"Gilligan's Island" is coming to Washington.

The surviving cast members of the '60s castaway sitcom will reprise their roles Tuesday on a three-hour cruise on the Potomac River aboard the Odyssey.

"People love `Gilligan's Island.' It's a feel-good kind of show," says Andrea Sims, president of Women in Film and Video, which is hosting the cruise as a fund-raising event.

"It's retro, and everything we do now is from the '60s and '70s. I think they've kind of run out of ideas, but the point is they are beloved," she adds.

Bob Denver (Gilligan) will join Tina Louise (Ginger), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) and Russell Johnson (the Professor) on the Odyssey cruise. Alan Hale Jr. (the Skipper), Jim Backus (Thurston J. Howell III) and Natalie Schaefer (Lovey Howell) are deceased.

Ms. Sims recounts the tale of a restaurant opening this summer in Hawaii at which the "Gilligan's Island" cast members were the guests of honor. "The restaurant owners expected a few thousand people to show up, and instead they were dealing with a crowd of 20,000 people," she says.

Ms. Sims is looking for only 500 passengers, who will pay $125 to $175 to dine and rub elbows with the cast, who will not appear in costume.

"We're asking everyone to wear creative black tie or your favorite island wear," she says. "We hope women won't come with coconut shells on their breasts because that's not what we're looking for. But we want everyone to feel comfortable and have fun."

Ms. Sims, 47, has experience making stars and their fans feel at ease. In June, when she became president of Women in Film and Video, the producer-director pulled her Hollywood strings to seed an awards ceremony with film stars Kathy Bates, Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen.

As the head of her own production company, Lion's Share Inc., Ms. Sims is working on scripts she has pitched or will pitch to stars such as Bette Midler, Lindsay Wagner and Amy Madigan.

"I want to bring Hollywood to the Potomac," she says, cozily settling back into a chair in her Occoquan, Va., town house.