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Gilligan's Island Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
Up at Bat
Mon, Sep 12, 196626 mins
Gilligan is bitten in the neck by a bat and fears he will transform into a vampire as a result. Gilligan's troubled sleep is haunted by a dream that he is indeed a vampire living in a European castle in 1895 where unsuspecting travelers and a famous detective and his doctor assistant appear at his doorstep. Will they be invited to stay for -or as- dinner?
Episode 2
Gilligan vs. Gilligan
Mon, Sep 19, 196625 mins
A Russian agent who looks and dresses exactly like Gilligan holds Gilligan captive and questions the castaways about their activities. However, nobody believes Gilligan's story and they accuse him of causing all the mischief.
Episode 3
Pass the Vegetables, Please
Mon, Sep 26, 196630 mins
Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetable seeds from the lagoon, but fails to notice the warning on the crate that the seeds are radioactive.
Episode 4
The Producer
Mon, Oct 3, 196630 mins
A Hollywood producer lands on the island and is unimpressed with Ginger's acting abilities, so the castaways put on their own production of "Hamlet" to get the producer's attention.
Episode 5
Voodoo
Mon, Oct 10, 196630 mins
A witch doctor wreaks havoc on the castaways after he steals a personal item from each of them and then creates voodoo dolls that bear their likenesses.
Episode 6
Where There's a Will
Mon, Oct 17, 196630 mins
Mr. Howell names the other castaways as beneficiaries in his will. But he then fears they may be trying to kill him for their inheritance, when in reality they are throwing a surprise party for him.
Episode 7
Man with a Net
Mon, Oct 24, 196626 mins
A famed butterfly collector comes to the island in search of the rare "Pussycat Swallowtail," and the castaways try to help him find it so he will shoot his flare gun and rescue them.
Episode 8
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Mon, Oct 31, 196630 mins
Gilligan believes he has become an old man after his hair turns completely white overnight, but The Professor's solution only makes things worse when his hair completely falls out.
Episode 9
Ring Around Gilligan
Mon, Nov 7, 196630 mins
Mad scientist Boris Balinkoff returns to the island with a new invention that turns the castaways into "human robots," whom he plans to use to commit the ultimate crime.
Episode 10
Topsy-Turvy
Mon, Nov 14, 196630 mins
While the castaways prepare for a possible attack from headhunters, Gilligan hits his head on a tree and begins seeing things upside down. The Professor prepares a cure for him, but it only makes him see double instead.
Episode 11
The Invasion
Mon, Nov 21, 196630 mins
Gilligan and The Skipper find a government briefcase with top-secret information in the lagoon, and when Gilligan handcuffs himself to the briefcase, he becomes afraid that the enemy will come to the island and kill him.
Episode 12
The Kidnapper
Mon, Nov 28, 196630 mins
A smooth-talking criminal comes to the island and holds the women on the island hostage in exchange for ransom money, but when he is captured they decide to try and reform him instead of holding him prisoner.
Episode 13
And Then There Were None
Mon, Dec 5, 196630 mins
The castaways start disappearing one by one, and when the remaining castaways discover that headhunters have not taken them, Gilligan begins to think he's a "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" and has killed them all.
Episode 14
All About Eva
Mon, Dec 12, 196626 mins
Plain and homely Eva Grubb escapes the scorn and rejection of civilization in a motor boat and lands on Gilligan's island, where Ginger and Mary Ann are confident a Hollywood makeover can bring out Eva's hidden beauty and restore her self-confidence.
Episode 15
Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho
Mon, Dec 26, 196630 mins
The Skipper is named "sheriff" of the island, with Gilligan as his deputy. But when The Skipper is away helping The Professor, Gilligan becomes drunk with power and throws everyone in jail.
Episode 16
Take a Dare
Mon, Jan 2, 196730 mins
A game show contestant comes to the island and can win $10,000 if he can survive one week without outside assistance, so he refuses to let the castaways use his transmitter because he would have to forfeit the prize.
Episode 17
Court-Martial
Mon, Jan 9, 196730 mins
The Professor recreates the Minnow voyage to disprove a Maritime Board charge that The Skipper was responsible for the wreck of the Minnow, but their efforts prove that the person to blame for the wreck is actually Gilligan.
Episode 18
The Hunter
Mon, Jan 16, 196730 mins
A big-game hunter arrives on the island. Upon learning there is nothing on the island to hunt, he chooses instead to hunt one of the castaways--and he chooses Gilligan.
Episode 19
Lovey's Secret Admirer
Mon, Jan 23, 196730 mins
Mr. Howell becomes outraged and jealous when he discovers that a secret admirer is sending letters to Mrs. Howell. But everyone is even more shocked when they discover that he's the one who's sending them.
Episode 20
Our Vines Have Tender Apes
Mon, Jan 30, 196730 mins
An "ape man" wreaks havoc on the island and frightens the castaways, who don't realize that he is actually a Hollywood actor preparing for a role.
Episode 21
Gilligan's Personal Magnetism
Mon, Feb 6, 196730 mins
Gilligan's body conducts electricity after he is struck by lightning with a bowling ball in his hand. But when The Professor tries to remove the bowling ball from Gilligan's hand, a second lightning strike makes him invisible.
Episode 22
Splashdown
Mon, Feb 20, 196730 mins
The castaways try to contact two astronauts in a space capsule orbiting over the island, but they fail. However, they may get a second chance when an unmanned capsule they are trying to make contact with lands on the island.
Episode 23
High Man on the Totem Pole
Mon, Feb 27, 196730 mins
The castaways find a headhunter tribe's totem pole on the island. The head on the top of it bears an uncanny resemblance to Gilligan--which comes in handy when the headhunters return to the island.
Episode 24
The Second Ginger Grant
Mon, Mar 6, 196730 mins
After Mary Ann watches Ginger perform on the island she hits her head giving her amnesia thus believing that she is Ginger Grant. Everyone plays along, until Mary Ann can't act or dance and her memory comes back.
Episode 25
The Secret of Gilligan's Island
Mon, Mar 13, 196730 mins
The castaways find parts of an ancient Hieroglyphic stone tablet that may tell them the way to get off the island.
Episode 26
Slave Girl
Mon, Mar 20, 196730 mins
Gilligan saves a native island woman named Kalani from drowning which, according island custom, makes her his slave. But a fellow tribesman soon comes to the island and challenges Gilligan for Kalani in mortal combat.
Episode 27
It's a Bird, It's a Plane
Mon, Mar 27, 196730 mins
A missing military jet pack washes up on the island, and The Professor tries to figure out a way to use it for their rescue.
Episode 28
The Pigeon
Mon, Apr 3, 196730 mins
The castaways attach a message to a homing pigeon that has flown off course and landed on the island, but the man who receives their message thinks it's part of a practical joke.
Episode 29
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Mon, Apr 10, 196730 mins
The U.S. government invents a new type of plastic explosive that can be molded into every day items and that can only be exploded due to a hard impact. Unfortunately, it falls overboard a navy ship and makes its way to the island where the castaways use it to make everything from dishes to golf balls. They soon find out, however, the true nature of the plastic is discovered but not before some of the plastic is used to replace a couple of fillings in Gilligan's teeth. Making things worse is that a little monkey friend of Gilligan's has found where the castaways hid the plastic and has begun throwing it around and causing it to explode.
Episode 30
Gilligan, the Goddess
Mon, Apr 17, 196730 mins
A king from a nearby island comes to the island in search of a "White Goddess" to sacrifice to a volcano, but the castaways offer Gilligan to him instead to protect the women.
