I really need one of those Rick and Morty interdimensional cable boxes. Maybe if I am lucky, Heaven is where my favorite shows have infinite seasons. Some shows just end too soon, and without a multiverse, those shows will forever remain that way.
For example, take Gilligan's Island. According to the video from the Rick Nineg YouTube channel below and a page on gilligansisle.com, a fourth season was already being planned when the series was suddenly canceled.
There's no indication that the ten planned episodes would have been in that production order, but it looks like early in the fourth season, Ginger (Tina Louise) would have been "rescued" and no longer in the cast, being replaced by two new actresses who would have portrayed new characters named Miss Krissy and Miss Sally. In the eternal question of "Ginger or Mary Ann?" I answer Mary Ann, so I would have seen that as a trade-up for the show.
Ten episodes are roughly a third of a Gilligan's Island season. Whether early or late in the season, I would have liked to have seen "My Favorite Alien" in which "A silly alien lands on the island."
Why would I have liked to have seen that episode? I'll save that for a part II post.
To be continued...
Note this is an updated version of what was originally posted on my @holovision Hive account on January 22, 2022.
So they wanted to run Gilligan's Island for an extra season? That's just like with Betwitched. The producers of that show had planned on keeping it running until 1973, but they cancelled it in 1972 because its director, Bill Asher, and Elizabeth Montgomery were getting a divorce and had problems working together on set.
I can understand why they would claim that was the reason but really Bewitched was canceled due more to the low ratings. ABC replaced one Darrin with another and made Tabitha and Adam adults six years later in the timeline for the Tabitha series. Clearly they would have had little problem with switching to another actress to play Samantha. If Bewitched had higher ratings ABC would have done whatever the non-IP infringing equivalent to what Time Lord regeneration is for witches to squeeze out one more season.