Gilligan's Island - The Complete Third Season
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Movie Reviews of Gilligan's Island - The Complete Third Season
Movie Review: The Third & Final Season Of Gilligan Takes Us Back To Classic TV
Summary: 5 Stars
The final season of Gilligan's Island contains some of the show's best loved episode and a lot of my personal favorite. Definitely a must-have DVD collect, you will be able to bring the magic that was Gilligan's Island to your kids and that was great fun for me. This is Classic TV at it's best.
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Movie Review: The final season on Gilligan's Island also happens to be the BEST one!
Summary: 5 Stars
As others have already noted in their reviews, Sherwood Schwartz's sitcom "Gilligan's Island" was prematurely canceled after the 1967 television season, in order for CBS to make room on their prime-time schedule for one last season of the hit Western series "Gunsmoke." It would be wrong to praise Gilligan's Island by bashing Gunsmoke, since the latter is also a classic (and unlike Gilligan's Island, a long-running) television series, but it is certainly an interesting "what might have been." By the third year of their adventures on an "uncharted" island, it was clear that, far from running out of ideas and rehashing the same stale material over and over again, the castaways actually seemed to just be hitting their stride insofar as off-the-wall, so-idiotic-it's-hilarious comedy went. Gilligan's Island could have probably gone on to last at least six or seven seasons overall, but the very brevity of the show, and the lasting impact of the fewer-than-100 episodes upon millions of viewers worldwide, have served to make it a cult phenomenom -- something akin to the short-lived 90s series (and Clair Daines' star vehicle) "My So-Called Life" -- only without the pretense to realism or unnecessary histrionics.
Gilligan's Island is a gloriously, unapologetically stupid show, and that's why it's so great, and in no season is its greatness more wonderfully showcased than in the final year of its prime time life. Of particular interest in the third season are the increased number of guest stars on the island, the increase in the number of dream sequences (the episode where the Professor dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and calls Maryanne -- dressed as an 1890s street-urchin flowergirl a-la Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady -- an "ugly old lady" is priceless), and the increased involvment of the whole cast in getting into zany situations. In the first season, each of the castaways played straight-man to Gilligan's wild eccentriciries, with the exception of Mr. Howell, who is for me the most amusing character in the show, but in the second and especially in the third all of the other characters get a chance to behave in a silly (and fun) manner.
Each season of this show had many unforgettable episodes, but the third year -- and especially the episode where the castaways produced their own version of Shakespeare's Hamlet -- goes over the top, and in a good way. Other reviewers have already gone over the episode plot synopses, so I won't get into that, but trust me -- if you love Gilligan's Island, the episodes you'll find in season three are probably among the biggest reasons why.
Movie Review: the last of the first run shows ,the third season is just as good as the other 2 seasons
Summary: 5 Stars
as i have said in my other reviews,i'm a father of two who uses these and other old shows i grew up on to show my boys and keep them from watching some of the trash that passes for tv these days. on friday nights we have popcorn and movie nights and gilligan is one of the top shows they pick to watch.
you know the story and the theme song,so really the only thing to say is that this silly,very funny show is something my kids and i share and laugh at together and we talk and just have a good time as a family watching this family friendly show that i don't have to worry about leaving the room for a second because i know no dirty words ,gore, or sex is going to show up.
the fact that my boys love this as much as i did and we can share it together earns 5 stars and a big place in my collection.
Movie Review: ("Skipper!") Brilliant, Let's See Todays Programming Outlast Gilligan's Island?
Summary: 5 Stars
We are huge fans of Gilligan's Island, this is creative, interesting, visionary television programming at its Best! You never tire of the silly stories they are so free, relaxing and silly. Life is grand because of Gilligan's Island. The kids enjoy it, I enjoy it, we can watch them over and over again and learn or notice something new...A real family value, which we don't see much of anymore...Hooray For Gilligan's Island. There is a God!Movie Review: This is the set you've been waiting for
Summary: 5 Stars
Not that there's anything wrong with seasons one or two, but season three has all the episodes I loved watching growing up; "Pass the Vegetables, Please", "The Producer", "And Then There Were None", etc. All classic in a surreal way. I guess there's only so much 7 people can do on an island before the fantasy/dream sequences come into play. Great entertainment.