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{{Infobox television
| show_name = Gilligan's Planet
| image = Gilligans Planet title card.jpg
| runtime = 22:15
| company = [[Filmation]]
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Television Distribution]] [[Turner Program Services]]
| director = [[Hal Sutherland]]
| creator = [[Sherwood Schwartz]]
| executive_producer = [[Lou Scheimer]]
| voices = [[Bob Denver]] [[Alan Hale Jr.]] [[Russell Johnson]] [[Jim Backus]] [[Natalie Schafer]] [[Dawn Wells]]
| country = United States
| network = [[CBS]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|9|18}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1982|12|11}}
| num_episodes = 13
| num_seasons = 1
| list_episodes = #Episodes
| followed_by = ''[[Surviving Gilligan's Island]]''
| preceded_by = ''[[The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island]]''
}}

'''''Gilligan's Planet''''' is an American [[Saturday-morning cartoon|Saturday morning animated series]] produced by [[Filmation]] and [[MGM Television|MGM/UA Television]] which aired during the [[1982-83 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning)|1982-1983 season]] on [[CBS]]. It was the second animated [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] of the sitcom ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' (the first being ''[[The New Adventures of Gilligan]]'').

''Gilligan's Planet'' was the last cartoon series that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they transitioned from Saturday Mornings to producing cartoons exclusively for [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]]. It was also the first Filmation series to feature the [[Lou Scheimer]] "signature" credit (as opposed to the rotating Lou Scheimer/[[Norm Prescott]] "wheel" credit which had been used since 1969). In addition, it was one of the last 1980s Saturday morning cartoons to be fitted with an adult [[laugh track]], as the popularity of the practice had subsided.

''Gilligan's Planet'' featured all of the original actors but one; [[Tina Louise]], who has consistently refused to participate in any ''Gilligan's Island''-related material since the series ended, again declined to reprise her role as [[Ginger Grant]]. [[Dawn Wells]], who had been unavailable during the production of ''The New Adventures of Gilligan'', returned to the franchise, voicing both her own character ([[Mary Ann Summers]]) and Ginger.

==Premise==
''Gilligan's Planet'' is based on the premise that [[The Professor (Gilligan's Island)|the Professor]] had managed to build an operational interplanetary [[Starship|spaceship]] to get the castaways of the original series off the island. (At least, the series thus disregards two of the three television movies made after the series ended, which had integrated the cast back into society.) True to the castaways' perpetual bad luck, they rocketed off into space and crash-landed on an unknown [[planet]] that supported human life. In many ways, the planet was like the island, but with a strangely colored and cratered surface with more land to get around. The rocket was severely damaged in the crash; thus, the castaways were still stranded and the Professor resumed his attempts to repair their only way home.

Overall, ''Gilligan's Planet'' represented the source material of the original live-action series with "space" and "alien" themes. Encounters with "headhunters" and other shipwrecked people became encounters with alien creatures. A new character named Bumper was added, who appeared as a reptilian alien pet/sidekick for Gilligan and company.

==Cast==
* [[Bob Denver]] - Willy Gilligan
* [[Alan Hale Jr.]] - Skipper Jonas Grumby
* [[Jim Backus]] - Thurston Howell III
* [[Natalie Schafer]] - Eunice Wentworth "Lovey" Howell
* [[Russell Johnson]] - Professor Roy Hinkley
* [[Dawn Wells]] - Mary Ann Summers, Ginger Grant

==Episodes==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%;"
! style="background:#C774F1" | No.
! style="background:#C774F1" | Title
! style="background:#C774F1" | Director
! style="background:#C774F1" | Writer(s)
! style="background:#C774F1" | Original air date

