Gilligan's Island

Beauty Is as Beauty Does - S2-E2

Trivia: This is one of the few episodes where being rescued is not mentioned or brought up at all in the whole episode (or as its potential purpose). Instead, the focus is only on the beauty contest.

The Sweepstakes - S2-E5

Trivia: This is the only episode with a dream sequence that does NOT include all seven castaways in the dream. Mrs. Howell does not appear in the dream in this episode.

Man with a Net - S3-E7

Revealing mistake: Near the end of the episode, all the castaways are passed out cold when Lord Beasley finally catches his butterfly. Right after saying the line "That's the trouble with you Americans - you simply don't know how to hold your tea" as he's exiting off camera, Mrs. Howell starts to open her eyes slightly, but then quickly shuts them again. Perhaps she thought the cameras stopped rolling.

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Ginger Grant: Well, if you're not sure about that, you have got a problem.

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Question: Why did the Howells, Ginger and Mary Ann have so many changes of clothes with them? It was only a three hour tour.

Answer: Bob Denver answered this when he was on a talk show hosted by Pat Sajak. He said they were going to write into an episode where the castaways found all these clothes, but it got too complicated, so he said, they decided, "who cares, it's only a TV show," and forgot about it. So the writers and actors even asked this, they just never bothered to address it.

Answer: I've been binge watching it, and a couple of times trunks with costumes have washed ashore, and in one episode the professor figured out how to make thread for weaving cloth.

Answer: It was a running gag about how out of touch with reality they are, because they are so rich, that they think they need to bring an extensive wardrobe with them everywhere they go.

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