679 Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Karl Johanson Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 06:13:15 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. 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. Karl Johanson . 0