{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = I Dream of Genie | DirectedBy = [[Hal Sutherland]] | WrittenBy= Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|9|18}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan rescues a robot named Wizzard from a landslide, which then grants Gilligan's every wish out of gratitude. Eventually, Mr. Howell becomes the robot's master, and misuses his wishes, ruining another chance to get home.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = Turnabout Is Fair Play | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|9|25}} | ShortSummary = The Skipper has been shirking his duties at the compound, and insists that his time is better spent guarding everyone from alien invaders, though in reality, he is simply napping. When real aliens invade, he is quickly captured, and must be rescued by his "helpless" friends.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = Let Sleeping Minnows Lie | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = [[Paul Dini]] | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|2}} | ShortSummary = The Skipper becomes despondent due to having been away from the sea and his boat for so long, so the others decide to build him a small boat, which serves the dual purpose of allowing the Professor to reach a small island which he thinks might be a source of mica, needed to repair their rocket. An attack by a sea monster leaves them stranded on the island, but not all is as it appears...
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = Journey to the Center of Gilligan's Planet | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = [[Tom Ruegger]] | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|9}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan continually attempts to avoid his chores to read his comic book, causing a series of mishaps and accidents, culminating in the castaways falling into a hole that leads to the center of the planet, where they are taken prisoner.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = Amazing Colossal Gilligan | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|16}} | ShortSummary =
While collecting samples from the Million Lakes region of the planet for the Professor, Gilligan accidentally falls into a lake full of yellow liquid and becomes a giant. Space circus owner P.C. Barnaby arrives on the planet in his ship, and tries to steal Gilligan and turn him into his latest attraction.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = Bumper to Bumper | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Robby London | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|23}} | ShortSummary = Bumper continually gets scolded in his attempts to find someone to play with. He decides to run away, and gets abducted by visiting aliens who worship his species.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = Road to Boom | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|30}} | ShortSummary = The Professor discovers that the planet on which they are marooned will soon be pulled into a "space hole", so the castaways try everything they can to avert this disaster, including mounting the rocket pod from their ship on a tower to try to change the planet's course.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = Too Many Gilligans | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Robby London | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|6}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan and Skipper find a cloning device that Gilligan accidentally walks through twice, and Mr. Howell and Ginger go through once, creating multiple copies of themselves with disastrous results. Eventually Bumper coaxes them all to run through the device multiple times until it short circuits and explodes, causing all the clones to vanish.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = Space Pirates | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards Tom Ruegger | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|13}} | ShortSummary = Gilligan discovers a treasure trove of advanced technical equipment, including a "size transformer cube", and accidentally shrinks all the castaways except the Professor. Soon after, pirates arrive looking for the cube and the other equipment, and chaos ensues...
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = Invaders of the Lost Barque | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Tom Ruegger | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|20}} | ShortSummary =
While trying to retrieve a wrench that fell down a hole near their rocket, Gilligan discovers a map leading to a spaceship called ''The Lost Barque''. The castaways head to a nearby cave to search for it, unaware that a group of tiny aliens who call themselves Quarks are trying to stop them so they can find the ship first.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = Wings | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|27}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan accidentally turns on the Professor's radio and attracts a pilotless space probe. One of the castaways might be able to pilot it back to earth, but the castaways all want the fame and fortune, so the Professor puts Bumper in charge of training them to see who is best suited.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = Super Gilligan | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards Tom Ruegger | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|4}} | ShortSummary =
A cosmic hurricane damages the compound, and the rocket's steering mechanism is blown away. While searching for it, Gilligan stumbles into a cave where an old man mistakes him for a great hero, and gives him a cape which grants superpowers, so he can defeat a villain named Gooniack.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = Gilligan's Army | DirectedBy = Hal Sutherland | WrittenBy = Marc Richards | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|11}} | ShortSummary =
| LineColor = C774F1
}}
|}

==Home release==
On July 22, 2014, [[Warner Archive Collection|Warner Archive]] released ''Gilligan's Planet: The Complete Series'' on DVD in region 1 as part of their [[Warner Archive Collection]]. This is a manufacture-on-demand release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and amazon.com.<ref>{{cite web|title=OFF THE ISLAND AT LAST! Warner Archive Launches 'The Complete Series' on DVD|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Gilligans-Planet-The-Complete-Series/20085|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725101812/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Gilligans-Planet-The-Complete-Series/20085|archivedate=2014-07-25|df=}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Filmation_Associates/A-G/Gilligan_s_Planet/ ''Gilligan's Planet'' Cartoon Info @ Big Cartoon DataBase]
* {{IMDb title | id=0083422 | title=Gilligan's Planet}}
* [http://toonopedia.com/giliganp.htm ''Gilligan's Planet''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://www.webcitation.org/6k6x0CMBN?url=http://toonopedia.com/giliganp.htm Archived] from the original on August 28, 2016.

