Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz that features Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Russell Johnson, Tina Louise, and Dawn Wells. The series aired on CBS from September 26, 1964 to April 17, 1967. The show follows the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempt to escape the island on which they had been shipwrecked.