New Adventures of Gilligan themes -- rare animation

[Optimalillusion]

All things considered, I loved this cartoon. Not really all that different from the original series. FilMation's Ginger and Sabrina are the reasons I have a soft spot for platinum blondes.

[mx94racer]

I used to wonder why Gingers hair was white in this cartoon.

[Bijoushow]

Loved this as a kid! Thanks for posting.

[ShadesBelow03]

Filmation = poor man's Hanna-Barbera.

[Musicbychuckjvl]

i would love to get the theme music on CD

[UglySean]

@Musicbychuckjvl Try capturing the .flv version of this in your cache (it won't have the .flv extension, it will either have one or have an .mp4 extension). Keep the .mp4 filetype or if it has none put an .flv filetype on it. That should make it playable. There are programs that ccan convert the file to an mp3 for you. This one is an .flv file. YouTube Downloader is free and effective actually instead of digging through your cache. Burn your own CD.

[troyboy7962]

thanks mr. Schwartz wherever you are

[generalBlasto]

Why not reunite. Star trek already made a cartoon, so why not? They just started making too many of them and I became bored, then star wars came out, then I started just watching movies.

[MrFloydianSlip]

Sadly,I remember this...

But,hey...It was better than Fred & Barney Meet The Shmoo.

[ajessicacompany]

Nice theme. It's interesting they made 2 cartoons, and Dusty's Trail, a western version of Gilligan with Bob Denver, all in the 70s. Why didn't they just keep doing the real show?

[steveasat2]

I've waited almost forty years to hear the ending theme all the way through without an announcer blabbing during it. Hats off to that guy. Nice work.

[MONGOOSE1ful]

If anything,"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN" was certainly an honest and

creative example of Filmation's expert handeling of classic TV turned Toons,as part

of the trend that started in the Fall of 1973-and continued,when ABC's "Funshine

Saturday" launched this first spin-off in 1974,of Sherwood Schwartz's classic sitcom

that,was a little more successful,then the reunion TV movies on NBC in the late

70s. all in all, The GILLIGAN cartoons were great to watch!

[BluTrilobite]

What was the point of this?

[landrykkb]

@BluTrilobite I hear you.This is just an animated continuing story of the Gilligan's Island sitcom.

[BluTrilobite]

@landrykkb Crap TV in cartoon form, someone needed and original thought but farted out this instead! Oi!

[UglySean]

@BluTrilobite Of course it's crap TV. FIlmation was known for it, including their biggest hits (?) Fat Albert and Archie But I love it all 35-40 years hence.

[BluTrilobite]

@UglySean To each their own....

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Jane Webb is no fucking replacement for Tina Louise.

[aguswahyuni]

cartoon movie when I was a kid. This is of course my favorite movie when the days were. and the music that I still remember to this day

[imbaaackk]

Holy Sh@t .  I remember this, along with the music. Hot damn.

[bigger4life]

i remember this when i was a little kid,use to watch it all the time

[kirbyco1221]

This is out of DVD Spring 2011

[keegan47401]

this looks shitty

[RatedJpG]

@keegan47401 First, it's a saturday morning cartoon. Second, it's made by Filmation, the company who gave new meaning to the term "shoestring budget". Third, it's from 1974. What the heck were you expecting!?

[Musicbychuckjvl]

i like the song

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Just wasn't the same without Dawn Wells.

[ThoughtTraveler]

I want to commend the man/woman behind TVSerisFinalcom for putting this up

As a Generation Xer I remember seeing this as a kid in teh 70s.

Now it is all IPODs, Cell Phones, Lap Top Computers, IPADs, and Skype.

I miss the REAL 70s when you had to see a girl face to face to ask her out. Or actually touch a item before you purchased it.

When I was a kid we went out on hikes and bike rides and walked in the woods...

Now young people talk to pedophiles via internet in China and think it is cool.

[Smartboy8877]

@ThoughtTraveler

I remember when Randy Travis expressed the realities that you wrote about through a song. It was called "The'll Always be a Honky Tonk". You might enjoy it!

[alshakur1]

one reason why gingers hair maybe white was that the animator on fimation was color blind ( true story). look at star trek the ships there turned out pink several times.

