Ahoy There Maties! Welcome to the March edition of the Gilligan's Island Fan Club. As of last count we have 2,506 members in the fan club and growing every day, so please tell your friends! Man we have a big newsletter this time! Ready for something interesting? One of the writers from the Gilligan's Island series (Elroy Schwartz, brother of Sherwood Schwartz) is selling his ORIGINAL scripts from the show, and he will personally autograph these to the buyer! The shows and movies he is selling are: Episode #16 - Plant You Now, Dig You Later Episode #18 - X Marks the Spot Episode #22 - Diamonds are an Ape's Best Friend Episode #36 - A Nose By Any Other Name Episode #53 - You've Been Disconnected Episode #55 - Seer Gilligan Episode #65 - The Friendly Physician Episode #68 - Meet the Meteor Episode #71 - Pass the Vegetables Please Episode #73 - Voodoo Episode #78 - Topsy-Turvy TV MOVIES Rescue From Gilligan's Island The Castaways On Gilligan's Island View or bid on item at E-Bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=273689655 If you can't remember these episodes, you can go here for a brief description of the episode in question: http://www.gilligansisle.com/episode.html These will all be sold "one at a time" on E-Bay starting immediately. The episode bids will start at $125, and the Movies will start at $175. To you and me this seems like a lot of money, but I have never seen ORIGINAL Gilligan's Island scripts on E-bay before, and these will be personally autographed to the buyer!! We are also going to sell Elroy's Gilligan's Island plate that was given to him on the set of the show. Ashtrays were a Christmas present given by producers to the cast, possibly all crew members, and script editors. At most, 150 may be in existence. Here's the picture: http://www.san.rr.com/gilligan/merch/plate.jpg Set your VCR this month!!! The Castaways on Gilligan's Island The rescued castaways return to their former island home to open a posh vacation resort. Eastern Time Thu Mar 2 01:30P TNT- Turner Television Fri Mar 10 01:30P TNT- Turner Television Mon Mar 20 04:15A TNT- Turner Television Sun Mar 26 07:30A TNT- Turner Television Mon Mar 27 01:45A TNT- Turner Television Tue Mar 28 11:00A TNT- Turner Television Wed Mar 29 03:30A TNT- Turner Television The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island 120 minutes- USA, 1981, In Stereo Directed by Peter Baldwin and starring Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Russell Johnson Dawn Wells, Jim Backus, Nathalie Schafer A plane crash strands the famous basketball team and a mad scientist on the castaways' island. Sun Mar 19 04:00P FAME- The Family Channel Love Boat A Dress to Remember 60 minutes- The captain hopes to reunite a poor woman (Eleanor Parker) with her daughter; a man (Bob Denver) tries to win back his ex-wife. Thu Mar 16 12:00P NOST- The Nostalgia Channel Fri Mar 17 01:00A NOST- The Nostalgia Channel OK, on a lighter note, Randal May was watching "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on February 8, and he said that a man named Jim Gilligan won $64,000. Did you see it? To me it would actually be no big deal because I can just go to the Howell's hut and loot from their suitcase. But what would I buy? Five pounds of licorice? No........ I need to think of something BIG! Tens pounds of licorice!!! Do any of you have episodes taped in VHS/PAL format? A number of folks have requested certain episodes, and would love to make arrangements with you to get some of these. If you can help, please let me know. Did you see the Entertainment Tonight special? If you missed it, then you really missed it, as it was the best one I've seen. Maybe they will rerun it in the near future. If anybody has it on tape and would like to help others out in making them copies, let me know and I will add you to our helpers section: http://www.gilligansisle.com/classified.html We have a new Ginger on our page. Feel free to e-mail her if you have a Gilligan-related question. She really knows her stuff!! The main page on our site has become quite large, so we decided to add a pull down menu towards the top of the page to help the page load faster. It's my understanding that Web TV users can not see this menu that's located just above the lightning picture. If you have Web TV or any other service and can't see this, please let me know. Those users can go to our old main page to view the contents until I come up with a better solution: http://www.gilligansisle.com/main2.html Folks have been asking me if there is a soundtrack avaiable for the show. There currently is not, but you can go to our .wav section and snoop around. Here you will find most of the soundtracks from the show. http://www.gilligansisle.com/wave.html We've added a newer, faster search engine to the site! It works quite well and will search for EVERY WORD on our site! You can try it for yourself here: http://www.gilligansisle.com/search.html Our dear sweet Mary Ann told us that she saw this in the National Enquirer: Cameron Diaz doesn't own a TV because she says it's "The Devil." The Devil, you say? She said that when she was a kid, the TV "seduced" her into watching TV for hours and hours. Was it the TV, Cameron, or did you have a crush on Gilligan? Be honest.... The very nice manager at the "Gilligan's Bar and Chargrill" wrote to us and gave a great write-up of his bar. Please visit this page at: http://www.gilligansisle.com/bar.html If you ever visit there, please tell me about your experience. Mpouncy has spent many days making us some fantastic wordsearches! These will give you hours of fun if you are traveling, or just looking for something to do on a rainy day. The wordsearches are located here at: http://www.gilligansisle.com/games/wordsearch.html If anybody wants to contribute to the page like Mpouncy has, feel free to drop us a line. We could use anything Gilligan-related to the site! We would like to thank Mpouncy for all of her hard work!!!!! Do you live in a country that broadcasts Gilligan's Island in another language other than English? It would be interesting to hear Gilligan's Island in French, German, Spanish, Chinese, etc... Please e-mail me if you can send me an audio clip. Let's all CHAT this Saturday!!! http://www.gilligansisle.com/chat.html That's all for now. Time to brush up on my bowling. The Skipper has the high score of 120 this week. It's kind of hard to get a good hook out of a bowling ball made from a carved rock! Maybe we'll you on E-bay! Willy Gilligan President/Webmaster Gilligan's Island Fan Club http://www.gilligansisle.com