I was wondering why they show GI with the teaser after the opening credits. I thought it was shown on TV that way for editing reasons or something. But the DVD version was the same. I remember seeing one episode on telly with the teaser first, but that was all. I think it was a colourised episode.

From what I remember, they only had a teaser before the credits in a few episodes-all of them color.

They were 4 episodes of the third season:And Than There Were None,All About Eva,The Secret of Gilligan's Island and The Second Ginger Grant.

Why did they choose to do this only on certain episodes? Usually a teaser is like a parallelism thing. Either a show uses the teaser, or it doesn't. Bewitched did for all of its 254 episodes.

The first to use the teaser (broadcast-wise) was THE INVASION (the James Bond one;also the first color episode to (a la some B&W's) have "Created by SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ, Executive Producer",(lso used at least on most BRADY's and possibvly on SS's other self-created series like IT'S ABOUT TIME and DUSTY'S TRAIL, though obviously not on his HARPER VALLEY, P.T.A. which Sherwood just took over), as well as "Produced by ROBERT L.ROSEN". Another early one to have these three honors is one discussed elsewhere on this page---AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (The Japnese Munitions pit and Hyde/Jekyll ("Fresh FISH",etcv.) one).These were approaching mid-Season (November 1966).

Before this the second season ((again, not so much production- but broadcast-wise, from GILLIGAN'S MOTHER IN LAW through UP AT BAT then GILLIGAN VS GILLIGAN through TOPSY TURVY) were "Created and Produced by SHERWOOD SCHARTZ;" with "Exectuvie Producer JACK ARNOLD;' then the writer/director Du Jou and no teaser. (Some got intermized or backlogged, or waterlogged, like episode 83 - the GILLIGAN AS DON KNOTTS one--aka GILLIGAN GOEWS GUNG HO, which follows the abovementioned first of the "teaser"/"Sherwood Schwartz as creator and EXEC.Producer with Robby Rosen as producer" one, (that's ep.79) THE INVASION",in broasdcast,asd does the last one, episode 98, GILLIGAN THE GODDESS. Both also hve 1966 copyrights even though there ARE 1967 ones--even the last one, GtG had a 1966 one.

That and the older "Created and Produced by*" Sherwood Schwartz credit indicates, along with the no teasers/no exeucvitve producer (JACK ARNOLD, who held this in 1965-66, stepped down and left the show enirely during 3rds season) look, are CLEARLY backed up and held over. (Like the Technicolor Looney Tunes made riight at the end of, and after WWII, that were backlogged verssus the cheaper and faster processing "Cinecolor" shorts,for instance.)


*These two also applied to Schwartz in the first season of the BRADYS before other producers goit credited.Of course Schwartz is le ONE and ONLY creator of these two properties!!

Thanks Steve. So what you’re saying is for two and a half seasons (production wise) the teaser was meant to be after the opening credits followed by a station break and towards the end of the third season it was teaser, opening credits then station break.