[HaggisMcCrablice]

@alshakur1 -- It makes her look like a grown-up Sabrina Spellman! Actually, it might even be the same voice actress. I'll have to look it up....

[dh1173]

@alshakur1 actually, after the live GILLIGAN'S ISLAND went off the air, Tina Louise wanted nothing to with it ever again....for a price...so, for this reason cartoon Ginger's hair was white (platinum blonde) to distance completely from the actress.

[Smartboy8877]

@dh1173

For a long time, I wondered about why the changed to color of Ginger's hair. But I never bothered to research the topic. Now I would really like to thank you for posting this very logical, rational explanation!

[dh1173]

@Smartboy8877 Oh welcome SmartboyI I questioned it too until I saw a E! True Hollywwod Story a while ago. Dawn Wells didn't participate in this series because she was doing a play or something at the time.but voiced BOTH Ginger and Mary Ann on GILLIGAN'S PLANET.

[Smartboy8877]

@dh1173

Thank you for adding all of this interesting facts my friend!

[landrykkb]

@dh1173 I'm sure Dawn Wells herself wanted to distance herself as well because they all ended up getting typecasted to a degree.

[UglySean]

@landrykkb But I'm a nobody so take it from me. If you have fame, even for one measly recurring (or even one time) role, why not milk it for what it's worth. It seems Dawn Wells finally either accepted this or stopped fighting.

[peesyweesy]

The idea was the same as the Star Trek cartoons - a way for the series to continue.

[lowaces]

i seem to remember that theme music very clearly

[RazielStar]

Um ok, so they rehashed the Gillilgans Planet some from this one.  But why is the song so terrible, it's one of the worst intro songs i've ever heard.

[Banquo2]

I barely remember this. That theme song is SO terrible. I don't know why they didn't just use the song from the show, kids loved it. Maybe a licensing issue or something.

[PieFights]

This cartoon is made by the same company who did Fat Albert and the Cosby kids

[prausch65]

@PieFights They were also the producers of the Star Trek animated series.

[wt90039]

The real question about this series I've always wondered is why can the professor take coconuts and bamboo to make the radio function, but can't figure out how to plug the hole in the shipwrecked boat and sail back home?

[Smartboy8877]

@wt90039

A very similar question that I have heard asked is how can the professor make a complex lie detector if he cannot make a simple radio transmitter?

[lowaces]

@wt90039 the professor couldn't fix the minnow because it was destoyed in like the 7th episode of the first season in which gilligan discovered the super glue

[prausch65]

@wt90039 If you watch the first season episode "Goodbye Island", the Minnow is destroyed by Gilligans super glue, in which they do attempt to fix the boat.

[landrykkb]

@wt90039 I know,as if you'd even need to have a Professor-like mind to figure that one out.Theoretically,even if they got stranded for a night,you'd think they could get back to land or at least have an idea how to get back there.

[danno172]

I wish they would release this on dvd.

[mthivier]

Here's something I never understood: why did the give Ginger white hair here? And Mrs. Howell and Skipper, both of whom really DID have white hair, they gave them blonde hair here. Was one of the animators colour blind?

[francis1971]

@mthivier The reason Ginger had white hair is probably because they might have been sued had they used Tina Louise's image in the cartoon, since at that time she did not want anything to do with the series.

[ThoughtTraveler]

I am a Generation Xer and I grew up on Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch, the Monkeys, TV Shows, etc etc.

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Life was SO much more simpler back then I think....

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My sister and friends and I would swim all day until 2:30 pm when all the60s reruns would come on....we had not a care in the world...

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Now it takes a half a bottle of Bourbon to unwind from a typical day at 41 when an afternoon swim and some reruns did the same at 10....

[Musicbychuckjvl]

i like the music, but thats about it

[wlbaz]

Oh this was awesome! I watched this all the time when it was on. And of course, it was great that most of the original characters did their own voice-overs. Wonder if this is available on DVD...:)

[m7a7b725]

I love it!!

