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Kara Kovalchik<\/strong>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present 15 Fateful Facts About Gilligan’s Island<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0 Here are three of my favorites (and this was one of the hardest to get down to top three )…<\/p>\n 5. THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK DELAYED PRODUCTION ON THE SERIES.<\/b><\/p>\n The pilot for the series was filmed over several days in November of 1963 on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. The last day of shooting was scheduled for November 23, 1963 in Honolulu Harbor for the scenes showing the S.S. Minnow<\/em> embarking on its fateful three-hour tour. Late in the morning on November 22, a crew member ran to the set and announced that he\u2019d just heard on the radio that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. As Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President, it was announced that all military installations (including Honolulu Harbor) would be closed for the next two days as a period of mourning. Filming was delayed by several days as a result, and in the opening credits\u2014as the Minnow<\/em> cruises the harbor\u2014the American flag can be seen flying at half-mast in the background.<\/p>\n 2. GILLIGAN\u2019S FIRST NAME IS WILLY. 7. DAWN WELLS STILL GETS PAID FOR GILLIGAN\u2019S ISLAND<\/em>. Even though the word \u201csyndication\u201d wasn\u2019t yet a standard term in the TV production glossary, Dawn Wells\u2019 then-husband, talent agent Larry Rosen, advised her to ask for an amendment to that residual clause in her contract, and the producers granted it, never thinking the series would be on the air nearly 50 years later. As a result, the estate of the late Sherwood Schwartz (who reportedly pocketed around $90 million during his lifetime from his little microcosm-on-an-island show) and Dawn Wells are the only two folks connected to the show who still receive money from it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kara Kovalchik\u00a0and Mental_Floss present 15 Fateful Facts About Gilligan’s Island. \u00a0 Here are three of my favorites (and this was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>After getting a green light from CBS for the pilot, Schwartz went about assembling his cast. He chose the name of the bumbling first mate\u2014Gilligan\u2014from the Los Angeles telephone directory. Gilligan\u2019s first name was never mentioned during the series, but according to Schwartz\u2019s original notes, it was intended to be \u201cWilly.\u201d Yet Bob Denver always insisted that \u201cGilligan\u201d was the character\u2019s first name. \u201cAlmost every time I see Bob Denver we still argue,\u201d Schwartz once admitted. \u201cHe thinks Gilligan is his first name, and I think it’s his last name. Because in the original presentation, it’s Willy Gilligan. But he doesn’t believe it, and he doesn’t want to discuss it. He insists the name is Gilligan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>All of the actors signed contracts that guaranteed them a certain amount of money per original episode plus a residual payment for the first five repeats of each episode. This was a pretty standard contract in 1965, when as a rule most TV shows were only rerun during the summer months as a placeholder between seasons.<\/p>\n