-top Tex Avery toons, but more often the Nietszchean hell of the Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote. Despite the failures, the castaways always survive- not unlike the numerous personae of Buster Keaton, or more aptly Charlie Chaplin's Tramp. Most often it's Gilligan's failings that doom the castaways. But others' failures abound: the Skipper's need to be in control, Mr. Howell's need to manipulate, Mrs. Howell's need for routine over pragmatism, the Professor's Rube Goldbergian devices, Ginger's need for attention & approval, & Mary Ann's naïve-té.
So, the query is- if the characters are so dumb & predictable, why are they so beloved? Because they are archetypes, not stereotypes- despite the absurd plots. Even when treated to the stand-bys of doppelgängers or `certain' doom, the viewer knows the episode will end just where it began- not waiting for Godot, but salvation. Still, the characterizations are so strong, that by the 3rd or 4th episode we know how every character is going to react to a certain premise. This would kill most shows- witness the dull meanderings of the 1980s mega-hit, The Cosby Show. But, being set with such a wacky initial premise allowed each episode to go off on increasingly absurd branches without viewer backlash against the characters. This allowed producer SS to moralize without being preachy- unlike, say Bill Cosby's show. This absurdism also allowed SS to have a retinue of occasional stock actors to play many parts- the most notable recurring actor being Vito Scotti- who made a handful of outrageous appearances as different characters. In a way, GI's fantastical plots allowed a lot of subtextual social commentary to go on without being heavyhanded. In this way, GI resembled another all-time tv classic- The Twilight Zone. On TTZ writer & producer Rod Serling could slip in political messages under the guise of an extraterrestrial storyline, that he could never slip by the network censors were he overtly writing about McCarthyism or racism. Similarly, GI could tackle greed, vanity, materialism, & relationships by using far out scenarios to comment on more prosaic dealings with such things. This is why viewers were drawn into the show in its network run, & have never let it go since. Despite the absurd silliness we all know versions of the 7 castaways in our own lives. This made them REAL, despite their often caricaturized state. Add in the fact that the castaways never really learn their lessons, & the parallels to reality could become depressingly obvious, were they not so hilarious. Never before nor since has tv been so existential, & simple, at the same time. The show was about total illogic, yet it made perfect sense, especially the more its slapstick & absurdism pushed the pedal to the metal.
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