6.5/10207 votesLoading...#1 - Forward March
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1966
The Castaways are frightened as the sounds of battle, including hand grenades and machine guns, rock the island. The culprit turns out to be a gorilla who has found an old WWII weapons cache.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.6/10263 votesLoading...#2 - Angel on the Island
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1964
Mr. Howell decides to put on a play, starring Ginger, after she begins to suffer from home-sickness. But trouble begins when Mrs. Howell decides she wants to play the starring role.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.6/10236 votesLoading...#3 - Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1965
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.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.6/10238 votesLoading...#4 - Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1965
Erika Tiffany Smith lands on the island looking for a place to start a new resort, and a new husband.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.7/10223 votesLoading...#5 - Goodbye, Old Paint
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/22/1965
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.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.7/10206 votesLoading...#6 - Lovey's Secret Admirer
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1967
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 is her fairy godfather. The Professor rigs up a lie detector using the ship's horn and batteries from the radio.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10204 votesLoading...#7 - Our Vines Have Tender Apes
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1967
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 he is a real uncivilized ape-man while studying for an upcoming role. After he cowers when confronted by a ""real"" gorilla, he leaves the island and the Castaways behind.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10272 votesLoading...#8 - The Sound of Quacking
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1964
The Castaways are faced with running out of food, when a blight threatens to destroy many of their plants. When Gilligan finds a duck in the lagoon, a difficult decision must be made. Should they eat the duck, or tie a rescue note to it and let it fly away?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10272 votesLoading...#9 - Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1964
During Christmas, the Castaways get homesick and remember the first day they were shipwrecked. When Santa Claus "appears" on the island, many suspect he is the Skipper in costume. However, just as Santa departs while wishing the Castaways a Merry Christmas, the Skipper appears from the other direction.
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
6.8/10235 votesLoading...#10 - St. Gilligan and the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1965
Angry because the men haven't kept their promise to build them private houses, the women decide to move to the other side of the island in protest. Gilligan and the Skipper dress as a monster, in an attempt to frighten the girls and cause them to come running back.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.8/10217 votesLoading...#11 - New Neighbor Sam
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/3/1965
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!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10216 votesLoading...#12 - They're Off and Running
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1965
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!
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.8/10206 votesLoading...#13 - It's Magic
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1965
The Castaways discover a trunk belonging to a magician. They use a magician's props to scare away unfriendly natives from nearby islands.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: Al Schwartz
6.8/10259 votesLoading...#14 - Gilligan's Mother-in-Law
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
A native family from another island comes seeking a husband for their lovely, large, robust daughter.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
6.8/10215 votesLoading...#15 - Feed the Kitty
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/3/1966
A cage containing a lion washes ashore in the lagoon. After Gilligan removes a thorn from his paw, the two become pals. When the Castaways run out of food, however, Gilligan thinks the lion has consumed the Skipper.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Writer: N/A
6.8/10217 votesLoading...#16 - Man With a Net
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1966
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 leave the island until he has found his prey, the castaways eagerly try everything to persuade him to fire his flare gun early. He (like all of the other visitors to the island) leaves without sending help.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Writer: N/A
6.8/10202 votesLoading...#17 - The Kidnapper
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1966
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. While the Castaways attempt to rehabilitate him, he ends up leaving the island, accompanied by Mrs. Howell's pearl necklace, Mr. Howell's wallet, and Ginger's earrings!
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.8/10212 votesLoading...#18 - All About Eva
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1966
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 castaways were hoping to lift her spirits enough so that she would want to return to civilization (she has a boat, but has hidden the key), she ends up leaving them on the island and going back to Hollywood to attempt to assume Ginger Grant's movie career.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Joanna Lee
6.8/10216 votesLoading...#19 - The Pigeon
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1967
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 it can fly again. In an attempt to speed the recovery time, the other Castaways also feed the pigeon, causing it to become too fat to fly. The pigeon is also trapped for a short while in a cave by a ""deadly six-foot black morning spider.""
Director: Michael Kane
Writer: N/A
6.8/10241 votesLoading...#20 - Gilligan, the Goddess
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 4/17/1967
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 plan to take the ""White Goddess"" back to their island to marry a volcano and then be sacrificed into it. After seeing Gilligan in a wig and heels, the natives choose him as the ""White Goddess.""
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.9/10304 votesLoading...#21 - Goodnight Sweet Skipper
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1964
The castaways hear on the radio that a plane is going to be flying over their island, but they will be unable to contact them because their transmitter is broken. Gilligan overhears the Skipper dreaming about repairing a transmitter as he sleeps. The Skipper is unable to remember how he fixed the transmitter from his Navy days, so he attempts to have the dream again, but is unable to fall asleep. Each castaway attempts to help by sneaking two tranquilizers into Skippers mango juice. When Gilligan hits the transmitter out of frustration, it suddenly works! However, when he hits it again in an effort to show the other castaways how he fixed it, it falls completely apart just as the plane flies overhead.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
6.9/10275 votesLoading...#22 - President Gilligan
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1964
The castaways decide that they need someone to be the leader on the island, and so they hold elections. As you might imagine, both Mr. Howell and the Skipper imagine themselves to be the natural choice to lead the Castaways in their island society. However, when the votes are counted Gilligan is elected president of the island! Just as we recently learned in Florida, every vote counts!
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.9/10249 votesLoading...#23 - Little Island, Big Gun
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1965
A well known crook tries to evade police after a heist and is dropped off on the island by his henchmen to be picked up later after the heat cools down. After being discovered by Gilligan he poses as a doctor but the truth is soon revealed. Now he must keep the castaways at bay and get off the island with his money. Of course with Gilligan on the island this is much easier said than done.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: N/A
6.9/10288 votesLoading...#24 - Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1965
Gilligan discovers a jungle boy living on the island. He shows them a hole in the ground that causes objects to float, and the professor theorizes that it is expelling either helium or hydrogen. He immediately sets to work building a large balloon, with the hopes of carrying one of them back to civilization.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Al Schwartz
6.9/10215 votesLoading...#25 - Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1965
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.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Gilligan's Island
Every episode of Gilligan's Island ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Gilligan's Island!
The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:CBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"Forward March" is the worst rated episode of "Gilligan's Island". It scored 6.5/10 based on 207 votes. Directed by Jerry Hopper and written by N/A, it aired on 2/17/1966. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Angel on the Island".