Gilligan's Planet is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS. It was the second animated spin-off of the classic television program Gilligan's Island (the first being 1974's The New Adventures of Gilligan), as well as the last cartoon that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they produced cartoons exclusively for syndication. It wa...
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Gilligan's Planet is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS. It was the second animated spin-off of the classic television program Gilligan's Island (the first being 1974's The New Adventures of Gilligan), as well as the last cartoon that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they produced cartoons exclusively for syndication. It was also the first Filmation series to feature the Lou Scheimer "signature" credit (as opposed to the rotating Lou Scheimer/Norm Prescott "wheel" credit which had been used since 1969).
Gilligan's Planet hinged on the premise that the Professor had managed to build an operational interplanetary spaceship to get the castaways of the original series off the island (despite his inability to simply repair the hole in the hull of the ship that got them to the island in the first place). True to form of the castaways' perpetual bad luck, they rocketed...
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