Continuity mistake: After the shark bites Gilligan's paddle and he holds it up, the amount of wood between the handle's connection and the bite differs from shot to shot.
Movie Nut
17th Apr 2019
Gilligan's Island (1964)
17th Apr 2019
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: As they struggle with the sail, Skipper's hat is backwards. After a shot of the shark, his hat's on right as he tosses the sail.
16th Jun 2017
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: As the raft starts to sink, Lovey goes into the water on the back side of the raft. When the camera is in a close up of Mr. Howell, she's sitting beside him again. Then she's neck-deep in the water in the next wide shot.
3rd Feb 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
The Hunter - S3-E18
Continuity mistake: The target Ramu draws has a small mark in the center. A moment later, the mark is broad and runs top to bottom through the small circle.
3rd Feb 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
The Hunter - S3-E18
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Howell talks to Ramu, he holds the spear waist high, and beside Lovey. After her question, the spear is suddenly chest high, and aimed about the top of her chest.
3rd Feb 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Pass the Vegetables, Please - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: The compound of huts seems to be very close to the beach, as the Professor, Skipper and Gilligan look out and can see it. Other times, it's a fair distance away through the jungle and obscured.
3rd Feb 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Pass the Vegetables, Please - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: As the camera is close up on the radio, Mary Ann's hand is down on the table. In the wide shot, it's suddenly up holding a fork.
13th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Big Man on a Little Stick - S1-E22
Continuity mistake: As the Professor sends Duke off, he gives the island's position as 110° Latitude, 10° Longitude. In "X Marks the Spot" (S1: E: 19), the position is given as 140° Latitude, 10° Longitude.
13th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
St. Gilligan and the Dragon - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: As the women are packing up to move out, Mr. Howell says he and Lovey have been married for nineteen years. As the men are trying to get to sleep, he says they were married twenty-two years.
13th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: The bill referred to by Lovey when the Skipper and Thurston are arguing changes from stage money to a real one dollar bill, and back between shots.
7th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: As the rock that triggers the trap is pulled, the vine used slides completely off it. In the wide shot, the vine is securely around the trigger rock.
27th Jul 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Pass the Vegetables, Please - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: The radiation meter the Professor reads disappears between shots.
27th Jul 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: There are several shots of the island used in the series. In the opening, it appears small. In some inland shots it appears immense and mountainous, despite being described numerous times as a "tiny island somewhere in the Pacific."
21st Jan 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: At the end after Gilligan pretends to throw away the Eye of the Idol, everyone gets up to look for it. As the Professor gets up, Gilligan gestures to him. In the next second, his arms are on the table.
16th Feb 2014
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Operation: Steam Heat - S2-E25
Continuity mistake: The professor wound the clock on the bomb by turning the hand to nine. A second after it was tossed in, it reads eight. It then takes about about fifteen seconds between the numbers to get to zero.
16th Feb 2014
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Operation: Steam Heat - S2-E25
Continuity mistake: When Howell is talking to Gilligan, the ground apparently trembles due to a volcano. Before the rumble, Howell's Safari hat brim is bent up on the left side. After the cut to the Professor, the right side is bent upward.
23rd Oct 2013
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Continuity mistake: The professor is put under a trance, referred to as "zombiefied." When it first happens, the professor is looking to his left. Later on, he's looking straight ahead.
23rd Oct 2013
Gilligan's Island (1964)
The Producer - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: Harold Hecuba (a.k.a. H.H.) goes out to change costumes. When he comes in as Ophelia the stage door first closes behind him, then falls off the hinges. The shot cuts to the Castaways, then back to H.H., and the door is back on the hinges.
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