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"You've Been Disconnected"
Season 2, Episode 17
Gi97
A telephone cable washes up on the Island, and it brings hopes for rescue if the Professor can use it to call for help.
Basic Info
Air Date: January 13, 1966
Written By: Jack Arnold
Directed By: Elroy Schwartz
Guest Cast: Sandra Gould as the Telephone Operator
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Sorry, You've Been Disconnected is the Seventeenth episode of the Second Season. It aired January 13, 1966.

Synopsis

After a big storm A telephone communications cable washes ashore! Can the castaways use it to call for help? By splicing the cable the Professor makes a "telephone exchange" and telephone. It seems the castaways can finally call for help..until another big storm washs the cable back into the lagoon. Even then the castaways hope the sea water will short out the cable-and when a repair boat comes to repair the cable they's be rescued--except that Gilligan repaired the cable hole with tree sap... the last scene has Gillgian helplessly diving for the cable

Credits

Main Cast

Guest Cast

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..."

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