Ahoy There Castaways!

Not much has been happening on the island lately, still eating the same 'ol
bananas and coconuts. The coconut cream pie from Mary Ann is still the best
in the pacific!

The fan club has grown to over 1,076 members worldwide including a bunch of
fans from Canada and Australia. Those countries must still be showing the
show in full force. Another major fan client is the folks from Web TV. 
Unfortunately Web TV users can't play the RealAudio and RealVideo files
like the rest of us, but they can atleast hear the great midi's we have on
the island. Hopefully in the near future we will have wav files for all
to listen to. They will be short and sweet, as wav files tend to be large in
size, and for us that don't have cable modems, listening to .wav files that
are 10 seconds long may take a minute or so to download. RealAudio and 
RealVideo is the best way to go for this site. If your browser can support 
it, then get it.......FREE!

http://www5.real.com/products/player/realplayer_download.html

Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) is still enjoying her new TV Show "Dawn Wells Reel
Adventures - World Wide Women". Look for it soon on a cable channel near you.

The book "Sundays" is now in stores. It is written by Tina Louise (Ginger)
and tells a tale of her troubled childhood. No mention of "Gilligan's
Island" will be in her book. (Booooooooooo!!!)

Dart Flip Cards will be selling their Gilligan's Island series around the 
end of February. Originally they were going to have the signatures from the 
remaining cast, but that would have increased the price on the cards 
tremendously. These cards won't be signed, but they will still be in a 
limited collection series, so once these sell out, bye bye Birdie. 

Inkworks will not be releasing any cards as they couldn't get the license.

The web site was down for about a week. I've talked to the support group 
and they said that there was an upgrade which knocked the site off. You
should now notice an improvement in speed on the page.

We finally have a Windows 95 Gilligan's Island Theme. You can download it
off the main page.

Tons of people have written to me about some of the problem areas of the 
"Gilligan's Island Trivia Site" and I'm happy to tell you that it has finally
been fixed. You can now check the top ten and previous stats page. As I said
in the last newsletter, Ginger has taken over the trivia site. Special thanks
to Ginger, without her, I would never have the time to pull lobster out of 
the lagoon.

CHAT ANYONE? Let's try a chat on Wednesday, Feb 25th. Try to logon at these 
times below to insure that you get the most people on-line with you. Please 
mark your calendars.

                        Pacific Time  = 7:00pm
                                        
                        Mountain Time = 8:00pm
                                        
                        Central Time  = 9:00pm
                                        
                        Eastern Time  = 10:00pm

If anybody has any Gilligan's Island .wav files, or sound recordings of the
music played on the show, please e-mail them to me so I can put it on the
page. You'll get full credit of course.


Off to work now. The Skipper said that I have to climb this palm tree and
look out for some ships. I just saw a helicopter, but I guess the Skipper
just wants me to tell him if I see ships?! Oh well.....

"Smooth Sailing"

Gilligan
Gilligan's Island Fan Club
http://www.lookup.com/homepages/58181/home.html