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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 422858" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>I've loved GILLIGAN'S ISLAND for years now, and there was a time that I wished a good, colorized version of Season 1 existed somewhere. But, having grown up a little bit, I wouldn't trade that B&W premiere season for anything. In the case of GILLIGAN, though, I'd say the show worked <em>best</em> in that garish, late-60s brand of color. It helped it come into its own. It helped BEWITCHED and JEANNIE, too. </p><p></p><p>GILLIGAN needed at least one more season of, say, 30 episodes. Its ratings were down at the end of the 1966-67 season, but that was partly due to the earlier time slot and the competition from THE MONKEES over on NBC, which, to be fair, GILLIGAN was still besting in the overall ratings. GILLIGAN had dropped from #22 to #49 in between 1966 and 1967, but it was still winning its time slot, and apparently by a considerable margin. </p><p></p><p>I don't wish CBS would've cancelled GUNSMOKE in 1967, but they could've nixed something else to keep GILLIGAN around for another year. There were several single seasons shows on CBS that ended in 1967, such as Sherwood Schwartz's own IT'S ABOUT TIME, as well as PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS, both half-hour comedies that could've made room for GILLIGAN to carry over into the 1967-68 season. They could've even toyed with cancelling a longer-running sitcom, like MY THREE SONS or THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, both shows I like, but were limping into exhaustion. </p><p></p><p>GILLIGAN deserved a proper sendoff during its original run, instead of the half-hearted TV follow-up movies in the late-70s. In saying that, I think part of the series' popularity in syndication for decades owes to the fact that the seven castaways stay stranded on the island without any hope of resuce on the horizon. I know a lot of people that didn't even know the reunion movies existed for decades. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]56269[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 422858, member: 7"] I've loved GILLIGAN'S ISLAND for years now, and there was a time that I wished a good, colorized version of Season 1 existed somewhere. But, having grown up a little bit, I wouldn't trade that B&W premiere season for anything. In the case of GILLIGAN, though, I'd say the show worked [I]best[/I] in that garish, late-60s brand of color. It helped it come into its own. It helped BEWITCHED and JEANNIE, too. GILLIGAN needed at least one more season of, say, 30 episodes. Its ratings were down at the end of the 1966-67 season, but that was partly due to the earlier time slot and the competition from THE MONKEES over on NBC, which, to be fair, GILLIGAN was still besting in the overall ratings. GILLIGAN had dropped from #22 to #49 in between 1966 and 1967, but it was still winning its time slot, and apparently by a considerable margin. I don't wish CBS would've cancelled GUNSMOKE in 1967, but they could've nixed something else to keep GILLIGAN around for another year. There were several single seasons shows on CBS that ended in 1967, such as Sherwood Schwartz's own IT'S ABOUT TIME, as well as PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS, both half-hour comedies that could've made room for GILLIGAN to carry over into the 1967-68 season. They could've even toyed with cancelling a longer-running sitcom, like MY THREE SONS or THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, both shows I like, but were limping into exhaustion. GILLIGAN deserved a proper sendoff during its original run, instead of the half-hearted TV follow-up movies in the late-70s. In saying that, I think part of the series' popularity in syndication for decades owes to the fact that the seven castaways stay stranded on the island without any hope of resuce on the horizon. I know a lot of people that didn't even know the reunion movies existed for decades. [ATTACH type="full"]56269[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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