Revealing mistake: After the Skipper tosses the sail into the water, look at the background. On the right side of the shot, the bottom of the backdrop is easily seen, showing this scene is filmed in a huge water tank set.
Movie Nut
7th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
7th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Revealing mistake: When the shark is attacking Gilligan's oar the second time, it stops completely for a couple of seconds.
7th Jan 2016
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Revealing mistake: As the shark goes by the floating bottle and towards the camera, the underwater rail the prop shark rides on is obvious.
14th Aug 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
28th Jul 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Revealing mistake: When Mr. Howell and the Professor are thrown by Gilligan and the Skipper, during the struggle you can see Gilligan flying in from the right side. But it can easily see that it is a dummy in Gilligan's clothes.
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."
11th Apr 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Operation: Steam Heat - S2-E25
Revealing mistake: After Gilligan says his line about the earth swallowing them all up, an explosion rocks the area. Between the end of the line, and the rocking, there's a split second of blackness indicating a cut between the line and the action.
12th Mar 2015
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Revealing mistake: Any time you see the vines used for different purposes, it's painfully obvious that they're very poorly disguised rope, such as the ones the Skipper and Professor use to rock the boat mock-up in the episode "Quick, Before It Sinks."
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.
8th Aug 2014
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Topsy-Turvy - S3-E10
Factual error: When looking at the machetes the headhunters had, you can see the molded plastic handles on them. The natives wouldn't have access to such things.
16th Feb 2014
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Other mistake: All of their sheets were the same type. The sheet that the "Ghost" supposedly took from them was more silken, not the regular knit.
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
Revealing mistake: When Gilligan and Ginger are in the cave at the volcano, you can see that the steam in the two passageway openings behind them is being shot in from jet nozzles.
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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