Gilligan's Island: The Complete Series Collection
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Actor: Alan Hale Jr., Bob Denver, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina LouiseBrand: NEW Line Home Video
Writer: Sherwood Schwartz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 2507 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product features:
- Seven stranded castaways shipwrecked on an uncharted South Pacific island struggle to survive the outdoors, as well as one other, in this wonderfully wacky comedy series. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 053939796124 UPC: 053939796124 Manufacturer No: 1000033416
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DVD Review: great set, but is episode #1 edited?
Summary: 4 Stars
A wonderful set & nice to have all the episodes uncut & without commercial interruptions. However, one possible caveat: I'm not 100% sure but I believe Episode #1 ("Two on a Raft") has been edited, with all the footage that it originally used from the long unseen pilot episode removed. I am rather surprised no one else has mentioned this, which makes me wonder if I am totally correct on this, but here is what I believe:
I remember watching Gilligan as a kid & having seen all episodes repeatedly & having committed most to memory, I am almost certain that in the first episode (not the pilot, but the first one originally aired on TV that we all saw as kids, when the castaways first become marooned), after the shipwreck, there are several scenes that were not present in the episode when I watched it on this DVD set. Originally, there were few scenes that were taken from the pilot episode (the one without Ginger or Mary Ann, & a different Professor) and incorporated into the first episode that has forever been seen in TV airings ("Two on a Raft"). Among these scenes were a short scene of the Howells asking the Skipper to have their luggage removed, and then a discussion ensues about navy charts...Skipper saying the island they are marooned on isn't on any of his navy charts, Howell says he should have gotten his charts from a more reliable source than the US Navy....namely, the Sunnybrook Yacht Club. Another scene involves Skipper & Gilligan exploring the island and Gilligan climbing a cocoanut tree, spotting some "people with a boat", sliding down the tree trunk onto the Skipper (amid falling cocoanuts), and leading Skipper on a mad dash thru the jungle, only to find that the "people" he saw were his fellow castaways standing alongside the SS Minnow!
Another hilarious scene involved Gilligan's loss of the radio & the transmitter into the ocean, and his subsequent hauling in of dozens of large fish, and discovering that both the radio and transmitter had been swallowed by the fish (the scene of Gilligan doing the actual fishing, being pulled thru the sand repeatedly to the water and "wrestling" with the fish he just landed is side-splitting). I distinctly remember these scenes being in the first episode, all occuring just before Gilligan & Skipper take off on the makeshift raft to find help. A year or so ago, when I saw the long-unaired pilot episode on VHS for the first time, these scene were also in that episode as well, meaning that they were re-cycled and used in the original "first" episode we all would see on TV, "Two on a Raft" (except that the scene of the castaways talking into the landed fish in order to find the transmitter had been obviously re-shot to accomodate the new Professor character, and Ginger & Mary Ann). Confused yet??
Okay....so when I watched the "Two on a Raft" episode on this DVD set, all the above mentioned scenes had been cut out! The episode jumped from the scene of the castaways hearing the report of their boat being lost at sea on the radio to Gilligan & Skipper's journey on the raft. No scene of the Howells asking about their luggage being removed & the conversation about Navy charts, no scene of Gilligan up the tree, and no scene of Gilligan & the fish. And I KNOW these scenes were originally IN the episode because I watched them repeatedly as a kid & only saw the unaired pilot a few years ago.
Now, I only watched the first 4-5 episodes & it's POSSIBLE these scenes were farther into the series than I remember (in which case this review is totally wrong!) but I do not think so. I am nearly certain that those scene have always been included in the episode where the castaways first land on the island. I wonder if, when this DVD set was put together and the decision made to include the original unaired pilot, they cut out all the scenes from the "Two on a Raft" episode that were lifted from the pilot, although I cannot imagine why. I feel this set suffers for that, as that was what made the first episode so funny. I do not find the original unaired pilot particularly funny (the original girls that were used were SO unappealing it was scary) and having those scenes available ONLY in that pilot episode is an injustice.
Now, the much of the footage DOES re-appear in the Christmas episode "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk", as the castaways recall how they ended up on the island and flashbacks are utilized, but originally they were in the first episode as well.
If anyone has any info on this, or finds that I'm wrong on this, please feel free to correct. Great set otherwise!
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