The Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook

by Joey Green

For the 2.5 million people who view "Gilligan's Island" every day in its 21st year of syndication, here is everything they want to know including summaries of each of the 98 episodes and three movies, profiles of the cast members, 200 photos, illustrations and maps of the island, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

372 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including Not So Normal Norbert with James Patterson, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Contrary to Popular Belief, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, the best-selling Joey Green's Magic Brands series, The Mad Scientist Handbook series, The Zen of Oz, and You Know You've Reached Middle Age If...—to name just a few.

Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.

A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Greg]

I liked this book, but preferred Sherwood Schwartz's "Inside Gilligan's Island." Joey Green does offer a detailed synopsis of each episode (of particular interest are the "plot impossibilities"). However, Schwartz gives us a very short synopsis of each episode in an Appendix, plus tells us first hand of the production of the show itself. But if you're a lover of this show, you're surely going to read both, as I did. Sadly, the musical never made it bigtime, but if you ever get the chance to see it, go!

[Alan]

Ruined me for Shakespeare and Milton.

[Vincenzo Ridente]

Very informative for reference about the sitcom Gilligan's Island includes tons of photos,cast biographies and a thorough episode guide