I just got in four episodes of the show with Original Commercials from the original airings and it is unbelievable. So far all I have seen are the opening credits and a little bit of the commercials. In season 1 we all know the lyrics as "That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship" On the episode X Marks the Spot from it's original airings the Wellingtons sing it as "That started from this tropic port about this sea ship"

And on season 3 the music notes played on the flute are different and the song seems to be sung a little deeper and bolder. I can't believe it at all. I have never read anything about the theme being different I am stunned and amazed.

Oh and this post was brought to you buy Top Job (The sponsors for "And Then There Were None"

For you guys to see it for yourself here is a video of the opening credits from season 1

http://download.yousendit.com/C94E61B43552BA7D

listen for the different flute after Natalie Schafer's credit

warning 27MB


http://download.yousendit.com/0257E36657A12A6E

Simply amazing

Thanks for the themes gf. I was allowed to download the first one but I've got to be a member for the second.
I've watched it a few times. Do you think it could be a splice in the film? It looks and sounds a bit like it.

It does sound like a splice, but it really doesn't sound like something is missing besides a breath. I mean it honestly could be, but I really can't tell for sure.

I think because it was so big you have to log in. Just use my username and password there because I only got it to upload it

Name: Taxsquad
Password: Taxies

And on season 3 the music notes played on the flute are different and the song seems to be sung a little deeper and bolder.

Not only that, the storm winds were much louder! All this is due to added echo effects.

Sadly, The Complete Third Season DVD set (which I got from Barnes & Noble in Metarie 2 weeks ago) doesn't feature the Season 3 version of the theme. Instead, the Season-2 arrangement of The Ballad is substituted.

And the below shot of the S.S. Minnow was used towards the end of the main titles which was never seen before. I don't think this was used at all during the original CBS run... :confused:

Not only that, the storm winds were much louder! All this is due to added echo effects.

Sadly, The Complete Third Season DVD set (which I got from Barnes & Noble in Metarie 2 weeks ago) doesn't feature the Season 3 version of the theme. Instead, the Season-2 arrangement of The Ballad is substituted.

And the below shot of the S.S. Minnow was used towards the end of the main titles which was never seen before. I don't think this was used at all during the original CBS run... :confused:

I am pretty sure that that pic is on the credits :confused:

I ended up uploading these credits to Youtube because the other way I had it was to complicated.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1lHWPYNqOM8 - Season 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r81IJyktt-I - Season 2

Not to change the subject, but I remember that product Top Job.

Thanx for the info on the theme song. This is weird hearing a different version than the one we have heard all these years.

I am pretty sure that that pic is on the credits :confused:

I ended up uploading these credits to Youtube because the other way I had it was to complicated.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1lHWPYNqOM8 - Season 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r81IJyktt-I - Season 2


"And Then There Were None" (prod. #1625-0517) was a Season 3 Gilligan installment, first airing on CBS December 5, 1966.

Just for curiosity's sake, which sponsor took its turn at bat for "Waiting For Watubi"? I didn't get to see that. :confused:

It's rather strange that Gilligan's Island continued to feature the shot of the beached, battered Minnow in the main titles, in spite of the fact it fell to pieces in Season 1 after just 8 weeks into the run (the November 21, 1964 episode "Goodbye Island")! :crazy: :happyface :eek: :p

*sigh* The theme song's lyrics have motion pictures to illustrate their meaning for the first time viewer. Part of the song has "The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle".

...the show was co-sponsored by Philip Morris [Marlboro or Parliament cigarettes; which of them, I'm not sure, could have been both] and Procter & Gamble [various products]- in fact, their alternate sponsorship was the reason the series stayed on the air, despite CBS president Jim Aubrey's attempts to throw it off the 1964-'65 schedule before its premiere; he HATED the entire premise (I believe his attitude was, "Get those ----ing castaways off that ----ing island!!!"), and tried to sabotage Sherwood Schwartz's efforts to produce it at all. I'm quite sure Procter & Gamble, as they did over Aubrey's arguments about keeping "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" and "PETTICOAT JUNCTION" in place, insisted that, if "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" wasn't on the network's schedule in the time period they "bought", they would take ALL of their business elsewhere {meaning, all their ad time AND the CBS daytime soap operas they controlled as well}. Jim Aubrey could not afford to offend THE biggest advertiser in all of television, so he grumbled in private and kept the show on the schedule. By February 1965, he was out at CBS...and Sherwood Schwartz had the last laugh.

Procter & Gamble (who marketed "Top Job" at the time) continued to sponsor the show over the entire series' run; I'm not sure who the "alternate" sponsors were after the first season, if any.

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"And Then There Were None" (prod. #1625-0517) was a Season 3 Gilligan installment, first airing on CBS December 5, 1966.

Just for curiosity's sake, which sponsor took its turn at bat for "Waiting For Watubi"? I didn't get to see that. :confused:

There were a few. Also thought you would like seeing the Oxydol credit during the end credits.

