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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Forewords xiii
Introduction

1. The Importance of Being Illiterate

2. The Home Front

3. The Longest Journey Starts with the Dreaded Blank Page

4. One Ten-Cent Phone Call

5. In the Beginning Was the Word

6. The Songbird from Passaic

7. Sometimes Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

8. Where, When, How and with Whom

9. Gilligan, the Skipper Too, the Millionaire and His Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann

10. The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Crickets

11. Everybody Remembers That Day

12. Left at the Post

13. You Can't Win 'Em All

14. Left at the Post Again . . . and Again

15. Setting Gilligan's Island Free

16. A Meeting at Mount Olympus

17. Another Meeting at Mount Olympus

18. Yet Another Meeting at Mount Olympus

19. One More Meeting at Mount Olympus

20. Always Be Nice to Your Script Editor

21. Life on the Stage

22. Gilligan's Island Hits the Airwaves, and Vice Versa

23. A Captain Should Go Down with His Own Ship

24. Send Help Before It's Too Late

25. Pratfalls and Philosophy

26. "Whatever Happened to Gunsmoke?"

27. Big Julie Rolls the Dice

28. Gilligan Gets Animated

29. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Men's Room

30. Rescued After Fifteen Years

31 The "Castaways" Hotel and the Globetrotters

32. Priceless Rewards

33. Present Mirth Hath Present Laughter

34. The Three Musketeers

Epilogue
Appendix 1: Episode Synopses
Appendix 2: Synopses of Gilligan's Island Movies and Specials
Index