Gilligan's Island FILMING LOCATIONS Revealed! Before and After/Then and Now!
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Gilligan's Island FILMING LOCATIONS Revealed! Before and After/Then and Now!
Did you ever want to know where Gilligan's Island was REALLY filmed? I'll tell you in this video and show you all the clues that tells us this is true. Enjoy!
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Thanks little buddy
blockisle9 hahah
Don't you hurt my little buddy. . .
Parking Deck, not just a lot. Should have been a historical location with a cool good eats hut and outdoor lagoon tables
Why did the Ho grkk ad
Love it.
My dad was one of the writers. He'd be so pleased to know that this show is still watched and loved. RIP Charles Tannen. :(
His writing brought so much laughter to my life. My 2 young daughters watch Gilligan's Island as well. I'm happy to pass those classic shows along.
@@fjr70ify Awwww........thank you. :) Hugs to you and daughters! :) My Dad would be pleased.
Thankyou Charles Tannen! RIP sir.
FASCINATING!! THANKS for sharing!! I remember his name in big letters on the credits.
GRATEFUL to him and all involved.
MUCH LOVE
@@JL-re1rx hugs, and thanks. I miss him.
I grew up at that studio. I spent countless hours running around dodge city and Gilligan's lagoon. Swam in that nasty water. Great pic's 👍. You have brought back memories of me going to work every day with my uncle and hanging out with Ron Howard on the set,riding our bikes all through Gunsmoke. What a blast .1970 to 1973. Thanks for this
Met the skipper at his LA restaurant decades ago and he greeted with a warm handshake and enjoyed our comments about him and his dad rather than talking about GI. Came across as a Real Nice Guy.
His Father was great!
Although as a young boy I couldn't always tell Hale Sr. from Walter Slezack when either would show up in movies...
Everyone in the world said he WAS a real nice guy. I have seen his dad in really old films and can't tell the difference. Our lives would be better if we all knew a few people as Alan Hale Jr.
La Cienega
I remember Bob Denver saying his idea for ending the show was to have the castaways stand at the edge of the lagoon and the camera pan out and back showing Los Angeles and the highways surrounding the "island."
Sounds a bit like the VILLAGE movie
That would have been really cool!
Including that the lagoon was built for the show.
@@ricknineg …or the end of Blazing Saddles!
that ending would have alleviated the concern of the Thermians from Galaxy Quest
The professor was a Navigator on a B-24 bomber during WW2 serving in the Pacific Theatre
I hated that show. How could a battery operated radio work for 3 years?
@@chaosdemonwolf1 they were “supposedly” on the island for decades. The Professor had knowledge to compensate for “everything”... except adhesive for bamboo to stick to a boat’s hull.
@@chaosdemonwolf1I agree totally. It was completely implausible unlike:
Jerry van Dykes mother reincarnated as a car.
A martian with TV antennas living with Bill Bixby.
Universal monsters with a fun side living down the street on Mockingbird Lane.
Fabulously wealthy gouls living in a mansion in Central Park.
A man marrying a beautiful blonde witch.
An astronaut finding a well endowed blonde white girl in a 2000 year old Arabian bottle on a beach.
NASA Astronauts landing in the stone age (same set) to meet whacky cave people and combat dinosaurs.
A US cavalry fort where the sergeant and corporal are running a black market operation with the Jewish Indians.
An intelligent pig that went to school, had a paper route and went to Hollywood to become a movie star
Yes in that environment of seriously well thought out programs, Gilligan's Island was really stupid.
“They paved paradise and put in a parking lot”. Sigh.
I was gonna add that too! Lol
Joni Mitchell Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know whatcha got ‘til it’s gone.
I was just gonna write that. Joni Mitchell's muse was Gilligan's Island..who woulda thought?
said that to myself just before going to comments...
Wonder who got that comment in first? 👍
I got to meet Dawn Wells at the World of Wheels in Birmingham Alabama . She was just so Awesome.
Ty I am 58 years old and used to rush home from school to watch Gilligan's Island and now I see where the magic was made.
Same here
I remember when Gilligan's Island first came out--the media hated it--they criticized it every way they could--yet audiences loved it--near the end of its run--the media started to come around to the humor of the show-some comparing the interactions between Alan Hale Jr. and Bob Denver as being like "Laurel and Hardy" or "Abbott and Costello"
The Laurel and Hardy influence is clear, particularly in the Skipper's acting.
They also hated ace Ventura pet detective, but ppl loved it. 😊
What killed Gilligan's Island though, is that the new program manager at CBS hated it. It was still in the high top ten when is was abruptly cancelled mid-season without explanation.
