Perhaps the best episode of the series (although I have said that about so many other episodes)!
This is original and just laugh out loud stuff for the final season, which I think producer Sherwood Schwartz let it all roll.
Gilligan stumbles upon a dusty, warn top secret government briefcase. What important documents are inside?
Before he can get to that, he accidentally handcuffs himself to the case and it's one wild ride around the island, and lots of nightmares as he figures spies will eventually kill him! OMG.
And comes the famous dream sequence!
This is over the top stuff, Gilligan dreaming he's secret agent 014, sort of a poor man's James Bond?? Gilligan is the man, but taking center stage is Mr. Howell, now with a shaved head and becoming the menacing Mister EVIL. He is the whole show, though Mrs. Howell, Ginger and Maryann are also members of the Evil Agent Club.
And you have to love his cool 60s office. I have noted many times that the set decorators on the show had one dynamic job, and with so many possibilities.
The skipper (Alan Hale at his best) has a super gag appearance, playing Gilligan's mom? Would you believe a fake granny who is exposed! The makeup people may have "borrowed" a bit from Jonathan Winter's hilarious routines as a granny, at least the wig is similar. At first glance, I actually thought it was Winters!
Written by Sam Locke, a veteran of so many classic sitcoms, who was also doing material for Lucille Ball's show at the time. Locke worked briefly for Jim Backus on his own comedy show in the early 60s.
NOT to be missed. SEASON 3 remastered dvd box set.