The New Adventures Of Gilligan
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The New Adventures of Gilligan is an animated series produced by Filmation
and was aired on ABC
during the 1974-1975 season. It was based on the 1964-1967 CBS
television series Gilligan's Island
and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise
, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation
using her image), and Dawn Wells
, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb
voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter). Added to the cast was a sidekick for Gilligan, Snubby The Monkey, voiced by executive producer Lou Scheimer
. Apropos to many Filmation series at the time, many of the episodes concluded with Skipper and Gilligan talking about whatever lesson they had learned that day.
Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, The New Adventures of Gilligan contained an adult laugh track
.
The show debuted on ABC Saturday morning
on September 7, 1974. After 24 episodes over two seasons, ABC relegated the show to Sunday mornings for a third and final season of repeats in 1976-77, as the network, still reeling from the ratings disaster in 1975-76 which was Uncle Croc's Block
, was reluctant to order another season of animated Gilligan installments or anything new from Filmation Associates.
Another Gilligan's Island-based Filmation
animated series called Gilligan's Planet
was made in 1982. The premise for that series centers around the castaways creating a spaceship and winding up on a deserted planet.
Saturday Morning Cartoons - 1970s Volume 2 on October 27, 2009. The Complete Series shoud be on DVD for the first time in the spring of 2011.
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
and was aired on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
during the 1974-1975 season. It was based on the 1964-1967 CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for...
and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise
Tina Louise
Tina Louise is an American actress, singer, and author. She is best known for her role as the "movie star" Ginger Grant on the television situation comedy Gilligan's Island .-Early life:...
, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
using her image), and Dawn Wells
Dawn Wells
Dawn Elberta Wells is an American actress known for playing Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom Gilligan's Island during its run from 1964 until 1967.- Early life :...
, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb
Jane Webb
Jane Webb, a.k.a. Joanne Louise, is a movie actor and voice actor; as a voice actor, she has worked on a large number of animated cartoons, mostly for Filmation.-Film career:...
voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter). Added to the cast was a sidekick for Gilligan, Snubby The Monkey, voiced by executive producer Lou Scheimer
Lou Scheimer
Louis Scheimer is an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons .-Career:Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed...
. Apropos to many Filmation series at the time, many of the episodes concluded with Skipper and Gilligan talking about whatever lesson they had learned that day.
Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, The New Adventures of Gilligan contained an adult laugh track
Laugh track
A laugh track is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles "Charley" Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows and sitcoms.The term "laugh track" does not apply to the genuine audience laughter on shows that shoot in...
.
The show debuted on ABC Saturday morning
Saturday Morning
-Album credits:*All tracks produced by Ralph Sall for Bulletproof Recording Company Inc.*Executive Producer/Concept: Ralph Sall for Bulletproof Recording Company Inc.*Engineered by Peter McCabe and Larry Fergusson....
on September 7, 1974. After 24 episodes over two seasons, ABC relegated the show to Sunday mornings for a third and final season of repeats in 1976-77, as the network, still reeling from the ratings disaster in 1975-76 which was Uncle Croc's Block
Uncle Croc's Block
Uncle Croc's Block was a short-lived, hour-long live-action/animated series on ABC, produced by Filmation Associates.-History:A spoof of kid shows, Charles Nelson Reilly played the titular Uncle Croc, who hated his job as the show's host. Also featured were Alfie Wise as his sidekick Mr...
, was reluctant to order another season of animated Gilligan installments or anything new from Filmation Associates.
Another Gilligan's Island-based Filmation
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
animated series called Gilligan's Planet
Gilligan's Planet
Gilligan's Planet is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS...
was made in 1982. The premise for that series centers around the castaways creating a spaceship and winding up on a deserted planet.
Episode list
All episodes arranged in order of Filmation production.- PC = Production code.
