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    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    By Horseback, Hitchhike, Airplane and Taxi  
    Getting Alan Hale Jr., to audition for the role of the Skipper was a major feat.  At the time, Hale was filming Bullet for a Badman in Utah.  He received the casting call for the role of the Skipper but had to try and figure out how he was going to get there, without being missed on the Bullet set.  
    Hale made his way to Los Angeles to read a scene with Bob Denver via horseback, hitchhiking, airplane, and taxi cab. He reversed the process after the audition and made it back to Utah just in time to resume filming his western the next day.  
    Schwartz had auditioned several actors for the role, but no one fit the bill like Hale.  
     

    The Andy Griffith Show(1960-1968)

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    Harold John Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994)

    He was an actor and voice actor, who was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. Smith was also active in voice-over roles, having played many characters on various animated shorts including Owl in the first four original Winnie the Pooh shorts (the first three of which were combined into the feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) and later The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Uncle Tex on The Flintstones, Goliath in Davey and Goliath, and Flintheart Glomgold and Gyro Gearloose on DuckTales, as well as multiple other characters in The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Quick Draw McGraw Show, The Gumby Show, The Jetsons, Top Cat, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Clutch Cargo, Hong Kong Phooey, and many more. He is also known to radio listeners as the original voice of John Avery Whittaker in Adventures in Odyssey. Smith would play Otis one more time in the television movie Return to Mayberry (1986). In the television movie, Otis is the town's ice cream truck driver and is reported to have been "sober for years". Smith later used his Otis Campbell character in commercial spots for the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization and appeared as Otis in Alan Jackson's music video "Don't Rock the Juke Box". Smith was married to Louise C. Smith from 1936 until her death in 1992. They had a son. After his wife died in 1992, Smith's own health began to deteriorate rapidly. On January 28, 1994, at the age of 77, Hal Smith died from an apparent heart attack. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California.

    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    Home Sweet Hut
    Air Date:    10/3/64
    Written By:    Bill Davenport and Charles Tannen
    Directed By:    Richard Donner
    Guest Cast:    None  
    Main Cast

    Bob Denver as Gilligan
    Alan Hale, Jr. as The Skipper
    Jim Backus as Mr. Howell
    Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell
    Tina Louise as Ginger
    Dawn Wells as Mary Ann
    Russell Johnson as The Professor
    Guest Cast
    Charles Maxwell as the Radio Announcer (voice only)
    Trivia  
    Gilligan retires to his hammock without his trademark red shirt; this is the only episode where he does this.
    It's revealed in this episode the Howells have been married for twenty years, although according to Mr. Howell, the last five years were a little shaky.
     

    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    Two on a Raft
    Air Date:    September 26, 1964
    Written By:    Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman
    Directed By:    John Rich
    Guest Cast:    None
    Main Cast

    Bob Denver as Gilligan
    Alan Hale, Jr. as The Skipper
    Jim Backus as Mr. Howell
    Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell
    Tina Louise as Ginger
    Dawn Wells as Mary Ann
    Russell Johnson as The Professor
    Guest Cast

    Charles Maxwell as the Radio Announcer (voice only)
    Kit Smythe as Ginger (cameo)
    Nancy McCarthy as Bunny (cameo)
    John Gabriel as The Professor (cameo)
    Trivia   
    First appearance of "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" sung by The Wellingtons.
    In the opening credits, the S.S. Minnow shown before the cruise is different from the version beaching on the island after the storm. There is no upper deck above the windows where the helm is, and the front of the cabin is straight rather than pointed..
    When the Skipper wakes up, the original actors from the pilot can be seen still sleeping on the Minnow.
    In the scenes where the castaways are listening to the radio, the Professor is sitting with the others in the far shots but standing in the close-ups.
    When the Skipper and Gilligan finish fighting off the sharks, the Skipper's hat falls off his head and into the water right in the path of one of the sharks, and yet, in the next shot, the hat is back on the Skipper's head.
    By the time this episode aired, it was the most expensive pilot ever filmed due to the fake sharks and break-away raft.
    (Wiki)
     