{{Gilligan's Island cast}}
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{{refimprove|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox television
| show_name = Gilligan's Planet
| image = Gilligans Planet title card.jpg
| runtime = 22:15
| company = [[Filmation]]
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Television Distribution]] [[Turner Program Services]]
| director = [[Hal Sutherland]]
| creator = [[Sherwood Schwartz]]
| executive_producer = [[Lou Scheimer]]
| voices = [[Bob Denver]] [[Alan Hale, Jr.]] [[Russell Johnson]] [[Jim Backus]] [[Natalie Schafer]] [[Dawn Wells]]
| country = United States
| network = [[CBS]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|9|18}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1983|9|3}}
| num_episodes = 13
| num_seasons = 1
| list_episodes = #Episodes
| followed_by = ''[[Surviving Gilligan's Island]]''
| preceded_by = ''[[The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island]]''
}}

'''''Gilligan's Planet''''' is an American [[Saturday-morning cartoon|Saturday morning animated series]] produced by [[Filmation]] and [[MGM Television|MGM/UA Television]] which aired during the [[1982-83 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning)|1982-1983 season]] on [[CBS]]. It was the second animated [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] of the sitcom ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' (the first being ''[[The New Adventures of Gilligan]]'').

''Gilligan's Planet'' was the last cartoon series that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they produced cartoons exclusively for [[TV syndication|syndication]]. It was also the first Filmation series to feature the [[Lou Scheimer]] "signature" credit (as opposed to the rotating Lou Scheimer/[[Norm Prescott]] "wheel" credit which had been used since 1969). In addition, it was one of the last 1980s Saturday morning cartoons to be fitted with an adult [[laugh track]], as the popularity of the practice had subsided.

''Gilligan's Planet'' featured all of the original actors but one. [[Dawn Wells]] provided the voice of [[Ginger Grant]], as well as her own original character, [[Mary Ann Summers]]. The previous animated series ''[[The New Adventures of Gilligan]]'' did not feature either Wells or [[Tina Louise]] voicing their respective characters.

==Premise==
''Gilligan's Planet'' is based on the premise that [[The Professor (Gilligan's Island)|the Professor]] had managed to build an operational interplanetary [[Starship|spaceship]] to get the castaways of the original series off the island. (The series thus disregards, at least, two of the three television movies made after the series ended, which had integrated the cast back into society.) True to the castaways' perpetual bad luck, they rocketed off into space and crash-landed on an unknown [[planet]] that supported human life. In many ways, the planet was like the island, but with a strangely colored and cratered surface with more land to get around. The rocket was severely damaged in the crash; thus, the castaways were still stranded and the Professor resumed his attempts to repair their only way home.

Overall, ''Gilligan's Planet'' represented the source material of the original live-action series with "space" and "alien" themes. Encounters with "headhunters" and other shipwrecked people became encounters with alien creatures. A new character named Bumper was added, who appeared as a reptilian alien pet/sidekick for Gilligan and company.

==Cast==
* [[Bob Denver]] - Willy Gilligan
* [[Alan Hale, Jr.]] - Skipper Jonas Grumby
* [[Jim Backus]] - Thurston Howell, III
* [[Natalie Schafer]] - Mrs. Lovey Howell
* [[Russell Johnson]] - Professor Roy Hinkley
* [[Dawn Wells]] - Mary Ann Summers, Ginger Grant

==Episodes==
{{Episode table |background=#C774F1 |overall= |title= |airdate= |episodes=

