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Season guide

Gilligan's Island: Season 3

30 episodes Premiered Sep 12, 1966
Previously on Gilligan's Island

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Gilligan's Island Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S3·E1 Mytharc

Up at Bat

Sep 12, 1966

Gilligan is bitten by a bat, and then dreams that he has turned into a vampire. Fortunately the Professor knows about bats (what DOESN'T he know about?!), and is able to identify

S3·E2 Core

Gilligan vs. Gilligan

Sep 19, 1966

Gilligan meets his double, a foreign spy who has undergone plastic surgery in order to look like Gilligan (why, we're not sure!). Gilligan gets in lots of trouble as his double st

S3·E3 Core

Pass the Vegetables, Please

Sep 26, 1966

Gilligan finds a crate of radioactive vegetable seeds. The plants grow quickly and grossly misshapen, but the Castaways are so hungry for new items in their diet that they consume

S3·E4 Core

The Producer

Oct 3, 1966

Famous Hollywood director Herald Hecuba lands on the island during his world-wide talent search. The castaways put on a musical version of Hamlet in order to impress the director,

S3·E5 Core

Voodoo

Oct 10, 1966

A witch doctor makes voodoo dolls from the Castaways' personal objects, which he has stolen from their huts. Gilligan stumbles upon the hidden voodoo dolls and brings them back to

S3·E6 Core

Where There's a Will

Oct 17, 1966

Mr. Howell revises his will, and leaves a large chunk of his estate to each castaway. They decide to throw him a party to show their appreciation, but when he overhears them talki

S3·E7 Core

Man With a Net

Oct 24, 1966

Lord Beasley Waterford, a famous butterfly collector, lands on the island searching for the world's rarest butterfly, the pussycat swallowtail. While he vows that he will not leav

S3·E8 Core

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Oct 31, 1966

Gilligan wakes up with white hair, and thinks he overhears the Professor say that he has a rare disease that has made him age quickly (the disease? ""follicular albinism""). When

S3·E9 Core

Ring Around Gilligan

Nov 7, 1966

A mad scientist lands on the island, and makes the castaways work for him through the use of rings that, when placed on their fingers, cause them to fall under a hypnotic trance.

S3·E10 Core

Topsy-Turvy

Nov 14, 1966

Gilligan bumps his head and suddenly sees everything upside down. The Professor tries to help by brewing an antidote made of keptibora berry extract, but the antidote causes Gilli

S3·E11 Core

The Invasion

Nov 21, 1966

While fishing, Gilligan and the Skipper reel in a briefcase, stamped with the words ""Property of the U.S. Government."" Everyone believes that the case contains top secret govern

S3·E12 Core

The Kidnapper

Nov 28, 1966

Someone kidnaps Mrs. Howell, Mary Ann, and Ginger, and then demands ransom money. The kidnaper turns out to be a compulsive gambler who fled civilization to avoid temptation. Whi

S3·E13 Core

And Then There Were None

Dec 5, 1966

One by one, all of the Castaways mysteriously disappear. Gilligan then dreams that he is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the end, Gilligan rescues them from the hidden World War II m

S3·E14 Core

All About Eva

Dec 12, 1966

A drab, plain-jane woman lands on the island seeking privacy. The girls give her a beauty make-over to lift her spirits, and she ends up looking like Ginger's twin. While the cas

S3·E15 Core

Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho

Dec 26, 1966

Gilligan is made a deputy sheriff, and begins to take his job too seriously. He ends up locking everyone up in a make-shift jail, including himself! Of course, while the castaway

S3·E16 Core

Take a Dare

Jan 2, 1967

George Barkley enters the ""Take a Dare Contest"". He will receive $10,000 if he can spend a week alone on an island, fending for himself. However, he is not alone on the island o

S3·E17 Core

Court-Martial

Jan 9, 1967

The Castaways hear on the radio that the Maritime Board of Inquiry has blamed the Skipper for the Minnow crash. In an attempt to disprove the board's verdict, they reenact the ship

S3·E18 Core

The Hunter

Jan 16, 1967

Famous big-game hunter Jonathan Kincaid and his assistant, Ramoo land on the island in search of new game to hunt. Since they have hunted just about every kind of animal on earth,

S3·E19 Core

Lovey's Secret Admirer

Jan 23, 1967

Mrs. Howell starts receiving mysterious love notes, and the source remains a mystery until Mr. Howell is caught in the act. Mrs. Howell dreams that she is Cinderella, and Gilligan

S3·E20 Core

Our Vines Have Tender Apes

Jan 30, 1967

An loin-cloth clad ape-man (Tongo) comes to the island, and makes off with their food and supplies. Actually, he is an out of work actor, who tries to convince the Castaways that

S3·E21 Core

Gilligan's Personal Magnetism

Feb 6, 1967

Lightning strikes Gilligan during Skipper and Gilligan's bowling tournament, and his stone bowling ball becomes molecularly attached to him. The Professor tries to help Gilligan, b

S3·E22 Core

Splashdown

Feb 20, 1967

The Professor determines that a manned space craft will pass over the island, and attempts to fashion a telegraph machine. When that fails, the Castaways try to spell out SOS usin

S3·E23 Core

High Man on the Totem Pole

Feb 27, 1967

Gilligan and the Skipper find an ancient Kupaki totem pole which is topped with a head that looks just like Gilligan. When fierce Kupaki headhunters come to the island, Gilligan m

S3·E24 Core

The Second Ginger Grant

Mar 6, 1967

Mary Ann falls backwards while watching Ginger perform on stage, and, when she awakens, she thinks that she is Ginger. Meanwhile, Gilligan accidentally watches as the Professor at

S3·E25 Core

The Secret of Gilligan's Island

Mar 13, 1967

Gilligan discovers some ancient stone tablets that the Professor thinks may contain the secret of getting them off the island. That night, Gilligan dreams that he is a caveman chi

S3·E26 Core

Slave Girl

Mar 20, 1967

After Gilligan saves a beautiful native girl from drowning, she vows to be his slave forever. Later, her ex-boyfriend comes to the island and challenges Gilligan to a duel to the

S3·E27 Core

It's a Bird, It's a Plane

Mar 27, 1967

A U.S. Air Force jetpack washes ashore in the lagoon. After close inspection of the jetpack, the Professor determines that the tanks contain just enough fuel to carry Gilligan to

S3·E28 Core

The Pigeon

Apr 3, 1967

The Professor sees the arrival of a homing pigeon on the island as an opportunity to be rescued, and immediately begins to feed it a special diet designed to strengthen it so that

S3·E29 Mytharc

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Apr 10, 1967

A crate that washes ashore contains a top secret plastic explosive developed by the US Government. The Castaways make use of the plastic in a variety of objects, including nails f

S3·E30 Mytharc

Gilligan, the Goddess

Apr 17, 1967

King Killiwani and two other natives come to the island looking for a 'White Goddess.' Ginger and Mary Ann are likely candidates, until the Castaways discover that the natives pla

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