74c Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : ANIM8Rfsk Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 09:35:22 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos in article L1PUe.462369$5V4.398040@pd7tw3no, Karl Johanson at karljohanson@shaw.ca wrote on 9/10/05 10:13 PM: > "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. Nope, they didn't. > > Karl Johanson > > -- You Can't Stop the Signal . 0