{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = I Dream of Genie | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|9|18}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan rescues a robot named Wizzard from a landslide, which then grants Gilligan's every wish out of gratitude. Eventually, Mr. Howell becomes the robot's master, and misuses his wishes, ruining another chance to get home.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = Turnabout Is Fair Play | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|9|25}} | ShortSummary = The Skipper has been shirking his duties at the compound, and insists that his time is better spent guarding everyone from alien invaders, though in reality, he is simply napping. When real aliens invade, he is quickly captured, and must be rescued by his "helpless" friends.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = Let Sleeping Minnows Lie | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|2}} | ShortSummary = The Skipper becomes despondent due to having been away from the sea and his boat for so long, so the others decide to build him a small boat, which serves the dual purpose of allowing the Professor to reach a small island which he thinks might be a source of mica, needed to repair their rocket. An attack by a sea monster leaves them stranded on the island, but not all is as it appears...
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = Journey to the Center of Gilligan's Planet | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|9}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan continually attempts to avoid his chores to read his comic book, causing a series of mishaps and accidents, culminating in the castaways falling into a hole that leads to the center of the planet, where they are taken prisoner.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = Amazing Colossal Gilligan | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|16}} | ShortSummary =
While collecting samples from the Million Lakes region of the planet for the Professor, Gilligan accidentally falls into a lake full of yellow liquid and becomes a giant. Space circus owner P.C. Barnaby arrives on the planet in his ship, and tries to steal Gilligan and turn him into his latest attraction.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = Bumper to Bumper | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|23}} | ShortSummary = Bumper continually gets scolded in his attempts to find someone to play with. He decides to run away, and gets abducted by visiting aliens who worship his species.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = Road to Boom | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|10|30}} | ShortSummary = The Professor discovers that the planet on which they are marooned will soon be pulled into a "space hole", so the castaways try everything they can to avert this disaster, including mounting the rocket pod from their ship on a tower to try to change the planet's course.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = Too Many Gilligans | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|6}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan and Skipper find a cloning device that Gilligan accidentally walks through twice, and Mr. Howell and Ginger go through once, creating multiple copies of themselves with disastrous results. Eventually Bumper coaxes them all to run through the device multiple times until it short circuits and explodes, causing all the clones to vanish.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = Space Pirates | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|13}} | ShortSummary = Gilligan discovers a treasure trove of advanced technical equipment, including a "size transformer cube", and accidentally shrinks all the castaways except the Professor. Soon after, pirates arrive looking for the cube and the other equipment, and chaos ensues...
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = Invaders of the Lost Barque | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|20}} | ShortSummary =
While trying to retrieve a wrench that fell down a hole near their rocket, Gilligan discovers a map leading to a spaceship called ''The Lost Barque''. The castaways head to a nearby cave to search for it, unaware that a group of tiny aliens who call themselves Quarks are trying to stop them so they can find the ship first.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = Wings | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|11|27}} | ShortSummary =
Gilligan accidentally turns on the Professor's radio and attracts a pilotless space probe. One of the castaways might be able to pilot it back to earth, but the castaways all want the fame and fortune, so the Professor puts Bumper in charge of training them to see who is best suited.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = Super Gilligan | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|4}} | ShortSummary =
A cosmic hurricane damages the compound, and the rocket's steering mechanism is blown away. While searching for it, Gilligan stumbles into a cave where an old man mistakes him for a great hero, and gives him a cape which grants superpowers, so he can defeat a villain named Gooniack.
| LineColor = C774F1 }} {{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = Gilligan's Army | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|12|11}} | ShortSummary =
| LineColor = C774F1
}}
}}

==Home release==
On July 22, 2014, [[Warner Archive Collection|Warner Archive]] released ''Gilligan's Planet: The Complete Series'' on DVD in region 1 as part of their [[Warner Archive Collection]]. This is a manufacture-on-demand release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and amazon.com.<ref>{{cite web|title=OFF THE ISLAND AT LAST! Warner Archive Launches 'The Complete Series' on DVD|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Gilligans-Planet-The-Complete-Series/20085}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Filmation_Associates/A-G/Gilligan_s_Planet/ ''Gilligan's Planet'' Cartoon Info @ Big Cartoon DataBase]
* {{IMDb title | id=0083422 | title=Gilligan's Planet}}
*[http://toonopedia.com/giliganp.htm ''Gilligan's Planet''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [http://www.webcitation.org/6k6x0CMBN Archived] from the original on August 28, 2016.

{{Gilligan's Island cast}}
{{Children's programming on CBS in the 1980s}}

[[Category:1982 American television series debuts]]
[[Category:1983 American television series endings]]
[[Category:1980s American animated television series]]
[[Category:CBS network shows]]
[[Category:Gilligan's Island|Planet]]
[[Category:Television spin-offs]]
[[Category:Television series by Filmation]]
[[Category:Sequel television series]]
[[Category:English-language television programming]]
[[Category:Television series created by Sherwood Schwartz]]
[[Category:Television series by Warner Bros. Television]]