As far as I know, most of my generation watched it as part of our after-school line up from kindergarten through our middle school years (That's roughly ten years)
Probably much more popular and successful in syndication than as a prime time contender.
@@atlas108 I hated it and still do. so not all ppl loved it. But yea, the media does get it wrong alot of the time. They tend to look at it not in a entertainment way as most ppl do.
And what is the deal with the professor? I mean he could make a radio out of a coconut but couldn't fix a hole in the boat.
He (Russell Johnson ) said in an interview he often got asked thst question and would reply “if you found yourself shipwrecked on a beautiful island surrounded by beautiful women ....would you really want to leave?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
nor did the professor even realize they were in the middle of LA
@@samboggs3499 actually there was an episode where Gilligan made a glue (probably from coconuts) ...which after applying to the entire Boat.. ALL the Boards warped and popped off into a giant scrap heap .. Gilligan blew it again, every time! If only they could have made some good coconut reefer for Gilligan to just sit and chill with.. the rest of them could have gotten off the island.
@@KrustyKlown that's funny because didn't Bob Denver get arrested in the 80's or 90's for weed?
I always enjoy "Then and Now" pictures! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot". It fits this situation perfectly! It seems everyone is in such a hurry to replace old buildings/sites, that they forget the areas are still important to people.
Is 56 years in a hurry?
First thing that poped to mind, how ironic.
It is indeed a bit melancholy to see this set, and many other sets of famous tv shows get demolished when they could easily have been able to use them to do studio tours. I recall the emotions from fans running high when the houses and lots used for shows like Bewitched, Partridge family, the Waltons and other famous shows were removed to make way for offices.
I always thought I'd like to stay on the island with Ginger and Mary Ann
Hey Rick, if you had to choose, Ginger or Mary Ann?? (had to ask)
@@jaya.0069 Well now days Mary Ann...but back in the day I thought Ginger was a knockout
Ohhh Mary Ann all the way, no contest, one of the hottest girls of all time, the total package, she had it all!
Until both are pissed off at you.
Mary Ann all the way!
The series lasted only 3 seasons?! In reruns, there seem to have been 35,000 episodes.
I got a laugh. True, there seems to be a neverending supply.
Try "The Jetsons"... only one season made (24 episodes) but run over and over.
I heard of an interview Russel Johnson did several years (15-20??) ago, after the show ended and he said that since the show ceased production it has been broadcasting somewhere in the world every minute of every day since in reruns.
Right
Who remembers the cartoon version?
I watched this Monday through Friday for years as a young kid in the 80's
I’m working at the studio where Gilligan’s Island was filmed right now! It’s now called CBS Studio Center and the “Island” was indeed bulldozed and turned into a parking lot (and later a parking structure).
They DID just finish a new production building on the lot called the “Lagoon Building”, though...
James S I’m envious!!! You get to work there!!! How did u swing that? What do you do there?
@@howardgofstein9694
Lets see if he answers ! Lol !!!
i work right across the street from CBS Studio Center at the post office where this show was filmed. i hear, because i deliver mail to CBS that there is a very small portion of the lagoon left. They build a walkway over it, so for all you fans, there is a piece of the lagoon still there.
Now I wonder if I could find that on Google Earth.
Someone posted a pic of that walkway this past weekend on FB. He was showing us behind the scenes pics of the lagoon and I did not realize what that walkway was until I saw your comment. It's located in front of bungalow 18 or 19 - can't read the last # clearly. The lagoon itself is now very small. Looks like it's about 3 -4 foot wide by 6 or 7 foot long but at least it still exists!!!
Can you post a picture of it ?
@@fletchb .,.. can someone post a picture of it ?
CBS Television Center is nowhere near the Universal Pictures lot where the lagoon was located. I don't think that CBS Center even existed at the time Gilligan was being produced. Back in the day, studios rented sets from each other. It was less expensive that always re-inventing the wheel.
Gilligan's island was one of my favorite all time shows
Joe
Navy veteran 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Joseph La Bianco thanks for serving our country
I must admit, a few weeks ago I bought the full series on iTunes. Still a great laugh after all these years.
Thank you for your service, Joe ..it means alot - what you and your brothers did for all of us!!
Yes..the show has me in stitches still HAHAHA
Joe La Bianco I was born in 59, some of my fondest memories are of watching Gilligan’s Island, Evan as a young boy I always hag a thing for Mary Ann.
Yes and Fantasy Island
I watched the show growing up and never noticed that building... gotta binge watch now
The lagoon existed until 1995 when
CBS studio's decided to turn it into a parking lot. This was reported in a 1995 artical of the "Los Angeles Times'. Dawn Wells is reported as being disappointed with the change and says its a loss of a memory. Other cast members such as Bob Denver also comments reminiscing about his experience on the set of the lagoon.
