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{{Infobox television season
| show_name =
| season_name = Gilligan's Island (season 1)
| season_number =
| bgcolour = #004488
| image = Season-1-Cover-Front.jpg
| image_alt =
| caption = Season 1 DVD Case Cover
| starring =
| country = United States
| num_episodes = 36
| network = [[CBS]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1964|09|26}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1965|06|12}}
| next_season = [[Gilligan's Island (season 2)|Season 2]]
| episode_list = List of Gilligan's Island episodes
}}

The first season of the American comedy television series ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' commenced airing in the United States on September 26, 1964 and concluded on June 12, 1965 on [[CBS]]. The season introduces the audience to the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive and escape from an island on which they had been shipwrecked. Most episodes revolve around the dissimilar castaways' conflicts and their failed attempts—invariably Gilligan's fault—to escape their plight. The season originally aired on Saturdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST).

==Production==
Executive producers for the first season of ''Gilligan's Island'' included William Frough and series creator [[Sherwood Schwartz]].<ref name=prodbook>[[#McFarland|Berard and Englund (2009)]], p. 126.</ref> Filming of the season took place at the [[CBS]] [[CBS Studio Center|Radford Studios]] complex in [[Studio City, Los Angeles|Studio City, Los Angeles California]].<ref name=studios>{{cite web|url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/TVstudios/CBSstudioCenter.shtml |title=CBS Studio Center |publisher=Seeing-Stars.com |accessdate=October 17, 2009}}</ref> This complex contained 17 sound stages, as well as special effects and prop departments.<ref>{{cite web|title=CBS Buys Republic Lot|url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1014503405?accountid=14556|work=Broadcasting|accessdate=November 18, 2013|date=February 27, 1967}} {{subscription required}}</ref> On one stage, a lagoon had been constructed by the production company "at great expense".<ref name=pavement/> According to [[Bob Denver]], the crew would spend half of their days filming scenes in the lagoon. Shots and sequences involving the characters' were filmed in a different soundstage.<ref name=pavement>{{cite news|last=Walstad|first=David|title=Civilization Takes Over 'Gilligan's' Lagoon|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-07/entertainment/ca-32412_1_cbs-studio-center|accessdate=November 18, 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|publisher=Tribune Company|date=August 7, 1995}}</ref> After the series' cancellation, the show's lagoon was not dismantled, and it remained in place until 1995, when it was converted into a parking lot.<ref name=studios/><ref name=pavement/>

==Cast==
The series employed an ensemble cast of seven main actors and actresses.<ref>[[#Tucker|Tucker (2010)]], p. 89.</ref> Denver played the role of the titular [[Gilligan (Gilligan's Island)|First Mate Gilligan]], a bumbling, naive, and accident-prone crewman who often messes up the castaways chances of rescue. [[Alan Hale Jr.|Alan Hale, Jr.]] portrayed [[The Skipper]], captain of the [[S. S. Minnow|S.S. ''Minnow'']] and the older friend of Gilligan. [[Jim Backus]] appeared as [[Thurston Howell III]], a millionaire, and [[Natalie Schafer]] played his wife, [[Lovey Howell|Eunice Lovelle Wentworth Howell]]. [[Tina Louise]] played the role [[Ginger Grant]], a famous movie star. [[Russell Johnson]] portrayed [[The Professor (Gilligan's Island)|Professor Roy Hinkley, Ph.D.]], a high school science teacher who often uses his scientific background to try to find ways to get the castaways off the island. [[Dawn Wells]] played [[Mary Ann Summers]], wholesome farm girl from Kansas.<ref name=castinfo>[[#Schwartz|Schwartz (2009)]], pp. 49–64.</ref> [[Charles Maxwell]] was the uncredited voice of the radio announcer, who the castaways would often listen to via their radio.<ref>[[#Chance|Chance (2011)]], p. 546.</ref>

==Broadcast history==
The season aired Saturdays from 8:30-9:00 pm (EST) on CBS. It was the only season filmed in black-and-white.

==DVD release==
The DVD was released by Warner Home Video.

