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  • From Creation to Syndication
  • By: Sherwood Schwartz
  • Narrated by: Mike Hennessy
  • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Inside Gilligan's Island

By: Sherwood Schwartz
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While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan's Island. In spite of that, no series has achieved greater success, as measured by the fact that Gilligan's Island has given rise to three TV movies, two animated series, and is the most rerun program in the entire history of television.

Now, Sherwood Schwartz, creator, writer, and producer of Gilligan's Island, tells the life story of the show: from the labor pains of scripting, casting, and production to its golden years of afternoon reruns. Fascinating history that could be known only by the show's creator is enhanced by wonderful photos, sketches, and other illustrations from the author's personal collection, as well as the guest forewords by all seven "Castaways." An appendix lists plots, writers and directors for every episode. All this behind-the-scenes information makes the book a special treat, not only for fans, but for anyone interested in an inside look at the television industry.

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Witty, enlightening and entertaining

I loved this book. The story of the battles of Producer and creator Sherwood Schwartz to bring Gilligan's Island to the TV screens of the world told with style and wit. His battles with TV executives and networks, budgets and casting, locations and logistics. The writing is wonderful and brings what could have been a dry topic to a life of its own, lovely anecdotes and stories and Mike Hennessy's narration really lifted it to a new level, i forgot sometimes it was not Sherwood narrating his book. Written before satellite and streaming to shows the power the big three networks held over viewing in America and how your show lived or died at their whim. I highly recommend this even to someone who has never seem an episode.

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