*article
@@QS-si3cq shut up
the 'Paved Paradise and put up a Parking Lot"song isnt due to that event is it?
The parking structure only covers the Barkley mansion and ranch area.
The lagoon had been filled in with sand.
You can still see the trees surrounding the lagoon to the right side of the parking structure on the newer pictures.
Just no water.
Gilligan's Island is my all time favorite TV show. I loved Bob Denver. I had an autographed picture of him, but unfortunately I lost it when I moved. I'd give anything to have it back
Here's a bit of trivia for you all - every character on Gilligan's Island actually had a full name:
Willie Gilligan (yep, "Gilligan" was his last name)
Jonas Grumby (Skipper)
Thurston Howell III (we already knew that one though)
Lovell Howell (Mrs. Howell - hence "Lovee")
Ginger Grant (we already knew that one too)
Roy Hinkley (Professor)
Mary Ann Sommers
@@NoName-gz2kk The other names were never actually mentioned in the show itself. I got the info from an article about Sherwood Schwartz, the show's creator.
cool, thx.
Who did NOT know this?
I love watching the behind the scenes for alot of these television shows. I love the before & after with close ups & far away shots. I really like seeing what the locations look like today. Very educational. Keep up the good work.
As a boater, the coolest shot is the opening one, where you see the marina filled with classic wooden yachts.
Where are all them boats now!?
@@longbeachhippy694 The First Season opening was filmed at the Ala Wai Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Second and Third Season openings were actually filmed at Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles, California. The rock jetties seen during the opening theme during the line, "three-hour tour," are from the entrance to nearby Newport Bay. (copied from the internet)
Wow! This is incredible research-thank you so much. It’s sad the lagoon was paved over.
When I was shooting for maniac Magee I believe our lunch break we got to enjoy lunch on this set of Gilligan's island it's so interesting how shallow those Ponds are but it's so cool how they have the tracks for the cameras built into the ponds and how the sprinklers fill them up and Dispose of the water real quick real Hollywood magic such great times
Great video Nick!!! Love the historical perspective. The shows of the 60's were and will be some of the best ever made. Wish the lagoon was still there. Would be great to visit. Thanks again!
It would really be stinky by now!
Deep to
Studios are film making factories. Some are in the tourist business and keep a few old sets, but that wasn't normal then, and CBS Studios doesn't offer tours even today. When a set is unused, it is wasted space, and once a new use comes up, the old is taken down and a new one built
Thank you so much for this!! I lived for a while at the very end of Radford Avenue directly across from that horrible parking lot...now I know it was once my favorite lagoon!!
Rest in peace Dawn
I just hurd this morning love you always miss you much and your coconut cream pie.🤪 you Are missed
The Island picture in the intial opening is located in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
in the 2nd and 3rd season is K-bay, first season is Sandy Cay in the Bahamas
the skipper picture with charter sign is long beach,ca
When I went to the Bahamas, all the boat owners could take the tourists to the island in the opening shot.
@@jameswhite9025 2nd and 3rd season is Long Beach, CA (Alamitos Bay) Dock #4, just north of the Crab Pot Restaurant...look for the grey roof of the fire station in the background.
Across from my family home.
It would have been interesting if they had painted a section of the parking lot to show where the lagoon was, similar to what they did in Atlanta where Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium used to be.
I loved Gilligan's Island when I was a kid. I really inspired me to use my imagination and pretend. It was a just for fun kind of show. It had such a short run. Today we have shows that aren't fit to watch and they stay on for years and years.
Best comment of the month award here please!
I remember a documentary where they tell a story about Alan Hale and Jim Backus (both avid golfers) during some down time driving golf balls over the lagoon betting who could hit the studio parking lot with the longest drive ( I believe the skipper won and actually hit a car). Who knew that rescue from the island was only a well hit 3 wood away!
I just stumbled upon this video. Loved it! I worked at CBS Radford Studios for many years in the 1990's-2000's. One year my office was in Bungalow 10 which was on the plot where the lagoon once was. It was further down than the parking structure on Radford, closer to the river. There was a small fountain/pond out front which was known as the last remainder of the Gilligan's Island lagoon. I was told it was intended as such. I went back to visit a couple of years ago and was sad to see the bungalow and pond are gone and replaced by an ugly multi-story building. This video brought back so many great memories of being there. I loved that lot.
