Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Roderick Rutlidge Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 11:23:20 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise "dwocrn" wrote in message news:9TnVe.43851$Zp.10786@lakeread04... > > "Brad Filippone" wrote in message > news:dg1tjo$l4$1@News.Dal.Ca... >> Karl Johanson (karljohanson@shaw.ca) wrote: >> : "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" wrote in message >> : news:no-15799C.10500609092005@news.central.cox.net... >> : > In article , >> : > "Kweeg" wrote: >> : > >> : >> > OMG, I've watched that show for most of my life, and I >> : >> > *never* knew the character's first name was "Willie"! :-O >> : >> > Where did *that* come from???? >> : >> > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/ >> : >> >> : >> Indeed. Just like most people know the Skipper name, Jonas Grumby, >> : >> the >> : >> Professor's name Roy Hinkley Jr. and Mary Ann's last name, Summers. >> : >> I >> : >> believe these names were only mentioned once in the pilot. Then >> : >> there's the >> : >> unaired pilot were the 2 girls were secretaries Bunny (Nancy >> : >> McCarthy) and >> : >> Ginger (Kit Smythe), and the Professor was just a high school >> teacher >> : >> played >> : >> by John Gabriel. A lot of scenes were recycled later in the "new >> : >> pilot". >> : > >> : > Nobody ever called Gilligan anything but 'Gilligan' in the entire >> : > series. His first name, if he had one, was nowhere in the series. >> : > Sherwood Schwartz had it in mind to call him Willy Gilligan at some >> : > point but that's as far as it got. >> >> : The Professor was only called "Professor" or "the Professor" throughout >> : the series, with one exception. The radio broadcast announcing that >> : their ship was lost mentioned his name. I don't remember if they also >> : mentioned 'Willy' at that point as well. >> >> No, they didn't mention WIlly. By the way, as I stated in an earlier >> post, the Professor's real name was ALSO mentioned in the second season >> episode that guest starred Zsa Zsa Gabor. > > > Did she slap him? > hahahahahahahahahahahhahaaaa......... uh... no .