Never understood how someone s smart as the Professor could make a fully functioning radio out of coconuts and some sea debris, but couldn't patch a hole in a boat.
Come on at 430pm in my Midwestern town. Took.me awhile to realize there were only so many episodes and I'd seen them all as everyday I hoped for an episode I hadn't seen yet. Hard to believe it was on prime time evenings with new episodes.😂
I delivered the Las Vegas Sun to Dawn Wells when I was growing up in Las Vegas in the 1970's. She lived in Rancho Circle one of the best areas of Las Vegas. She was even nicer in person than she was on the show. One of my best memories.
my very first celebrity crush was Dawn wells to find out that she moved in with Natalie shafer to care for her just shows that she was just as beautiful inside as she was outside. she was just a wonderful person may she rip.
In the 1970's, my uncle would work the flea market north of Charlotte in Huntersville at the old Metrolina selling cassette tapes of old Western shows. This morphed into him attending the annual Western Film Fair shows there. The WFF moved to Winston-Salem in the late 2000's where I was working as an attorney. As my uncle was getting up in years, I would meet him there and help him set up on Friday and breakdown on Sunday. It was fun to help him and meet some of the actors and actresses that showed up. Around 2013, Dawn Wells was at the show. My uncle told me she was there, so I was hoping for a chance to meet her. I showed up on Sunday to help him breakdown and went over to Dawn's table. She was very nice and personable; everything you would think she would be. I didn't have a lot of extra money at the time as I was just starting out, paying off school loans and a mortgage on my office, but I bought a photo of her, which she autographed. Later, downstairs in the lobby of the hotel, I saw her again as I was carrying boxes out of the show for my uncle. I asked her if we could take a photo together. She said yes. As we were standing there beside each other, my uncle readying the camera, she turned to me and said, "It's Ok if you put your arm around me". I did so and looked toward the camera. She turned to me again and exclaimed, "You are shaking!". My only explanation was and I said to her, "Well you are Mary Ann!" She laughed, and my uncle took the photo. Those two photos are now in my law library, and I am fortunate to have met her. God Bless you Dawn Wells. You and the whole cast of Gilligan's Island did so much for all of us growing up. RIP to a beautiful lady inside and out.
I would be shaking as well if Mary Ann told me it was OK to put my arm around her!! What an awesome experience, thanks for sharing it. I had a major crush on Mary Ann when I was a teenager that still lingers today.
Edited to add, "the old Metrolina" at the top. The Metrolina was a large complex of three connected buildings and hosted a lot of shows and events for decades. There was lots of acreage for parking and outside events as well. I believe the Cabarrus County fair was held there. Sadly, the old Metrolina was torn down a few years ago and redeveloped.
My favorite little fact: "The Mosquitos"-- the rock band that was on the island for the one episode -- was the same group that sang the opening song. The Wellingtons--who were heard frequently on 1960's television.
Fun Fact : Sherwood Schwartz wrote in his book that he got contacted by a Coast Guard Admiral , whom he met with over lunch . The Admiral presented a bag of letters on the table of panicked people who saw on TV that there were 7 lost people that got shipwrecked on an Island !🏝️
@@jackthestripper-r4w True. Because we know that nowadays conservatives do not care about anyone or anything other than their own greed and self worth and have surrendered all their morals for a convicted felon.
I always loved this show and how nuts it is. A three-hour cruise where Ginger must have packed every single gown she ever owned, while poor Maryann just wore her Dorothy dress. Mr. Howell taking along his suitcase of money and Mrs. Howels wardrobe. What were they doing on a three-hour cruise? One would think Mr. Howel would own his own boat. Too funny.
@@kvernon1 I forgot he had his professor books with him. So, a movie star with a couple of trunks full of gowns and shoes and makeup. A rich couple with the same plus a luggage full of cash. The professor and his professor books all for a three-hour cruise on a little tiny boat.
One more historic fact in the opening season intro when camera pans over the docked boats you'll see the US flag flown at half mast briefly, that was because JFK was assassinated the day before and that sequence was shot when all flag were flown at half mast in his honor.
Tina is still alive. I thought she was really great in the Series. Not just for being Gorgeous.. But I thought she did a great acting job in the Dream Episodes where she would get to play different characters.
Can't really blame Tina Louise for not wanting to be associated with it. She was actually a decent actress with a growing career when she took the role. Thing is that playing a "lousy actress" for 3 years typecast her as a lousy actress - The show basically ruined her career....
@@tenfourproductionsllc - I think any actor or Actress in any Series could be replaced and depending how good the replacement was the Series might still work. I think in Gilligan's Island- I think it would have been hard to replace Bob Denver or Alan Hale. But any of the other actor or actresses could have been replaced and the Series would have gone on.
Was working the annual Boat Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in the early 80's. Was in the break room having a meal with some other police officers and in walks The Skipper. Says hello and asks if he can join our table. What a gracious person. A laugh a minute. He was telling us stories and jokes and I will never forget it, or him.
The ship was named after Newton Minow (1926 - 2023), the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1961 to 1963. Minow is famous for his 1961 speech in which he called television a "vast wasteland." I had the pleasure of meeting him when he was an attorney at Sidley & Austin.
.."My mother the car"...it would fail even today it sound so bad. Who wants to be there when its that kinda conversation.? I'd do my best to evade that scene.
Years ago my sister and I visited Gettysburg PA. You could buy tapes as guides. There were two and three hour tapes. Of course we bought the THREE HOUR TOUR and hysterically sang this theme song off and on during our week there. Miss you little Sis!!!
My two favorite characters were the Professor and Maryanne. I was impressed by the Professor since he seemed to know everything. And since I was a farm girl at heart, I felt connected to Maryanne. 😂
Personally as someone who grew up with Gilligan's Island and never wanted it to end, I'm glad that they get to be forever immortalized as the castaway survivors who never died, but will forever be living there in our memories.
Another fun fact: Bob Denver & Tina Louise were cast in a Beach Boys-like California surfing movie called For Those Who Think Young which premiered in early 1964.