So glad you enjoyed it especially since you worked there!
i have a vivid memory as a child from when our family took a trip to disneyland and universal studios, and other places. we were on some kind of tram traveling through a studio lot and the driver announced, "look kids! that's where they used to film gilligan's island" and he pointed to a pond surrounded by trees. we asked if we could get out and look around but the adults said, "no" and we kids were like, "well that's a drag"
Rick, thank's for all your hard work in researching these images and doubly for sharing. I have always wondered about the lagoon and sets. I was thinking of that wonderful cast and how they entertained us, pretending to be on a tropical island while enduring the LA heat, smog and noises. Awesome generation of entertainers!
All he did was use Google Maps. He didn't actually go anywhere and photograph anything.
I heard the actors hated having to actually get in the lagoon because it was an algae filled, slimy, cesspool... much like Hollywood, I suppose.
Brad Zook. Good one 👍and so true
they hated it cause the water was freezing but it was probably dirty too
Hollywood is not what you "suppose". Hollywood is just a name...but basically in Los Angeles. LA owns Hollywood, cops, courts, taxes, LA mayor, etc. if you're a real LA kid growing up in LA, you went there to have fun and to this day it's fun....if you know your Hollywood stuff. Every person that visits me, I take them on some tours that are unbelievable. Where do you live?
Loser
Why do you think it is called "Tinseltown".
The opening sequence (credits) showed Coconut Island at Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. The pilot was also filmed there.
I have a brother that lives on a hill overlooking the bay and 'Gilligan's Island' is the view from his picture window.
Yep
I live in Kailua and used to go to the island often for science class. Few people know they filmed in Kaneohe.
Interesting to read this, because I specifically recall, during a duffy boat tour I took with family, the tour guide saying that the pilot for Gilligan's Island was filmed somewhere along our tour route. (Balboa Island, I believe) I've always kept this specific piece of information at the top of memory as Gilligan's Island was one of my favorite television shows growing up as well as having kept our family boat in slip in Lido Channel. I would think if making a pilot for the lowest possible cost were the goal that would make Balboa a much more suitable location rather than Kaneohe Bay. But I could be incorrect. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
@@AxtionMag Research Moku o Lo'e aka Island, or Cocoanut Island, Oahu.
@@AxtionMag Both locations were used, as well as a Studio City backlot and adjacent property which is now covered with office buildings and parking lots.
Research Gilligan's Island / Kennedy assassination and you'll find that filming was interrupted at the Hawaii (Kaneohe) location when news of the assassination broke.
When I was about 9 years old I went on a cruise to the Bahamas with my parents. When we went to Nassau, we spent the day at a small island that was about 30 minutes from Nassau. It was the island that is used in the aerial shots of Gilligan's Island in the opening credits. It was so cool being able to go swimming in the lagoon. Granted, I did not do much snorkeling in the lagoon since the water did not get much tidal flow and was basically brown water with nothing on the ocean floor. The other side of the island was amazing though. That's where the nice beach and the coral reefs were. Great snorkeling. There were a bunch of locals there that tended to the needs of the tourists. This was over 40 years ago. The only thing I really remember was a guy that would cut clean any of the coconuts you brought to him for a couple of bucks. Coconuts were everywhere.
I wish I could remember more about the island. I had a wonderful time. And, being a huge Gilligan's Island fan, it was very cool to be a 9 year old checking it out.
So, when Joni Mitchell sang, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot", it became a literal actuality w/Gilligan's Island lagoon turned into a parking lot today! 😄
Another great vlog Rick. I learn something every time I watch your work. I'm hopeful you will continue for a long time! Have a great weekend!
I used to think it was filmed on a real island oh the innocents of youth.
@Robert Griffin Yeh me too, at least lost in space was filmed on a real flying saucer in space. : )
@Robert Griffin Yeh me too, at least lost in space was filmed on a real flying saucer in space. : )
@@glensmith654 Space:1999 was actually filmed on the moon, too.
The pilot episode was filmed in Hawaii, and a number of first-season shows include clips from the pilot episode which were shot there. So as far as the first season is concerned, you weren't exactly wrong. Interestingly, the pilot didn't have the Professor, Ginger, and Mary Anne, but instead had a science teacher and two secretaries, and those characters are visible in the backgrounds of some of the shots that were recycled from the pilot.
@@flatfingertuning727 I've seen the island in-person 🤗
That was very interesting, I never realized the filming lots of all those old shows we're so close together.
I have noticed that 'pretty much' all shows by 'ex wye zed' Studios, used the same backgrounds at certain times, same Props, Animals, etc. Often you aren't. 'looking' for this kinda thing.
