The Return of Wrongway Feldman

The Return Of Wrongway Feldman is the Twenty-Fourth episode of the First Season. It aired March 13, 1965.

Synopsis
Incompetent World War I aviator Wrongway Feldman returns to the island by chance after flying around lost and reveals he can't stand modern civilization and refuses to go back to civilization. Furthermore, he upsets several castaways with news from back home. He tells Mr. Howell that his New York rents are the lowest during a money making bonanza and Ginger that her former roommate became a famous Broadway actress. With the two of them upset, the Skipper and Professor try to trick Feldman into going home by making him believe that Gilligan is sick and needs a doctor. However, when Wrongway returns to the island after going for a "doctor," he reveals that he got the medicine with out anyone seeing him. The Castaways now decide to ruin paradise for Feldman by giving him a taste of the noise, grief and over-crowding he's avoiding from back home. In addition to the aggravation, they have Wrongway do all the work on the island as they try to "civilize" it in hopes that he will become disgruntled enough to fly off and they can be rescued. The plan eventually works, and Wrongway subsequently flees the Island to get away from them. Watching him fly off, the Skipper reveals he filled the plane up with charts and maps back to the Island to get them rescued. Unfortunately, these plans never come to fruition. A few days later, Gilligan finds a bottle with a message from Wrongway reporting that he flew off for Hawaii but got lost and ended up on another island he considers paradise, unaware that the island he landed up on is Hawaii.

Message

 * "Everyone has his own idea of paradise."

Highlights

 * Wrongway Feldman returns

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
 * Hans Conried as Wrongway Feldman

Trivia

 * Hans Conried reprises the role of Wrongway Feldman from the episode with the same name.
 * When Wrongway is talking to the Skipper, he tries several times to hang his shirt on a nail, but it keeps falling down. When it finally stays up, he yanks it and throws it to the ground.
 * The Skipper and Gilligan's hammocks in their hut are suspiciously side by side in order to eventually harass Wrongway from sleeping.
 * When the Skipper and Gilligan start snacking in their huts, Gilligan pulls the vegetables out of a brown paper grocery bag.
 * It seems a little convenient that Wrongway's message in a bottle actually ends up with the Castaways and just a few days after he had left them.

Quotes
Gilligan - "Isn't your name, Ginger Grant?" Ginger - "Yeah, but if my name's gonna be in lights, I want as many lights as I can get."
 * Ginger - "I can't wait to see my name up in lights. "Ginger Guggenheimer.""

Skipper - "But when we get back you can go live in Yellowstone Park." Wrongway - "I tried that already. Even the bears are civilized. They wear Boy Scout Uniforms, put out fires."
 * Wrongway - "This is the life. Earth, trees, grass, nature."

Gilligan - "Yeah, I hope I look bad enough." Skipper - "Don't worry, Gilligan. Just be yourself."
 * Skipper - "Remember the symptoms. You've got to make him think that you're got Bola Bola fever. Dry mouth, stomach ache, dizziness, ringing ears, sore head."

Skipper - "He's probably down at the lagoon. I haven't let him wash in three days." Mr. Howell - "Well, I hope he's down there."
 * Professor - "Where is he now?"