I just got in four episodes of the show with Original Commercials from the original airings and it is unbelievable. So far all I have seen are the opening credits and a little bit of the commercials. In season 1 we all know the lyrics as "That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship" On the episode X Marks the Spot from it's original airings the Wellingtons sing it as "That started from this tropic port about this sea ship"

And on season 3 the music notes played on the flute are different and the song seems to be sung a little deeper and bolder. I can't believe it at all. I have never read anything about the theme being different I am stunned and amazed.

Oh and this post was brought to you buy Top Job (The sponsors for "And Then There Were None"

Is that Season 1 song lyric change from "X Marks The Spot?" It's listed on YouTube as being from "Waiting for Watubi." (Unless I read something wrong.)

Jack

Is that Season 1 song lyric change from "X Marks The Spot?" It's listed on YouTube as being from "Waiting for Watubi." (Unless I read something wrong.)

Jack

It is from Waiting, but I have that episode and X Marks and they have the same opening.

There were a few. Also thought you would like seeing the Oxydol credit during the end credits.

Kewl! Let's see some video of those! :cool:

Kewl! Let's see some video of those! :cool:

Sure, I'll get it out sometime this weekend

Sure, I'll get it out sometime this weekend

Magnificent! Looking forward to it. Happy New Year! :cool:

Getting back to the original post I really think it is a splice that makes it sound different. "Sea ship" wouldn't make any sense lyrically IMO. (Sea having only one syllable while tiny has two)

The splice is right on top of the word and the long 'e' you hear is from the word tiny.

I have that second episode (the color episode) on DVD as well...haven't watched it in a while and Im not that familiar with the show to know of any differences.

Here are the commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeySCzksjF0

Here are the commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeySCzksjF0

Sorry, I can't access this private video. I no longer have a YouTube account. :confused:

Sorry, I can't access this private video. I no longer have a YouTube account. :confused:

Try it again now, I didn't realize I uploaded it as private, but it's changed to public now.

Wow!! Kellogg's sponsored Gilligan's Island, too?! What a revelation!

Learn something new every day.

Do you have the season 3 opening song on something with better audio quality, like an mp3?

All the first airings I have are from season 1 and 2.

Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble co-sponsored the show during its first season (on alternate Saturdays) in the 1964-'65 season. Their advertising "muscle" kept "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" on the air, despite CBS president Jim Aubrey's desire to keep it off the network's schedule {"Get those &*%#@!^ castaways off the island!!" was a common complaint of his whenever he talked to Sherwood Schwartz about it}. Procter & Gamble, however, reminded Aubrey that they liked co-sponsoring "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND", and that any attempt by him to yank it off the time period THEY bought, would result in P&G moving all of their advertising [and certain CBS daytime soap operas, which they also controlled] to other networks. The soap company had issued a similar threat to Aubrey when he tried to cancel "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" in 1962 and move "PETTICOAT JUNCTION" to another night and time in 1964....and Aubrey caved in, knowing P&G was not only the #1 advertiser on TV (still are!), but also CBS' biggest source of ad revenue as well. After Jim Aubrey was fired from the network in February 1965, there was no further interference from CBS. Procter & Gamble continued to co-sponsor the show for the rest of the CBS run.

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And, sadly, the clips don't appear to be up any longer. :(

You have the original Gilligan closing credits featuring the sponsor products? :confused:

And, sadly, the clips don't appear to be up any longer. :(

You have the original Gilligan closing credits featuring the sponsor products? :confused:

I got rid of them because some user kept bugging me to buy them and I don't sell. I kept telling them no but they wouldn't listen. I might bring them back but I doubt it.

I can't remember what the end credits look like, I'll check when I get home.

BTW I think the credit fonts were pretty much the same at first, just with the sponsors (the 2nd-3rd season episode credit overlay fonts reused for the entire show endings, used on "Batman","Bewitched","Bugs Bunny", "Dennis the Menace"and "Dobie Gillis" , are the bold fonts of the familiar Dom font family, of which the most known counterpart (the only other one I know used in TV and movies) also used is "Dom Casual", used in theatrical Looney Tune/Merrie Melodies starting with the Adam Sandler-ish "Anger Management" percurser, the underrated "From Hare to Heir" with Bugs and Yomseite Sam and on that recent "Brady Bunch Movie" and "Clarissa" and I also believe on the original 1950s DIsneyland TV series). You can download that font for free on FreeFonts.comt 6500 fonts (a Sherwood conneciton again, that's the number of Barry Williams fan letters he got as Greg Brady).

AND Believe it or ELSE the GILLIGAN font (and the Partridge Family/Fleetwood font) can be downloaded!

AND Believe it or ELSE the GILLIGAN font (and the Partridge Family/Fleetwood font) can be downloaded!

where from?:confused:
I've heard about a Gilligan font and have been in a pursuit of it to Gilliganify my computer more completely... but i have been unseccsessful in my searching...
anyone no where to get it... and how much it costs...:confused:

Here it is

http://www.gilligansisle.com/gifont.html

thnx a bunch!;) :D
now all my reports will be typed in this...:D
j/k... i want a good grade...;) :D

Hey, could you post the videos back up again? I couldn't view any of them!