Lovey's Secret Admirer

Lovey's Secret Admirer is the 87th episode of Gilligan's Island and the 19th episode of the third season. It aired on January 23, 1967.

Synopsis
Mrs. Howell has been receiving strange love letters from someone on the island. Mr. Howell wants to know who the notes are coming from. The Professor creates a lie detector to guess the secret admirer. After eliminating himself, Gilligan and the Skipper, he and the others try to discover the identity of the secret admirer. They catch Mr. Howell in the middle of the night leaving another letter. In the morning, Mrs. Howell is stunned that he was keeping it a secret, but is insulted when he reveals he wanted her to feel more special than the girls. Lovey sends him away, but that night she dreams she is Cinderella, Ginger and Mary Ann are evil step-sisters, Skipper is the step-sisters's mother as well as a courier along with the Professor. Mr. Howell is the prince, and Gilligan is a bumbling fairy godfather. At the end of the dream, Lovey realizes Thurston has always been her prince and they reconcile.

Credits
Main Cast
 * Bob Denver as Gilligan
 * Alan Hale Jr. as The Skipper
 * Jim Backus as Mr. Howell
 * Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell
 * Tina Louise as Ginger
 * Dawn Wells as Mary Ann
 * Russell Johnson as The Professor

Guest Cast
 * William Curtis as the Royal Messenger
 * Charles Maxwell as the Royal Messenger (voice only - unconfirmed)

Trivia

 * Alan Hale appears in drag for the second time; he also appears as a Gilligan's mother in The Invasion as a fake bride in Gilligan the Goddess.
 * Cinderella's mansion is actually a redressed version of Dr. Balingkoff's torture chamber from The Friendly Physician.
 * When Gilligan plays with the Professor's lie detector, he says he loves spinach and gets a negative response. This is contradictory to Pass the Vegetables, Please when he says loves spinach, although the consequences of that episode might have led to him hating them.
 * Syndicated versions omit the ending with Gilligan playing with the Professor's lie detector.

Quotes

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