There was a a movie in 1979 called “Rescue from Gilligan’s Island.” Don’t remember the details but they were permanently rescued and something about the island turning into a resort. Also Dawn Wells beat Raquel Welch for the title of Miss Nevada and Dabney Coleman auditioned for the role as the Professor.
In the "Rescue" movie, they do all get back to civilization and are honored as heroes ... but in the end, another tragic mishap occurs and they end up trapped yet again, on the very same island.
Love this show and excellent info--I learned several new facts! I'm currently rewatching the entire series on Blu-Ray. It's ironic that Dawn Wells was the only one to profit from the show, yet she died penniless only a few years ago. RIP all Gilligan's Island cast members.
A bit of trivia: On the very first day that they were going to shoot the first episode, ( not the original one with the first cast) but the cast we all know now, was on November,22nd, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assinated, Bob Denver remembers it well, it deeply effected the whole cast and crew
My mother in law told me she went to high school with Bob Denver, showing me a picture of him her yearbook. She told me that Bob was a thug back then .
@@greggcoop1223Your mother has Bob Denver confused with someone else. Bob wasn't a thug. He was a smart student who attended Loyola Maramount University. He was a mailman and a teacher before he became an actor.
I was so envious as a kid at the time as my good friend Scott won an autographed photo of the complete cast in some cereal box top competition. I offered up everything I could imagine in trade but to no avail.
That show needed every character to be what it was. Much respect to Denver for insisting they change the intro. Why do they always cancel the good ones and leave the trash on the air?
As kids growing up, we would argue who gets to be which character, I wanted to be Gilligan or the Professor. I never knew until later Ginger was called Ginger because of her red hair.
Can't really blame Tina Louise for not wanting to be associated with the show after it ended. She was actually a decent actress with a growing career when she took the role. Thing is that playing a "lousy actress" for 3 years typecast her in the public mind as a lousy actress - The show basically ruined her career....
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Irrelevant. Talented actors/actresses are often in "flops". In fact, most are. The majority of actors have the majority of their roles in films that aren't major "hits". Even people widely-regarded as "Stars" have their share of flops. Without claiming she was a "great" actress, she was certainly an adequate one. In fact, now that your comment made me bother to look it up, she had quite a few very successful major film roles before _Gilligan's Island._ (Certainly more than someone like _Madonna,_ for example)
Can’t tell the number of times I wished to be stranded on an island with Tina and Dawn. Never did have children but if that fantasy happened then there would’ve been a village of Tinettes and Dawnites all over that island
I know about Natalie's age. In fact, she requested that only upon her death that her real age be disclosed to shock people because most people thought her younger than her age. I knew about the lagoon. In fact, supposedly, it got so filthy and mucky at one point that the cast members refused to get in it until it was cleaned up. I also knew the story behind 'the rest' as well as Dawn Wells residuals and the abrupt ending of the series. Here is a bit of trivia that very few people know regarding the opening theme from the first season. If you look carefully at 7:31 as the Minnow is leaving the harbor, on the right side you will see an American flag flying at half mast. This is because it was filmed on the day that JFK was assassinated, November 22, 1963. They had debated postponing filming out of respect. But it was decided, since this was the last of 4 days they had to film the opening and the cast and crew was already there and it would cost both time and money to arrange to come back to go ahead and film it anyway.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc I don't recall her saying that. However, from several sources, she DID in fact get royalties although they were very limited, meaning a small amount. Nowhere near what actors get today.
While the series ended with a cliffhanger, the Gilligan's Island TV movies that followed concluded with the castaways returning home. Was it one movie or two? Thanks for a great review down memory lane. This is one of my favorite shows growing up, next to I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched as comedies. The original I Love Lucy also good.
I remember during a boat cruise off the coast of Oahu in 1991, passing by a distant marina, and the tour guide announcing, "That is where the S.S. MINNOW departed from in 'Gilligan's Island'. We were staying for a month at a time-share off Waikiki Beach, and I made it a point to walk (way) down to that marina a number of times, and whistle the "Gilligan's Island" theme while filming the piers. If I had had someone around to hold the camera, I would have posed there like The Skipper.
Couple more facts. Tina Louise, while not wanting anything to do with the series after it was cancelled except much later, oddly enough, is the only surviving cast member to date. And even though the Gilligan's Island cartoon didn't last, Bpb Denver starred in another Saturday morning vehicle called The Far Out Space Nuts with an Alan Hale-esque Chuck McCann. The show was about 2 maintenance men who accidentally launch a ship into space. Also, Natalie Schaffer and Jim Backus played roles on The Brady Bunch. Schaffer played a talent scout who Cindy thinks is looking for the next Shirley Temple and Jim Backus played a prospector afraid the Brady's were going to jump his claim in the Grand Canyon episode. In a later episode he plays Mike's boss who gifts the Brady's a pool table.
Part of the reason the original theme song excluded Mary Anne and the Professor was that the complete cast lineup was not finalized before the song was written and recorded.
When I was about 11 or 12, I had a big crush on Dawn Wells, right up there with Barbara Eden's Genie, both everything you wish for in a beautiful dream girl, both full of life.
Although I favored Mary Ann as a boy, I really appreciate Tina Lousie as Ginger. She wasn't just a "dumb beauty." When Ginger wasn't putting on the glamour schtick to manipulate people, she played Ginger as a real girl. A difficult part to get right. She was excellent.
Nice; there were actually things in here that I didn't already know. 😊 Though, I also expected some mention of the show, "Far Out Space Nuts", which had Bob Denver in a similar role and a character very similar to The Skipper, but that's where the similarity ended.
I quite surprised that this video failed to note that after the series cancelation, a film was made in 1978 called "Rescue from Gilligan's Island". In the film, the castaways were swept by a tropical storm back to Hawaii (the actual filming location was Marina del Rey, BTW). All the original cast members - minus Tina Louise - were in the film. Interesting flick.
Don't forget, they left Alice the ape and the other gorilla on the island. I wonder how Wrong Way Feldman and Dubov made out on the nearby islands? Fooey!
