‘Gilligan’s Island’ debuts on CBS 50 years ago this hour (Sep 26 1964)


Video: 'Gilligan's Island Intro Episode1' (Sept. 26, 1964)

(Saturday, September 26, 1964, 8:30 p.m. EDT)Gilligan’s Island, a situation comedy that followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive the island on which they had been shipwrecked, debuted tonight as a regular television series on CBS. It starred Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells.


Video: 'Gilligan's Island- Gilligan & Skipper on the raft' (Sept. 26, 1964)