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Summary: A must have for Gilligan fans
Review: Gilligan's Island The Complete First Season is a must have for fans of the 1960's comedy. Everything you could want is here. The 3-disc set includes all 36 episodes from the first season presented in standard black and white. The episodes look great in black and white rather than that awful color that was inserted into them while on TBS. The DVD also includes the lost pilot episode with three different cast members alongside Gilligan, the Skipper, and the Howells. Also on the DVD are tropical tidbits about certain episodes, profiles on how the cast was selected, and a tropical island survival guide. The excellent cast really made this show what it was. Bob Denver as Gilligan, Alan Hale JR as the Skipper, Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III, Natalie Schaefer as Lovie Howell, Tina Louise as Ginger, Russell Johnson as the Professor, and Dawn Wells as Mary Ann made up one of the best ensemble casts in television history. Fans of this much loved show should run out and buy Gilligan's Island The Complete First Season. You will not be disappointed!
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Summary: The Best Set Ever
Review: This is a Must for any fan of any age. Very Good cant wait till second season...
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Summary: My, how times have changed...
Review: With its good-naturedness and sweetness, GILLIGAN shines a pretty harsh light on modern-day television, revealing how very ugly and mean-spirited our culture has become. With all the great releases of '60s TV available or on the way, I may never rejoin the modern world.
The DVD itself looks and sounds great -- like other reviewers here I'm no fan of double-sided discs, but the low price point definetely allowed me to buy this set sooner than I would have been able to otherwise.
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Summary: a real treat
Review: Just to see these episodes in nice clear digital video is a real treat. Other nice stuff included, I normally don't care about but told a lot about the series. You need this.
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Summary: It's like watching Gilligan's Island for the very first time
Review: I have now been watching Gilligan's Island for the last forty years and I got the strangest feeling watching the episode "Voodoo Something To Me" from this DVD set the other day. Maybe after so many years of watching the show in syndication and even colorized, thanks to Ted Turner, I had just simply forgotten what it was like to actually see it as it was originally aired and intended. After all, everyone knows just how brutally all shows are edited, mutilated and cut by the syndication companies. Quite often, entire prologues and/or epilogues are axed to make more room for commercials. Also, as I recently discovered while watching a videotaped episode of Gilligan's Island from good old Nick-At-Nite's TV Land, that sometimes even entire scenes in the middle of a show are also missing. Not so with this wonderful 3-DVD set!! I am finding that even after forty years of reruns of the show that I don't remember many of the scenes that I am now enjoying of Gilligan's Island, all presented in their glorious and sparkling, original black-and-white formats (the last two seasons were filmed in color). I got a pleasantly eerie feeling, almost like I was in The Twilight Zone and had found a never before seen episode of Gilligan's Island!! All I can say is please now bring on "The Rest"!!
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Summary: For idiots only
Review: This show is moronic and could be considered a severe waste of time by current standards. Judging by the reviews for both Gilligan and the Three's Company DVD's Im amazed that there are actually people out there (in the United States I presume) that actually laugh at this stuff. Just amazing. If you like this show your IQ must be pretty low indeed.
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Summary: Great compilation and transfer! Poor DVD Case!
Review: This is a great compilation and very enjoyable to watch. Superb quality and like so many other reviewers, it is so nice to see Gilligan's Island in top quality. The documentaries and thought behind the show are really good too and sure to satisfy many of us who wonder how things really develop. Outstanding! So, why the 3 stars rating? First, the "patent-pending" plastic case is POOR -- TOO DIFFICULT to remove the double-sided disks!!! Come on producers, give us cases that children (and adults) can open and access without tearing up the disks or getting fingerprints all over them. Some persons like the double-sided disks but I do not. PLEASE, single-sided disks-- double-sided are almost impossible to handle. In any case, a great set with a REASONABLE price for a change. Thanks!!!!! Let's have seasons 2&3 now along with additional documentaries on the characters/actors!
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Summary: Get a life!
Review: Are you a mega loser? I think you are because your interest in this show is mind boggling- you must be retarded!. Why dontcha volunteer your free time to a public service instead of wasting it on this dumb stupid show? You got nothing better to do than to watch this moronic tv show over and over and over and over and over again. This is why America is weak and will be attacked over and over again by terrorists- because the population of the U.S. are total mindless morons just waiting to get wiped off the face of this planet while they watch this stupid tv show. Well people get what they deserve!
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Summary: Just as it should be...
Review: Imagine how you would put this collection together: You would want something from the creator (Sherwood Shwartz, hope I spelled it correctly); you would want something about the cast; you would want the episodes in all their pristine, black & white, first season glory with excellent sound. Well, it is all here. I have no problem with the double sided DVD's (remember, what it says on the side facing up is what you get when it plays. If you can see "side B" staring at you when you put it in the player, that is what will play), no problem with the rather attractive fold-out case (which includes helpful synopes of the episodes on the cover, without spoilers no less. Very thoughfully done). I have alot of DVDS and these were easier than average to remove from the case (Star Trek: Next Gen were far more difficult, for example). Add to that the extremely favorable price and this is surely one of the best buys in DVD land. This is also the one American comedy series that my Japanese wife enjoys (well, Japanese comedy is pretty low brow and loveable as well). Buy it now. It is the right thing to do.
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Summary: In defense of the show's humor
Review: Look every single sitcom on tv has been a little to very far fetched. Every last one. If it wasn't silly what would there be to laugh at? Nothing. Leave GI alone. It's hilarious!
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