790 Subj : Re: See ya little bubdy... To : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : al019 Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 19:38:48 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos Karl Johanson (karljohanson@shaw.ca) wrote: : "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. No, they didn't mention WIlly. By the way, as I stated in an earlier post, the Professor's real name was ALSO mentioned in the second season episode that guest starred Zsa Zsa Gabor. Brad . 0