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Bob Denver (Gilligan), Alan Hale Jr. (The Skipper), Jim Backus (Mr. Howell) and Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Howell) all appeared in the unaired pilot "Marooned" in the roles they continued to play throughout the series.

John Gabriel played the Professor in "Marooned." Russell Johnson played him in every episode thereafter.

Kit Smythe and Nancy McCarthy played two secretaries named Ginger and Bunny. They were replaced by Tina Louise as Ginger, a movie star, and Dawn Wells as Mary Ann, a Kansas farm girl.

The eternal question, but the answer is often overlooked.

In the Season 1 episode 'Good-Bye Island', Gilligan discovers several trees that produce glue, and the Professor uses it as solution to patch up the minnow, and escape the island. Unfortunately, the glue turns out to be only temporary, the castaways find this out all too late, and the Minnow breaks into a thousand pieces.

So the Minnow was destroyed, poor Gilligan.

I episode 1, Two on a Raft, we hear Skipper's real name, witch is Jonas Grumby. We also hear Professer's real name, witch is Roy Hinkly.

What many people don't know is that, Gilligan, IS his last name. His first name is Willy, that's right, Willy Gilligan, this was confirmed in one of the Bonus Features on the Season 1, Disk 1, Side A, DVD.

Eunice Wentworth. Her first name has always been Eunice, but Mr. Howell reers to her as ''Lovey''.