| "Little Island, Big Gun" | |
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| Season 1, Episode 17 | |
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| A bank robber hides out on the Island. | |
| Basic Info | |
| Air Date: | 1/23/65 |
| Written By: | Dick Conway and Roland MacLane |
| Directed By: | Abner Biberman |
| Guest Cast: | Jackson Ferrell as Larry Storch |
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Plot
Bank robber Jackson Ferrell is hyding out on The Island! In order to trick the authorites he takes Mary Ann hostage and has the other castaways dress up like "Natives" to convice investigators that he is not on the Island! Later when he makes his getaway he has Gilligan thrown him the anchor-which is tyed to the bank loot which is then chopped up by the boats propellor! Ferrell and his gang are later arrested by the Coast Guard..but the Castaways are still stranded!
Trivia
- Comedian Larry Storch is best known for the part of the dim whitted Corporal Agarn on the comedy farce F troop as the side kick to Sgt O'Roarke {Forrest Tucker}. Iroinically Bob Denver played the sim ditted sidekick to the Wagon master {Forrest Tucker} in "Dusty's Trail" a kind of Gillgian Island set in the Wild West
- When Ferrell tryes to shoot Gilligan-his gun-which is a water pistol-shoots only Water! {In the episode "The Hunter" When Kinciad tries to shoot Gilligan after falling into the water trough-his "Rifle" also shoots water!}
- The gag of a criminal hiding out on the Island and leaves the Castaways stranded was later redone with Don Rickles as the guest Villian
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