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| For those keeping track, it's Gilligan/Ginger well in the lead. |
CBS
November 7, 1964
Sitcom
DVD
B-
This is mainly notable for the first of many dream sequences. Gilligan, in a parody of Westerns, is protecting his pet duck from the others (including the Professor, who's on his side in real life). You see, there's a blight on the island and the duck seems to be the only food around. (The blight plot isn't really resolved, but I guess, like so much else on the island, it's temporary.) In the dream, Gilligan is the sheriff, the Skipper his deputy (role reversal), the Professor and Mr. Howell the lynch mob, while Mrs. Howell is the Spanish or Mexican wife of Mr. Howell, Mary Ann the schoolmarm (and possibly Gilligan's fiancee), and Ginger is of course the seductive saloon-hall girl. In his dream, Gilligan can admit what he hasn't yet in real life: that he wishes he could "have fun" with Ginger. The costumes in the dream are good, and the black and white works well here, genre appropriate.
Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman again are co-writers, while Tom Montgomery directs his first GI episode.
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