Most of the original cast reprised their roles and provided their voices for the animated series, with the exception of Tina Louise and Dawn Wells.

[5] By 1974, after failing to sell a Gilligan's Island revival to any of the networks, Schwartz agreed to license the show, on condition that he was allowed to have great creative input, including hands-on supervision of not only the scripts, but the storyboards as well.

[6] Like the original series, The New Adventures of Gilligan contained an adult laugh track, which was common practice with most Saturday-morning cartoons of the era.

[9][10] As the series did not secure the rights to "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", a spoken-word poem with lyrics and backing music vaguely reminiscent of the theme (but distinct enough to avoid copyright issues) was substituted as the opening introduction.

The network, still reeling from the ratings disaster in 1975–76 connected with Uncle Croc's Block, was reluctant to order another season of animated Gilligan installments or anything new from Filmation Associates.

The premiere episode of The New Adventures of Gilligan, "Off Limits", was released as part of Warner Home Video's Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s Volume 2 on October 27, 2009.