Does anyone have the production no.s for season 3. TV Tome have some but I don't think they're accurate.
They have "Voodoo" as 0501 and "Gilligan, the Goddess" as 0502. The differences in the air dates make these numbers seem unlikely.

Does anyone have the production no.s for season 3. TV Tome have some but I don't think they're accurate.
They have "Voodoo" as 0501 and "Gilligan, the Goddess" as 0502. The differences in the air dates make these numbers seem unlikely.
Not thatunlikely-at least not to me.

The credits have no executive producer, and credit creator Sherwood Schwartz for his producing it, as do all second season and most first season ones,.Later produced thbird-season-ones (broadcast wise starting with THE INVASION had Shwartz listed, as usual, as creator, but underneath his name, you'll see that he was made executive producer as he was in the B&W,1964-65, first season (all throuighout the second season, and I've mentioned this many times and it'll explain why GILLIGAN THE GODDESS wound up last but the credits make it look older) - again the second season had him as producer in addition to his being the show creator as well as Jack Arnold, the former producer/director lsited as exectuve prtoducer as well as freqeunt director-he seemed to hasve left by the beginning of the third season...


Anyway there seems to have been a lag time in production (compare with the late 1940s Warner Bros.cartoons that were copryigyht,say,1948 or 1949 but came out 1950-1953 due to Technicolor processing of the cartoons, a few of which wound up produced in Cinecolor, though still with Tech.involvement, mnaking them come out sooner.) After all, the first GILLIGAN episode, supposedly, was NOT the first one..

Thanks Steve.
It just strikes me as very strange that they'd hang on to an episode ready to air for that long. We're talking 10 Oct 66 to 17 Apr 67 (assuming TV Tome has the air dates accurate).

"After all, the first GILLIGAN episode, supposedly, was NOT the first one."

Huh?

How could that be considering they have the whole shipwreck as part of the first episode (not talking about the pilot episode)?

Or do you mean that the air dates for some episodes is screwy and technicly an episode in some places was shown before the first one?

"After all, the first GILLIGAN episode, supposedly, was NOT the first one."

Huh?

How could that be considering they have the whole shipwreck as part of the first episode (not talking about the pilot episode)?

Or do you mean that the air dates for some episodes is screwy and technicly an episode in some places was shown before the first one?
Both. The twelfth episode BIRDS GOTTA FLY FISH GOTTA FLY (1964) was said by Sherwood Schjwartz (who just finished doing the LITTLE DICTATOR (1965) copmmentary-his favorite episode) to be the debut but TWO O(NB A RAFT DOES make more sense, sdince it does show the castaways finding themselves on the island.