Thanks. I never noticed the top of the sound stage in the closing shot. I also never heard a plane or car when they were at the lagoon. I don't remember any jungle sound effects when they were on the sound stage pretending to be outside. But I know for certain that there was no visible toilet, Sherwood Schwartz didn't believe in them. Now it's easy enough to imagine a cute little grass hut with a little crescent-moon on the door, but in reality you would build it away from the living area. So Gilligan's Island is actually more plausible than the Brady Bunch where too much attention was focussed on the total lack of a toilet in the kids' bathroom, where you would normally put one if you were an architect. And they all ate too much, especially too much meatloaf! The only place they could have put it was in Tiger's kennel. And we know that all the children could fit inside because they used to make out in there, just not all at once.
I liked so much of your info. I grew up in the sixtys. So seeing this was fantastic. Thank you so much. Look forward to other videos you put up.
I’m so glad you liked my video, Jim!
Outstanding work. I love this kind of fun research. These places are haunted with rich history and it’s wonderfully disseminated here and your other videos. Thanks.
I was just a little boy watching Gillian's Island reruns in the 1980's when I fell in love with Mary Ann
HEY,HEY MARYANNES MINE ! All mine YA HEAR!
@@billyhill45 By chance are you related to Benny Hill?😂
Everyone fell in Love with MaryAnn!
@@strongdelusion9442 Yeah same here, she was a total knockout, ohhh!
Mary Ann and WKRP's Bailey, now THAT'd be a good time!! oo-la-lah!! Both were perfection.
One of my all time favorite episodes was when after the big storm the telephone line was washed up on the beach and the professor makes a diamond cutting line to cut through the line and they contact the outside world then a big storm comes in and washes away the line before they could contact authorities they get up next morning only to find it washed away again lol
We moved to L.A. from Chicago in 1979 when I was 10. In early 1980, some family friends got tickets to a taping for WKRP in Cincinnati which were at the same location as discussed here in this video. The studios were (still are) owned by CBS. My parents were kind of prudes, and my mom thought I was too young for the innuendos of most late 70s/early 80s comedy TV shows, so I could not go to the taping. Later on, when everyone got home (my two older sisters got to go), they told my father and I about their experience at the studio. While the audience was walking from where they lined up outside to the WKRP set with escorts, the escorts showed the dozens of people what was left of the Gilligan's Island set which was still visible. I doubt the entire set was still there, but from what I recall hearing secondhand from my mom and sisters, there were still a bunch of fake palm trees and whatnot. As someone who watched the show in the 70s in syndication, I would have loved to have seen that!
I loved this. I've been on this lot many times!!! Stage 2 also is where King of Queens pilot was filmed. I've been to many shows there
I was always curious why a rich millionaire would take a charter tour with common folk
Not to mention taking a trunk full of cash on a 4-hour tour.
@@BallisticBBQ A few of them apparently brought luggage with clothes as well.
Because it’s cheap and it gets him the feeling of enjoying something as a commoner.....how revolting lol
Ooh so true
@Nunya Business He couldn't afford the extra hour.
I’m a big fan of “Wild Wild West.” Many episodes were filmed using the GI lagoon as well as “The Big Valley”mansion.
I'm fan of that show too. I noticed in one episode they were in San Francisco. The street they were on was made of Asphalt. It probably is "period correct," but I just thought it odd.
View This There are many episodes with asphalt. Don’t think asphalt was really used until much later.
Wild wild west was really a fantastic show..
I noticed that but sometimes when you see the two different shows the Mansion is different like there's a wall that doesn't belong or there's an extra room it's funny
@Liberty Tree 🙂 Chuckle... Seems like I've seen that western somewhere before......
Love these videos. My wife and I took a Bahama cruise in 2010. On a tour they showed us the island that was shot for the exit shot of Gilligan's Island. I thought it was quite interesting that the island where the castaways were supposed to be living was in the South Pacific. Yet the real island location is a part of the Bahama Islands.
Grew up in love with Gilligan's Island in the mid to late 1960's Los Angeles.
Lived in Honolulu's Moanalua district in '74 - '76 when the lake/basin was stiil there and very large, with the area not overly developed as it is today.
Even though I knew it wasnt, it felt a lot like it was the actual setting for many of the exterior scenes...
in college i drove for an LAX airport shuttle van company...i dropped a guy off inside the studio on a sat...then i was alone...i drove by leave it to beaver house, munster house...surreal is an understatement...here i am alone in this world that was my childhood on tv and i lived about 30 mins from where all these shows were films...you can drive by all day long and have NO clue what was inside those MAGIC walls...
I got married on that lot a few years ago. We had the reception on New York Street from Seinfeld. Epic day!
