Gilligan's Island

::For the NES video game, see Gilligan's Island (video game).

Trivia

• The show was filmed at Echo Park in Los Angeles, California; the CBS stage for the lagoon has since been made into a parking lot.
• The pilot episode was filmed on the island of Kauai.
• The "S.S. Minnow" was named after Newton N. Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in 1961. In a much-publicized speech, he called television a "vast wasteland". The boat was named after the man who, Gilligan's Island producer Sherwood Schwartz insists, "ruined television." Minow gave networks authority and placed the power of programming in the hands of the networks. He did this after Gilligan's Island was started.
• In Episode 96, "The Pigeon", the island is said to be located 300 miles southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii. If that distance is interpreted as statute miles, the great circle geodetic equation places this at 18.2° N 154.7° W, only 75 statute miles (120 km) from the Big Island (which makes it implausible that it would be uncharted). In one episode the fictional professor quoted an exact position of 10° N 110° W, which would place the island 3100 miles (5000 km) from Hawaii, due south of the Baja California Peninsula and due west of Costa Rica.
• On the animated series Family Guy youngest child Stewie Griffin's full name is Stewart Gilligan Griffin an homage to Gilligan's Island
• As of September of 2005, Tina Louise, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson are the only surviving cast members.