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Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy: Directed by Lawrence Dobkin. With Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer. Gilligan finds a young jungle boy on the island, as well as a helium supply that the professor plans to use to get rescued with a makeshift hot-air balloon.
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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".
Gilligan finds a Jungle boy (Kurt Russell) on the island. Gilligan tells Skipper and Professor what he saw but they don't believe him. Later, the boy takes Gilligan to a natural source of helium on the island. Gilligan brings the boy back to camp and the ladies try to teach him some English.
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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. He then goes off to sulk in the jungle, when the boy reappears. Gilligan tries to talk to him, but all the boy can do is mimic him. They play in the jungle together un...
•"Strike while the iron is hot, or you might not be able to strike at all."
•Mary Ann "taming" the Jungle Boy
•The ladies trying to teach the Jungle Boy
•Jungle Boy's reaction to Ginger fixing his hair.
•Gilligan floating as a result of the gas
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
•It's possible that Jungle Boy was inspired by Mowgli from the Rudyard Kipling's 1894 classic The Jungle Book about a feral child brought up by a black panther named Bagheera in the deep jungles of India. The character is similar to the character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' book series Tarzan of the Apes who likely inspired Tongo the Ape Man in Our Vines Have Tender Apes.
•As the Jungle Boy, Kurt Russell wears shorts under his loin cloth; although, where he gets a leopard skin loin cloth isn't exactly explained.
•Gilligan says the jungle boy swings like a monkey, swims like a fish, and runs like a deer!
•This is the second time Gilligan tries to swing from a vine.
•Mary Ann must have altered some of Mr. Howell's clothes to fit the boy.
•When Gilligan floats inside and outside of the balloon, the wires holding him can be seen.
•Skipper - "Sometimes, I think the Professor invents too many things."
•Gilligan - "It looks like a trench coat for an octopus."
•Mr. Howell - "She’s charmed the little nipper.”
Gilligan - “How’d you do that?”
Mary Ann - “When fishing for boys, the proper bait is girls.”
•Professor - "Our first experiment was perfect. Except, of course, for one minor detail. "
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"Gilligan's Island" Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy (TV Episode 1965) 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. Swinging through trees with the young boy serves to bring out the little boy in the already child like Gilligan, more of a juvenile adventure than usual for the show.