[brickhead951]

pretty good animation for '74

and yes, every new cartoon show should be considered CHILD ABUSE!!!

the new cartoons are so bad; poorly written, poorly portrayed, and down-rght idiotic.

Sorry for offending anyone, but that's the way it is

[Sshelly34213]

@brickhead951 Bull.

Cartoons are cartoons, as they've always been. Thinking cartoons stopped existing after you grew up, conveniently, makes you an egomaniac.

[derBene]

I only remember that I always liked this tune :)

[mislallstar88]

the last gilligans island i saw was rescued from gilligans island the castaway got rescued from the island and thay celbrated abot geting off the island and ther was a storm and thay got strandid on a oter island and gillgan fond a pease of wood that sead S.S . MINNOW ha ha ha ha

[jv2k]

Wow it's just like the theme for giligan's planet.

[appau3]

That was my first cartoon i have ever seen thank you for posting

[RatedJpG]

Thanks for posting this vid. I am also surprised at how many people say the animation used here is crap, this is from 1974! Comparing it to today's "cartoons" is shortsighted and stupid! This was saturday morning stuff! But back in the day it was awesome. Thank you Filmation. We kids from that era love and miss you!

[ThoughtTraveler]

@RatedJpG

Yeah I am with you....people did not know what it was like to grow up in the 70s!!!

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Nowadays...all the young people are plugged into IPODS and IPhones like it is the Matrix or they are the BORG...

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They do not know what it was like growing up with only 4 channels to choose from....

[kaitlin2cool]

They should have made more seasons of gilligans island but the stupid wife of the person that owned the station or whatever wanted gunsmoke to keep going so they stopped on the end of the third season but gilligans island is a million times better than gunsmoke

[kaitlin2cool]

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[PatrioticPirate]

This is GREAT! I have been wanting to hear the eending theme for FOREVER!

[mratfauver]

If you listen closely during the opening of the show, you'll notice that the opening and ending themes are ONE AND THE SAME!

[PatrioticPirate]

...yeah, and if you listen closely during any point of either theme, you'll notice that there aren't any lyrics/words in the ending theme. TRY AGAIN...

[mratfauver]

I mean, as far as the music is concerned, the opening and ending themes are ONE AND THE SAME!

[sukingeggs1]

is this a sequel to the first series?

[bigpopparamma]

I do believe it is continuous long before the TV movie "Rescue From Gilligan's Island".

The other two TV Movies, "Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's Island" and "The Castaway's On Gilligan's Island" were canon to another animated show, "Gilligan's Planet" where the castaways built a spaceship from the island and went off course and crashed on a planet.

Made me wonder why they did not built a plane to fly back to civilization.

[juansanchez2207]

This is great man! I remember this cartoon as well as the Gilligan's Planet! I really enjoyed watching that shown back in the 80s!

[nealnc07]

WTF is this? I have never seen this before. Man, they must have really needed to make a car payment to have gotten involved with this crap.

[PatrioticPirate]

Okay, then, let's see how many car payments YOU can make for any cartoon work YOU do...

[ericinwisconsin]

Pure crap... But not as bad as the cartoon they made of Gilligan in Outer Space.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

I wasn't aware of that. It would be nice have a high quality copy of the theme.

[kentgraovac]

One episode of this cartoon will appear on the upcoming Warner DVD release, 1970s Saturday Morning Cartoons, Volume 2, being released Oct. 27, 2009.

[cenasgay9111]

lol

[Wildtail16]

ive always loved gilligans island, my dad showed it 2 me like 2 years ago, and then he told me about the animation they made, he said its really crappy

[selloutasaurus]

I remember this show AND I think I had the board game!

[shortyblackwell]

Flashback time!

[Markieo]

THANK YOU for posting this, haven't seen it in over 35+ years! What makes me laugh at the end credits how they fly by, lasting 1 second each, except for producers Lou Schiemer and Norm Prescott which circle around very S L O W L Y for 15 seconds!

I wonder if that was the policy for all Filmation series?

[Scarletspeedster68]

Not quite. The rotating logo was used from 1969 through 1982 when Norm Prescott retired. Afterwards, Lou Schiemer's signature was used in their final few productions which included He-Man, She-Ra, Ghostbusters and BraveStarr.

