Rescue from Gilligan's Island

Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)

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Corrected entry: Before the storm, the Professor said that his equipment and the radio hadn't worked for ten years, and after getting to Hawaii, they were confused by the procession of presidents. Yet, the radio, when it was working, would have kept them up to date on all of the events up to the tome that it stopped working. Even then, the professor could have repaired it.

Movie Nut

Correction: In ten years the presidency would have switched at least twice so no mistake there. Also, the professor did not have the ability to fix the radio since he didn't have proper tools.

Corrected entry: They've been stranded for 15 years. So this takes place during the mid-late 70s after Watergate. Yet the Howell's and MaryAnn are the only ones who haven't aged or changed their look a bit, while the others look appropriate for the time gap.

eaglegrad16

Correction: The actors did not go into suspended animation after the show ended. The show began in 1964. The movie was shown in 1978. All the actors are fourteen years older just like their characters. The fact that some of them aged better than others is definitely not a mistake.

Correction: The actors who played the Howells were in their 50s and 60s during the shows original run. Most people after 50 (or definitely 60) don't look too much different if they age 10-15 years. Mary Ann DID look a bit older but was still only 40 during this movie and Ginger was played by a different actress Judith Baldwin (who was younger than the original Ginger Tina Louise explaining that). Others were more middle-aged so you can tell the difference easier.

Other mistake: When Gilligan wakes up and tells everybody his dream, he hums the theme song from the movie Jaws. Nobody left the island yet so there's no way he'd know about the movie or even the music to it.

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Suggested correction: The castaways had a radio which always gave them information on the outside world (since being shipwrecked). Although usually the Professor used it the most, Gilligan has been seen in the original series listening to it himself, so he could have heard about the movie (out 3 years before the rescue) while still on the island.

Except that the Professor said that the radio hasn't worked in over ten years so Gilligan humming the theme song to Jaws would be impossible and all other current events wouldn't be known to the others either as they are asking about Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Ginger asking about Watergate thinking it's the last name of a person.

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Mary Ann: He didn't mean any harm, Skipper.
Skipper: Neither did the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.

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Trivia: A suggestion was made that the plot for this movie should have Gilligan and the Skipper tracking down and getting even with most of the people who visited the island and never telling anyone about them, and making them stay longer.

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Question: How did Honolulu know that it was the castaways on that boat hut so fast? How did all those people get to greet them get there so fast?

Answer: When the Coast Guard chopper found them they radioed ahead, that they found the castaways that went missing all those years ago.

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