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| Ginger of course vamps the sailor, in hopes of escape. |
CBS
January 9, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
C
The first of five episodes written by David P. Harmon and the only episode directed by Alan Crosland, Jr., this gets marked down not only for the obvious racism but also for the fact that, like the submarine, it doesn't really go anywhere. A Japanese sailor, who doesn't know the War is over, captures the five passengers one by one. Then Gilligan and the Skipper go to rescue them. The sailor is unable to leave in his sub because Gilligan has "storen his grasses." That's it, the entire plot. If it were at least funny, I could forgive some of this. But it's the weakest episode since the pilot. I will note that Mrs. Howell says there may be a Thurston Howell IV, like she's pregnant or at least hoping to be. (The case of TH4 will be addressed later.) And somehow both Wrongway Feldman and the sailor overlapped each other on the island for two decades, apparently without running into each other. (And like Conried's, Scotti's character would return.)
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