Episode
Gilligan's Island: They're Off and Running
Overview
Mr. Howell wins all of the Skipper's possessions betting on turtle races. Even when he feels bad and switches the turtles so that Skipper will finally win, he still wins!
Details
- Series
- Gilligan's Island
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 28
- Air date
- 1965-04-10
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
They're Off and Running is Episode 28 in Season 1 of Gilligan's Island. It aired on 1965-04-10. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 27: New Neighbor Sam
The Castaways overhear the voices of gangsters discussing buried treasure and threatening their lives. The voices turn out to belong to a parrot, who then leads the castaways to the "treasure" .... a box of crackers!
Episode 29: Three to Get Ready
The Skipper insists a stone found by Gilligan will grant the finder three wishes before sundown. The professor, of course, insists it is just superstition. Two gallons of ice cream later, Gilligan has only one wish left.....and the sun is going down!
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Episode 26: Music Hath Charm
Mrs. Howell decides to form a symphony orchestra, to make up for the lack of culture on the island. Gilligan's drum beats, as they drift across the water, hold special meaning to angry natives on a nearby island.
Episode 30: Forget Me Not
The Professor tries to cure the Skipper's amnesia by hypnotizing him and taking him through time.
Episode 25: The Matchmaker
Mrs. Howell decides to engineer a romance between Gilligan and Mary Ann.
Episode 31: Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?
The Castaways discover that Gilligan has been keeping a secret diary. When they read it, they all seem to disagree with how certain events unfolded and tell their side of the story.
Episode 24: The Return of Wrongway Feldman
The castaways are revisited by 'Wrongway' Feldman.
Episode 32: Physical Fatness
Gilligan and the Skipper plan to join the Navy when they are rescued. However, when weighing themselves, they discover that Gilligan must gain weight, while the Skipper must diet.
Episode 23: How To Be a Hero
After Gilligan is unable to save Mary Ann from drowning in the lagoon, the Skipper must jump in and rescue both of them. The Castaways then devise schemes to boost Gilligan's ego, and help him feel like a hero.
Episode 33: It's Magic
The Castaways discover a trunk belonging to a magician. They use a magician's props to scare away unfriendly natives from nearby islands.
Episode 22: Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend
A gorilla is enchanted by Mrs. Howell's perfume and kidnaps her. After Gilligan accidentally spills the perfume all over his shirt, the gorilla decides to release Mrs. Howell and exchange prisoners.
Episode 34: Goodbye, Old Paint
A famous painter who has renounced civilization, Dubov, visits the island (with a short-wave radio, of course). The castaways are hopeful that Dubov will give them his transmitter, but soon discover he does not wish to go back to civilization. They must come up with a scheme to make him change his mind, and attempt to make him jealous by pretending Gilligan is an artistic genius.