Great video. Love looking back into the past and reliving memories of such a great time in television. Thanks for your great detailed work on showing us the changes through time.
Gotta say "Wow", I had no idea about the location. Thanks
Great video....and highly informative. Loved the decades of contrasts. Job well done.
It's sad to see this set, and many other sets of famous tv shows get demolished when they could easily have been able to use them to do studio tours. I recall the emotions from fans running high when the houses and lots used for shows like Bewitched, Partridge family, the Waltons and other famous shows were removed to make way for offices.
"They paved over paradise and put in a parking lot."
Great minds think alike.
I was looking to see if anyone had written that!
theyd have made MUCH more $$ from tourists visiting than their parking lot
I think the only one who didn't immediately make the connection to this song was the narrator😅
I’ve never heard that song before
@@ricknineg I knew you never heard it. That's what I was implying in my comment. it's almost impossible to miss if you know the song.
WHAT?!?!? There is no island????
My whole childhood was a lie.
Well, there was an island used for the pilot. I just forget at this moment what Hawaiian Island that was.
Not everything we grew up with was a lie... Santa Claus brought me a garden tiller and I know it was him because the dogs were barking at the reindeer.
@@uprightfossil6673 And you used the tiller to mulch the reindeer #@!* you had to scrape off the roof!
The island seen in the opening and closing credits was called Salt Cay at the time, it's in the Bahamas just off Nassau. A few extra scenes may have been shot there too but it wasn't used beyond that. It's now belongs to and has been ruined by one of the cruise lines operating there and has been renamed at least once.
The 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson was also shot on Salt Cay, and later it was often used for commercials and by freelance photographers.
Usually is
My favorite episode is the one where they almost got off the island
I really like the arrows to pinpoint the areas you describe. I think the parking lot would possibly be half of the lagoon where point A is described and the smaller buildings as point B. If you match up where the LA River curves at, you’ll notice the lagoon from 1964 is closer to the curve than further away from it where it straightened out. But nice going overall. Excellent detective skills.
Correct Matt. I scrolled down to mention this. I worked on this lot for many years, the large parking structure is to the left of where the lagoon was. That area was filled in and populated with all those small writer bungalows. In 2015 they took down the bungalows and build the Lagoon Building, a multiuse post production/production offices. Great video Rick!
I loved them all. Especially Mary Ann! Can't believe that she is gone. I was seven when the show started. Thanks for the Memories!
If it wasn't for that street sign, you'd never know there was ever a show that was filmed there. RIP Dawn Welles.
Never knew there was a studio roof in the exterior shots. Thats wild.
I always loved the lagoon...rich in bounty and many treasures.... everyone (and everything) who visited the island managed to find their way into it. They did a good job of building that set.
The Lagoon was just to the east of the parking structure.
I heard different stories about where Gilligan's Island was filmed at. I heard Catalina Island and Hawaii
@@1990758 The Island shown in the opening (credits) was Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu.
@@-oiiio-3993 thanks for the insight
Tina Louise said that the lagoon was so filthy and dirty she was afraid she would catch something
That's funny coming from someone alleged to have had trysts in her dressing room! 😛
When the pilot episode first aired on TV, the Coast Guard was flooded with calls from real-life idiots that actually believed those 7 castaways were truly shipwrecked on an Island off Hawaii. I remember watching years and years ago, a Gilligan's Island bio about how the series and lagoon was filmed in the studio parking lot and they talked about the concerned viewers that wanted those 7 castaways rescued.
Well if you think about it 10 years before this they barely had TVs. People were still understanding what they were seeing.
I used to live in Studio City on Valleyheart Drive...I know that place well!... thanks for sharing..great work!
Any good honest stories to tell?
The "Lagoon" was also featured on a couple of episodes of Wild Wild West: "The Night of the Bottomless Pit" and "Night of the Sudden Death".
Think it was used in McHale's Navy, too.
Yes you are correct
Check your map again, it looks like the lagoon was to the right of that parking structure.
Correct! Some of the trees from the Lagoon are still there. The parking lot is just named after the Lagoon. The smaller building next to it is placed over the Lagoon.
Correct. The Former lagoon is NOT where the Studio A/Parking Garage are. The former lagoon is on the other side of what is now Gilligans Island Rd. and there are still some of the trees there as well as a newer building built on the actual lagoon site ! Just Do a Google map and search for "Former site of the Gilligan's Island Lagoon"
It wasn't just Republic Studios (Now called Mary Tyler Moore - at least last time I checked) but it was originally the Hal Roach studios where they filmed the Lil' Rascals, at least that's what they told us when we worked on the lot.
