Gilligone Island

Some of you may have heard of the Three Stooges, but do you know the show called Gilligan's Island? It is an American sitcom that aired in 1964 with three seasons and 99 episodes, both black and white and one in color, which started in 1965; Let me summarize what the show is about: There's a two-man crew on the charter boat SS Minnow and five passengers on a 3-hour tour from Honolulu who run into a typhoon and are shipwrecked on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific.

The show featured the following main characters:

Gilligan is played by Bob Denver.

The Skipper is played by Alan Hale Jr.

The professor is played by Russell Johnson.

Ginger is played by Tina Louise.

Mary Ann is played by Dawn Wells.

That’s what the plot is, and yes, I got that information from Wikipedia, and the show isn’t bad to watch, but there's an episode of Gilligan’s Island that has never been released by CBS Productions because of its disturbing nature. It wasn't violent; it was just disturbing to watch compared to the rest of the show.

The episode was listed as the 100th episode of the series before the show was canceled and added to the pit of forgotten shows, but it was not forgotten.

I'm going to share some information about this episode, but promise me that you won't laugh. The episode is called "Gilligone Island" like the name of the show. It might’ve been a test episode; I don't know. Now that we’re done talking about the name, let's focus on the main plot. I will tell you this since I have the full episode saved on my computer.

The episode starts like any other, with Gilligan and the rest getting stranded on an island, but this one, which has never been seen in the show before, looks abandoned and forgotten, and the episode starts right away with Gilligan and The Skipper being the only people on the island.

They started exploring the island, and they saw a bunch of spiders and bones on the ground.

The exploration continues, and Gilligan finds the corpse of a man, presumably someone who died. Skipper and Gilligan were starving, so they grabbed a knife and started plunging the knife into the body; he gives half of the organs to the skipper, and he eats the rest. If I were in the same situation as them, I would do the same if I was hungry. It sounds weird, I know, but it's necessary for survival.

I was figuring out how they could leave the island until the camera pans to the boat being damaged.

Keep in mind that I have never watched this show; I watched it with my parents on a few occasions, but I'm currently researching this show, and I just found this episode. To my belief, this show is family-friendly, so they shouldn't be showing cannibalism.

Gilligan continued eating the organs with The Skipper, and Gilligan puts his clothes on the skeleton because his outfit got dirty from the bloody feast; he is naked, not censored, but dirty and bloody—this episode might’ve been targeted for an older audience unlike the rest of the show, and this is where the main part of the episode comes in.

Gilligan and the Skipper started to fix the boat to get back to the island; they were looking for parts, but they didn't find any. Gilligan breaks the shed down and uses the shed parts to make the boat. Gilligan passes out because of dehydration; he is not dead; the skipper noticed and gave him water.

Gilligan drinks the water, but he is also hungry. He apologizes to the skipper as he picks up a rock and starts beating his hand, causing blood to come out. He groans in pain, and Gilligan puts a bandage on his hand. He eats the bloody pieces from his hand, but nothing too bad since nobody was dead; however, they started building a campfire to get warmth.

The next scene was shown.

Gilligan and the skipper were lying near the fire. The skipper started yelling and started punching Gilligan; he bit a piece of his arm off and screamed in agony, covering his arm. After this scene ends, Gilligan puts his clothes on because he kept complaining about things going into his groin in the scene.

They started fixing the boat, and they finally got off the island. The episode cuts to black with the credits, and I was thankful that this ended more happily; however, the rest of this episode was disturbing to watch.

Here's my question: Why would CBS make this in the first place?

After I watched this episode, I was trying to forget about it by watching The Three Stooges, the show I normally watch after dealing with issues like my cat that previously passed away; however, curiosity about Gilligone Island got the best of me.

I googled this episode on IMDB, however, and found nothing except Gilligan, the Goddess from 1967, being in the last part of season 3, not season 4. I used the Wayback Machine, and I found it.

There was no rating, and "Comedy and Family" was like the rest of the episodes. Here's what the description read:

("Gilligan and The Skipper got stuck on an island, and they needed to take what was there to survive. Will they die or make each other die?")

There were no photos, and of course, the top two actors, Gilligan, played by Bob Denver, and The Skipper, played by Alan Hale Jr., had nothing unusual about them, and everything else was the same, again, not unusual, but the reviews were not very good.

The Gilligone Island set was burned to the ground in real life; it was a real place.

Written by JosephTheSnail