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Home Sweet Hut: Directed by Richard Donner. With Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer. The castaways fight over their living arrangements as a violent storm approaches the island.
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- Richard Donner
- TV-G
- Comedy, Family
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Home Sweet Hut is the Second episode of the First season. It first aired October 3, 1964.
Plot
The Skipper is busy making breakfast when Gilligan comes to help and feels a raindrop on his face. Soon, it starts pouring rain and after it finally stops, the Skipper makes plans to build a shelter. Unfortunately, everyone wants their own huts, but Skipper says they're only building one hut because it would take less time and materials. While listening to the Radio for the weather report, everyone hears that the Coast Guard is no longer searching for them.
While they are building the hut, Mr. Howell is in charge of applying a weather proof concoction to the outside, and the Professor and Skipper are working on the roof and walls. Gilligan is in charge of filling the water barrel to make sure that when the storm does hit, they have enough water for them to drink. Unfortunately, Gilligan leaves the lid off the water barrel, and the Skipper falls in. When Gilligan grabs a ladder for the Skipper, the Professor falls off the roof while standing on it. In departing, Gilligan also knocks the bucket of water-proofing onto Mr. Howell's head.
That night, the hut is finished. Gilligan tries to climb into his top hammock bunk, but he doesn't have much success. The Skipper suggests that he sleep on the top, but when he does, he crushes Gilligan because his weight makes the hammock sink. Meanwhile, they overhear the Howells having a fight, and everyone gets involved because the shouting is leaving no one able to sleep. To solve the problem of seven people living together, everyone still brings up building their own huts, taking the parts of the common hut that they made. The Skipper tries to convince them that one hut is better for the upcoming storm, but no one wants to listen to him.
The next morning, everyone starts working on their own huts, and end up stalling Gilligan trying to build the Boy's Hut. Mr. Howell comes to borrow the machete from Gilligan, and the Professor borrows the saw. The Skipper gets mad at Gilligan for loaning out all their tools because then they won't be able to finish their own hut and orders him to say "no" to everyone no matter what they want. Ginger soon comes over to take some rope and successfully charms it away from Gilligan. When the Skipper returns, he wants Gilligan to bring back all the tools he lent out.
Gilligan first sees the Professor for the saw. He is working on a book about their adventures on the island, but while looking at the Professor's hut, Gilligan sees a loose twig and pulls it out. The wall falls down as a result with the entire hut coming down as a result. At the Girl's Hut, Mary Ann and Ginger are showing Gilligan their plans for their hut, but when she smells the fudge is baking is burning, she finds her hut door won't open. Gilligan tries to help, ratting the entire hut so much that the walls collapse.
Gilligan and the Skipper soon go to visit the Howell's Hut to suggest coming back to the Communal Hut since everyone else is homeless, but when Gilligan sits on a hammock, everything falls down.
•"United we stand, together we fall."
•Gilligan and Skipper both saying in sync "Sit down and shut up!"
•The castaways wearing the clothes the Howells lent them.
•Gilligan and Skipper trying to sleep in their hammocks.
•The Professor's hut walls falling apart.
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
•The hut identified as the Supply Hut in Voodoo Something to Me and later as the Boy's Hut in Goodnight Sweet Skipper is used as the exterior of the Communal Hut before its finally seen floating in the Lagoon.
•When the "rain" starts, you can see one spray starts spraying before the others.
•When the Skipper is showing his plans for a communal hut, Mr. Howell eyes the map of Australia and asks how much it is, but in Where There's a Will, he suggests he already owns it. However, this could just be one of numerous exaggerations he has made in the series.
•The hut the men build is actually much smaller than the resulting Communal Hut.
•It seems odd that Gilligan doesn't just carry the buckets of water into the hut instead of taking them on a pole; it would have prevented all of the resulting antagonism from hitting and knocking things over in it.
•It is unrevealed as to why the castaways didn't just use one of the caves to avoid the storm.
•Gilligan - "Can I help, sir?"
Skipper - "Sure, you can."
Gilligan - "What do you want me to do?... I know. Sit down and shut up."
•Mrs. Howell - "What's on the menu for breakfast this morning?"
Skipper - "Fruit and powdered eggs."
Mr. Howell - "Wonderful! We'll have some powdered eggs Benedict."
Summaries. The castaways fight over their living arrangements as a violent storm approaches the island. The seven castaways decide that they're unwilling to all share the same dwelling, so they break up into teams to construct four separate huts.
Gilligan's Island. Season 1 Episode 2 - Home Sweet Hut. 1964 · 26 min. TV-G. Comedy · Adventure · Kids & Family. "We've got to function as a group," Skipper says. But before that lesson sinks in, various factions construct individual huts that can withstand hurricanes. Subtitles: English. Directed by: Dick Donner. Season 1. S01:E01 - Two on a Raft.
- Dick Donner
- 25 min
- January 1, 1964
"Gilligan's Island" Home Sweet Hut (TV Episode 1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Available on Tubi TV, iTunes. S1 E3: The Skipper orders the castaways to build a community hut due to impending tropical storms. Comedy Oct 2, 1964 24 min. TV-G.
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