64b Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Kweeg Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 18:09:44 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos "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. It was in the pilot I tell ya...... along with the rest of their names. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368744/ -- Qa'pla Kweeg Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath "Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty . 0