Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of "Gilligan's Island," also created the show "It's About Time," which used this prop space capsule as a mainstay of the storyline about astronauts going back to caveman times (co-starring Mike Mazurki - Igor on "The Friendly Physician").
The space capsule mock-up is the same one used in "Nyet, Nyet, Not Yet" with new paint and markings.
The commentator was played by the legendary Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer, Chick Hearn.
The title refers to the last act of a spaceflight by NASA during America's race to the moon in the 1960s, the splashdown, when the capsule with returning astronauts lands in the ocean and is picked up by the United States Navy.
Gilligan is wearing gray trousers instead of his usual light blue.