Rescue From Gilligan's Island

• Director: Leslie Martinson
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Comedy of Errors
• Themes: Stranded
• Main Cast: Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Russell Johnson, Natalie Schafer, Vincent Schiavelli, Dawn Wells
• Release Year: 1978
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow returned to the small screen in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. The cast remains the same, with one significant change. Bob Denver plays inveterate bumbler Gilligan, Alan Hale is the long-suffering Skipper, Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer are the fabulously wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell III, Russell Johnson is the resourceful Professor, and Dawn Wells, as perky as ever, is Mary Ann. Tina Louise wanted no part of any Gilligan's Island reunion, so her role-perennial starlet Ginger Grant-is filled by Judith Baldwyn. The premise: a huge tidal wave transports the seven castaways back to civilization. While they're thrilled to be back in the real world, none of the seven are able to adjust to life outside the island....least of all Gilligan, who on top of all his other problems must contend with a pair of enemy agents (Vincent Schiavelli and Art LeFleur). Conceived as a two-hour pilot film for a weekly revival that never materialized, Rescue from Gilligan's Island was originally telecast in two ratings-grabbing 60 minute installments, shown on October 14 and 21, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Lewis Arquette - Judge; Jim Backus - Thurston Howell III; Judith Baldwin - Ginger Grant; Norman Bartold - Producer; Bob Denver - Gilligan; Michael Flanagan - Director; Mary Gregory - Mrs. Devonshire; Russell Johnson - Professor Hinkley; Art La Fleur - Ivan; Mario Machado - Reporter (uncredited); Michael Macready - FBI Man #2; Barbara Mallory - Cindy Smith; Don Marshall - FBI Man #1; Alisa Powell - Pom Pom Girl; Alex Rodine - 1st Officer; Victor Rogers - Mr. Fellows; Martin Rudy - Dean; Natalie Schafer - Lovey Howell; Dawn Wells - Mary Ann Summers; John Wheeler - Studio Guard; Robert Wood - Tony; Alan Hale, Jr. - Skipper; Vincent Schiavelli - Dimitri; Snag Werris - Camera Man

Credit

Stan Jolley - Art Director, Leslie Martinson - Director, Marshall Neilan, Jr. - Editor, Sherwood Schwartz - Executive Producer, Gerald Fried - Composer (Music Score), Sherwood Schwartz - Composer (Music Score), George Wylie - Composer (Music Score), Robert Primes - Cinematographer, Lloyd Schwartz - Producer, David P. Harmon - Screenwriter, Al Schwartz - Screenwriter, Sherwood Schwartz - Screenwriter, Elroy Schwartz - Screenwriter

Similar Movies

The Nude Bomb; Return to Mayberry; Get Smart, Again!; Return to Green Acres; Project: ALF; Back to the Beach; The Beverly Hillbillies