Jul 29

Ever Seen This?

Tag: Television, YouTube — Patrick @ 1:10 am

The original opening of Gilligan’s Island — from the pilot — was nowhere near the familiar theme song we grew up with.

Have a look for yourself:

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Not bad, but I still like the familiar one better.  Which do you prefer?

3 Responses to “Ever Seen This?”

  1. Rick says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 7:11 am

    Seen this one - in the reruns it showed up occasionally, if I remember correctly. It was always weird - not the right song, and changed up the characters a bit. Good find.

  2. Axl says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    This was not part of the original syndication packages, but TBS ended up with it when they had the rights and made a big deal of broadcasting the “lost” pilot and theme around 20 years ago. It’s interesting, but it would get awfully tiresome week after week.

  3. Patrick says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    It’d definitely get tiresome, but I suspect that if they had kept that open, subsequent episodes would have featured a substantial cutdown of the full version.

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