TV.com

Gilligan's Island

Up at Bat

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired Sep 12, 1966

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

Episode Summary

EDIT

Amazon Prime

Free Trial / Subscription

8.0

EPISODE RATING: Great

32 votes

Your Rating: 10

"Perfect"
Your Rating: 9.5

"Superb"
Your Rating: 9

"Superb"
Your Rating: 8.5

"Great"
Your Rating: 8

"Great"
Your Rating: 7.5

"Good"
Your Rating: 7

"Good"
Your Rating: 6.5

"Fair"
Your Rating: 6

"Fair"
Your Rating: 5.5

"Mediocre"
Your Rating: 5

"Mediocre"
Your Rating: 4.5

"Poor"
Your Rating: 4

"Poor"
Your Rating: 3.5

"Bad"
Your Rating: 3

"Bad"
Your Rating: 2.5

"Terrible"
Your Rating: 2

"Terrible"
Your Rating: 1.5

"Abysmal"
Your Rating: 1

"Abysmal"

Rate Now!

Gilligan is bitten by a bat.

WRITE A REVIEW FAN RECAP

Cast & Crew

See All EDIT

Bob Denver

Gilligan
Jim Backus

Thurston Howell III
Tina Louise

Ginger Grant
Alan Hale

Jonas Grumby (The Skipper)
Natalie Schafer

Eunice Wentworth 'Lovey' Howell
Dawn Wells

Mary Ann Summers

Watch Online

Amazon Prime

Free Trial / Sub...

Fan Episode Reviews (1)

See All

The third (and final) season begins with Gilligan being bitten by a bat. Gilligan believes the bite will cause him to transform into a vampire. The Professor tries to assure him that is nonsense, but Gilligan just won't accept it.moreless

8.0

"Great"

By meathead704, Aug 20, 2011

Good evening. "Up at Bat" is a terrific way to start the final season. The episode certainly delivers its share of laughs. The use of the erie organ music throughout the episode adds to the episode's entertainment value. No review of this episode can be complete without mention of the excellent dream sequence. The cast of Gilligan's Island has repeatedly said over the years that episodes with dream sequences were their favorite. Once you see this episode, you will understand why. The cast is excellent as their respective characters. Tina Louise, in my opinion, gives her best performance of the series as Count Gilligan's wife. Before Twilight and True Blood there was "Up at Bat". This episode outdoes them both by a mile!moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
0 0

Flag
Share Hide

WRITE A REVIEW

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

See All

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (1)
ADD TRIVIA
- This was the favorite dream sequence of the cast.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (8)
ADD QUOTES
- Gilligan: I didn't mean to do it, Mr. Howell. I just can't help myself. I'm a vampire! Mrs. Howell: Now, don't you give up hope, dear. Those new wonder drugs cure anything.
  EDIT SHARE
- Professor: Gilligan, it was only a movie. Gilligan: Yeah, but I saw it three times. It always came out the same way!
  EDIT SHARE
- Gilligan: I wouldn't be a good vampire. I faint at the sight of blood. I'll starve to death!
  EDIT SHARE
- Vampire Gilligan: You're my type of folks. You're type A; you're type O.
  EDIT SHARE
- Mr. Howell: Any 5-year-old child will tell you there's no such thing as a vampire. There are no vampires. (Gilligan the vampire appears) Mrs. Howell: There's a vampire! Mr. Howell: That's the last time I listen to a 5-year-old child!
  EDIT SHARE
- Vampire Gilligan: I shall swoop down upon their unsuspecting necks! (crashing, then Gilligan climbs through the window) Vampire Ginger: What happened? Vampire Gilligan: I forgot to turn into a bat.
  EDIT SHARE
- Gilligan: Skipper is that you? Skipper: No, it's not the Skipper. I'm Frankenstein's Monster!
  EDIT SHARE
- Skipper: (as Colonel Watney) Crossing the channel was devilishly slow, it was take one step and come up for air and take another step and come up for air.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (2)
ADD NOTES
- Theme of episode: Belief in superstition brings bad luck.
  EDIT SHARE
- In an apparant nod to the then popular "Batman", the fight sequence at the end of Gilligan's dream features several word overlays ("BIFF!", "POW!") as the Vampire Gilligan dukes it out with Sherlock (the Professor) and Watney (the Skipper), just like the ones in "Batman".
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (1)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- Professor, and onscreen: "What sort of school did you go to BATMAN U?"
  The Professor's got a new "antivampire potion".Later, inb Gilligan's dream, near the end, there are printed onomotoepoeia, or printed "sound effects"-a la TV's Fox BATMAN with Adam West--and ROGER RAMJET-with "Poof! Touche!" and the like.This was also used in Warners and GM animator/director CHuck Jones's 1963 cartoon NOW HEAR THIS (often maligned for introducing Warner's new UPA-ish graphic modern open title).
  EDIT SHARE