==Episodes==
{{see also|List of Gilligan's Island episodes}}
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! scope="col"| No. in<br />Season
! scope="col"| Title
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! scope="col"| Original Air Date

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Two_on_a_Raft.jpg|01|01|[[Two on a Raft]]|[[John Rich]]|[[Lawrence J. Cohen]] & [[Fred Freeman]]|
{{start date|1964|09|26}}
|Following a violent storm that maroons crew and passengers on an uncharted island, the Skipper ([[Alan Hale Jr.]]) and Gilligan ([[Bob Denver]]) sail for help on a raft, only to wind up back on the same island—an important fact of which they are unaware.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Home_Sweet_Hut.jpg|02|02|[[Home Sweet Hut]]|[[Richard Donner]]|[[Bill Davenport]] & [[Charles Tannen]]|
{{start date|1964|10|03}}
|The castaways build a hut for all, but tensions mount and soon they all build their own huts.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gilligan_Chimp.jpg|03|03|[[Voodoo Something to Me]]|[[John Rich]]|[[Austin Kalish]] & [[Elroy Schwartz]]|
{{start date|1964|10|10}}
|Skipper believes the island is under the spell of Voodoo and that Gilligan has been turned into a chimp.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Goodnight_Sweet_Skipper.jpg|04|04|[[Goodnight Sweet Skipper|Goodnight, Sweet Skipper]]|[[Ida Lupino]]|[[Dick Conway]] & [[Roland MacLane]]|
{{start date|1964|10|17}}
|Skipper turns the radio into a transmitter. The catch is that he can only do it when he sleepwalks. With [[June Foray]] as the voice of aviatrix Alice McNeil.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Wrongway_Fieldman_2.jpg|05|05|[[Wrongway Feldman (Episode)]]|[[Ida Lupino]]|[[Fred Freeman]] & [[Lawrence J. Cohen]]|
{{start date|1964|10|24}}
|Famed aviator Wrongway Feldman is discovered living on the island. The castaways help him fix his plane so he can fly for help. Wrongway gets back to civilization after nearly 30 years, but his directions are so inexact that "Gilligan's Island" is located anywhere from the Bay of Naples to the Arctic Ocean!
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Presidentgilligan.jpg|06|06|[[President Gilligan]]|[[Richard Donner]]|[[Roland Wolpert]]|
{{start date|1964|10|31}}
|When Mr. Howell and the Skipper square off over who is in charge, the castaways decide they need to elect a leader.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Thesoundofquacking.jpg|07|07|[[The Sound of Quacking]]|[[Thomas Montgomery]]|[[Lawrence J. Cohen]] & [[Fred Freeman]]|
{{start date|1964|11|07}}
|A duck lands on the island. Food is scarce, but Gilligan is determined to protect the duck. [[Mel Blanc]] voices the duck. Ironically, the dream sequence was filmed on the set of ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', which replaced ''Gilligan's Island'' in its time slot for season 4, cancelling the show.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|E0108.jpg|08|08|[[Goodbye Island]]|[[John Rich]]|[[Albert E. Lewin]] & [[Burt Styler]]|
{{start date|1964|11|21}}
|Gilligan discovers the perfect, permanent glue when trying to make pancake syrup. His goofy glue, however, turns out to be temporary instead of permanent and the Minnow breaks apart.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gold.jpg|09|09|[[The Big Gold Strike]]|[[Stanley Z. Cherry]]|[[Roland Wolpert]]|
{{start date|1964|11|28}}
|Mr. Howell and Gilligan discover a gold mine on the island. Soon everyone has "gold fever".
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Kona.jpg|10|10|[[Waiting for Watubi]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Fred Freeman]] & [[Lawrence J. Cohen]]|
{{start date|1964|12|05}}
|Skipper finds a tiki idol, a small statue of Kona, the god of evil. Skipper believes he is cursed. Only a visit from Watubi can lift the spell.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Epi_AotI.jpg|11|11|[[Angel on the Island]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Herbert Finn]] & [[Alan Dinehart]]|
{{start date|1964|12|12}}
|Mr. Howell agrees to back Ginger's off-Broadway, on-island show. However, his wife soon believes that ''she'' should be the star of her husband's show.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|E0112.jpg|12|12|[[Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk]]|[[Rod Amateau]]|[[Sherwood Schwartz]] and [[Austin Kalish]] and [[Elroy Schwartz]]|
{{start date|1964|12|19}}
|It's the first Christmas on the island and the castaways remember their first days on the island. Soon Santa visits to remind them of what they have to be thankful for, but is he really Skipper in disguise?
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Epi-TM$MoL.jpg|13|13|[[Three Million Dollars More or Less]]|[[Thomas Montgomery]]|''Teleplay by'': [[Bill Davenport]] & [[Charles Tannen]]<br />''Story by'': [[Sam Locke]] & [[Joel Rapp]]|
{{start date|1964|12|26}}
|Gilligan wins $3 million from Mr. Howell in a putting contest.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Water_epi.jpg|14|14|[[Water Water Everywhere|Water, Water Everywhere]]|[[Stanley Z. Cherry]]|[[Tom Waldman]] & [[Frank Waldman]]|
{{start date|1965|01|02}}
|Drinking water is suddenly scarce. Gilligan doesn't seem to do anything right until he finds a frog that comes to the rescue. [[Mel Blanc]] voices Froggy.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi71.png|15|15|[[So Sorry, My Island Now]]|[[Alan Crosland, Jr.]]|[[David P. Harmon]]|
{{start date|1965|01|09}}
|A Japanese sailor ([[Vito Scotti]] in his first of four guest appearances) captures everyone except Gilligan and the Skipper. They then try to use his submarine to return to civilization.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Chest_epi-PYN,DYL.jpg|16|16|[[Plant You Now, Dig You Later]]|[[Lawrence Dobkin]]|[[Elroy Schwartz]] & [[Oliver Crawford]]|
{{start date|1965|01|16}}
|Gilligan uncovers a treasure chest while digging a pit for Mr. Howell. A court is held, with the professor as the judge to decide rightful ownership.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Big-Gun.jpg|17|17|[[Little Island, Big Gun]]|[[Abner Biberman]]|[[Dick Conway]] & [[Roland MacLane]]|
{{start date|1965|01|23}}
|Trying to evade the police after a heist, a gangster ([[Larry Storch]]) is dropped off on the island, planning to hide out for a while. Discovering that the island is occupied, he poses as a doctor. When he is found out, the castaways get a firsthand taste of gangster culture.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|X-MtS_epi.jpg|18|18|[[X Marks the Spot|'X' Marks the Spot]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Sherwood Schwartz]] & [[Elroy Schwartz]]|
