- The pilot episode that tells the tale of a tiny ship which set off on a three-hour tour but got caught in a storm and beached on an island. The pilot was filmed in November 1963, and not aired until almost 30 years later.
- On the deserted beach of an unspecified island, the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr) wakes up to find the S.S. Minnow beached after a big storm. His First Mate, Gilligan (Bob Denver), however, wakes to find him missing and calling for him, so he dives off the boat thinking he's in the ocean, diving into the sand of the beach on the island. Worried they might be lost, the Skipper confesses to Gilligan he fears it might take a while to get home with the damage to the boat. Later on after the the passengers have woken, the radio reveals their identities one by one to the public and the belief that they are lost to the public. The Professor (John Gabriel) eventually takes the challenge of trying to fix the transmitter while Gilligan and Skipper search the island for signs of human life. The Skipper orders Gilligan to climb to the top of the tallest tree he has found to get a better view of the whole island, but Gilligan accidentally knocks down coconuts in his ascent which hit him in the head. Once aloft, Gilligan says he sees a boat, but it turns out it's just the Minnow and the passengers. Eventually sent fishing, Gilligan intrigues the Howells (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer) by catching and wrestling with a shark swimming off-shore. While fishing, he accidentally latches on to the transmitter and radio just as the Professor gets them working and tosses them in the tide on the end of his fishing pole, losing them in the surf. Gilligan is soon fast proving himself to be a problem the harder he tries to help, blowing out a match too quickly before the Skipper can get a fire started. However, he does get in good graces again by recovering the lost radio inside the body of a fish he caught while fishing as he gets dragged in the water by a fish. The Professor deduces the fish swallowed the radio and its possible that another fish might have similarly swallowed the transmitter. They rally Bunny (Nancy McCarthy), Ginger (Kit Smithye), and the Howells to help search for it. As they search, a plane flies overhead, and they race to use the fish to spell "help," but Gilligan forms the "P" backward.
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Marooned (1992) in Australia?
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