Gilligan’s Island: 10 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know!

[@maestroh2986]

Dawn Wells was the whole package. Beautiful, smart, and very caring

[@Joreel]

Yup and she continued to look great as she got older 😁

[@AllTheBestCO]

She was the 'only smart cast member actor" that signed a contract for ongoing residuals in perpetuity*. "How SWEET it is!' - Jackie Gleason *A perpetuity is an investment asset that pays a stated return for an infinite amount of time. An annuity with no termination date is an example of a perpetuity.

[@bobski7032]

She could make a banana cream

[@AllTheBestCO]

I didn't know that Down Wells passed away 12.30.2020, of COVID. She suffered a fall and never recovered. A Gofund Me page was set up to help pay for expenses. I read that she was was only worth $50K at the time of her passing. So sad. Hollywood chews you up and spits you out. The music and sports industry does it, too. Plan and invest in your future. You won't regret it. Find an honest financial planner.

[@steveferguson6809]

I thought she died from COVID

[@christypriest30]

I couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch this every afternoon! Loved this show

[@vanceharkema5131]

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.😂

[@MrLourie]

Was it ever discovered of what indestructible fabric their clothing was made?

[@natemcdonald8853]

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 castaways on an Island .🏝️

[@MarkEvans-wx3sg]

I was in love with Maryann!

[@aussie8114]

Loved watching all my favourite tv shows as a kid 📺

[@anthonybeno1481]

The lagoon wasn't that deep? You mean they could have walked to Hawaii?😉

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

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.

[@Doug-nr3gh]

Hmmmmmm

[@Joreel]

That was the question of the century at the time.

[@run4funorgo4dough]

It wasn't in the script

[@Jeffery_USBP]

Because he wanted to nail Ginger and Maryanne and that was his best opportunity.....shipwrecked!

[@Name-ps9fx]

Yeah, where's MacGyver when you need him?! 😅

[@davidaaaa4611]

One of my favorite tv shows. I learned the opening and closing songs and sang them to friends many years ago.

[@silvereagle2061]

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.

[@HoldenNY22]

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.

[@James-re6co]

Mrs. Howell was the whole package.

[@Super_Flea]

Agreed

[@jamesotisjr2322]

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.

[@donnienicholson6062]

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.

[@rod462]

AND... They feared being type cast! Back then a TV show could kill a movie career

[@john-r9h8o]

heals up mouthful

[@Charlotte_299]

@@donnienicholson6062 also Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch. He hated that role because he was a Shakespearean actor.

[@wtf1185]

That was very enjoyable, thank you.

[@Hayabusa0268]

Nice! Gotta do one about the episode when the Howells turned the island into a resort.

[@deepspire]

Jerry Van Dyke also turned down being Barney’s replacement on Andy Griffith.

[@BasedxBoomer]

He would have been perfect for that. He should have fired his agent.

[@donnaschoen1015]

Favorite 🤩 episodes- jack and the beanstalk/ also when they went to the other island and meet Dracula 🧛

[@TodaysDante]

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.

[@Redbaron808]

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.

[@JohnYoung-js1bl]

Maryanne or Ginger? Question of the ages.

[@anthonybeno1481]

Maryanne...Ginger was a twat

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Al Bundy even asked that same question to his friends while at the Jiggly Room.

[@EerieVonIII8574]

Ginger! She was sultry

[@Joreel]

Maryanne hands down 😊

[@eyeseer1]

Mary Ann Summers is wifey.

[@everyonehasadream]

No, Bob Denver isn't a descendant of James W. Denver.

[@freemarketjoe9869]

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.

[@12HpyPws]

Kurt Russell played the Jungle Boy, and in the B&W intro, you can see the American Flag flying at half-mast for JFK.

[@Name-ps9fx]

*JFK

[@sherryvt61]

I'll look for it if I ever see that episode again.

[@12HpyPws]

@sherryvt61 The series is on Tubi.

