At the height of the Cold War, Gilligans Island (1964) depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the shows creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligans Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.