Ahoy There Matey!

Welcome to the September edition of the Gilligan's Island Fan 
Club newsletter. We have a lot of fun additions to the web 
site, so let's set sail!

Planning a Gilligan's Island bash? If you are, then you
must check out our party page for helpful hints on making 
the perfect castaway party. Follow these ideas and they'll 
talk about your fabulous party for years!

http://www.gilligansisle.com/party.html 

I saw it! I was watching an episode of "Lost In Space" and 
noticed that the spider looked awfully familiar. It was our 
own Black Morning Spider! It some how got off the island 
and wound up in space! I don't know what rescue ship picked 
it up, but the spider sure didn't tell it was being   
rescued! It was probably still mad at us for the pigeon 
incident.

http://www.gilligansisle.com/spider.html

A bunch of Gilligan songs have been added for your listening 
pleasure. There is a Titanic song, a few drunken men singing 
the theme and another funny one called "There's Something 
Wrong With Gilligan's Island." If that's not enough, Captain 
Tom has created a Flash demo called "Elian's Island." This 
cartoon was my favorite, and Captain Tom has done a lot of 
work on this one. Use a friend's computer if you can't 
get Flash 4 to work. This is a must see! 

Seems as if there is a feud amongst the Schwartz brothers 
these days. Apparently Sherwood Schwartz (Creator of Gilligan's 
Island) owes his brother back pay from the trillion years the 
show ran in syndication. Thanks to BradyBfan for sending the 
article. To learn more about the story, please go here:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/court.html

Well "Survivor" is over and we'll now have to think about 
doing something else on Wednesday nights. (Can you believe 
Rich won?) Anyway, our Gilligan's Island Vs. Survivor page 
is still up and can be viewed here:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/survive.html

One of the 100 greatest episodes of all time according to TV 
Guide and Nick At Nite was episode #52 (dated October 3, 1966) 
"The Producer." Hollywood deal-maker Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers) 
is looking for talent in "out-of-the-way places" when his 
plane crashes on our favorite tropical isle. To impress the 
impresario, the castaways mount a musical version of "Hamlet" 
with Gilligan (Bob Denver) in the title roll. It ain't 
Shakespeare, but it does get the producer's attention. 

He quickly names it "Harold Hecuba's Hamlet" and swipes 
all the singing  parts for himself. At the end of this 
inventive episode, Hecuba steals away -- and steals the 
idea -- leaving a sadder but wiser Gilligan to pronounce 
the moral: "Well, that's show biz."

Looks as if our site can be viewed from AOL just fine, it's
Web TV that can't handle the RealAudio and some Java. A 
special main page has been made just for Web TV users. It's 
not updated as often, but at least it should get you where you
want to go. If any of you have WebTV, Netscape or IE, can 
you please tell us what you can't see on Web TV that you can 
with your normal browser? Here's the Web TV page:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/main2.html

Getting lost on the web site? I know I am. I can hardly keep 
track where I put anything anymore. Use our search engine located
at the top left corner on our main page. There are hundreds of 
pages on the site, and this will search for ANY WORD. Some pages 
are hidden, and you won't be able to locate them unless you 
do use the searcher. If you still can't find what you're looking 
for, ask us. We'll steer you in the right direction.

http://www.gilligansisle.com/search.html

Cudo's go out to William for fixing a major bug in the 
Gilligan Island computer game we have on the site. Computer
game you say? Yes! Download it here and have a blast! It's 
FREE!

http://www.gilligansisle.com/games.html

Ever heard of a show called "The Baileys Of Balboa?" It was 
a show that aired during the time Gilligan's Island was 
running. We would love to get a video of this, so if anybody 
has it, please e-mail us. Here's more info about the show:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/baileys.html

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And now an e-mail from our fan club member Brian G.

I was in Blaine Minnesota (near Minneapolis) for a soccer 
tournament last weekend. We went out to lunch at an Italian 
restaurant called Ciatti's. I had just ordered my meal, and 
was looking at the specials when I saw it. The Gilligan's 
Island drink. I quickly copied down the description. 
Here it is:

Ciatti's Italian Restaurant Drink Special

Join Captain Morgan on a three hour tour with Midori, Amaretto, 
Creme de Banana, Malibu and Pineapple Juice.  You're Bound to 
get Shipwrecked!
(Webmaster: Maybe I'll try this. It might help me kill some 
time while I'm here on the island.)

Chat Chat and Chat! It's been a while since we set up the
Chat room, so we'll all meet this SATURDAY night at the 
time specified on the page below:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/chat.html

Tired of complaining about not receiving the last third of 
your Columbia House video's? I know I am. Let's bombard them 
with more e-mails letting them know how disappointed we are 
that they STILL haven't released the last 10 Gilligan's Island 
video's from the Columbia House collection! Even if you don't 
own the video's, please help us with this cause. 

Let's use this e-mail:  customer_service@columbiahouse.com

Remember Pete Salisbury? You wouldn't unless you were with us 
in the old days of the "Original Gilligan's Island Fan Club." 
He was our Island Corespondent in charge of gathering info and 
conducting interviews with the stars. He's gone on to bigger 
and better things and now publishes a free newsletter called 
"The Skipper's Log." Just send him some stamps and he'll make 
sure that you get his latest interviews and goodies. What do 
you have to lose? Try it...... it just costs a couple of stamps.

http://www.gilligansisle.com/skippers-log/

I guess that's it for now. Not a lot of sightings, but a lot 
of info for the average Gilligan fan. The Professor made a black 
and white television from the spare parts of the lunar capsule. 
We will watch "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" tonight. Well, 
the Howell's refuse to watch the program because they still 
think that a million dollars is chicken feed. "Smooth Sailing."

Willy Gilligan
Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club
http://www.gilligansisle.com