[mike10dude]

that theme song is horrible

I am assuming that they did not use the original theme because they could get he rights to the original song or it was to expensive

[Astraldragon1]

They easily could have gotten the orginal song from the TV series..Sherwood was involved in the cartoon series...this song is simular to the orginal tune.

[Astraldragon1]

congrates you did a good job..it is as close as possiable to the cartoon...I really wish this one and Gilligan's planet would come out on DVD......I do know the new Adventures one was part of the show called Groovie Goolies and Friends....That is out on DVD..I remember seeing it but didn't have the money that day and when I went back it was gone.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

I believe Groovie Ghoulies, New Adventures of Gilligan, Lassie and others were their own shows before being part of Groovie Ghoulies and Friends. The Gilligan theme wasn't part of the Groovie Ghoulies and Friends show, they showed a clip and didn't use the music. If the Groovie Ghoulies DVD set you saw was an official release, it was for the original GG show and doesn't include the "and friends" portion with Gilligan and the other shows. I wish we'd see an official Gilligan release as well.

[wsbtam]

You're right..GG, Lassie's rescue rangers, Gilligan and others WERE their own shows before they were bundled up. I know 'cause I watched all of them!!

[mego73]

Man, I have been looking for this for years. Is there anyway I can work it out with you to get a better quality copy of this episode or at least the opening and closing credits?

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

Unfortunately, this is the best I have. I had to piece it together.

[mego73]

How did you piece it together? It looks really good. When I say better quality, I mean what is shown on this clip, on a DVD with a better bitrate than a youtube clip could offer.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

The video is from a flash file I found with foreign language vocals so the quality you see here is as good as I have.

[mego73]

Well, you did good, thanks for your work.

[lookingbill1]

this was the best saturday morning cartoon that i really loved. I was 12 or 13 at the time back in 74 or 75 when it aired.

[midknightryder13]

What's REALLY amazing is that they got so many members of the original cast to participate in the animated version. As did "Star Trek" and the animated versions of "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley" and "Mork & Mindy". But the networks could exert a bit more pressure back then -- after all, there were only three of them.

[prausch65]

@midknightryder13 Checov was missing from the Star Trek animated series.

[cag1970]

My understanding is that Jane Edwards and Jane Webb are actually one and the same. Can't remember where I read that, but I seem to recall reading it.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

That's my understanding as well.

[kentgraovac]

Jane Edwards was her maiden name. She indeed voiced both, as well as most of the Archie female characters.

[keithsmove]

Why didnt Tina Louise and Dawn Wells provide voices?

I know Tina Louise hated "Ginger" fearing she was typecast.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

I believe Wells was traveling, doing theatre. Louise supposedly wanted off the sitcom before it even ended so its no surprise that she wasn't involved in the animated version.

[pudd750]

too bad Tina wasnt allowed much adlibbing that would have been awesome to see her given more free rein, instead of the sultry, always sexual person, kind of weird she had several hundred red carpet outfits with her on a 3 hour tour - ya, ya, i know, it was always part of the suspense- whats she going to show up in tonight? i couldnt love her like marianne tho

[BeauWorld]

FINALLY someone puts this cartoon theme on You Tube. THANK YOU! I watched this on ABC Saturday mornings when I was 12 years old. Now if someone could reinstate the teenage Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm theme You Tube yanked off.....

[SockBoy65]

You liked them too, huh? I remember it. I was 10. So we're from the same generation. :)

[GraverOne]

I was grown up with this series, when it was on tv in the late 80's. Pure Nostaligy!!!!

[farrart]

Wow!! This really brings back memories! I don't remember any episodes, but that theme song is unmistakable! AWESOME!!!

[Jimi000018]

Ha ha.. nice.. i remember this

[Astraldragon1]

to get the New Adventures of Gilligain Island cartoon, you need to get the Groovie Goolies and friends show, it was part of that show.

[jwmellott]

How about the theme to the Goolies and Sabrina? "Cause it's time for the goolies and Sabrina the teenage weeeeeeich"

[TheDarkThunder]

I'll never forget this theme song lol

[barnabus62a]

I wish they would release this show, Gilligan's Planet, and the Gilligan's Island movies on DVD.