[@christypriest30]

I remember the theme song from the beginning and then the second one

[@soopermartyo]

Wow didn't know this was introduced the same month and year I was born

[@VernonRhem]

Never understood why a movie star and a millionaire would go one that boat

[@rolandledesma-de7qd]

Right. A millionaire would have his own yacht. So would a movie star.

[@rolandledesma-de7qd]

@@VernonRhem But still one of my favorite shows!

[@BasedxBoomer]

Not only that, but they had an entire wardrobes and the Howells brought stacks of cash.

[@retroguy9494]

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.

[@VeryGreatGladness]

4:20 they heard the authority in her voice and got in line 😂

[@dizzysdoings]

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. 😂

[@Pappysan]

Bob Denver attended the same school as I…they had a commemorative plaque and everything…

[@greggcoop1223]

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 .

[@mackermaldrill2656]

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!

[@jimc6687]

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.

[@Shiva-y8m]

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.

[@williamjones7163]

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.

[@roxyshow123]

The wife of the CBS president saw the fall TV lineup and asked "Where's Gunsmoke? I love that show." So he cancelled Gilligan's Island. The schmuck.

[@backpackingtony1779]

Wasn’t there a TV movie that resolved the series? As a kid, I remember Gilligan and the skipper setting fire to the boat to attract the attention of a helicopter to rescue them.

[@blakenelson5429]

Yes, it was called rescue from Gilligan's Island.

[@MarkEvans-wx3sg]

Praise The Lord!

[@Boughnowowski]

Dawn Wells said she did not receive residuals for Gilligan's Island.

[@Bob-1802]

Yea, none of them received anything from the reruns. It's worth mentionning that Natalie Shaffer helped Wells financially at one time.

[@johnnyonthespot4375]

So Ms Wells was my focus always when I watched the show However - This is gonna make me seem crazy but check out (8:18) - Am I missing something...or is she ?

[@MarkEvans-wx3sg]

Acts 2:38

[@eyeseer1]

Gilligan’s first name was unrevealed but the script stated it as Willie. Tina Louise is the last survivor of the original cast as of the 2020’s.

[@sherryvt61]

I always thought Gilligan was his first name.

[@blakenelson5429]

​@@sherryvt61I thought so too.

[@stevenj9970]

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.

[@johnoconnor6356]

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.

[@ScarlettFire341]

Maryanne or Ginger ? Maryanne on weekdays and Ginger on Weekends !

[@johnmassung]

I think I read awhile back that somewhere someone figured out that out of the 98 total episodes, Gilligan screwed up their chances of getting off the island one way or another for a total of 72% of the time. So I couldn't find the source again. I have to then ask haha, doesn't that figure seem low?😄

[@TodaysDante]

Another weird fact that's not listed in the video: There's a theory that the seven characters are each a personification of the seven deadly sins. Example - Lust = Ginger, Gluttony = Skipper, etc.

[@earth2006]

It also my understanding N.S. was a breast cancer surviver. That was mentioned in a movie about Gilligan's Island.

[@freemarketjoe9869]

The professor was smart enough to create power from a homemade bamboo bicycle generator but couldn't fix a hole in a boat?

[@donnienicholson6062]

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.

[@ScarlettFire341]

Look closely at the episode "Up At Bat" and you will see more of Maryanne than you remember !

[@doglover-sv4zi]

The professor the actor Russell Johnson was a WW2 hero

[@michealtessier7246]

They did a movie called rescue from gilligans island

[@PhilipAiello-s8i]

Old joke; Guy walks up to his friend says, haven't seen you where have you been. Friend replies , I was on an island with this guy who could make a car out of coconuts but couldn't fix a boat.

[@tommccallan8802]

It was the wife of the CPO of,CBS that had the show canceled, she liked Gunsmoke, but didn't like Gilligan's Island.

[@VeryGreatGladness]

F Gunsmoke! Gilligan’s Island is 10x that joke.

