Gilligan's Planet

''Gilligan's Planet is a spin-off of The New Adventures of Gilligan,'' based 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. True to the castaways' perpetual bad luck, they rocketed off into space and crash-landed on an unknown planet that supported human life. In many ways, the planet was like the island, but with a strangely colored and cratered surface with more land to get around. The rocket was severely damaged in the crash; thus, the castaways were still stranded and the Professor resumed his attempts to repair their only way home. Overall, ''Gilligan's Planet'' re-presented the source material of the original live-action series with space and alien themes. Encounters with headhunters and other shipwrecked people instead became encounters with alien creatures. A new character named Bumper was added, who appeared as a reptilian alien pet/sidekick for Gilligan and company. == Production notes ==

The theme song from The New Adventures of Gilligan was recycled, with new narration to explain the new show's premise. Sherwood Schwartz, who had hands-on involvement in the New Adventures series, was not as heavily involved in ''Gilligan's Planet''. Two of the show's primary writers, Tom Ruegger and Paul Dini, would emerge at Warner Bros. Animation in the 1990s. This is one of the few Filmation series not currently owned by successor Universal Television/Classic Media. It is instead owned by Warner Bros. Television Studios through Turner Entertainment Co. as it is a part of the pre-May 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library. == Cast ==

• Bob Denver as Gilligan • Alan Hale Jr. as Skipper Jonas Grumby • Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III • Natalie Schafer as "Lovey" Wentworth Howell • Russell Johnson as Professor Roy Hinkley • Dawn Wells as Mary Ann Summers, Ginger Grant • Lou Scheimer as Bumper == Episodes ==

On July 22, 2014, Warner Archive released ''Gilligan's Planet: The Complete Series'' on DVD in region 1 as part of their Warner Archive Collection. This was a manufacture-on-demand release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. The DVD set has since been made available via Amazon. == See also ==