Gilligan's Island (beginning pilot)

Air date

 * September 25, 1964

Plot
It goes back one summer when the Skipper Jonas Grumby and Willy Gilligan were running a tour boat service. One day, the two friends had five guests booked for a three hour tour. There was a professor (Roy Hinkley), a millionaire (Thurston Howell, III), and his wife (Lovey Howell), a movie star (Ginger Grant) and some other girl (Mary Ann Summers). After they do a introduction dance for their guests, the Skipper and Gillgan begin their tour. As they are out at sea, the Skipper asks Gilligan if he can take the wheel while he checks on the guests. As Gilligan takes the wheel, he begins to daydream of being a Russian ice breaking pirate by the name of Gilligan Romanov. He imagines that there are two great whales stuck in ice and his only way of saving them are smashing through an iceberg. Suddenly, the Skipper breaks the daydreaming by asking Gilligan if he wants a snow cone. Suddenly, Gilligan rams the boat into a rock thinking it's an iceberg.

As everyone is launched from the boat and onto a nearby tropical island, everyone begins to punish Gilligan and ask him why he would smash the boat. Gilligan states he did so because of his daydream. Soon, the boat sinks, leaving everyone with no means transportation. Later that night, everyone makes bamboo huts as living quarters. As Gilligan lies in his hammock at night, he tells the Skipper that life on the island isn't so bad. The Skipper very angrily tells Gilligan that everyone is stuck on the island with no way home. Gilligan asks for the Skipper's forgiveness, but the Skipper says it's not good enough. Upset with everyone, Gilligan leaves the campsite and finds a way of the island.

The next morning, everyone wakes up to find no sight of Gilligan. Soon, the Professor comes back with a catapult that will supposedly fling everyone back home. He demonstrates by using a coconut. He flings the coconut which hits the Skipper, who is on a palm tree looking for Gilligan, and makes him fall into Mr. Howell's hut. The Skipper is angry for the Professor's catapult while Mr. Howell is angry at the Skipper for destroying his hut. The Professor asks the Skipper for forgiveness while the Skipper asks for Mr. Howel's forgiveness. Both men forgive each other, but they soon remember that Gilligan asked for forgiveness about the boat but they wouldn't do so.

Realizing what wrong they've done to drive Gilligan away, the gang head out through the entire island to search for Gilligan. As they find him on the other side of the island, they see Gilligan has made a small raft and is trying to head back home by himself. They say they're sorry which makes him come back to shore. They also ask forgiveness for not forgiving him. Gilligan forgives the gang and suddenly a voice echoes out. The voice belongs to a palm tree named Palmy and he begins to sing a song about forgiveness. Suddenly, the Professor comes around with a helicopter he invented. Everyone (except Palmy of course) climbs up the helicopter's ladder and they all fly home. Gilligan tells the Skipper that next summer that they will sell lemonade like everyone else.