Monday, November 9, 2015

Gilligan's Island: The Big Gold Strike

Gilligan's Island: The Big Gold Strike
CBS
November 28, 1964
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Despite an agreement to split everything on the island fairly, Mr. Howell refuses to share the gold he's discovered (with Gilligan's help).  Soon everyone except Gilligan succumbs to gold fever.  Ginger mildly "seduces" Mr. Howell in hopes he'll change his mind, although mostly she tries to appeal to his well hidden spirit of generosity.  When the life raft sinks, thanks to most of the castaways trying to smuggle gold aboard, it's the Professor that Ginger clings to when she claims she can't swim.

Roland Wolpert also wrote "President Gilligan," while this is the first of five episodes Stanley Z. Cherry directed.

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