You've Been Disconnected

Sorry, You've Been Disconnected is the Seventeenth episode of the Second Season. It aired January 13, 1966.

Synopsis
A telephone communications cable washes ashore! Can the castaways use it to call for help?

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
 * Rona Barrett (unconfirmed) as the Hollywood Gossip Columnist
 * Sandra Gould as the Telephone Operator
 * Unidentified Actress as the Theater Matron
 * Unidentified Actor as a Larry (voice)
 * Unidentified Actress as a Sybil (voice)
 * Unidentified Actor as a Boyfriend
 * Unidentified Actress as a Girlfriend

Trivia

 * The TVLand version of this epsiode cuts out the part where Gilligan has to keep diving in search for the cable lost in the lagoon.
 * Ginger starts her diary again; she began and abandoned one in Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?.
 * The Professor and Ginger recall when Gilligan forgot to tie off a raft with their provisions, an incident in April when he put their last flare on the Skipper's birthday cake and when Gilligan tossed their blowtorch overboard before the S.S. Minnow was beached.
 * In a previous episode, the Skipper says his birthday is May 1, but the Professor tells Ginger the birthday cake incident happened in April. (Maybe they celebrated it a few days earlier.)
 * It's revealed in this episode that Ginger knows a little Spanish, Mrs. Howell knows French, the Professor knows a few island dialects and the Skipper recognizes (but may not speak) Portuguese.
 * The Skipper mentions this episode occurs on the second day of a month.

Quotes

 * Gilligan - "Did you know three's a telephone in the lagoon?" Mr. Howell - "No, but can you hum it?"


 * Gilligan - "That cable's just not down there." Skipper - "It's gotta be!" Gilligan - "It isn't! That's the 62nd time I've been down there!" Skipper - "And what number comes after 62?" Gilligan - "Oh-no! Nothing's making me swim around in the bottom of the lagoon again! Nothing." (Gilligan looks at the Castaways angrily watching him.) "63 coming up..."