[@OttoByOgraffey]

What?

[@Marvcohen]

I thought I heard the pilot was shot the day after JFK was killed........is it true ?

[@retroguy9494]

It wasn't the pilot. It was the opening credits. I left a comment about it. If you look at 7:31 when the Minnow sails out, you'll see on the far left an American flag flying at half mast. That's because JFK had just been killed and the Ala Wai Boat Harbor in Hawaii where it was filmed lowered it.

[@jimkreider9997]

I don't remember the animated series

[@Scott-ri2sy]

Could not see Carroll O'connor as skipper but if they showed Cousin Oscar on All in the family Alan Hale Jr would be perfect for the part and he could have been one of the boys who hung out in the bar with Archie

[@John-d8p1u]

Gillian’s island is iconic . Who gives a shit about Gunsmoke

[@karlgoldberg3272]

More people still watch Gunsmoke than Gillians island

[@Joreel]

Both were great shows.

[@John-d8p1u]

Gillian’s island has crossed over to generations. .Gunsmoke might of been more popular at the time but over generations Gillian’s island is way ahead and is more known and enjoyed by adults ,kids and grandkids

[@Name-ps9fx]

Back in the day the Western was a far more popular genre.

[@VeryGreatGladness]

They all died when Gilligan’s island became cannibal island. The end. You are welcome!

[@doglover-sv4zi]

Gunsmoke was started in the mid 50s so I don't know if the narrator was correct

[@william-uc2oy]

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.

[@David-yw2lv]

I always thought Gilligan's Island was done as a star vehicle for Bob Denver after his success on Dobie Gillis.

[@brianarbenz1329]

OMG, that must be the most absurd autocorrect in history! Soviet Gillia. Maybe a show about teens in the USSR?

[@David-yw2lv]

@brianarbenz1329 I fixed it

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@David-yw2lv I see exactly how it happened. s next to d, and o next to i etc. Couldn't happened to me, too.

[@Super_Flea]

It’s unfortunate Jayne Mansfield passed on the show .

[@davidkulczyk678]

James Denver killed the editor of the California Alta newspaper in a duel in Sacramento. He left town and founded Denver

[@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798]

Which...is in Colorado....not Kansas!

[@JJ-wi2uw]

There is, however, a dark secret about this "comedy" you may never have realized. The island is a direct representation of Hell. Nobody on the island wants to be there, yet none are able to leave. Each one of the characters represents one of the 7 deadly sins: Ginger represents LUST - she wears skimpy outfits, is obsessed with her looks, and is a borderline nymphomaniac. Mary Ann represents ENVY - she is jealous of Ginger's beauty. The Professor represents PRIDE - he is an annoying know-it-all. Mr. Howell represents GREED - no explanation needed. Mrs. Howell represents SLOTH - she has never lifted a finger to help on any of their escape plans. The Skipper represents two sins: GLUTTONY - again, no explanation needed and ANGER - he violently hits Gilligan on each show. This leaves Gilligan. Gilligan is the person who put them there. He prevents them from leaving by foiling all of their escape plots. Also, it is HIS island. Therefore, Gilligan is SATAN. Crazy? He does wear red in every episode.

[@tr7b410]

Interesting insight=I think you have something there.

[@Bob-1802]

About Mary Ann, I would rather say - men ENVY her 🙆‍♀

[@zendyk]

Always hated that show.

[@ChrisBruhn]

great vid, but they were rescued 😉 my memory fading fast, but still remembered that 😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/imHLe2Owjdycjdk

[@coloradomountainman8659]

Lame

[@Organic_Pagan]

FIRST!

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

First grade?

[@Organic_Pagan]

@@gabrielleangelica1977 ASS WHOLE

[@retroguy9494]

Your award will be in the mail! 😂

[@theessentials450]

Stop using the stock footage that has nothing to do with the show- very distracting.

[@Frederick-t8t]

DECEIVING TITLE. THUMBS DOWN 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