"Ghost Island"
Created by Dennis Evano
SHOW TYPE
A character-driven half-hour family oriented comedy series, combining humor with a supernatural element, adventure and talking animals.
PREMISE
On a Caribbean sailing vacation, the Putterbaum family’s sloop, Miss Adventure, gets caught in a violent tropical storm. Their boat tossed and battered by turbulent seas, they find themselves run aground and shipwrecked on the beach of a deserted tropical island -- with the exception of some previously stranded, amiable ghostly inhabitants.
Having escaped this harrowing experience unscathed, they begin to take inventory of the supplies and belongings that made it through the storm with them, including the family cat, Sphinx, and Tico the parrot, (who communicate telepathically with one another). Charlie Puttterbaum, the eternally optimistic skipper and an aspiring Hemingway, manages to salvage his antiquated Smith Corona and a watertight crate of writing supplies from the bowels of the flooded cabin -- oh, yes, and a soggy survival manual, a 1941 edition -- while wife Beth, the analytical pragmatist, takes charge of saving the essentials, prodding her ever-reluctant, “I told you so” teenage daughter, Samantha, and younger son, Toby, a precocious, freckled-faced, bespectacled little boy, brimming with curiosity and seemingly boundless energy for getting into trouble, into action.
Arms loaded with all they can carry ashore, Toby dragging the parrot’s cage along behind him, Tico muttering, “uh oh, watch out,“ Samantha, toting Sphinx nestled against her while attempting to send a text message for help with one hand, the cat hissing over her shoulder at the squawking parrot, the Putterbaums trudge down the white sand beach in search of a safe haven, when Charlie, leading his band of castaways, stops suddenly, drops his armload, palm out signaling the others to stop, raises the binoculars hung around his neck to scan the edge of the tropical jungle for something he senses is out there. Tico
cries, “Oh, boy! Looky, looky!” Sphinx tells him to shut up. Tico repeats, “Shut up!” Charlie’s eyes seize upon a thatched beach house on stilts; he immediately declares, “We’re saved!” He runs down the beach shouting, arms flailing, toward the house, his bewildered wife and children trailing behind him.
Entering the house to find it appears to have been abandoned, they decide to set up housekeeping in this fortuitous abode, until their imminent rescue. This is where we meet the elderly, cheerful and accommodating, but DEAD, Jamaican couple, Gregory and Theresa, who have passed on but refuse to leave their happy, secluded island paradise. From their ghostly perspectives, they quickly evaluate their new house guests, determining them to be likeable, hapless and in need of whatever supernatural assistance they can muster. Sphinx purrs and Tico says, “Hello!“ acknowledging their presence.
Created by Dennis Evano
SHOW TYPE
A character-driven half-hour family oriented comedy series, combining humor with a supernatural element, adventure and talking animals.
PREMISE
On a Caribbean sailing vacation, the Putterbaum family’s sloop, Miss Adventure, gets caught in a violent tropical storm. Their boat tossed and battered by turbulent seas, they find themselves run aground and shipwrecked on the beach of a deserted tropical island -- with the exception of some previously stranded, amiable ghostly inhabitants.
Having escaped this harrowing experience unscathed, they begin to take inventory of the supplies and belongings that made it through the storm with them, including the family cat, Sphinx, and Tico the parrot, (who communicate telepathically with one another). Charlie Puttterbaum, the eternally optimistic skipper and an aspiring Hemingway, manages to salvage his antiquated Smith Corona and a watertight crate of writing supplies from the bowels of the flooded cabin -- oh, yes, and a soggy survival manual, a 1941 edition -- while wife Beth, the analytical pragmatist, takes charge of saving the essentials, prodding her ever-reluctant, “I told you so” teenage daughter, Samantha, and younger son, Toby, a precocious, freckled-faced, bespectacled little boy, brimming with curiosity and seemingly boundless energy for getting into trouble, into action.
Arms loaded with all they can carry ashore, Toby dragging the parrot’s cage along behind him, Tico muttering, “uh oh, watch out,“ Samantha, toting Sphinx nestled against her while attempting to send a text message for help with one hand, the cat hissing over her shoulder at the squawking parrot, the Putterbaums trudge down the white sand beach in search of a safe haven, when Charlie, leading his band of castaways, stops suddenly, drops his armload, palm out signaling the others to stop, raises the binoculars hung around his neck to scan the edge of the tropical jungle for something he senses is out there. Tico
cries, “Oh, boy! Looky, looky!” Sphinx tells him to shut up. Tico repeats, “Shut up!” Charlie’s eyes seize upon a thatched beach house on stilts; he immediately declares, “We’re saved!” He runs down the beach shouting, arms flailing, toward the house, his bewildered wife and children trailing behind him.
Entering the house to find it appears to have been abandoned, they decide to set up housekeeping in this fortuitous abode, until their imminent rescue. This is where we meet the elderly, cheerful and accommodating, but DEAD, Jamaican couple, Gregory and Theresa, who have passed on but refuse to leave their happy, secluded island paradise. From their ghostly perspectives, they quickly evaluate their new house guests, determining them to be likeable, hapless and in need of whatever supernatural assistance they can muster. Sphinx purrs and Tico says, “Hello!“ acknowledging their presence.