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

Here are 10 weird but true facts about the television series Gilligan's Island.

[christypriest]

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

[maestroh]

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

[megnotes]

I’m a Boomer (66 yrs old). I was blessed to be a kid in the 1960s - got to see Gilligan’s Island as a “new” show, plus Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Batman, The Addams Family and more. Christmas time was amazing, with Charlie Brown, a new Rankin-Bass cartoon every year, and the cartoon version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons ruled my brother’s and my Saturday mornings. Lots of fantasy and make believe - I had a great childhood!

[gregdelong]

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.

[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.

[danielcorreard]

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.

[jote]

My very favorite TV show when I was a child. I loved coming home from school sitting down with a snack and tuning in.

[jaywill]

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.

[glennsammon]

we had the best TV shows back then. clean and wholesome.

[TimK-]

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.

[natemcdonald]

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 !🏝️

[johnloughry]

I loved that show when i was a kid. Im 60 yo now and still like it and catch it on Me TV on Sundays whenever i can. Takes me back to less complicated days.

[donnaschoen]

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

[davidaaaa]

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

[kenvaughan]

I always loved it when a coconut would fall on the Skipper's head!
That hallow conk sound really punctuated the effect😅

[Robert-gyn]

I Loved Gilligan's Island It was clean, funny and very entertaining. Thank You Sherwood Schwartz for coming up with this clean comedy.
The Navy received over a 1, 000 phone calls from people telling them to go out and find the seven castaways. Guess it shows how ignorant some Americans were and still are.

[esterdrass]

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.

[ericlburch]

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.

[icanseeclearlynow-mb]

The professor the actor Russell Johnson was a WW2 hero

[aussie]

Loved watching all my favourite tv shows as a kid 📺