{{start date|1965|01|30}}
|The island is the target of a new Air Force missile, but it doesn't explode when it lands. Now Gilligan is the only one who can defuse it.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Epi_GMJB.jpg|19|19|[[Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy]]|[[Lawrence Dobkin]]|[[Al Schwartz]] and [[Howard Merrill]] & [[Howard Harris]]|
{{start date|1965|02|06}}
|[[Kurt Russell]] is the Jungle Boy, a lad found living in the jungle. They accidentally send him back to civilization ''alone'' in a homemade balloon before they get finished teaching him English.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|St.Gill.jpg|20|20|[[St. Gilligan and the Dragon]]|[[Richard Donner]]|[[Arnold Peyser|Arnold]] & [[Lois Peyser]]|
{{start date|1965|02|13}}
|The women tire of being held subservient to the men and decide to separate and build their own camp. The men realize how much they need the women, and so they try to scare the women back.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Epi_BMoaLS.jpg|21|21|[[Big Man on a Little Stick]]|[[Tony Leader]]|[[Charles Tannen]] & [[Lou Huston]]|
{{start date|1965|02|20}}
|Super Surfer Duke Williams rides a tsunami onto the island, and off again.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Epi_DAaABF.jpg|22|22|[[Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Elroy Schwartz]]|
{{start date|1965|02|27}}
|A gorilla is loose on the island, and he likes Mrs. Howell because of her perfume.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi07.png|23|23|[[How to Be a Hero]]|[[Tony Leader]]|[[Herbert Finn]] & [[Alan Dinehart]]|
{{start date|1965|03|06}}
|Gilligan has to be rescued while he is rescuing Mary Ann. This failure leaves him feeling down in the dumps so the other castaways devise ways to try to make him feel like a hero. However he has the chance to be a real hero when a headhunter arrives on the island.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|WWF2.jpg|24|24|[[The Return of Wrongway Feldman]]|[[Ida Lupino]] and [[Gene Nelson]]|[[Lawrence J. Cohen]] & [[Fred Freeman]]|
{{start date|1965|03|13}}
|Wrongway is back, this time trying to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world. So now the castaways must convince him that civilization is better than life on the island. They try various schemes to get him to return to civilization and rescue them.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Matchmaker.jpg|25|25|[[The Matchmaker]]|[[Tony Leader]]|[[Joanna Lee]]|
{{start date|1965|03|20}}
|Mrs. Howell misses the busy social season of civilization, so she tries to pair up Gilligan and Mary Ann. This ends up creating trouble in the family between Mr. and Mrs. Howell resulting in a temporary battle between all the group until the castaways decide to recreate the scene of Mr. Howell's proposal: a fancy French restaurant called the Tour D'Argent.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi53.png|26|26|[[Music Hath Charms]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Al Schwartz]] & [[Howard Harris]]|
{{start date|1965|03|27}}
|Mrs. Howell wants to civilize the island with an orchestra. But the sounds attract the wrong kind of audience.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi08.jpg|27|27|[[New Neighbor Sam]]|[[Thomas Montgomery]]|[[Charles Tannen]] & [[George O'Hanlon]]|
{{start date|1965|04|03}}
|The castaways are hearing voices of gangsters, but it turns out to be a parrot. [[Mel Blanc]] voices the parrot.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi09.png|28|28|[[They're Off and Running]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Walter Black]]|
{{start date|1965|04|10}}
|The Skipper loses Gilligan to Mr. Howell wagering on turtle races.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi10.jpg|29|29|[[Three to Get Ready]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[David P. Harmon]]|
{{start date|1965|04|17}}
|Gilligan finds a lucky stone, "The Eye of the Idol", that entitles him to three wishes before the end of the day. But, he loses it and they have to find it before sundown.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi13.png|30|30|[[Forget Me Not]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Herbert Margolis]]|
{{start date|1965|04|24}}
|The Skipper has amnesia and the Professor resorts to hypnosis to cure him. However, trouble ensues as he keeps missing the moment of memory at which the Skipper should be.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi06.png|31|31|[[Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?]]|[[Christian Nyby]]|[[David P. Harmon]]|
{{start date|1965|05|01}}
| Gilligan is keeping a diary, and everyone wants to know what he has to say. When he refuses everyone writes their own diary. Everyone remembers the day the Japanese sailor came differently.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi05.jpg|32|32|[[Physical Fatness]]|[[Gary Nelson]]|[[Herbert Finn]] & [[Alan Dinehart]]|
{{start date|1965|05|08}}
|When rescue looks imminent Gilligan helps the Skipper lose enough weight to get back into the navy once they are rescued. Also, they help Gilligan gain weight so he too can return to navy life.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Gi03.png|33|33|[[It's Magic]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[Al Schwartz]] & [[Bruce Howard]]|
{{start date|1965|05|15}}
|A magician's trunk washes ashore and the castaways learn tricks to scare away natives. But after Gilligan caused trouble with a magic trick, he hides out in a cave and the castaways try to get him back.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|Dubov_Paing.jpg|34|34|[[Goodbye Old Paint|Goodbye, Old Paint]]|[[Jack Arnold]]|[[David P. Harmon]]|
{{start date|1965|05|22}}
|Dubov, a reclusive, snobbish painter, is found on the island. To convince him to return to civilization, they set up Gilligan as a rival avant-garde artist. (This episode was not broadcast in syndication during the 1970s)
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|G54.jpg|35|35|[[My Fair Gilligan]]|[[Tony Leader]]|[[Joanna Lee]]|
{{start date|1965|06|05}}
|Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life and the Howells decide to adopt him, and change him into "Gilligan Thurston Howell IV"—an endeavor which results in problems for all concerned.
}}