    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    Leslie Goodwins
    Born in London, England on September 17, 1899, Leslie Goodwins was an English film director and screenwriter, who directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967. Not much about his life and career are known. He came to Hollywood somewhere about the time Silent Films were replaced with Talkies, working as a gag writer and later getting to direct features at RKO and becoming the creator of the "Mexican Spitfire" series. His film, Dummy Ache was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject. he became involved in television in the 1950s, directing episodes of "The Texans," "The Alaskans," "Maverick," "77 Sunset Strip," "My Favorite Martian," "F Troop" and "Gilligan's Island." He died in Hollywood, California on January 8, 1969. He was survived by his wife.
    Episode(s)
    The Chain of Command
    Feed the Kitty
    Ghost a Go-Go
    Gilligan's Living Doll
    The Hunter
    The Invasion
    Man With a Net
    Pass the Vegetables, Please
    The Postman Cometh
    Seer Gilligan
    Ship Ahoax   
    (Wiki)
     

    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    Gary Nelson
    Born January 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, Gary Nelson is an American television and film director. Not much of his career is known, but it is known he has directed several well-known television series, such as "Gunsmoke," "The Patty Duke Show," "Gilligan's Island" and "Happy Days" among others. He has also known for directing feature films such as "Molly and Lawless John" in 1972, "Murder in Coweta County" with Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith and "Freaky Friday" for Walt Disney Pictures. In 1978, Nelson was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for "Washington: Behind Closed Doors."
    Nelson was married to actress Judi Meredith, who died in April 2014. They had two sons. Now semi-retired, he continues to occasionally guest lecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
    Episode(s)
    Court-Martial
    Gilligan Gets Bugged
    Gilligan the Goddess
    It's a Bird, It's a Plane
    Mr. and Mrs. ???
    Topsy-Turvy
    Physical Fatness
    The Secret of Gilligan's Island   
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    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    "Marooned (Unaired Pilot)"
    Air Date: October 16, 1992
    Written By: Sherwood Schwartz, Austin Kalish (uncredited), Elroy Schwartz
    Directed By: Rod Amateau 

    Bob Denver as Gilligan
    Alan Hale, Jr. as The Skipper
    Jim Backus as Mr. Howell
    Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell
    Kit Smythe as Ginger
    Nancy McCarthy as Bunny
    John Gabriel as The Professor  

    Trivia:  There are noted differences between this unaired pilot and the series' episodes.  This cast of this episode differed from the cast of the series with John Gabriel playing the Professor, and the girls replaced by two secretaries named Ginger and Bunny played by, respectively, Kit Smythe and Nancy McCarthy. All the regular roles, however, remain intact. Bob Denver as Gilligan, Alan Hale, Jr. as the Skipper, Jim Backus as Mr. Howell and Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell.

    Portions of the pilot turn up in the episode, Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk with a newly revised ending.

    Instead of the well-known Gilligan's Island theme song, this episode opens with a Calypso-style tune.

    (Unaired pilot has been posted in a separate post)
     

    Gilligan's Island(1964-1967)

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    Jack Arnold   
    Jack Arnold (born John Arnold Waks; October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films. His most notable films are It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
    Episode(s)
    Agonized Labor
    Allergy Time
    Angel on the Island
    Beauty Is as Beauty Does
    Castaways Pictures Presents
    Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend
    Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue
    Forget Me Not
    The Friendly Physician
    Gilligan's Mother-in-Law
    Goodbye Old Paint
    Hi Fi Gilligan
    It's Magic
    The Little Dictator
    Meet the Meteor
    Music Hath Charms
    Nyet, Nyet, Not Yet
    Smile, You're on Mars Camera
    The Sweepstakes
    Three to Get Ready
    They're Off and Running
    V for Vitamins
    Waiting for Watubi
    Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up?
    X Marks the Spot
    You've Been Disconnected
    Arnold died of arteriosclerosis in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 75.
    (Wiki)
     

    Favorite Dukes of Hazzard Quotes

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    (Season 4 Dukes in Danger)

    Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane:"He's got money. He's got more than you could spend, I could spend or even Flash could spend." Hammer:"Where?" Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane:"It's right around here in his-" Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg:"Rosco!" Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane:"I didn't say "Tummy!" Leeman(Patting Boss Hogg's tummy):"Well, well, well! So this ain't all belly?"(Finds money belt, starts counting the money)"Jackpot!" Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg:"Rosco, if we get outta this alive, I'm gonna kill you!"

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