Gilligan's Island: Diamonds Are an Ape's Best FriendCBS
February 27, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
C+
This is the first of Janos Prohaska's appearances as an ape on GI. (He was Clyde in Bikini Beach and often portrayed animals.) His impression and costume are pretty good by the special effects standards of the show. (The Kurt Russell episode had a lot of really obvious wire-work.) But I have to say that the whole thing of an ape choosing Mrs. Howell, and then a perfume-soaked Gilligan as his mate, is pretty twisted, even for the time. When the Professor urges decoy Ginger to be "sexier" for the ape, it's even more bizarre. I do like how Mr. Howell puts his love for Lovey above his love for money. ($10,000 is left sitting on the table and no one takes it, despite their sometime greed.)
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