| "Mine Hero" | |
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| Season 2, Episode 14 | |
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| While fishing in the Lagoon, Gilligan not only hooks a World War II landmine but unknowingly activates it. | |
| Basic Info | |
| Air Date: | December 23, 1965 |
| Written By: | David Braverman and Robert Marcus |
| Directed By: | Wilbur D'Arcy |
| Guest Cast: | None |
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Mine Hero is the 14th Episode of the Second Season. It aired December 23, 1965.
Synopsis
The Professor and the Skipper are building a raft with a time-release anchor to get them rescued, and everyone is donating all unnecessary metal to melt down for it. While fishing in the lagoon, Gilligan catches and reels in an old World War Two Mine He tries to tell the Skipper, who doesn't have time to listen to him. However, when he tells the Howells, Mr. Howell misunderstands and thinks Gilligan has found an iron ore mine, going into a partnership with him over it. Meanwhile, the Professor is running out of metal to make the anchor for the raft. Ginger has a gold mesh pocketbook to donate and Mary Ann has a gold slave bracelet that turned her wrist green. When she checks on Gilligan, he has surrendered all of his unnecessary metal except his prized heirloom solid gold lucky charm, which he refuses to relinquish to her. When Mary Ann tells Ginger, she tries to sneak it off him, but Gilligan magically gets it back. Meanwhile, the Professor still doesn't have enough metal for the anchor, and Gilligan tells him about the mine. No one believes him so he takes them to see the mine in the lagoon. Once the realize what it is, the Professor discovers its ticking, panicking Gilligan who runs screaming through the island. The Professor reveals that because the island is built of coral and volcanic ash that the mine could set off a chain reaction through the subterranean underground gases that could blow up the island. The Professor tries deactivating the mine, but its interior is so rusted that it can't be deactivated. Their only recourse is to carry it out to sea and away from the island. As they're drawing straws, Gilligan eavesdrops, and believing it's all his fault, he runs to the lagoon to take the mine out to sea, but he forgets about the metal on the raft to which the mine is attracted. The Skipper and Gilligan find him paddling at forty knots through the lagoon with the mine following behind him, eventually losing it at the last second as the mine drifts out of the lagoon. Several moments later, everyone is cheering Gilligan's bravery, but the tide brings the mine back into the lagoon where is explodes, sending a shower of fish over everyone and allowing Gilligan to catch a swordfish for dinner.
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
- None
Trivia
- The Professor should have more than enough metal including the cannon balls from Plant You Now, Dig You Later, remnants of the satellite from Smile, You're on Mars Camera and the old camera equipment from Castaways Pictures Presents.
- The Professor's plan to disrupt magnetic waves with radio waves is one of the most far-fetched theories he has made in the series.
- The Professor claims that any explosion in the lagoon would set off the underground gases on the island and destroy it, but there's actually been several explosions in the lagoon, such as in Forward March, Splashdown and Bang! Bang! Bang!.
Quotes
- Mary Ann - "Oh, here's an old slate bracelet, an old boyfriend in high school gave me."
Ginger - "How can you bear to part with it? Doesn't it do something to you?"
Mary Ann - "Oh, yeah! Turns my wrist green."
