 The background music and even the laugh tracks of the pilot appear all but identical to those used during the series.The first episode actually broadcast, "Two on a Raft", is sometimes wrongly referred to as the series pilot.This episode begins with the same scene of Gilligan and the Skipper awakening on the boat as in the pilot (though slightly differently cut, to eliminate most shots of the departed actors) and continues with the characters sitting on the beach listening to a radio news report about their disappearance.