Gilligan's Island: The Sweepstakes

Gilligan's Island: The Sweepstakes
CBS
October 14, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
B

This has another "Western" dream sequence, as in "The Sound of Quacking," this time with Mr. Howell dreaming of himself as an old prospector, similar to one of the parts he'd play on The Brady Bunch, although even hammier.  Lovey is the one castaway not in the dream, but I like how she's the one to reveal that Gilligan's sweepstakes ticket would have to be out of date after all that time on the island.  (This is one of those episodes where Mr. Howell turns out to have a heart, although he wishes the Professor could turn it back to stone.)  Thurston and Ginger mildly flirt in the dream by the way, but this is clearly because of his gold mine, since he hasn't had a bath in 40 years.  Gilligan is a marshall, as he was in his own dream.  The most surprising "awake" moment is when the Professor actually calls Mrs. Howell "Lovey," to the shock of both Howells.  Note that Ginger slaps Gilligan twice after he offers her $50,000 (for the membership fee to the Howells' island country club), first thinking he wants a kiss and then thinking he wouldn't want a kiss.  And then when she understands and tries to kiss him, he, that's right, knocks himself out.

Walter Black wrote this episode, as he did "They're Off and Running."