Oddly and sadly, there is very little care taken to remember the history of the studios. I worked at several, and was greatly interested in their history, and I couldn't find any one person who knew anything, it was all gathering the stories from people passing them down randomly. and verbally. Much like actors and old films are treated with no respect by their own, so too are the studios and their histories. Your videos are a great service to those who find this history valuable.
I worked at that studio a few times in the 90s and the very first thing I'd do is to walk over to The Lagoon... and I feel so LUCKY that I'd got to see it... and stand there on that "beach"... before they made that stupendous blunder of demolishing it... Thanks for the fantastic videos... Love 'em.
I believe when they filmed "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" (1978) they filmed that special at Universal Studios. In the old days of the Universal Studios tour part of the tram speech used to reference "Rescue from GI" and that it was filmed in one of the water/ponds on the tour. The lagoon on universal looked nothing like the Radford lagoon.
The first reunion movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island filmed at the old lagoon at CBS Radford but shot their interior scenes at Universal. All three reunion movies shot on Universal soundstages & the 2nd & 3rd reunion movies The Castaways & Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island are the only productions to shoot at the Universal lagoon because the beach wasn't available at CBS Radford to accommodate the set design.
Hey Rick! That was a lot if interesting info. You did a lot of research and very much appreciated👍
For some reason I thought GI lasted more than three seasons. Also on a tour years ago at Universal Studios, the tram tour, we were shown an island spot where GI was filmed. Just a small spot which would resemble the ending credit scene.
I just watched your newer video showing the bldg. I miss that part of living in So Cal. Seeing movies being made in your neighborhood🌞
Unless "the lagoon" served any more purpose to other productions it's just logical they phased it out, whether we liked it or not! As a kid watching this I always wondered why they never went back to the great beach the Professor and Mary Ann were on in season 1, but that was of course in Hawaii!
A long time ago, twenty-five years or more, I had read that the lagoon could be emptied and refilled as needed. I remember seeing a photo of it empty of water with plants growing inside it. It was similar to the retention basins that some housing developments build to catch storm runoff. I was a little disappointed in seeing the 'glamour' of one of the show's main components stripped away.
I watched five episodes of Gilligan's Island, always thought. Where was this filmed? Awesome you found this information. 👍👍👍👍
I think that big building is where the Bonanza set was, and the apartment(?) complex to the right of it is where the lagoon was. The trees even look the same. It looks like there is also currently now a large building where the apartment complex was.
I’m a little disappointed to find out my favorite childhood show was filmed a mile away from my house 😂
this isn't FACTUAL, this is just his opinion. he definitely may be correct, but he's just assuming this is where it was all done. don't use youtube for facts.
It is definitely factual. If you do some research you will know yourself instead of just assuming
@@ricknineg aren't you saying in your description that you're showing all the clues that tells it's true? in other words, you were guessing, from studying pics, etc. and not from actual confirmation from those in the know. not saying you weren't correct, but you came to this conclusion on your own, not from getting confirmation from the makers. at least that's what your description reads like.
Rick great job.This is absolutely where the lagoon was.I stood on that very spot.
breathe and squeeze google maps says that parking garage is the site of gilligans island lagoon.
I wasn’t curious but then was made curious and now curiosity is satisfied.
When I was a kid we used to sneak into the studios all the time, CBS, Universal, Paramount... played on all the sets and sound stages of all the popular shows, I lived on Radford in Studio City and in Toluca Lake... sets from Jaws, Bates Motel, Brady Bunch, Mayberry... it was a blast
Thanks Bella💚🍀
Pics or bulshit on a story like that.
I am reasonably certain that there were other TV shows and films who used that lagoon area for filming over the years. But the only one that I am 100% sure of is McHale's Navy. Any time they used that, it was instantly recognizable to me as a fan of the Gilligan's Island, often just shot from a different angle. I'm way late to the party here Rick, but this is a great video and very, VERY interesting!!
awessome job! I worked on "Seinfeld" in the late 90's and I parked my car in the very lot AFTER I found out it was "the lagoon", LOL. Because there is a parking structure across from that (where they filmed a Seinfeld where they were looking for the car, that I parked in the beginning) but I wanted to be able to say, I parked in the middle of the lagoon! ;-) OH! and yes, there are a couple of original trees that still stand that were part of Gilligan's Island. Thanks again for the great job.
I lived and worked in Studio City (mere blocks from the studio), and I've been on that lot a handful of times over the years, but much of the information you've provided I never knew. Loved all the old photos you dug up! (Also kinda odd that they'd have the Gilligan and Gunsmoke streets intersecting each other: it was Gunsmoke that knocked Gilligan off the air in 1967!)