Tina Louise was a classically trained actor. In TV land, that usually means "this role is beneath me, but I need the paycheck". Pernell Roberts was another.
Roberts role was a joke of nature......looking 10 years older and more mature than he really was while Lorne Greene was the opposite looking far younger than his age. It was funny when he talked to "PA" who looked like his Brother. They should have had Adam ride off into the sunset married and gone to California while Pernell moved in as an UNCLE to Hoss and Joe.
OMG, Jayne Mansfield could have been in Giligan's Island? I wish she had taken the role. She would probably have lived a lot longer. I really like her. Dawn and Tina were great, but can you imagine Jayne Mansfield and Raquel Welch on the show. Wow!
I actually like the fact that low key actors were chosen for Gilligan's Island. It gave us a chance to Love them more than reusing more well known actors, which is such a common practice with hollywood productions to give them a safety net for the shows success. And I couldn't think of better actors to play each of the roles, they were good to watch 👍
15 years after the show went off, they did Rescue From Gilligan's Island, which caught everyone up who wondered what had happened due to the abrupt cancellation.
There were three TV movies... Rescue From Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island and the Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. None of them had Tina Louise. Jim Bachus had only a brief appearance in the last one due to poor health.
The public viewing's "dismay" at the sudden end of the show is why they made the TV movie afterwards to wrap it up and get them off the island. Sort of like how Firefly was suddenly ended and they had to make a movie, Serenity, to wrap it up. Both due to viewer outrage.
Gilligan’s Island is the best TV show ever made. It has it all. Which was really just down to the cast. If you can associate with the characters you're going to like it. It's just that simple.
1. Jerry Van Dyke was originally cast as Gillian 2. Dusty’s Trail was created to mirror Gilligan’s island but the show flopped 3. The pilot for Gilligan’s island was filmed in Hawaii 4. The oldest cast member was Natalie Schaffer (Mrs. Howell) She was 60 years old on the show 5. Gilligan’s Island filming was moved to California - filming had to be time to so traffic noises wouldn’t be picked up during filming 6. In 1995 The cast of Gilligans Island reunited on a show called Roseanne. 7. Denver, the city, is named after Bob Denver’s (Gilligan) great grandfather. 8. Gilligans Island was turned into a cartoon and Tina Louise (Ginger) refused to participate. 9. And the first season of Gilligans Island the professor and Maryanne were not mentioned in the opening theme song. 10. Dawn Wells is the only cast member to receive syndication pay.
I love G.I. and the spin off Gilligan's Planet, they did have the movie,where they made it safely home, only to go out on an anniversary/ celebratory cruise, and have the same thing happen again, and end up, back on the island 😂
My late grandfather (Jack Silverman) was one of the animators. As a child, I used to ask him to get me anything he could from the "Star Trek" animated cartoon. He told me that those were very hard to get, and that they were basically "under lock and key" at the studio. If they found he had removed them, he would get fired. Eventually, he DID send a good number of animation cells and character and ship (INCLUDING the ENTERPRISE) sketches, but, being a kid, I ended up destroying them over the years and they are all long gone. Why this relates to this post, is that he more easily sent same from a number of OTHER cartoons (all of which suffered the same fate), including "Gilligan's Planet". I once asked him if he remembered working on the "Star Trek" series. He said he barely remembered it, because, to him, it was unimportant, just another animation job like all the rest.
They tried patching the boat up and ended up completely destroying it. It was a very funny scene. The whole boat just sprung apart. If you've ever seen it you'd know instantly there was no fixing the boat then. It ceased to exist.
As for the opening theme, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, it was once thought that it was Bob Denver, aka Gilligan, who sang it for season 1, then Alan Hale, aka Skipper, who sang it for seasons 2 and 3. In season 2, during the storm at sea, you could not hear the wind, but by season 3, you could hear a wicked wind blowing in the opening theme during the show's original run, but, on the DVD release, they seem to have done away with the wind sounds altogether.
"... it was once thought..." By who? I watched the show in it's original run, and have never heard anyone ever suggest anything of the kind. The people that did the song were right there in the credits every week. Originally, it was a group called _The Wellingtons,_ who even guest-starred in an episode as a band called _The Mosquitos..._
NBC did a Gilligan's Island mini series in the late 1970's with the entire original cast except for Tina Louise who was replaced with another actress (don't remember who). The premise was that they were rescued after 15 years but had trouble readjusting to modern society. While it was good to see the old gang back together, the writing varied between awful and really awful. At the end of the miniseries, they all became shipwrecked again on the same island. NBC was thinking to create a spinoff series in which the cast ran a resort on the same island. I thought NBC decided against it but I see other comments here say that it was indeed done.
It actually had nothing to do with _Gunsmoke,_ which was already a well-established series at the time. TV Network schedules were reorganized nearly every "Season" in those days, and moving _Gunsmoke_ to _Gilligan's_ timeslot would have just meant moving _Gilligan_ to some other show's slot. Rescheduling was often, however, used as an excuse to drop a show that the "Network Executives" didn't like, for whatever reason. This happened to a lot of shows in those days. Some execs would take a dislike to some show and undermine it, often for reasons as silly as feeling that it hurt the Network's "Prestige". This is why popular series like _The Man From UNCLE, Beverly Hillbillies, Star Trek_ and yes... _Gilligan's Island_ (Which was actually the highest-rated sitcom at the time) got cancelled....
One of my favorite tv shows. After watching the video I looked up Dawn Wells and it turns out today, December 30th, is the anniversary of her passing and both of us were born in Nevada. May she RIP.
Interestingly I think I was in 5th grade when it came out. I think it was on a Sunday and we had just had the time change. I thought it was a really cool show. The premise that they were making a life out on an obscure island. As if it was an escape from reality… I may be wrong on the recollection but it’s what I remember now. Also I think it was on KCBS channel 2 here in L.A.
my Dad named me Louise, after Gingers actress, He wanted to call me Tina, but there were already 2 Tinas in our little township. The whole school attendance could fit on the three benches in one class photo.
