Review of Gilligan's Island

Wow, I have not been following these DVD TV sets closely until just recently. For under 20.00 (plus a rebate on top of that!) to get an entire season of one of my all time favorite shows is a no brainer. Gilligan's Island for me, now a 41-ish man means I watched season two and three ad nausea after school in the 70's, with an occasional season one "rare" treat. Now, I started watching this show when I was at the there is a Santa Claus age and the concept of reruns really had not conceptualized in my thoughts. To me, getting home from school, it was must see TV. Why did I want to watch so badly? TO SEE IF THEY GOT OFF THAT FREAKIN ISLAND! I remember the hours of contemplating, "if only Gilligan had not put that rabbit foot in that robot, oh man they were SO CLOSE!", "If only they had not been coated with those feathers when NASA tuned on its satellite, OH THEY WERE SO CLOSE!", "How could those people leave them on the island, OH MY THEY ARE SO MEAN!" LOL I swear to God this show was more than comedy for me, it was an adventure. It was also eye candy and I mean Dawn Wells eye candy, oh man was she my fantasy (still is!). I blame watching Gilligan's Island for my choice in choosing brunettes my whole life, it really influenced my life! And I can probably credit the Professor (With a healthy dose of Star Trek and Scotty) for making me interested in working in a technical field as an adult (man, TV really does influence youth, I wonder what a generation watching "Friends" will aspire too, LOL!). The comedy was great, but man was it heightened by that sexual tension of 3 adult men and 2 gorgeous women on a remote island. The same thing that I dream of Jennie and Get Smart had before they blew it with marriages in attempts to boost sagging ratings. Going back to season one, the times I saw them on TV (rarely shown when I was growing up), I immediately caught the theme song and my beloved Mary Ann not being included, which was a big turn off. The episodes just didn't seem as funny to me as the color ones but I'll give them another try, for me watching the BW episodes as a kid was doing research, how did they get there? Could they salvage that boat? etc etc, man I really took that show oh so seriously! Even as an elder teen I had to see the TV movie where they finally escaped and man was I on the edge of my seat! Will they make it? Oh please get those poor souls off of that island! LOL. Sorry to hear about Bob passing away, but we all leave someday, and he left a lot of joy in peoples lives and will be remembered for it. THANKS BOB, AND ALL OF THOSE ON GILLIGANS ISLAND! Highly recommended for kids and those boomers who grew up watching as kids, Elites stay away.