Thanks for posting.

[stebaer4]

Thanks for Posting this I've been looking forward to this for the longest time.But I thought that both the Names of Dawn Wells and Tina Louise names really were included in this intro and not Jane Webb's and Jane Andrew's as it shows here.Anyhow just hearing this intro brings back memories too.

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

Glad you enjoyed it. Wells was part of "Gilligan's Planet" but neither had any part in "New Adventures" and their names weren't on it either.

[stebaer4]

Well there are mixed inputs so you might check out " New Adventures of Gilligan." end titles and other reviews online and I met Dawn Wells at Thanksgiving Time of '08 at The Sheraton Tara in Framingham,Ma.and not only did she tell of having a part in this "The New Adventures of Gilligan "but when one of the voice suppliers,Jane Webb would also fill in for Natalie Shafer at times too. This is from Cathy Treks as you'll see.But anyhow Nostalgia is always fun and with many faces & no matter what #.

[3rdstooge]

Thank you. What a neat treat. Would love to buy this whole series on DVD. There is a ton of Gilligan related video, including these cartoons, that could fill up lots of special features on DVDs, but sadly, none of it is available.

[phantassm]

I remember being a kid and watching this. I was very fond of the ending title theme. Its really good.

[Scoodzie]

gees this must be rare, seeing all the comments.

so they had a gilligans island cartoon?

was it very popular?

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

It didn't last very long but, now that most of the sitcom cast have passed away, it's cool that it exists.

The show's never been released on VHS or on DVD. It wasn't syndicated either but the episodes were included with the Groovy Ghoulies and Friends show which also included segments from Lassie and other Filmation shows.

The New Adventures of Gilligan opening wasn't used on the Ghoulies show so most have never seen it and I don't think you can find it via bootlegs either.

Hope that helps!

[heine71]

Not even the syndie Filmation Gilligan reruns featured the last segment with Gilligan and Skipper in their hammocks talking about the episode's moral and ending with:

"Good night Gilligan."

"Good night Skipper."

"See ya!"

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

True. Fingers crossed for a DVD release!

[heine71]

E-mail Warner Bros. about releasing the New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet on DVD and/or Blu-Ray Disc! A net petition for this is also possible.

[heine71]

What riddles did they face for real?

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

Other than how to get off the island, none that I can think of. Of course the "what mysteries now haunt them?" is a little bit of an odd line as well. I guess they needed some extra lyrics to fill time. ;-)

[CrossmanTelevision]

I've been looking for this fot the longest thanks for posting!!!

[phxazdude1969]

Whats with the white hair on Ginger?

[TVSeriesFinalecom]

Tina Louise didn't want to be part of the series so the character's hair color was changed so that she couldn't say that her image was being used without her permission.

[landrykkb]

@TVSeriesFinalecom Tina Louise even thought the live-action sitcom ruined her credibility in Hollywood.

[toolkien]

@landrykkb Yes, because that B level TV career was going so well for her.

She simply thought too much of herself and blamed someone else instead of herself. She was pretty, but was hardly a great actress. Playing Ginger Grant is what makes her known to this day. Otherwise she would have run dry of TV opportunities in the early 70's when her youth faded and be relegated to stage work and no one would even know who she is, just another almost nobody.

[Starrstreak]

Thank you so much for posting this. Never before have I seen the opening to one of my favorite animated series. Perhaps one day I'll be lucky enough to own the complete series if and when it ever comes out on DVD.

Now if someone could just post those 15 second interludes that came on before and after commercials, I'd be set!

[timmymylad]

Thank You so much for posting this video!

I have not seen "The New Adventures of Gilligan" opening & closing credits since the

1970's!

[hulk4ever76]

OMG!!! The intro to this is extremely rare!!!

[Scarletspeedster68]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this clip which I haven't seen in over 30 years! :)

[dmwatt69]

Thanks for posting!!! This is extremely rare...

[bigg3469]

YES!! Thanks!

[jaycube64]

Fantastic work my good man. You're to be applauded. Here here.