In the United States, the last time was that one of the existing performers of “Gilligan’s Island”, on the screen, especially to repeat their characters from the show For a 1992 episode of “Baywatch”. In the episode with the title “Now they are leaning back and you will hear a story”, some of the Baywatch lifeguards saw a small island off the coast of California, where Gilligan (Bob Denver) and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) had been stranded for several years. They explained that they left their original island in a daring escape just to be stranded equally on another island. Unfortunately, at the end of “Now Back Back” it was revealed that Gilligan and Mary Ann were not real and that the events of the episode were all a dream.
Until 1992 Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer had already passed away, and it seems that Russell Johnson and Tina Louise did not want or just couldn’t take part in “Baywatch”, so it was only Gilligan and Mary Ann for their last appearance. The “Gilligans Island” figures were of course so omnipresent on television (about endless repetitions) that they had regularly returned in other shows. A typical example: Johnson, Hale, Wells and Denver appeared in an episode of “Alf” in 1987. That too turned out to be a dream on the show.
However, it seems that after “Baywatch” there was a final “Gilligans Iceland” reunion, although it was never technically broadcast in the United States. And this time it wasn’t a dream.
In fact, Wells, Johnson and Denver made their last “Gilligan’s Island” position in an episode of a science fiction sitcom from 1997 with the title “Meego”. The show played Bronson Pinchot as an alien who ends up on Earth as a 9,000 year old, only to be accepted by an average white suburban family. The family is played by Ed Begley, Jr. Jonathan Lipnicki (who interviewed in the past)and evenly The late Michelle Trachtenberg. It seems that Meego spoke the last known television figure with Gilligan.
