Gilligans Island Hawaii Remake Coming To Netflix

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Jane Mansfield was to have starred in the iconic Gilligan’s Island TV show widely associated with Hawaii and about to be reborn.

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  1. Rhonda P

    Thank you Fort his information. I watched Gilligan all day today on tubi as I don’t feel well. It was my favorite show as a kid. I’m kinda old and hadn’t seen it for a long time. Still love it. Wondered if it was really on an island. It does look like it. I always wanted to be that with him. Never been town island though.

  2. Don C

    The only way remakes/reboots work is to keep it to the original. There is the main people who want positive TV and remakes like they were. Fuller House lost ratings by changing they way they did things by adding a 2016 era into it. Gilligan does not need that. Keep it as it was and don’t change the sex/race and it will have high ratings.

  4. Paul H

    Opening scene was filmed in front of the Ilikai Hotel on the day JFK was assassinated. Check the American flag on the left at half staff/mast.

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  5. Ken F.

    Gilligan’s Island Trivia: Bob Denver”Gillagan” was also in the TV series Doby Gillis his name in that series was Maynard G. Crebs and he was a member of the GBA “Good Buddies Association”.

    1. Stanley Z

      The original Pilot Episode song was composed by Johnny Williams. Now known as John Williams -Better known for Star Wars , Indiana Jones, and many other films.

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  6. Steve R

    I am a Gilligan’s Island nut, since the first shows. A little trivia, when they show the boat leaving the harbor (actually Alamitos Bay in Long Beach CA), the flag on the Coast Guard station , due to the recent assassination of President Kennedy. Also the water was always cold in the lagoon in Studio City and the actors wore a wetsuits beneath their clothes!
    Thanks for the Coconut Island information, I always wondered where that island was!!

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  7. Kevin

    The pilot episode was filmed on the same day Kennedy was assassinated. If you google it you will see a flag flying half mast.

  8. Chris M

    I’m disappointed that the new Gilligan’s will be computer generated, animated. I wish this would be with live actors. I know I won’t watch basically cartoons of a show that was so great.

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  9. john s

    Thanks for linking the intro to the Gilligan’s Island. Everybody should watch it! Their departure point is the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor. You can see the crane next to the Ilikai which was Chin Ho’s hotel development on Waikiki. The construction was completed in 1963 and the hotel looks complete from the exterior. It’s funny to see the Ilikai without the Hilton Hawaiian Village next to it!!!

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  10. DONNA K

    We lived on Lilipuna Road in Kaneohe then and Coconut Island was right around the corner across the bay. We lived for Gilligan’s Island. I’m watching the marathon now on the Sundance network.

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  11. Cody H

    I just watched ep.13 “Birds Gotta Fly” and there are a lot of “beach” scenes showing the wrecked ‘Minnow’and long shot and was wondering if this was Hawaii or the L.A. coast, maybe Malibu? Does anyone know? When I was a kid in the early 70s, (I was 10 or 11) I would watch this show every day after school. Was my favorite.

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      1. Rod

        Incorrect. The pilot was shot on Molaa Bay in Kauai. Once the series was picked up, beach scenes were either recycled from the pilot, or new ones were shot on Zuma Beach in Malibu. After episode 12, there were no more beach scenes. It was all on the CBS Radford set, including the lagoon.

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  12. Brian K

    Thank you, watched Gillian every day that I could.

    We had a trip to Hawaii planned since 2020 with 12 of my siblings and their spouses but it kept getting pushed back until we weren’t able to go; didn’t get a refund for the air B and B so a handful of our group went, by this time the governor of Hawaii asked people not to come there because of the high numbers of COVID-19, the hospitals were reported as full and I am a former stroke victim and have had a quad bypass so we thought it best not

  13. Robert P

    Hello. Looking at the intro for Season 1 (B&W) the island appears to be a different one. Smaller with a visible beach and tall palm trees. From season 2 on it was Mokuoloe but did you come across in your research what island is the original?

  14. Lisa G

    Bummer! I am just now getting to view the video and the channel has been “terminated”. So sad! I am probably one of the biggest fans of the show (in reruns). I guess it’s true “you snooze you lose”! Aloha

  15. Ron C

    Mahalo for this and taking me back to my childhood. So the age old question, Ginger or MaryAnn?

