Posted on 09/26/2014 8:50:48 PM PDT by iowamark
If it’s the right stuff, it isn’t too much. ;-)
Patching the hole was actually one of the few things they sort of made an effort to explain. Not a very good effort but at least they tried.
They did in one episode. The glue only held 24-48 hours. I liked where the monkey got hold of some experimental explosive plastic they found and made into plates.
I must have seen reruns - I don’t think I was only 7 when the show ended. I must have been young enough though to think it was somehow real - so perhaps I did see the originals - but also reruns to remember some of the episodes. I know that I always hoped that “this time” they would get rescued - but they never were.
I have tried to look it up on cable to show my kids, but no luck.
That was sort of an ersatz film culled from the “Dusty’s Trail” series, which was pretty obviously patterned after “Gilligan.” Apparently, “Gilligan” was doing gangbusters in rerun syndication in the early-70s, so to capitalize on that, “Dusty’s Trail” was produced and sold as a non-network, made-for-syndication series. Really low budget. Only lasted a single season, but I remember one of our local stations airing it on Saturday afternoons, around 1973.
Thanks for the ME-TV reference. I’ll set the DVR for some shows.
I just googled “Tina Louise bitch”...about 166,000 results.
LOL
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She was born in 1934 so she’s 80. She had too much plastic surgery in her younger days.
I recall watching a documentary on Gilligan’s Island and they had great interviews with the cast with the exception of Tina Louise - they got bupkis from her because she hates discussing the show and becomes irate when people mention it in her presence.
from your link:
During her appearance, Wells referred to her forthcoming book, Mary Ann’s Good Girls Guide to Life. The book is due to be released in 2014 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Gilligan’s Island.
It’s on ME TV
And the Skipper was going to pound some nails but got saved when the chimp tossed the plates and they blew up. Good kids show.
I was too young to have seen the original run, but it was on every day after school in the 70’s.
It’s on METV currently, so I’ve seen them again after a decade or two.
ME-TV has some of the better old ones. I watched a bit of Hogan's Heroes tonight.
I didn't get to see that show. Our locals didn't carry it but did Gilligan's. Island. First time I saw it was by renting the movie.
“...but it was on every day after school in the 70’s.”
I would come home and got to watch TV for an hour after school. Gilligan’s Island and Hogan’s Heroes. My old man would often come in during Hogan’s Heroes, do something for a few minutes, watch for a few minutes, and then leave with a smile and shaking his head ‘Oh those crazy guys!” (Every single time!)
As a WWII vet that was all he would say.
I must have seen the original episodes of Gilligan’s Island also to have the idea that it was real.
Yea really they were. Mr Terrific, Captain Nice, the original B&W Dragnets, My Mother the car, Car 54, Mr Ed, LOL. But in that era Beverly Hillbillies was my favorites and Green Acres as far as sitcoms go.
And yes, Mary Ann.
ME TV has just started showing the old 50s version of “Superman”. I saw the first one and missed a few. That episode had really bad special effects even by 1950 standards.
On the other hand, the story was pretty darn good.
the old 50s version of “Superman”
You mean the one’s where after the bad guy empties his gun as Superman stands there and the bullets bounce off; but he ducks when the bad guy throws the gun at him?
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