Inside Gilligan's Island: A Three-Hour Tour Through The Making Of A Television Classic

Inside Gilligan's Island: A Three-Hour Tour Through The Making Of A Television Classic

Join the creator of Gilligan's Island for a three-hour tour!

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful show,
That started as just one man's dream,
A long, long time ago.

That man was a mightily wily guy,
With smarts enough for eight.
If the brass upstairs let him be,
The program would be great.
The program would be great.

The meddlesome executives
Blew up a mighty storm,
If not for the courage of the fearless man,
The program would be lost.
The program would be lost.

The show's preserved in the leaves of this
Terrific kooky book.
With anecdotes, synopses too,
Rare photographs and drawings.
The whole story
And lots, lots more
Are here Inside Gilligan's Island!

Find out: Where the Howells got all those clothes!
Learn: Did Gilligan and the Skipper ever get hurt when the coconuts hit them on the head?
Discover: What was "Lovey's" real name?
Imagine: What kind of a pet the studio almost gave Gilligan!
Sing: The original lyrics to the theme song!

Customer Review: GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
If you're going to buy this you probably want the inside scoop on how the show came to be made and what it was like while it was being made. That's what you get. ON the downside, I found the writing style to be very strange. If I was critiquing this as a story someone had written and submitted for review online, I probably would have moved on and critted another story because this one would have seemed a hopelessly huge undertaking to crit. There was one part where there were some frogs near a door. In a normal story maybe you'd read a mention of this once but in this story he keeps going on and on about the frogs. Its just really weird in its style. But it tells the story of the show and that's why I got it so I'm giving it 5 stars for accomplishing what I wanted it to do.
Customer Review: A terrific look inside the television industry.
Sherwood Schwartz makes no high-culture claims about "Gilligan's Island." It is a fantasy sit-com (albeit one with an underlying theme of diversity and community). This book takes a wonderful look at what Mr. Schwartz went through to get his vision (like it or not, the concept was created by Mr. Schwartz, and Mr. Schwartz alone) on the air. From network executives who tried to change everything about his show, to casting, to scoring and more. Whether you like "Gilligan" or not, you have to admire Mr. Schwartz's guts and tenacity in seeing his idea through to fruition. Thanks for reading.