Ship Ahoax

Ship Ahoax is the 23rd episode of the Second Season of Gilligan's Island. It aired February 24, 1966.

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
 * Jonathan Sanders as the Radio Announcer

Trivia

 * Gilligan tells Ginger that he doesn't believe in ghosts or goblins, but this is contrary to previous episodes, particularly Voodoo Something to Me and Ghost a Go-Go. The Skipper also must have forgotten the stories of voodoo he told in the First Season because he also claims he doesn't believe in ghosts.
 * Ginger tells the Professor she can predict the tremors by a vase shaking in her hut; the tremors are likely linked to the volcano on the island.
 * The Professor asks Ginger if she can do a séance even though Ginger already told him she could. Maybe he meant to ask if she could "fake" a séance.
 * Mary Ann and Ginger make up when they hear of the prediction of their imminent rescue, but Gilligan and Skipper are still feuding.
 * The crystal ball possibly came out of the magician's crate in It's Magic
 * The Professor tells the castaways that Ginger will predict the exact time of their rescue with a séance; but he suspiciously absents himself from it under the pretense that the whole thing is "silly." The other castaways should have been suspicious of the paranormal activity in lieu of his absence.
 * The Professor wears his sport coat under the table when he would have been better without it to lift the table.
 * The Skipper actually foils a rescue by calling Gilligan back from lighting the signal fire as a ship passes by off shore, although no one is aware of it. Although, why they didn't just light it when the ghosts were in the area remains unrevealed.

Quotes

 * Ginger - "In five minutes, I can convince him he's President Johnson... In ten, Lady Bird!"


 * William Shakespeare - "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Quoted by the Professor