CarrASS, take your fucking meds!
gcarras@aol.com wrote:
> In another posts, one of Bowel Movements, I pointed out that I would
> post some sutf on BB creator Sherwood Schwartz';s other classic,
> GILLIGANS ISLAND due to a REALLY OFF TOPCI and ergo not worhtwhile
> NG--and one that I think is TOTALLY absent..anyway.
>
> V FOR VITAMINS.
> Originally broadcast on what would be Sarah Michelle Gellar (BUFFY
> VAMPIRE SLAYER)'s birthday 11 years before her time (1966), April 14,
> this had Gilligan (after deciding how to cope with a seriosu vitamin
C
> deficiency!) dreaming that he si Jack (as in..AND THE BEANSTALK!().
he
> meets Mary Ann as the French fairy, and the Skippert as jolly green
> Giant! (after going up the jolly green beanstaslk).
>
> The episode was directed by longtime GILLIGAN and BRADY fixture Jack
> Arnold (also the namesake of WONDER YEAR'S Fred Savage character--and
> to think that WY takes place in the SAME TIME!)-that's right, the
> WONDER YEARS was set in the turbulent late 1960s, and the lead kid's
> name's Jack Arnold, and in the same turblent 1960s, the BRADY's &
> GILLIGAN's were on and what would the extremely prolific
> producer-director's name be? Wnhy, non other than JACK ARNOLD!).
> However, ity's thew only episode wirttne by LUX RADIO THEATRE oldtime
> radio theatre (& OUTER LIMTIS TV) scribe Barney Slater.
>
> It had some interestingl;y original music alognside the stock
standard
> "cues" devised by composer Gerald Fried for the show--the BEanstalks'
> piano theme as it goes to the sky to the snickering of the
laughtracks.
>
> Gilligan sure had a lot of odd nightmares as did:
> Mary Ann (THE POSTMAN COMETH)
> The Howells (Thurston, THE MILLIONAIRE, and Lovey, LOVEY'S SECFRET
> ADMIRER)
> The Skipper, Gilligan Howell and prof. (ST GILLIGAN AND THE DRAGON)
>
> Oddly, the Bradys didn't save for Peter's famous Jesse James one 0
this
> had not only veteran radio/TV actor Burt Mustin (ALL IN THE FAMILY &
> LEAVE IT TO BEAVER) but a DeVol besides BB composer Frank, a Gorodn
De
> Vol.:)
>
> (Forgot who wrote and firected tyhat.)
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