You may not know Howell gave everybody on the island tons of money but after they were rescued Gilligan was still a flunky doing Howell's work on Howell's Island Resort. All Gilligan needed was a red hat.
Secrets of the universe to be debated until the end of time; the chicken or the egg, what happened on the Mary Celeste, who was jack.the ripper, where's Waldo, Ginger or Mary Anne
Dawn Wells was the whole package. Beautiful, smart, and very caring
Yup and she continued to look great as she got older 😁
She could make a banana cream
I thought she died from COVID
@@bobski7032where was the cow?
She was the 'betty'
Never understood how someone s smart as the Professor could make a fully functioning radio out of coconuts and some sea debris, but couldn't patch a hole in a boat.
Hmmmmmm
That was the question of the century at the time.
It wasn't in the script
Because he wanted to nail Ginger and Maryanne and that was his best opportunity.....shipwrecked!
Yeah, where's MacGyver when you need him?! 😅
I couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch this every afternoon! Loved this show
Come on at 430pm in my Midwestern town. Took.me awhile to realize there were only so many episodes and I'd seen them all as everyday I hoped for an episode I hadn't seen yet. Hard to believe it was on prime time evenings with new episodes.😂
@@vanceharkema5131me too
@@vanceharkema5131same here, this then McCales Navy, Earnest Borgnine and Tim Conway
One of the 2 greatest sitcoms of all time (along with The Beverly Hillbillies).
Me too. I'd get home from school, watch Gilligan's Island, then The Flintstones, and have milk and Chips Ahoy cookies everyday.
I delivered the Las Vegas Sun to Dawn Wells when I was growing up in Las Vegas in the 1970's. She lived in Rancho Circle one of the best areas of Las Vegas. She was even nicer in person than she was on the show. One of my best memories.
Are you the same Greg Delong that lived in Plain City Ohio?
I bet she'd be pleased. Cool memory.
my very first celebrity crush was Dawn wells to find out that she moved in with Natalie shafer to care for her just shows that she was just as beautiful inside as she was outside. she was just a wonderful person may she rip.
Doobie Gillis! F Troop! Loved those shows!
I am sure there were many young men dying to find out how beautiful she was inside...
My very favorite TV show when I was a child. I loved coming home from school sitting down with a snack and tuning in.
I always loved it when a coconut would fall on the Skipper's head!
That hallow conk sound really punctuated the effect😅
In the 1970's, my uncle would work the flea market north of Charlotte in Huntersville at the old Metrolina selling cassette tapes of old Western shows. This morphed into him attending the annual Western Film Fair shows there. The WFF moved to Winston-Salem in the late 2000's where I was working as an attorney. As my uncle was getting up in years, I would meet him there and help him set up on Friday and breakdown on Sunday. It was fun to help him and meet some of the actors and actresses that showed up. Around 2013, Dawn Wells was at the show. My uncle told me she was there, so I was hoping for a chance to meet her. I showed up on Sunday to help him breakdown and went over to Dawn's table. She was very nice and personable; everything you would think she would be. I didn't have a lot of extra money at the time as I was just starting out, paying off school loans and a mortgage on my office, but I bought a photo of her, which she autographed. Later, downstairs in the lobby of the hotel, I saw her again as I was carrying boxes out of the show for my uncle. I asked her if we could take a photo together. She said yes. As we were standing there beside each other, my uncle readying the camera, she turned to me and said, "It's Ok if you put your arm around me". I did so and looked toward the camera. She turned to me again and exclaimed, "You are shaking!". My only explanation was and I said to her, "Well you are Mary Ann!" She laughed, and my uncle took the photo. Those two photos are now in my law library, and I am fortunate to have met her. God Bless you Dawn Wells. You and the whole cast of Gilligan's Island did so much for all of us growing up. RIP to a beautiful lady inside and out.
Wow cool! What boy didn’t have a crush on her back in the day!😊
I would be shaking as well if Mary Ann told me it was OK to put my arm around her!! What an awesome experience, thanks for sharing it.
I had a major crush on Mary Ann when I was a teenager that still lingers today.
Great story! Wow, meeting Dawn Wells is one for the bucket list, for sure. How long was it before you washed that arm???😂
Edited to add, "the old Metrolina" at the top. The Metrolina was a large complex of three connected buildings and hosted a lot of shows and events for decades. There was lots of acreage for parking and outside events as well. I believe the Cabarrus County fair was held there. Sadly, the old Metrolina was torn down a few years ago and redeveloped.
The professor the actor Russell Johnson was a WW2 hero
Johnson also really lived on an island, though not a deserted one. 😊
Very disappointed they didn't mention him at all
He was also a early candidate for Ben Casey
@cdgates1 that's interesting thanks for the info
@@lancerevell5979 We ALL live on an island....even North America is a large island surrounded by water..
My favorite little fact: "The Mosquitos"-- the rock band that was on the island for the one episode -- was the same group that sang the opening song. The Wellingtons--who were heard frequently on 1960's television.
Bingo, Bango, Bongo & Irving!
Fun fact, favorite little fact, my historic little fact: stfu
I loved the girls band, The Lady Bugs, I believe. I may have that wrong, but you all know what I talking about.
🎶You Need Us🎶
So groovy, so far out!
Fun Fact : Sherwood Schwartz wrote in his book that he got contacted by a Coast Guard Admiral , whom he met with over lunch . The Admiral presented a bag of letters on the table of panicked people who saw on TV that there were 7 lost people that got shipwrecked on an Island !🏝️
Another small piece of the mountain of evidence that Americans are thick as bricks. LOL
@@scifistorybook nowadays we call them liberals
@@jackthestripper-r4w
Sounds like your pants are smarter than you!
Lol
Some viewers thought that the cast was going to die of starvation if they didn't get rescued.
@@jackthestripper-r4w True. Because we know that nowadays conservatives do not care about anyone or anything other than their own greed and self worth and have surrendered all their morals for a convicted felon.
One of my favorite tv shows. I learned the opening and closing songs and sang them to friends many years ago.
