Ahoy Maties!

Welcome to the December edition of the Gilligan's Island Fan Club! Let's cut 
to the chase and tell you some exciting news about what's coming up in 
December!

We have recently been contacted by E!TV and they have informed us that a two-
hour documentary will air on Sunday, December 12 at 9:00pm Eastern and 
Pacific Time. This two-hour show will contain interviews with the castaways 
and never before seen home movies shot by Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) from the set 
of "Gilligan's Island." This show will be as rare as the never before seen 
Pilot episode shown in 1992! 

According to the TV Guide, it will also air Monday, Dec 13 at 12am, 10am 
and 4pm. I would catch the December 12th showing first, just in case.
The show will be called "Gilligan's Island - The E! True Hollywood Story."

Thanks to all who have sent me mail telling me about this event. I was 
actually notified by our own Professor first, then others let me know even 
before we were contacted by E! Entertainment. You guys are really on the 
ball!

And now for some lighter TV shows. "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island" will
air on TNT December 22nd at 1:30am and again at 1:30pm. It's the one about
when the rescued castaways return to their former island home to open a posh
vacation resort. 

One more TV show, "Leslie Uggams." Bob Denver (Gilligan) will appear 
December 1st at 12am on the The Nostalgia Channel.

I've contacted Alaska Airlines about their Professor commercial, and they
told me that they were unable to supply us a copy of it. Bummer. I guess 
we'll just have to wait until somebody can record it.  :-(

Want to purchase Gilligan's Island video's? You can buy each VHS for $8.94,
and it comes with two episodes per cassette. Here you go:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/video.html

We have recently revamped our fan club application section to allow a 
different server called "Listbot" to handle all subscribing members. 
This will help us out tremendously as we were getting over 100 e-mail 
failures each month which had to be deleted manually (yuk). Mary Ann was 
handling all of the joining requests, and this will take a huge load off her 
back. Many thankx for a great job she did for all of those years! Now she 
can focus on more important things such as tending to the garden, and 
preparing those coconut cream pies! 

A few of your e-mail addresses slipped by, so if you notice that you
received this newsletter twice, please let me know so I can delete one of 
your e-mail addresses from our database.

Note: Listbot is new to us, so you may experience a formatting problem 
reading this newsletter. We'll try new formatting next time if this occurs.

Let's all get together and have a CHAT session this Saturday the 4th! Please 
go here for more details:

http://www.gilligansisle.com/chat.html

That's all for this month. The big news was the documentary, so definitely
don't miss this one! Time to go help the Professor disarm this land mine
they found in the lagoon. I'll wear my lucky charm around my neck just
in case!

"Smooth Sailing"

Willy Gilligan
Webmaster/President
Gilligan's Island Fan Club
http://www.gilligansisle.com