Russel Johnson, in his biography Here on Gilligan’s Isle, also claims that the show’s bible (the writer’s reference book) said that the character’s name was Willy Gilligan.
As to Dorothy’s name, here is the dialog:
GLENDA: Are you a good witch, or a bad with?
DOROTHY: Me? I’m not a witch at all. I’m Dorothy Gale, from Kansas.
GLENDA (pointing to Toto): Well, then is that the witch?
DOROTHY: Toto? Toto’s my dog!
GLENDA: Well… I’m a little muddled!
Of course, Billie Burke had that amazingly cute little giggle as she delivered that last line, to which mere text can never do justice.
Could also be Mirror, Mirror, to my mind. But it does sound like something the aliens that had Pike might say…::Grumble:: Wish I’d memorised the dialogue of at least one of those episodes…that way I could chose…
According to Sherwood Schwartz himself, he was looking for a silly name in a phone book, and came up with Gilligan.
Bob Denver (some years ago) said that he and SS had talked about whether Gilligan would have a first name, and that they decided that it would be “Willy” if the need ever came up.
Ginger, and Mr Howell used their “real names,” (first and last) extensively.
All of the others just had “character names:”
The Skipper
The Professor
Gilligan
Mary Ann
Mrs Howell
In the first “real” episode, the full names of all of the characters were given, except for Gilligan and Mrs Howell.
Mr Howell always called her “Lovey,” but it was not clear whether that was intended to have been her “real” name or just an affectionate name.
I tend to agree with “Eunice,” because it’s consistent with the other real names: hapax legomenon. And that “Lovey” was just intended as an affectionate name.
All real names, except Gilligan, were used only once, although it took a little longer to give Mrs Howell a real name.
Gilligan remained just “Gilligan.”
And the Star Trek quote was from Meg Wyllie in “The Cage”/“The Menagerie.”
Excuse me, but in the episode in which Mr. and Mrs. Howell believed they were no longer married because the minister that married them was a fraud… the radio announcer referred to her, pre-marriage, as Lovey Wentworth.
It’s hard to imagine a radio announcer using an affectionate nickname…
In the TV version of “Gunsmoke” who’s the guy that outdraws Matt Dillon in the opening credits? Extra points if you know why.
How many of the Lone Ranger’s relatives can you name? (Silver, Tonto and Clarabelle Hornblower don’t count).
JB
Livening up an otherwise dull afternoon.
The Green Hornet (real name: Britt Reid) was related to the Lone Ranger (real name: John Reid). They were created for radio shows by the same producer and writer. I have a vague memory that the Green Hornet was in fact the nephew of the Lone Ranger, but I can’t find any confirmation of that.
Why did Dorothy get the last name Gale? If you’ll check it wasn’t given in the book The Wizard of Oz, but there was a good reason for giving the character that last name.
Both the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle from Detroit radio station WXYZ.
Quick Ranger synopsis: John Reid was a young Texas Ranger. One day, riding with five other Rangers, the group was ambushed by Butch Cavindish and his gang. Only Reid survived. He was rescued by the passing Tonto and nursed to health. Reid donned the mask and called himself “The Lone Ranger” to honor his fallen comrades. One of the other fallen Rangers was John’s older brother. Later, the Lone Ranger and Tonto encountered the Ranger’s only living relative, his nephew Dan. Dan grew to be a newspaper publisher and when he died, turned control of his paper, the Daily Sentinel, over to his son, Britt. Britt Reid, the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger, was the Green Hornet.
In 1178, the monks of Canterbury Cathedral witnessed an explosion on the moon. This was recorded by the brother Jervez, the resident chronicaler of the monestary.
The current belief is that the moon was hit by a comet or asteroid. I can’t find a cite that attempts to quantify the energy released by this explosion, but it must have been great, because it remelted a large part of the moon’s surface. More, the eyewitness account reported that the resulting fallout caused the entire cresent moon to become “blackish in appearance”.
Astronomers believe that the area impacted is what we call today, the crater Giordano-Bruno.
It’s nice to know there are “others” out there in the know.