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Blame Mrs Paley as she was a Gunsmoke fan and wanted her husband to save that show from cancellation. To make room Mr Paley canceled GI instead.
Umm I’m only 6 minutes in, but where you say there’s ~ “a big building we’re the lagoon was” is not correct. Compare your maps.
Strange huh? ALL of that research, and got that wrong.. it almost confused the sh*t outta me. 😅
I think he means the lagoon was not exactly where the parking garage is located. The lagoon was more behind the third sound stage from left to right (where sound stage #2 is the leftmost) in your picture. In fact, the remaining trees are in the shape of the lagoon.
If you look at the 4 minute mark, the garage would be located behind stage 10, and the lagoon is to the right of the garage behind the stage 11 buildings.
@@alstuart Now I'm all mixed up. I thought the mega parking lot took out the Big Valley Mansion.
@@bruceferguson6637 I agree
I know it shouldn't but it blows my mind the way the "real world" is just out of frame of what we see on TV.
If you look carefully, distant buildings can be seen, due to sloppy camera positioning, in some of the show's wide lagoon shots.
Happens a lot in films and tv. Like the airplane and car in bravehart.
Gilligan's Island was shot or partially shot at CBS Radford Studios, now known as Radford Studios in Studio City. When I was young, my Dad worked on The Bernie Mac Show, According to Jim, Malcolm in the Middle, and Scream 3 which were all shot on the same 3 sound stages. Not far from the stages across the bridge (LA River) near the Gunsmoke Stage, there was part of the lagoon that was then turned into a sleuth of portable brown Bungalows for various TV shows. There is now a Parking Garage named "The Lagoon Garage" which stands where the Lagoon once stood for the show.
Great Video, My girlfriend worked in stage 3 back when they still had the Lagoon. They were just starting to build the parking structure at the time. What is now stage 3 is where Gunsmoke was filmed.
Great job in explaining the location... I've worked on the CBS lot...and lived just outside the 'walls/gates of the studio...and could never find anyone at the studio who gave me the right information. ... thanks for all your hard work/research.
Considering where you first showed the lagoon it’s not under the parking lot. It’s in that space where the trees are. It does look like it’s filled in though. The drawn map clearly shows the lagoon in front of stage 11 and the smaller building also marked 11. The parking lot is clearly in front of building 10 that is now 2.
I read the actors hated going into the Lagoon because the water was stagnant and not filtered and it smelled really bad.
That and cold
Interesting, as Johnny Carson used to say..." I, I did not know that "
@@chance6298 That is a good impersonation. You sound just like him ;)
@@faulltw thanks, I do my best...lol!
@@chance6298 😏 You look a lot like Johnny too !
Hey Rick haven't been around since your I Love Lucy weekend shows like 5 years ago but I'm stoked you're doing Gilligan's Isle among others I see now too! Well I'm happy you're still doing what you're doing because you really do it very very well and always a pleasure to watch, thank you ! 👍😊✌️
Welcome back! 1700 videos await you
So that's where it all was done! Thank you for bringing back memories.
I lived in Keehi lagoon on Oahu when one of the Minnows sank back in
2009, plus I have a picture on me sitting on one the minnows when it was
docked in Honolulu Harbor 1994. I also took a free tour of Coconut Island ,
spent 4 hours there and got lots of video and pics great experience back
in 2005, I also worked in the movie business in the 80's and I was able
to see the lagoon back then there was no water at that time.
Only the b&w pilot episode was shot on Hawaii. No lagoon scenes were ever shot on Hawaii. Lagoon was man made at CBS Studio Center in California.
This was really neat information! Too bad the lagoon is gone 😢Love all your videos! Appreciate all your hard work and dedication to all the great classic tvshows ❤️❤️
We took the Universal Studios tour in 1977 in LA and saw the “lagoon “ it was a field they flooded just for the show but was covered with grass when we were there. We also toured the street Leave it to Beaver was filmed. The Munster mansion was a few houses down from it.
That was a either a different lagoon from the original series or one of the GI TV movies filmed later at Universal Studios.
@@isletime77 yes the Lagoon at Universal was only used for the 3rd film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island but all 3 reunion movies shot their interior scenes on the Universal Soundstages. The original 60's series was filmed at CBS Studio Center in Studio city.
One small tidbit I remember from an old TV Guide article I think it was. The lagoon was made of asphalt paving. Maybe that was because the color was darker than concrete or plaster.
Lived there..used to watch filming ,from my grandmother's balcony..
That’s super crazy and awesome to think! Wow
That is amazing!