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{{Infobox episode
|image = File:G55.png
|season = 3
|number = 6
|summary = Mr. Howell puts the Castaways in his will then fears they might be trying to kill him.
|writer = [[Sid Mandel]] and [[Roy Kammerman]]
|director = [[Charles Norton]]
|guests = None
|previous = [[Voodoo]]
|next = [[Man With a Net]]|airdate = October 17, 1966}}

'''Where There's A Will''' is the 74th episode of Gilligan's Island and the sixth episode of the third season. It aired October 17, 1966.

==Synopsis==
After waking up sick in bed one morning, [[Mr. Howell]] is visited by each of the [[Castaways]] on the island wishing him well. To show his gratitude to their concern, he writes everyone into his will and grants everyone their own copies. When he's feeling better after his illness, he's walking in the jungle with [[Mrs. Howell]] when an arrow just barely misses him after talking to the [[Skipper]] and [[Gilligan]]. He starts to suspect they're trying to kill him, especially after falling into a pit covered in palm fronds while chasing after the [[Girl's Hut|girls]]. When he goes searching for the [[Professor]] for advice, he narrowly misses getting crushed under a boulder after the Professor disappears on him. It turns out everyone is actually putting together a party to honor him with spare ribs after catching a wild boar, and when [[Mr. Howell]] tries to confront them, he overhears them talking about killing the "old boar" and thinking they're talking about him. Packing his things into a suitcase, he flees for the other side of the [[The Island|island]], but by now, [[Mrs. Howell]] has learned the truth. When she reveals that Mr. Howell has fled to the other side of the island, everyone goes looking for him to bring him back. By now, Mr. Howell has found a quicksand pit and uses it to fake his death, leaving his hat behind. Believing him lost forever, the [[Skipper]] has a funeral for Mr. Howell where everyone eulogizes him fondly and rip up the copies of his will. Eavesdropping on them, Mr. Howell realizes how much they all loved him before revealing his location by falling out of the tree. Proven alive, he gets his party after all with [[Mrs. Howell]] popping out of the cake.

==Message==
* "He who is suspicious of his friends has a tiger by the tail."

==Highlights==
* Coming up

==Credits==
Main Cast
*[[Bob Denver]] as [[Gilligan]]
*[[Alan Hale Jr.]] as [[Skipper|The Skipper]]
*[[Jim Backus]] as [[Mr. Howell]]
*[[Natalie Schafer]] as [[Mrs. Howell]]
*[[Tina Louise]] as [[Ginger]]
*[[Dawn Wells]] as [[Mary Ann]]
*[[Russell Johnson]] as [[The Professor]]

Guest Cast
* None

==Trivia==
*[[Mary Ann]] enters the Howells Hut with a vase of flowers, but the interior shot must be a different take because the flowers have changed.
*This episode shows off the Professor's cleverness in inventing - he has made a [[stethoscope]] which he uses to diagnose Mr. Howell and a [[Thermometer|thermometer]] from the barometer of the [[S.S. Minnow]].
*This episode uses a shot of the old Season Two version of the [[Boy's Hut]] as an exterior shot.
* In his will, Mr. Howell leaves [[Gilligan]] an oil well; he previously tried scamming Gilligan with the [[Tehechapuku Oil and Mining Corporation]] in [[Three Million Dollars More or Less]]. As for the other Castaways, he leaves the [[Skipper]] forty acres in Denver, Colorado, [[Ginger]] a diamond mine, the [[Professor]] a railroad and [[Mary Ann]] a cotton and sugar plantation.
* In [[Agonized Labor]], Mrs. Howell claims she doesn't know how to sew, but in this episode, she is doing petite point.
* Before fleeing for the other side of the island, Mr. Howell can be seen closing his suitcase twice.
* Syndicated versions of the episode omit the end with Mrs. Howell popping out of a cake during a party for Mr. Howell.

==Quotes==
* '''[[Mrs. Howell]]''' - "That's true, dear, but you've always had the spirit of giving." '''[[Mr. Howell]]''' - "I have?" '''[[Mrs. Howell]]''' - "Yes, I distinctly remember you saying you gave your partner the business!"
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* '''[[Gilligan]]''' - "Mrs. Howell, don't worry about the wild animals." '''[[Mr. Howell]]''' - "No?" '''[[Gilligan]]''' - "They usually fall in the quicksand."
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* '''[[Skipper]]''' - "Gilligan, are you sure the grave is big enough?" '''[[Gilligan]]''' - "It should be... it's six and seven/eights."
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* '''[[Gilligan]]''' - "He treated me like a father!" '''[[Mary Ann]]''' - "He was like a father to me!" '''[[Ginger]]''' - "He was like a father to me!" '''[[Mr. Howell]]''' - "He was like a husband to me!!"
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[[Category:Season 3 Episodes]]
[[Category:Howell Episodes]]
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