Ahoy, again! Beach yourself for Season 2 of the comedy series that's part of everyone's growing up, and you'll notice a big change. Ginger's hair is flame red. The sea is a forever blue. That's right. Season 2 is in color. But one thing doesn't change for Gilligan and his pals: color them stranded. If Gilligan and friends could vote themselves off the island, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Their loss is our gain.
Welcome back, Little Buddies, to the isle of coconuts and other assorted nuts - first mate Gilligan, the Skipper, the Howells, the Professor, and two beauties forever linked to the socially relevant question "Guys, who's your type: Ginger or Mary Ann?" It's year three of a three-hour tour (a three hour tour), and that means the end of civilization as we know it, or at least, the end of the series that went on to unending success in repeat viewings across generations.
A three-hour tour? No way! Not when you have all 36 Season-One episodes of Gilligan's Island plus a cargo of DVD extras that include the originally unaired pilot. The S.S. Minnow first sailed into living rooms on September 26, 1964, and from there steered into legend. Certainly much credit for the show's three-year run and amazing afterlife goes to the remarkable cast whose characters managed to endure life on the island while never losing their comic timing. Bravo to Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus, Natalie Schaefer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells.
The adventure continues for Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), a Shaolin priest trained in the wisdom and warfare of China's ancients and following his life's path in the American West of the latter 1800s. Caine still searches for his half-brother Danny. A dead-or-alive bounty still hangs over his head. Yet Caine remains calm and resourceful. "I live. I rest. I am at peace. It is good," he says. Good, too, is this 4-disc set of Season Two's 23 episodes whose many guest stars include Harrison Ford, Don Johnson, Slim Pickens, Gilbert Roland, Tina Louise, John Carradine and Benson Fong.