    Dawn Wells said between her bellybutton and Ginger’s low cut dresses that’s had to stay one step ahead of the censors 3 second rule barring both!

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  16. Robert

    She did not die of Covid

    Dawn Wells died on December 30, 2020, at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, due to causes related to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.

    1. Will F

      Uh, well yes she did… you said so yourself. If she did not get the covid, then she would not have died of covid caused complications. Well, then anyways, we all die sometime.

  18. Julie A.

    Thank you so very much! What a treat! Reading your article, comments and watching the link.
    What a blessing! Thank you again!

  19. Guy C

    On every Holo Holo cruise we have done for the last17 years at some point they play the theme song to Gilligans Island and most everyone sings along.

  20. Mark G

    My wife and I went on a movie excursion tour in Kauai in Dec 2015, We visited the spot where they filmed the pilot. Trivia – the filming of the pilot started on November 22, 1963, however the film crew noticed a US Flag in the distance lowered to half staff. Once they heard about what happened in Dallas they halted production.

  21. Mark G

    Fun fact – Dawn Wells’ father owned a rock excavation company in Las Vegas Nevada, which supplied builders with crush stone and other stone products in order to build houses, commercial buildings and roads in LV for years. The name was Wells Cargo, look it up.

  22. Kristine

    I really enjoyed all the Gilligans Island trivia! I loved the show as a child. I haven’t seen the pilot and look forward to watching the link! Thanks for positing it!

  23. Jim

    We spent many hours watching Gilligan’s Island, along with Hogan’s Hero’s. They brought so much fun into our lives.

    Thank you for remembering the Gilligan’s crew.

  24. Marci

    Thank you – I never saw the pilot, and it was fun to see the similarities and differences from the show. I’ve been out to ‘Gilligan’s Island’ in Kaneohe Bay, and was told the show’s original scene (not the pilot) of the shipwrecked boat was filmed there, in a little bay near where you dock. I wonder if that’s true. Anyway, it was a fun tour of the marine research facility and history on the island.

      1. Reg Y

        As I was growing up, I used to watch Gilligan’s Island with my brothers. I liked Mary Ann more than Ginger because Ginger was more sophisticated, sultry and worldly. It was intimidating; whereas, with Mary Ann, you could be normal and act like yourself! Just a goofy kid!

        I remember the radio; bicycle and other things that the professor made. How come they never thought about using the palm trees to patch the holes? And I’m sure that the SS Minnow had a compass and with checking the stars, the skipper should have been able to figure out where they were. Just thinking😅

  25. Kim F

    My mom cleaned Gilligan’s teeth, LOL. 😆 She worked as a dental hygienist in the LA area and periodically cleaned different famous peoples’ teeth, but Gillian is the only one I remember because I liked this show so much when it was in reruns. Interested to watch the pilot, thanks!

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Kim.

      Thanks. That’s so funny. You’ll see in the comments other interesting relations to the show.

      Aloha.

  26. patricia L

    Loved reading and going back in time to Gilligans island! The Opening song was fun! Can’t believe there is only one remaining from the show. Are we really that old?

  29. Steven S.

    I used to love that show (old enough to see it first run). I laughed so loud when the aliens on Galaxy Quest were worried about those shipwrecked humans from the SS. Minnow.

  30. Wendy M.

    My daughter and I have gone to Coconut Island a couple of times for science field trips. It’s so beautiful there! Thanks for this article, and for including the clip from the beginning of the pilot episode. I’ve never seen that before, and I had no idea that originally, there was a totally different song than the iconic “Three-Hour Tour” one!

  33. Suzy A

    I have enjoyed your Beat of Hawaii feeds for many years now… I live on Maui, but always learn from you guys. Yes I remember Gilligan‘s Island… My dad was the producer. His name was William Froug. I will wait for my husband to return from golf, and we will watch the pilot together. Thanks for sharing the trivia!

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Suzy.

      Thanks for saying that and for being a long-time reader. We appreciate your comment and that’s so interesting about your dad being the producer.

      Aloha.

  34. Doug E

    Finally something fun. Dawn Wells aka Mary Ann was the only actor in the show that had residuals written into her contract in case there were reruns of the show later in life. Smart woman and smart agent. Helped her have a comfortable life until she passed.

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