Russell Johnson – MRQE https://mrqe.com Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:45:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Russell Johnson – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-ghost-of-flight-401-m100129550/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-ghost-of-flight-401-m100129550/ An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane’s flight engineer.

]]> “Gilligan’s Planet” https://mrqe.com/movie/gilligans-planet-tv-m100111295/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/gilligans-planet-tv-m100111295/ Gilligan’s Planet is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by the Filmation animation studio and MGM/UA Television which aired during the 1982-1983 season on CBS. It was the second animated spin-off of the popular sitcom Gilligan’s Island, the first being The New Adventures of Gilligan.

Gilligan’s Planet was the last cartoon series that Filmation produced for Saturday mornings; afterwards, they produced cartoons exclusively for syndication. It was also the first Filmation series to feature the Lou Scheimer “signature” credit.

Gilligan’s Planet was also the final 1980s Saturday morning cartoon to retain Charley Douglass’s adult laugh track. Thereafter, Filmation dismissed Douglass’ chuckles for its animated lineup as it transitioned to more heroically-themed cartoons that were more dramatic for a laugh track.

In 2012, Animation World Network named Gilligan’s Planet the 57th greatest animated television series of all-time.

]]> Rescue from Gilligan’s Island (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/rescue-from-gilligans-island-m100028497/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/rescue-from-gilligans-island-m100028497/ When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one structure in order to have any chance to ride the disaster out.

]]> Surviving Gilligan’s Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/surviving-gilligans-island-the-incredibly-true-story-of-the-longest-three-hour-tour-in-history-m100000721/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/surviving-gilligans-island-the-incredibly-true-story-of-the-longest-three-hour-tour-in-history-m100000721/ The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-harlem-globetrotters-on-gilligans-island-m100043823/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-harlem-globetrotters-on-gilligans-island-m100043823/ The Harlem Globetrotters’ chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.

]]> The Gilligan Manifesto https://mrqe.com/movie/the-gilligan-manifesto-m100125512/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-gilligan-manifesto-m100125512/ At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan’s Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show’s creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan’s Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.

]]> Tumbleweed https://mrqe.com/movie/tumbleweed-m100097449/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tumbleweed-m100097449/ Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey’s having saved his son’s life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.

]]> “Gilligan’s Island” https://mrqe.com/movie/gilligans-island-tv-m100030307/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/gilligans-island-tv-m100030307/ The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.

]]> The Saga of Hemp Brown https://mrqe.com/movie/the-saga-of-hemp-brown-m100097697/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-saga-of-hemp-brown-m100097697/ Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.

]]> Badman’s Country https://mrqe.com/movie/badmans-country-m100097508/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/badmans-country-m100097508/ Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy’s gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.

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