I sang this song to all of my 5 kids. Along with the themes to The Brady Bunch, The Beverly Hillbillies and Mr. Ed.
@@mikebronicki8264 WOW!!!! You have me beat. I knew most of the Beverly Hillbillies song and Mr ed.
I always loved this show and how nuts it is. A three-hour cruise where Ginger must have packed every single gown she ever owned, while poor Maryann just wore her Dorothy dress. Mr. Howell taking along his suitcase of money and Mrs. Howels wardrobe. What were they doing on a three-hour cruise? One would think Mr. Howel would own his own boat. Too funny.
In addition, the Professor packed an entire library full of textbooks. I guess he had a lot of reading to catch up on!
@@kvernon1 I forgot he had his professor books with him. So, a movie star with a couple of trunks full of gowns and shoes and makeup. A rich couple with the same plus a luggage full of cash. The professor and his professor books all for a three-hour cruise on a little tiny boat.
And the food they prepared would shame 5 star restaurant.
One more historic fact in the opening season intro when camera pans over the docked boats you'll see the US flag flown at half mast briefly, that was because JFK was assassinated the day before and that sequence was shot when all flag were flown at half mast in his honor.
I knew that and I'm surprised that fact wasn't on his list.
I'm glad that you mentioned that, I never noticed. I was watching TV with my mom when JFK was assassinated, I was 5 years old.
I was in love with Maryann!
Who...wasn't..!
Get in line!
We ALL were.
We all were!!!
I was in love with Ginger !
Was it ever discovered of what indestructible fabric their clothing was made?
Not only that but many of them had their clothes actually destroyed many times, but they always have new ones in the next episode.
As a young boy with a crush on Ginger and Mary Anne I could have only dreamed of such a terrible thing that their clothes fell apart.
Their clothes were made of infinitum….
@@Heartwing37 I've since heard that their clothing is made of repeatium.
And the endless supply of make up too.
Ironically Tina Louise, who didn't want to have anything to do with the series after going off the air, is the only survivor of the series.
Tina is still alive. I thought she was really great in the Series. Not just for being Gorgeous.. But I thought she did a great acting job in the Dream Episodes where she would get to play different characters.
Can't really blame Tina Louise for not wanting to be associated with it. She was actually a decent actress with a growing career when she took the role. Thing is that playing a "lousy actress" for 3 years typecast her as a lousy actress - The show basically ruined her career....
@@HoldenNY22 I disagree. I think her character could have been switched out for a replacement and the series would have been fine.
@@tenfourproductionsllc - I think any actor or Actress in any Series could be replaced and depending how good the replacement was the Series might still work. I think in Gilligan's Island- I think it would have been hard to replace Bob Denver or Alan Hale. But any of the other actor or actresses could have been replaced and the Series would have gone on.
Wow. Very ironical.
Was working the annual Boat Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in the early 80's. Was in the break room having a meal with some other police officers and in walks The Skipper. Says hello and asks if he can join our table. What a gracious person. A laugh a minute. He was telling us stories and jokes and I will never forget it, or him.
Man... great story! Thanks.
The ship was named after Newton Minow (1926 - 2023), the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1961 to 1963. Minow is famous for his 1961 speech in which he called television a "vast wasteland."
I had the pleasure of meeting him when he was an attorney at Sidley & Austin.
I guess Jerry Van Dyke didn't read the script for My Mother the Car if he thought Gilligan's Island was the worst script he ever read
.."My mother the car"...it would fail even today it sound so bad. Who wants to be there when its that kinda conversation.? I'd do my best to evade that scene.
LOL …. good line
Dawn wells was a country girl just like she played on Gillian!! She was raised in Columbia, TN
Years ago my sister and I visited Gettysburg PA. You could buy tapes as guides. There were two and three hour tapes. Of course we bought the THREE HOUR TOUR and hysterically sang this theme song off and on during our week there. Miss you little Sis!!!
Favorite 🤩 episodes- jack and the beanstalk/ also when they went to the other island and meet Dracula 🧛
Good call on those two episodes. And how about the one with the Japanese sub?
My two favorite characters were the Professor and Maryanne.
I was impressed by the Professor since he seemed to know everything. And since I was a farm girl at heart, I felt connected to Maryanne. 😂
Same for me.
And I've never been a farmgirl.
Personally as someone who grew up with Gilligan's Island and never wanted it to end, I'm glad that they get to be forever immortalized as the castaway survivors who never died, but will forever be living there in our memories.
Another fun fact: Bob Denver & Tina Louise were cast in a Beach Boys-like California surfing movie called For Those Who Think Young which premiered in early 1964.
They didn't have any scenes together in the movie.
Loved watching all my favourite tv shows as a kid 📺
There was a a movie in 1979 called “Rescue from Gilligan’s Island.” Don’t remember the details but they were permanently rescued and something about the island turning into a resort. Also Dawn Wells beat Raquel Welch for the title of Miss Nevada and Dabney Coleman auditioned for the role as the Professor.
Dawn beat out Raquel for the part of Mary Ann but not for Miss Nevada. Raquel was never in a Nevada beauty contest. Dawn was a Miss Nevada, tho.
In the "Rescue" movie, they do all get back to civilization and are honored as heroes ... but in the end, another tragic mishap occurs and they end up trapped yet again, on the very same island.
Very neat. This was legitimately my favorite show as kid with the Brady Bunch as a close second place in my heart.
Me also …..and I had a major crush on both Maryanne and Marcia Brady
Love this show and excellent info--I learned several new facts! I'm currently rewatching the entire series on Blu-Ray. It's ironic that Dawn Wells was the only one to profit from the show, yet she died penniless only a few years ago. RIP all Gilligan's Island cast members.
Dawn did *not* make any money on the reruns. It’s a myth.
Dawn wells was the only reason I watch the show .she was so gorgeous
And she even beat out Rachel Welch for the role.
A bit of trivia:
On the very first day that they were going to shoot the first episode, ( not the original one with the first cast) but the cast we all know now, was on November,22nd, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assinated, Bob Denver remembers it well, it deeply effected the whole cast and crew
That was very enjoyable, thank you.
