897 Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : dwåcôn Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 20:07:51 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos "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? -- These ain't Mentos... but they'll freshen your breath! http://tinyurl.com/cr5ka . 0