573 Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : ANIM8Rfsk Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 17:54:15 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos in article no-9677D0.13071509092005@news.central.cox.net, Keeper of the Purple Twilight at no@spam.invalid wrote on 9/9/05 11:07 AM: > In article , > "Kweeg" wrote: > >>> 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/ > > The pilot isn't "canon" as far as the series goes. Mary Ann doesn't even > appear in it (somebody named 'Bunny' does) and Ginger is a secretary, > not a movie star as she is in the real series. It wasn't in the pilot anyway. By all accounts, Schwartz said it YEARS after the series went off the air; he came up with it as an answer to the question they kept getting at conventions and such. If it had been in the pilot, it wouldn't have been a mystery. Lots of people have copies of the pilot, with it's swinging Calypso theme. -- You Can't Stop the Signal . 0