Gilligan's Planet

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Gilligan's Planet
Format Animated cartoon
Directed by Hal Sutherland
Voices of Bob Denver
Alan Hale, Jr.
Russell Johnson
Jim Backus
Natalie Schafer
Dawn Wells
Country of origin USA
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) Lou Scheimer
Running time approx. 0:30 (per episode)
Production company(s) Filmation
MGM Television
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run September 18, 1982 (1982-09-18) – September 3, 1983 (1983-09-03)

Gilligan's Planet is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS. It was the second animated spin-off of the classic television program Gilligan's Island (the first being 1974's The New Adventures of Gilligan), as well as the last cartoon that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they produced cartoons exclusively for syndication. It was also the first Filmation series to feature the Lou Scheimer "signature" credit (as opposed to the rotating Lou Scheimer/Norm Prescott "wheel" credit which had been used since 1969).

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[edit] Premise

Gilligan's Planet is based on the premise that the Professor had managed to build an operational interplanetary spaceship to get the castaways of the original series off the island. True to form of the castaways' perpetual bad luck, they rocketed off into space and crash-landed on an unknown planet that supported human life. In many ways the planet was like the island but with a strangely colored and cratered surface with more land to get around. The rocket was severely damaged in the crash, thus the castaways were still stranded, and the Professor resumed his attempts to repair their only way home.

Overall, Gilligan's Planet re-presented the source material of the original live-action series with "space" and "alien" themes. Encounters with "headhunters" and other shipwrecked people became encounters with alien creatures. A new character named Bumper was added, who appeared as a cute, reptilian alien pet/sidekick for Gilligan and company.

[edit] Cast

The entire cast of Gilligan's Island returned to voice their characters for Gilligan's Planet, with the exception of Tina Louise (who played Ginger Grant, "the movie star"). Dawn Wells took over Louise's role for Gilligan's Planet, as well as continuing to perform her own character, Mary Ann Summers. Backus was already an accomplished voice actor himself, as he also played Mister Magoo for UPA.

[edit] Episode list

  1. "I Dream of Genie" / 1982·09·18
  2. "Turnabout Is Fair Play" / 1982·09·25
  3. "Let Sleeping Minnows Lie" / 1982·10·02
  4. "Journey to the Center of Gilligan's Planet" / 1982·10·09
  5. "Amazing Colossal Gilligan" / 1982·10·16
  6. "Bumper to Bumper" / 1982·10·23
  7. "Road to Boom" / 1982·10·30
  8. "Too Many Gilligans" / 1982·11·06
  9. "Space Pirates" / 1982·11·13
  10. "Invaders of the Lost Barque" / 1982·11·20
  11. "Wings" / 1982·11·27
  12. "Super Gilligan" / 1982·12·04
    (Also the same title as a New Adventures of Gilligan installment)
  13. "Gilligan's Army" / 1982·12·11

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