Talk:Marooned (Unaired Pilot)/@comment-2134813-20150125195742

The last sentence of the synopsis is incorrect. ("With them recovered and working again, the Professor successful calls for help, but Gilligan returns with firewood and blindly crushes the transmitter unknowingly at his feet!") That did not happen in "Marooned." (I have it on DVD.) That is new footage (the film grain doesn't match "Marooned") shot for the episode, "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk" and appears at the end of that episode.

"Marooned" ends with the castaways sitting near the beach, biding their time until rescue, when Gilligan spots an airplane flying overhead. To attract the plane's attention, the castaways try to spell "HELP" by forming the letters with the large fish Gilligan caught for dinner (in which the radio and transmitter were eventually found) and Gilligan forms the "P" backward.