Gilligan's Island: It's a Bird, It's a Plane

Gilligan's Island: It's a Bird, It's a Plane
CBS
March 27, 1967
Sitcom
DVD
B-

While this episode is pretty funny, including things I'm impressed they got by the censors (Mr. Howell scolding the Professor for saying the word "potency" in front of Mrs. Howell, Ginger kissing Gilligan into a stupor), it does bother me that the girls and the Howells try to trick Gilligan into risking his life with the jet-pack.  This is, by the way, another of the episodes influenced by the space race.

It's the last collaboration of three by Sam Locke and Joel Rapp.  Chick Hearn plays the Radio Announcer this time.

Gilligan's Island: Splashdown

Gratuitous cheesecake scene.

Gilligan's Island: Splashdown
CBS
February 20, 1967
Sitcom
DVD
B-

John Fenton Murray's second GI script has quite a bit of "implausible even for Gilligan's Island" about it, but it is interesting to see the girls and the Howells try to sneak aboard the space capsule.  And it's an overall typical but entertaining episode.  But, no, I don't know why they can't use the phosphoric rocks from the earlier episode to spell out SOS, or why Gilligan doesn't know what SOS means, or why....

James Spencer, who plays Ryan, was Copilot earlier, while George N. Neise is a NASA Official here and was an interviewer earlier.  Sportscaster Chick Hearn is a Commentator here and would be a Radio Announcer later, although it's his appearance in the final GI TV-movie that I really remember.