Bob Denver attended the same school as I…they had a commemorative plaque and everything…
My mother in law told me she went to high school with Bob Denver, showing me a picture of him her yearbook. She told me that Bob was a thug back then .
Long Beach high class of '53
@@greggcoop1223Your mother has Bob Denver confused with someone else. Bob wasn't a thug. He was a smart student who attended Loyola Maramount University. He was a mailman and a teacher before he became an actor.
I was so envious as a kid at the time as my good friend Scott won an autographed photo of the complete cast in some cereal box top competition. I offered up everything I could imagine in trade but to no avail.
That show needed every character to be what it was. Much respect to Denver for insisting they change the intro. Why do they always cancel the good ones and leave the trash on the air?
It's all about politics.
Kurt Russell played the Jungle Boy, and in the B&W intro, you can see the American Flag flying at half-mast for JFK.
*JFK
I'll look for it if I ever see that episode again.
@sherryvt61 The series is on Tubi.
Mrs. Howell was the whole package.
Agreed
The lagoon wasn't that deep?
You mean they could have walked to Hawaii?😉
I think you misunderstood what a lagoon is .
@unnamedchannel1237 I was being sarcastic
@ i couldn’t hear it in the tone of your text .
@@unnamedchannel1237😂😂😂
Dawn's little blue shorts 😊
and her little butt
As kids growing up, we would argue who gets to be which character, I wanted to be Gilligan or the Professor. I never knew until later Ginger was called Ginger because of her red hair.
I loved watching Gilligan's Island it's was one of my favorites growing up. Im 64 boy how time flies 😊
Tina Louise also sang on a record of jazz standards - it can be found on youtube and she does a great job
Can't really blame Tina Louise for not wanting to be associated with the show after it ended. She was actually a decent actress with a growing career when she took the role. Thing is that playing a "lousy actress" for 3 years typecast her in the public mind as a lousy actress - The show basically ruined her career....
Tina's movie career were filled with flops.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Irrelevant. Talented actors/actresses are often in "flops". In fact, most are. The majority of actors have the majority of their roles in films that aren't major "hits". Even people widely-regarded as "Stars" have their share of flops. Without claiming she was a "great" actress, she was certainly an adequate one. In fact, now that your comment made me bother to look it up, she had quite a few very successful major film roles before _Gilligan's Island._ (Certainly more than someone like _Madonna,_ for example)
Can’t tell the number of times I wished to be stranded on an island with Tina and Dawn. Never did have children but if that fantasy happened then there would’ve been a village of Tinettes and Dawnites all over that island
Nice! Gotta do one about the episode when the Howells turned the island into a resort.
I know about Natalie's age. In fact, she requested that only upon her death that her real age be disclosed to shock people because most people thought her younger than her age.
I knew about the lagoon. In fact, supposedly, it got so filthy and mucky at one point that the cast members refused to get in it until it was cleaned up.
I also knew the story behind 'the rest' as well as Dawn Wells residuals and the abrupt ending of the series.
Here is a bit of trivia that very few people know regarding the opening theme from the first season. If you look carefully at 7:31 as the Minnow is leaving the harbor, on the right side you will see an American flag flying at half mast. This is because it was filmed on the day that JFK was assassinated, November 22, 1963. They had debated postponing filming out of respect. But it was decided, since this was the last of 4 days they had to film the opening and the cast and crew was already there and it would cost both time and money to arrange to come back to go ahead and film it anyway.
Dawn Wells had often stated that she and the rest of the cast never received any residuals from the show.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc I don't recall her saying that. However, from several sources, she DID in fact get royalties although they were very limited, meaning a small amount. Nowhere near what actors get today.
While the series ended with a cliffhanger, the Gilligan's Island TV movies that followed concluded with the castaways returning home. Was it one movie or two? Thanks for a great review down memory lane. This is one of my favorite shows growing up, next to I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched as comedies. The original I Love Lucy also good.
And the Dick Van Dyck show and of course The Munsters 😅
And Gomer Pyle
There were 3 Gilligan's Island reunion tv-movies.
Mary Ann over Ginger any day! Total crush on her when I was a kid. (I'm old enough to have watched G Island when it originally aired.)
I pass Gilligans island when I ride my ebike around Kaneohe here in Hawaii. The island is used by The university of Hawaii for marine biology.
I remember during a boat cruise off the coast of Oahu in 1991, passing by a distant marina, and the tour guide announcing, "That is where the S.S. MINNOW departed from in 'Gilligan's Island'. We were staying for a month at a time-share off Waikiki Beach, and I made it a point to walk (way) down to that marina a number of times, and whistle the "Gilligan's Island" theme while filming the piers. If I had had someone around to hold the camera, I would have posed there like The Skipper.
They tore all that down years ago.
Couple more facts. Tina Louise, while not wanting anything to do with the series after it was cancelled except much later, oddly enough, is the only surviving cast member to date. And even though the Gilligan's Island cartoon didn't last, Bpb Denver starred in another Saturday morning vehicle called The Far Out Space Nuts with an Alan Hale-esque Chuck McCann. The show was about 2 maintenance men who accidentally launch a ship into space. Also, Natalie Schaffer and Jim Backus played roles on The Brady Bunch. Schaffer played a talent scout who Cindy thinks is looking for the next Shirley Temple and Jim Backus played a prospector afraid the Brady's were going to jump his claim in the Grand Canyon episode. In a later episode he plays Mike's boss who gifts the Brady's a pool table.
Tina's daughter, Caprice Crane , was a novelist and a MTV producer.
Part of the reason the original theme song excluded Mary Anne and the Professor was that the complete cast lineup was not finalized before the song was written and recorded.
When I was about 11 or 12, I had a big crush on Dawn Wells, right up there with Barbara Eden's Genie, both everything you wish for in a beautiful dream girl, both full of life.
Although I favored Mary Ann as a boy, I really appreciate Tina Lousie as Ginger. She wasn't just a "dumb beauty." When Ginger wasn't putting on the glamour schtick to manipulate people, she played Ginger as a real girl. A difficult part to get right. She was excellent.
