I just finished watching the Season 2 DVD, and I noticed the theme is slightly different. Was this on purpose? Or accidental?

I noticed that two on the title screen where you choose the episode you want to watch and they were playing the first seasons theme song. The episodes are nice it weird watching a minute or two of scenes you have never seen before because they were cut out for time on TBS and TV Land.

That's too bad!I think that the second and the third season opening was the best.At least it inclued the professor and Mary Ann.

That's too bad!I think that the second and the third season opening was the best.At least it inclued the professor and Mary Ann.


They're switched around (in their "character boat-wheel/pictures at the open", when the lyrics "professor and Mary Ann" occur, on the final one (I have both the DVD' sets), MEET THE METEOR (4/28/1966). And that same first-second group, The Wellingtons, who'd return in the Mosquitos with sweet/swing/ballad bandleader (& Doris Day discoverer) Les "Band of'renown" Brown's son Les Jr., snging the theme at the end of the same episode!Maybe because it was the loast, but this is the SECOND, not the FIRST season!:D

BTW the third season, following the early-year annual pattern of the first tow, will most likely come out early 2006.:)

I noticed a slightly different end few notes but only on one episode.(so far). Also at the start of the end credits (on Gilligan's Mother-in-Law...I think) there's a "Gilligan's Island" logo shown. I think there must have been a little experimentation going on. Doesn't detract in any way to the shows though. Just finished watching side A disc 1 and I can't get over just how good the episodes look. Beautiful.

Hey, Phil.... that's a cruel optical illusion.

Yeah. Don't look at it for too long. :)

I noticed a slightly different end few notes but only on one episode.(so far). Also at the start of the end credits (on Gilligan's Mother-in-Law...I think) there's a "Gilligan's Island" logo shown.


There is, little buddy.I've posted on that myself.Since it WAS the first 2nd Season episode..well, you figure the restg! :cool:

Now showing: V FOR VITAMINS (Seasonb 2, 4/14/66, Disc 3,side 1,final side..)

[QUOTE]Yeah. Don't look at it for too long. [QUOTE] I try not too.

When TV first came out, TV execs were worried that color film would deteriorate much faster than B&W film. Well, as it turns out, color film actually lasts longer than B&W film, just look at season 2 of GI :)

Though, filming of TV shows stopped around 1972 and all shows were now being video-taped. I know that All in the family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, Carol Burnett, Sanford & Son, were ALL being video-taped and not filmed. IMO, film has a much higher quality and looks superb on a big-screen TV :D

Filming popular TV sitcoms did not just stop in 1972. The Brady Bunch was filmed until it was cancelled in 1974, The Partridge Family also brought filming into the mid 70's. MASH was another popular long running sitcom that was only filmed and shows like The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy were also all filmed in front of a live studio audience. While video taping would continue on such popular situation comedies in the future such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts Of Life, Three's Company, The Golden Girls & The Nanny, other future popular shows like Seinfeld, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Will & Grace would all return to & use film again. Even though today, through the modern technology of DVD where it is now possible to always preserve a show taped on video for ever, a TV Sitcom looks much better preserved on film.