Sunday, December 13, 2015

Gilligan's Island: And Then There Were None

Gilligan's Island: And Then There Were None
CBS
December 5, 1966
Sitcom
DVD
B-

This is Ron Friedman's second GI script and is similar to his "Up at Bat" in that Gilligan imagines he's a monster, in this case Jekyll & Hyde in Victorian London, with everyone doing their best British accents.  Airing as this did one week after "The Kidnapper," it seems odd, not to mention racist, for the Professor to assume that people are disappearing because of head-hunters, but the next conclusion he jumps to, that one of the four men is secretly a killer, is even more implausible.  At this point in the series though, he's definitely the leader and no one really questions him.  Shipping note, Mr. Howell and Ginger, the latter as The Lady in Red, flirt like crazy in Gilligan's dream, while Mary Ann, as Eliza Doolittle, is of course the one person who's on Gilligan's side.  Oh, and this is an episode where Gilligan is in drag in one scene.

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