Nice; there were actually things in here that I didn't already know. 😊 Though, I also expected some mention of the show, "Far Out Space Nuts", which had Bob Denver in a similar role and a character very similar to The Skipper, but that's where the similarity ended.
I would have love to see Bob Denver in a dramatic role.
Such a hilariously ridiculous show. Part of my childhood and still ridiculously hilarious.
I quite surprised that this video failed to note that after the series cancelation, a film was made in 1978 called "Rescue from Gilligan's Island". In the film, the castaways were swept by a tropical storm back to Hawaii (the actual filming location was Marina del Rey, BTW). All the original cast members - minus Tina Louise - were in the film. Interesting flick.
I thought I remembered a movie about how it all turned out! Thx!!😊
The professor could make a radio out of a coconut, but he can't fix a hole in the damn boat!
Facts
Watched every episode as a kid…several times!
Alan's dad would have wanted to guest star on the show and would have been proud of him as the Skipper.
LOL - I saw the likes go up at the same time I liked. And at the exact same time as the video asked to like the video.
Don't forget, they left Alice the ape and the other gorilla on the island. I wonder how Wrong Way Feldman and Dubov made out on the nearby islands? Fooey!
It was Gladys the ape, not Alice. In one episode, Gladys won the castaways beauty contest because she was a native of the island.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc That's correct. Glad to Gilligan.
"Wow, I had no idea about these facts! Gilligan’s Island was such a classic, and it's amazing to learn how much went on behind the scenes.
Tina Louise was a classically trained actor. In TV land, that usually means "this role is beneath me, but I need the paycheck". Pernell Roberts was another.
Roberts role was a joke of nature......looking 10 years older and more mature than he really was while Lorne Greene was the opposite looking far younger than his age. It was funny when he talked to "PA" who looked like his Brother. They should have had Adam ride off into the sunset married and gone to California while Pernell moved in as an UNCLE to Hoss and Joe.
AND... They feared being type cast! Back then a TV show could kill a movie career
heals up mouthful
@@donnienicholson6062 also Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch. He hated that role because he was a Shakespearean actor.
Yea & they both thought they were better than anyone else & that the show
should be all about them only.they were both stuck-Up
OMG, Jayne Mansfield could have been in Giligan's Island? I wish she had taken the role. She would probably have lived a lot longer. I really like her.
Dawn and Tina were great, but can you imagine Jayne Mansfield and Raquel Welch on the show. Wow!
I'll stick with my Dawn Wells, thank you.
I actually like the fact that low key actors were chosen for Gilligan's Island.
It gave us a chance to Love them more than reusing more well known actors, which is such a common practice with hollywood productions to give them a safety net for the shows success.
And I couldn't think of better actors to play each of the roles, they were good to watch 👍
Rescue from Gilligan's Island The Movie where they got rescued and went on a cruise and ended up on the same island.
Jerry Van Dyke also turned down being Barney’s replacement on Andy Griffith.
He would have been perfect for that. He should have fired his agent.
Myth!!! Untrue, little spire.
Bob Denver and Alan Hale also appeared on the Andy Griffith Show.
15 years after the show went off, they did Rescue From Gilligan's Island, which caught everyone up who wondered what had happened due to the abrupt cancellation.
we had the best TV shows back then. clean and wholesome.
As I heard it, Allan Hale actually rode a horse from another set to get to the highway then hitching to the audition.
I believe they made a tv movie years later where they were rescued from the island. Maybe in the 1980’s? I remember watching it on tv.
There were three TV movies... Rescue From Gilligan's Island, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island and the Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. None of them had Tina Louise. Jim Bachus had only a brief appearance in the last one due to poor health.
The crew escaped, but they had to eat Ginger. That's why she didn't appear in later shows.
The crew actually dined on The Skipper for many months 😅😅😅
I’m 67 I loved that show. All those shows were so much better than the sht today for kids.
Go take a nap, Grandpa.
The minnow was 1964 Wheeler Playmate with a top speed of 14 knots so 3 hour tour was 48 miles at tops.
The public viewing's "dismay" at the sudden end of the show is why they made the TV movie afterwards to wrap it up and get them off the island. Sort of like how Firefly was suddenly ended and they had to make a movie, Serenity, to wrap it up. Both due to viewer outrage.
Gilligan’s Island is the best TV show ever made. It has it all. Which was really just down to the cast. If you can associate with the characters you're going to like it. It's just that simple.
Russell Johnson’s book is a fun read if you’re a fan of the show
1. Jerry Van Dyke was originally cast as Gillian
2. Dusty’s Trail was created to mirror Gilligan’s island but the show flopped
3. The pilot for Gilligan’s island was filmed in Hawaii
4. The oldest cast member was Natalie Schaffer (Mrs. Howell) She was 60 years old on the show
5. Gilligan’s Island filming was moved to California - filming had to be time to so traffic noises wouldn’t be picked up during filming
6. In 1995 The cast of Gilligans Island reunited on a show called Roseanne.
7. Denver, the city, is named after Bob Denver’s (Gilligan) great grandfather.
8. Gilligans Island was turned into a cartoon and Tina Louise (Ginger) refused to participate.
9. And the first season of Gilligans Island the professor and Maryanne were not mentioned in the opening theme song.
10. Dawn Wells is the only cast member to receive syndication pay.
Dawn did *not* make any money on the reruns. It’s a myth.
Nicely done. Enjoyed it and learned some new trivia. Thanks👍🏻
Thanks!
I was the same getting home from school and watching Gilligan's Island. I will remember the change from black and white to color
I love G.I. and the spin off Gilligan's Planet, they did have the movie,where they made it safely home, only to go out on an anniversary/ celebratory cruise, and have the same thing happen again, and end up, back on the island 😂
My late grandfather (Jack Silverman) was one of the animators. As a child, I used to ask him to get me anything he could from the "Star Trek" animated cartoon. He told me that those were very hard to get, and that they were basically "under lock and key" at the studio. If they found he had removed them, he would get fired. Eventually, he DID send a good number of animation cells and character and ship (INCLUDING the ENTERPRISE) sketches, but, being a kid, I ended up destroying them over the years and they are all long gone. Why this relates to this post, is that he more easily sent same from a number of OTHER cartoons (all of which suffered the same fate), including "Gilligan's Planet".
