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The prolific Kurt Russell as Jungle Boy "Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy" features the very young Kurt Russell, son of actor Bing Russell, as the titular Jungle Boy discovered living on the island by Gilligan.
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- Comedy, Family
- Lawrence Dobkin
- 1965-02-06
At age 13, Russell played the role of Jungle Boy on an episode of CBS's Gilligan's Island, which aired on February 6, 1965. Disney star. In 1966, Russell was signed to a ten-year contract with Walt Disney Productions, where he became, according to Robert Osborne, the "studio's top star of the '70s".
Kurt Russell was only 13 when he played a young boy in the 19th episode of Gilligan’s Island season one in the mid-60s. The episode titled “Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy” shows Kurt as a mini Tarzan stranded on the Pacific Ocean who helps Gilligan and his crew find a natural gas mine on the Island.
Jungle Boy was played by actor Kurt Russell, best known for several Disney movies during the Seventies. The Jungle Boy may have been inspired from Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 classic The Jungle Book , an Indian feral child who was raised by a panther named Bagheera, and Tarzan from Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes series.
In the first season of "Gilligan's Island," episode 19, called "Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy," features a 13-year-old Kurt Russell in a leopard loincloth.
Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy is the nineteenth episode of the First Season. It first aired February 6, 1965. Hearing strange noises, Gilligan heads into the jungle and discovers a Jungle Boy running loose on the island. He tries telling the Skipper and Professor, but they don't believe him.
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