Summer Fun: Remembering Gilligan’s Island

The New Adventures of Gilligan

The success of Gilligan’s Island and its sequels have sparked a few spin-off series. The New Adventures of Gilligan was an animated series produced by Filmation. It was one of the Saturday morning cartoons that aired on ABC from 1974 to 1977. All of the original cast was enlisted to voice the characters for the show, except for Dawn Wells, who was on the road for a play, and Tina Louise, who no longer wanted to be associated with the role of Ginger Grant. The cartoon featured a monkey sidekick for Gilligan and ended each episode with a lesson learned.