Gilligan's Island: V for Vitamins

Gilligan's Island: V for Vitamins
CBS
April 14, 1966
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Lots of interesting details in this one.  We find out that oranges, lemons, and grapefruits grow on the island.  The heaviness of the castaways supposedly is, in descending order, the Skipper, Mr. Howell, the Professor, Gilligan, Mrs. Howell, Ginger, and Mary Ann.  Mary Ann thinks she counts as both a woman and a child, which suggests she's probably still under 21, perhaps 18 or 19 at the time of the shipwreck.  When Gilligan dreams of himself in a version of Jack and the Beanstalk, he imagines Mrs. Howell as his disappointed mother, Mr. Howell as a W.C.-Fields-sounding conman, the Skipper as a giant, Mary Ann as a maid (in a skimpy French maid costume), and the Professor and Ginger as old people.  Some shipping notes: Gilligan's reluctant kiss transforms Ginger into a beautiful princess, but Mary Ann's kiss does not have the equivalent effect on the Professor.  In conscious life, Gilligan doesn't knock himself out when Ginger kisses him (to get what everyone thinks is the last orange on the island), but he doesn't really respond either.  The Professor, however, gallantly replies to Ginger's remark about not looking like she has a vitamin deficiency, "Ginger, you don't look like you have any kind of deficiency."

Bob's little son Patrick Denver (then five or six) plays the version of Jack that is onscreen at same time as the Skipper.  Also, not counting the Pilot, since it didn't air till much later, this is the 66th episode and it aired in '66.