Gilligan's Island
It's from 1964, before you were born.
- Network
- CBS
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Premiered
- 1964
- Premise
- castaways on a desert island
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About
As of 2026, it's 62 years old.
Gilligan's Island stranded seven wildly mismatched castaways on a desert island for a 'three-hour tour' and then, with great comic cruelty, never let them leave. Every week they'd get tantalizingly close to rescue, and every week Gilligan would bumble it spectacularly, dooming them all over again.
The premise is summarized entirely by its own theme song, which is half the reason everyone still knows it, and the cast became permanent pop-culture archetypes.
Silly, repetitive, and weirdly beloved, Gilligan's Island is the show about a rescue that was always one Gilligan mistake away from happening.
Gilligan's Island season by season
Gilligan's Island ran for 3 seasons (1964–1966) across 98 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
