Sitcoms set in the workplace are quite common, from the Rag Trade and On The Buses onwards, and whilst some of them are located solely in the workplace, mostly the characters leave the workplace to go home afterwards, and sometimes home life will bleed into the workplace. But there are a number of sitcoms which put a disparate bunch of people into a dislocation - most of these are armed forces related situations.
Today's sitcom is strange in that it puts a disparate group of people in a non-workplace situation - shipwrecked on a deserted island. Starring Bob Denver, "Gilligan's Island" saw the passengers of the SS Minnow trying to get on and to get off the island. One of the joys of the concept was seeing how they could get guest stars onto a supposedly deserted island. On one occasion a surfer managed to surf a tsunami in and the back out of the island!!
Gilligan's Island - if Allo Allo was inspired by Secret Army, then Gilligan's Island must have inspired Lost.
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