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Rescue from Gilligan's Island is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Leslie H. Martinson released in USA on 14 october 1978 with Bob Denver
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 october 1978
Length 1h35
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
OriginUSA
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Rating53%
Rescue from Gilligan's Island is a 1978 two-part made-for-television film that continues the adventures of the shipwrecked castaways from the 1964-67 TV series Gilligan's Island starring Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. The film first aired on NBC as a two-part special on October 14 and October 21, 1978. In depicting the long-awaited rescue of the castaways, the film forms a cathartic response to many of the episodes of the series in which "they almost get off the island". The film was directed by Leslie Martinson.
Synopsis
The story picks up 15 years after the original shipwreck. Gilligan has a nightmare about the island melting. The film then notes that far away from Gilligan's Island in an unidentified country (one may assume the U.S.S.R.), a military unit is monitoring a satellite that is experiencing technical problems. The scientists controlling the satellite activate a self-destruct mechanism to prevent the satellite from crashing to Earth, as it contains a disc that holds some very important, top-secret information. The metal disc from the satellite is not destroyed, instead making it through the Earth's atmosphere and landing at the lagoon, eventually being found by Gilligan.Actors
Bob Denver
(Gilligan)
Alan Hale Jr.
(Skipper Jonas Grumby)
Vincent Schiavelli
(Dimitri)
Dawn Wells
(Mary Ann Summers)
Jim Backus
(Thurston Howell III)
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