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Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy...
To   : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 11:50:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

In article <JibUe.453511$s54.84825@pd7tw2no>,
 "Kweeg" <kweeg@nospam.shaw.ca> 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.

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