The reception was pretty amazing...that is some groundwave!

You may recall that there was a later episode where the professor had
the entire cast sit at a table and stir liquid in coconut shells in
order to "recharge" the batteries that had finally gone dead...

Perhaps they employed this method often between episodes to make it
SEEM like the batteries lasted forever?

Your thoughts???

Dan

PS Mary Ann is the hotter of the two in my book. Dawn Wells was
actually a beauty pageant winner in real life. Hubba Hubba!

"lsmyer" wrote in message ...
Since the mid-1960s, I have searched far and wide to find a radio that had
such good reception as the one on Gilligan's Island.

That incredible DX powerhouse of a radio could regularly pick up US mainland
broadcasters -- KDKA comes to mind -- from its location on a tiny island
located thousands of miles from the US mainland deep in the South Pacific.
Not just at night, mind you, but right in the middle of the day.

Also, this radio contained some amazing self-generating batteries. They
never ran low, despite the fact that there was no AC plug available for
charging purposes, nor did it have any type of crank-based charging
mechanism. It's possible that the batteries might have been the product of a
secret military cold-war era attempt at attaining a self-sustaining,
zero-point energy equilibrium.

I would like to get one of these radios and hopefully some of those
batteries as well. If anybody finds one on ebay, be sure to post it here.
Thanks.