{{
EpisodeRow|#004488|E0136.jpg|36|36|[[A Nose by Any Other Name]]|[[Hal Cooper]]|[[Elroy Schwartz]]|
{{start date|1965|06|12}}
|Gilligan's nose swells and his ego fades after he falls out of a coconut tree. He insists that the professor perform plastic surgery on his now deformed nose.
}}
|}
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==Footnotes==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==References==
{{refbegin|2}}
*{{cite book|last=Berard|first=Jeanette|title=Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992|year=2009|publisher=McFarland]isbn=978-0786454372|author2=Englund, Klaudia|ref=McFarland}}
*{{Cite book|author=Chance, Norman|title=Who Was Who on TV, Volume 1|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|year=2010|ref=Chance|isbn=978-1456821296}}
*{{cite book|last=Morowitz|first=Laura|title=Critiquing the Sitcom: A Reader|year=2003|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0815629832|editor=Morreale, Joanne|chapter=From Ganguin to ''Gilligan's Island''|ref=Morreale}}
*{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Sherwood|title=Inside Gilligan's Island|year=1988|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0312104825|ref=Schwartz}}
*{{cite book|last=Stoddard|first=Sylvia|year=1996|title=TV Treasures – A Companion Guide to Gilligan's Island|publisher=St Martin's Press|isbn=978-0312957971|ref=Stoddard}}
*{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=David|title=Lost Laughs of '50S and '60S Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen|year=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786455829|ref=Tucker}}
{{refend}}

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