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• In September of 1964, the S.S. Minnow first set out on its fateful three-hour tour when “Gilligan's Island” premiered. Even though there were only 99 episodes over the course of three seasons, the iconic sitcom about a group of tourists stranded on a deserted island ran in syndication for decades after the show ended, ensuring its popularity among several generations.
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In the first season, neither Mary Ann nor the Professor were mentioned in the opening credits, and the theme song ended with, “Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionaire, and his wife, the movie star, and the rest.” Bob Denver thought this was unfair, and threatened to make the producers remove his name from the credits if they didn’t add “The Professor and Mary Ann” into both the theme song and the credits, which they did.
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• Schwartz had an ongoing feud with head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Newton Minow, who once famously called television programming “a vast wasteland.” Because of the feud, Schwartz named the ship “The S.S. Minnow.” • In the untold backstory, the Skipper and Gilligan were both in the Navy during World War II, serving on a destroyer together. A depth charge got loose and rolled down the deck. It would have crushed the Skipper if Gilligan had not pushed him out of the way, and a friendship was born. • Raquel Welch turned down the role of Mary Ann. Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of Ginger. Jerry Van Dyke, following in the footsteps of his older brother Dick, turned down the role of Gilligan because he didn’t want to be part of an ensemble cast, but preferred to be the star of his own show. Later he was cast as the lead in “My Mother The Car.” Carroll O’Connor, who later became famous for his portrayal of Archie Bunker on “All in the Family” tried out for the part of the Skipper but was turned down. • The pilot was filmed in Hawaii in 1963. In the opening credits, you can see a flag in the harbor flying at half mast, because President John F. Kennedy had just been shot. Although the pilot was filmed in Hawaii, the show itself was filmed on a sound lot in Los Angeles. Scenes taking place on the artificial lagoon could not be filmed during rush hour due to traffic noise from a nearby highway. • Bob Denver was familiar to the American audience after spending five years playing the role of beatnik Maynard G. Krebs in the popular sitcom “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” Months before Gilligan’s Island hit the airwaves, Bob Denver and Tina Louise costarred in the 1964 summer beach flick “For Those Who Think Young.” ...continued
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• Dawn Wells as Mary Ann was a lot shorter than Tina Louise, who played the glamorous movie star Ginger. Wells insisted on being costumed in short shorts to show off her legs in an era when belly buttons were not shown on TV. It was the first time in television history that short shorts had been worn. • Dawn Wells was crowned Miss Nevada in 1959, and then got a scholarship to attend the University of Washington where she studied theater. Once she graduated, Wells moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career. Her memoir, published in 2014, is entitled, “What Would Mary Ann Do?” • Natalie Schafer, who played Mrs. Howell, was actually 13 years older than Jim Backus, who played Mr. Thurston Howell III. She had a clause in her contract specifying that there would be no close-ups of her face because she didn’t want her wrinkles to show. Despite being in her mid-60s during production, she did all her own stunts, including fainting, falling, being submerged in quicksand, and jumping into the lagoon.
• Schafer played the wife of a millionaire but was also a millionaire in real life, having bought properties on Rodeo Drive when they were cheap and turning an impressive profit when she sold them.
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• Most of the actors were paid on a straight salary with residual income that ceased in 1968, but Dawn Wells insisted on a clause in her contract guaranteeing residuals from syndication in perpetuity. The clause was granted because no one imagined the show would still be in syndication 50 years later. Dawn Wells and director Sherwood Schwartz were the only ones who continued to reap rewards from the re-runs. Schwartz reportedly earned about $90 million from the show before his death in 2011. • In 1974, Schwartz attempted to recreate the popularity of Gilligan's Island using the same scenario in a Wild West setting. The result was “Dusty's Trail,” about a covered wagon that gets separated from its wagon train and ends up lost in the wilderness. It starred Bob Denver as the bumbling assistant to the wagon master, played by Forrest Tucker (of “F Troop” fame) who is traveling with a rich couple, a brainiac, a farm girl, and a bombshell. The show tanked after one season, though four episodes were stitched together to make the 1976 movie “The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West.”
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• Within six months of beginning his training, he had become master fin swimmer of the Soviet Union; two months later he was master of the international class; and six months after that he was the European fin swimming champion having broken 11 world records. • Then, tragedy struck and he was cut from the team. He didn’t know if it was because he was Armenian, or because someone had been bribed to kick him off the team. Rather than quit the sport, however, his response was to start training twice as hard as before in order to show them what a mistake they had made. • Training consisted of running long distances with 40 pounds of sand strapped to his back, climbing steep hills while carrying his brother on his shoulders, and extending his lung capacity by hyperventilating with five deep breaths before plunging under the water for as long as he could stay submerged. • On September 16, 1976, Karapetyan was training with his brother on the shores of Yerevan Lake. He had just finished a 12-mile run when he heard a terrible crash. An electric trolley car whose route crossed the top of the dam wall had crashed into the deep lake with 92 people on board.
• He did this 35 times, taking about 30 seconds for each trip. Silt obscured his vision. Once he grabbed a loose seat, a fact that haunts him today: “I could have saved another person.” • Finally, rescue teams handed him a rope and asked him to fasten it to the trolley. He broke out a second window, and threaded the rope through the two broken windows. The trolley was hauled to the surface within 45 minutes of the crash, but it was too late. Of the 35 people Karapetyan rescued, 20 survived. • Karapetyan spent 45 days comatose with sepsis and pneumonia which ended his athletic career. The USSR hushed up the disaster but offered him a reward equal to about a week’s pay, which he refused. • In 1982 a Russian tabloid ran an article about his heroic rescue. He received 60,000 fan letters. In 1978, an asteroid belt was named after him. Today he lives in Moscow where he owns and manages a shoe store called “Second Breath.” Karapetyan later received a UNESCO “Fair Play” award for his heroism.
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• Karapetyan jumped into the lake, yelling for his brother to help. Using the trolley’s electrical antenna to guide him, he swam to the trolley and kicked out a window. The glass cut his legs. He reached in, grabbed someone, then launched himself off the roof of the trolley towards the surface. He handed the person off to his brother on the surface, who loaded the victim onto one of the boats that had responded. Karapetyan took five deep breaths and returned for another victim.
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