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The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Peter Baldwin released in USA on 15 may 1981 with Bob Denver

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
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Released in USA 15 may 1981
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Adventure
Rating42% 2.1186752.1186752.1186752.1186752.118675

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island is a 1981 made-for-television film. It is the third of three movies that reunited the cast of the 1964-67 sitcom Gilligan's Island. The film aired on NBC on May 5, 1981.

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The former castaways own and operate a vacation resort on the formerly-deserted island, called "The Castaways", which was introduced in the previous film, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island. The Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling troupe of merry basketball players, are on a plane ride over the Pacific Ocean when it has engine trouble and they are forced into an emergency landing onto Gilligan's Island. After a brief time struggling in the jungle, they are discovered by Gilligan and Skipper and welcomed to "The Castaways." Meanwhile, J.J. Pierson, a corporate raider and the worst business rival of Thurston Howell III, has a plan to bamboozle the owners of The Castaways (Gilligan and his friends) into signing over ownership to him, as the island contains "supremium", an ore which provides large sources of energy. Eventually Gilligan and the Skipper uncover the conspiracy, with Pierson agreeing to tear up the fraudulent contracts if the Globetrotters play his team, the New Invincibles, which is a team of robot players. Notable sports broadcasters Chick Hearn and Stu Nahan appear as part of the basketball game scene, with Hearn calling the play-by-play action of the climactic showdown. The Globetrotters have no idea how to defeat a team of robots, until Gilligan unknowingly says they have not done any of their fancy tricks, causing the Professor to give a halftime pep talk to the Globetrotters that the New Invincibles would be caught off-guard. The Globetrotters start scoring against the New Invincibles, but when injuries sideline a couple of the players, Gilligan and Skipper must serve as substitute Globetrotters.

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