(Info gathered from retroland.com)
To listen to the song, just press the Gilligan's Planet button below. It
sounds terrible, but it's all we've got!
The 1982 television season brought a new twist to the castaways' predicament.
Somehow, the Professor had managed to assemble a functioning rocketship
out of the junk around the island and had launched Gilligan, the Skipper, the
millionaire and his wife, the movie star, himself and Mary Ann into the cosmos
(This is the part where you all make your jokes about not being able to make a
working raft, etc., etc.) Naturally, the mishap-prone islanders cash-landed the
ship on an uncharted planet, which at leat had a breathable atmosphere.
The entire cast of the live-action Gilligan's Island provided the voices of their
cartoon characters on Gilligan's Planet, with the exception of Tina "Ginger"
Louise. Dawn "Mary Ann" Wells took over the animated role, while still
providing her own homegrown wholesomeness to the voice of Mary Ann.
New blood (color undetermined) came in the form of Bumper, the requisite
adorable alien.
With an entire planet to explore, the castaways soon found their old headhunter
nemeses replaced by aliens of all shapes, sizes, and dispositions. Alas, the
voyage was cut short after only twelve episodes, leaving unanswered the
question of whether the Harlem Globetrotters would ever make it out for a
visit.
What promised to be a 'three hour tour' turned into a franchise spanning three
decades. Up first was the primetime, live-action Gilligan's Island, a surprise
hit in the mid-60's and a perpetual re-run ever since. While producer
Sherwood Schwartz waited for a network go-ahead to start making those
now-famous TV movie reunion specials, he brought his "seven stranded
castaways" back in animated form in 1974's The New Adventures of
Gilligan. The cartoon ran for three seasons before giving way to the
aforementioned reunion specials.
