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More fun filled wacky happenings on "Gilligan's Island"
This videotape serves up another pair of episodes from the first season of "Gilligan's Island" (1964-1965), although unlike most of the other volumes in this series they are not consecutive episodes. First up in Episode #3 "Voodoo Something to Me" it seems various items are mysteriously vanishing from the camp. The Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr.) quickly becomes convinced it is because of evil spirits. What it really turns out to be is a chimpanzee. While the Castaways are searching for the real culprit, Gilligan (Bob Denver) falls into a mud hole and while he is washing his clothes the chimp steals them and puts them on. Of course, the Skipper finds out that his little buddy has been changed into an ape by the voodoo curse and is rather upset. This would have been a good episode to pair up with "Waiting for Watubi," but none of these tapes are thematically oriented.

Then in Episode #9 "The Big Gold Strike" Gilligan discovers a gold mine on the island and is set to work night and day mining the gold by Mr. Howell (Jim Backus). Meanwhile, the life raft from the "Minnow" has washed ashore providing the Castaways with an opportunity to try and reach another island. But "Gilligan's Island" is a classic American "idiot" sitcom and that means that the two plotlines of this particular episode are going to collide and insure that the situation is preserved for the next week's fun. Neither offering qualifies as a classic episode of the series, but these are certainly representative of what the show was like during that first season.