I once asked him if he remembered working on the "Star Trek" series. He said he barely remembered it, because, to him, it was unimportant, just another animation job like all the rest.
Dawn Wells said she did not receive residuals for Gilligan's Island.
Yea, none of them received anything from the reruns. It's worth mentionning that Natalie Shaffer helped Wells financially at one time.
They did receive residual. They were paid off after 2 years
@@cdgates1Where did you get your info?
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Bob Denver's memoir
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Bob Denver's memoir
These guys could make a nuclear reactor out of bamboo but couldn’t fix a three foot hole in a boat.
That was a running joke years ago (citing the Professor).
They tried patching the boat up and ended up completely destroying it. It was a very funny scene. The whole boat just sprung apart. If you've ever seen it you'd know instantly there was no fixing the boat then. It ceased to exist.
The pilot for the show was started on Nov.23 1963,the day J.F.K. was shot
Oops …off by one day. 11 / 22 / 63.
You can see the American flag at half mast as The Minnow pulls out of the harbor to start the "3 hour tour."
As for the opening theme, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, it was once thought that it was Bob Denver, aka Gilligan, who sang it for season 1, then Alan Hale, aka Skipper, who sang it for seasons 2 and 3. In season 2, during the storm at sea, you could not hear the wind, but by season 3, you could hear a wicked wind blowing in the opening theme during the show's original run, but, on the DVD release, they seem to have done away with the wind sounds altogether.
"... it was once thought..." By who? I watched the show in it's original run, and have never heard anyone ever suggest anything of the kind. The people that did the song were right there in the credits every week. Originally, it was a group called _The Wellingtons,_ who even guest-starred in an episode as a band called _The Mosquitos..._
NBC did a Gilligan's Island mini series in the late 1970's with the entire original cast except for Tina Louise who was replaced with another actress (don't remember who). The premise was that they were rescued after 15 years but had trouble readjusting to modern society. While it was good to see the old gang back together, the writing varied between awful and really awful. At the end of the miniseries, they all became shipwrecked again on the same island.
NBC was thinking to create a spinoff series in which the cast ran a resort on the same island. I thought NBC decided against it but I see other comments here say that it was indeed done.
Tina Louise was replaced by Judith Baldwin in the first and second tv-movies and Constance Forslund in the third movie.
It was A TV movie that could have been picked up as a series it did not happen
Tina Loiuse DID appear with the cast on the Rosanne thing after she said she would never get involved with anything Gilligan island related??
Tina Louise also appeared with the cast at the TV Land awards in 2004.
Wow Natalie Schafer was in her 60s?? I didn't know that fact! Great video, thanks! 🌴
I remember the theme song from the beginning and then the second one
Look closely at the episode "Up At Bat" and you will see more of Maryanne than you remember !
That episode was a wink to the TV series Batman
The professor was smart enough to create power from a homemade bamboo bicycle generator but couldn't fix a hole in a boat?
The answer to your question is in season 1.
F Gunsmoke! Gilligan’s Island is 10x that joke.
What?
It actually had nothing to do with _Gunsmoke,_ which was already a well-established series at the time. TV Network schedules were reorganized nearly every "Season" in those days, and moving _Gunsmoke_ to _Gilligan's_ timeslot would have just meant moving _Gilligan_ to some other show's slot. Rescheduling was often, however, used as an excuse to drop a show that the "Network Executives" didn't like, for whatever reason. This happened to a lot of shows in those days. Some execs would take a dislike to some show and undermine it, often for reasons as silly as feeling that it hurt the Network's "Prestige". This is why popular series like _The Man From UNCLE, Beverly Hillbillies, Star Trek_ and yes... _Gilligan's Island_ (Which was actually the highest-rated sitcom at the time) got cancelled....
@@_XR40_Same with Munsters and Lost in Space William Paley then chief of CBS was not partial to the show mentioned BUT Gunsmoke Bewitched he liked
Gilligan would make me so upset that I would throw my Ken doll at him. I did the same when I watch Lost in Space with Dr. Smith.
It was a very sad day when Gilligan’s Island was taken off the air. It was such a fun show.
Maryanne or Ginger? Question of the ages.
Maryanne...Ginger was a twat
Al Bundy even asked that same question to his friends while at the Jiggly Room.
Ginger! She was sultry
Maryanne hands down 😊
Mary Ann Summers is wifey.
Gilligan...Willy Gilligan
The skipper...Jonas Grumby
The professor...Roy Hinkley
Mary Ann....Mary Ann Summers
Apparently Mrs. Howell's given name was "Lovey".
@@howardhales6325Mrs. Howell's first name was Eunice.
@@howardhales6325 I guess so, even the radio announcer calls her "Lovey Howell"!
One of my favorite tv shows. After watching the video I looked up Dawn Wells and it turns out today, December 30th, is the anniversary of her passing and both of us were born in Nevada. May she RIP.
Interestingly I think I was in 5th grade when it came out. I think it was on a Sunday and we had just had the time change.
I thought it was a really cool show. The premise that they were making a life out on an obscure island.
As if it was an escape from reality…
I may be wrong on the recollection but it’s what I remember now. Also I think it was on KCBS channel 2 here in L.A.
my Dad named me Louise, after Gingers actress, He wanted to call me Tina, but there were already 2 Tinas in our little township. The whole school attendance could fit on the three benches in one class photo.
You may not know Howell gave everybody on the island tons of money but after they were rescued Gilligan was still a flunky doing Howell's work on Howell's Island Resort. All Gilligan needed was a red hat.
Secrets of the universe to be debated until the end of time; the chicken or the egg, what happened on the Mary Celeste, who was jack.the ripper, where's Waldo, Ginger or Mary Anne
Maryanne... all the way... to the end of time...