Season One (1974)
| PC | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| GI-1 | "Off Limits" | 1974 September 7 |
| GI-2 | "Looney Moon" | 1974 September 14 |
| GI-3 | "Raven Mad" | 1974 September 21 |
| GI-4 | "Father of His Island" | |
| GI-5 | "Wrong Way Robot (a.k.a. Yeah, Would You Want Your Sister to Marry One?)" | 1974 October 5 |
| GI-6 | "Opening Night" | 1974 October 12 |
| GI-7 | "Lollipop Casserole" | 1974 October 19 |
| GI-8 | "The Loners" | 1974 November 2 |
| GI-9 | "The Ego Trip" | 1974 October 26 |
| GI-10 | "The Olympiad" | 1974 November 9 |
| GI-11 | "Their Own Image" | 1974 November 16 |
| GI-12 | "The Disappearing Act" | 1974 November 23 |
| GI-13 | "A Sinking Feeling" | 1974 November 30 |
| GI-14 | "Reluctant Hero" | 1974 December 7 |
| GI-15 | "The Same Old Dream" | 1974 December 14 |
| GI-16 | "Sputtering Eagle" | 1974 December 21 |
Season Two (1975)
| PC | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| GI-17 | "Super Gilligan" | 1975 December 7 |
| GI-18 | "Marooned Again" | 1975 September 6 |
| GI-19 | "Live and Let Live" | 1975 September 13 |
| GI-20 | "Wheels on Parade" | 1975 September 20 |
| GI-21 | "The Movie Makers" | 1975 September 27 |
| GI-22 | "Silence Is Leaden" | 1975 October 4 |
| GI-23 | "The Great Train Robbery" | 1975 October 11 |
| GI-24 | "Moderation" | 1975 October 18 |
Production credits
- Creative Director: Don Christensen
- Directed by: Don Towsley, Rudy Larriva, Lou Zukor, Bill Reed
- Storyboard Supervisor: Kay Wright
- Storyboard: Sherman LabbySherman LabbySherman Labby was an American storyboard artist and production illustrator....
, Mike Goodwich, Paul Fessell, Phil Hasey - Educational Advisors: Dr. Nathan Cohen, Sylvia Cohen
- Layout Supervision: Alberto De Mello, Herb Hazleton, Robert Kline
- Key Assistants: Mike Hazy, David West, Ed Hasey
- Layout: Tom Burton, George Goode, Wes Hersechsohn, Les Kaluza, Mel Kiefer, Ken Leonard, Carol Lindberg, John Perry, Mario Filuso, Lorna Smith, Cliff Voorhees, Wendell Washer, Jim Willoughby
- Director of Color: Ervin L. Kaplan
- Background Artists: Paul Xander, Don Peters, Fay Keppler, Rolly Oliva, Doug Stevenson, Tom O'Loughlin, Janey Brown, Barbara Bevedetto
- Animators: Jim Brummett, Zion Davush, Otto Feuer, Ed Friedman, Fred Grable, Dick Hall, Lou Kachevas, Marsh Lamore, Bob Matz, Fred Meyers, Casey Onaitis, Jack Ozark, Bill Pratt, Virgil Raddatz, Len Rogers, Virgil Ross, Louise Sandoval, Larry Silverman, Hank Smith, Ed Soloman, Estuben Timmers, Ron Westlund
- Checking Supervision: Marion Turk, Jane Philippi
- Xerography & Paint Supervision: John Remmel, Betty Brooks
- Camera Supervision: R.W. Pope
- Camera: Thane Berti, F.T. Ziegler, John D. Aardal, Joe Ponticelle, William Koyler, Dean G. Teves, Don Dinehart
- Editorial Supervision: Joseph Simon
- Film Editing: Doreen Dixon, Jim Blodget
- Film Coordinator: June Gilham
- Music and Sound Effects: Horta-Mahana Corporation
- Color by: Technicolor
- The Gilligan Theme and Background Music by: Yvette BlaisRay EllisRay Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conductor. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein.-Biography:...
, Jeff MichaelNorm PrescottNorman "Norm" Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his radio career in the Hub, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as... - Created by: Sherwood SchwartzSherwood SchwartzSherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...
, Executive Consultant - Produced by Lou ScheimerLou ScheimerLouis Scheimer is an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons .-Career:Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed...
, Norm PrescottNorm PrescottNorman "Norm" Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his radio career in the Hub, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as... - (c)1974 Filmation Associates, Inc. - Sherwood Schwartz
DVD release
So far, the premiere episode of The New Adventures of Gilligan, "Off Limits," has been released as part of Warner Home Video'sWarner Home Video
Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...
Saturday Morning Cartoons - 1970s Volume 2 on October 27, 2009. The Complete Series shoud be on DVD for the first time in the spring of 2011.