Sir Francis Burdett wrote:
> for lack of time for posting something interesting and of substance,
> I'll post something superficial and banal:
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> although I didn't remember having done so, in 2005 I posted on the
> allohistorical possibilities of the mid 60's American sitcom
> "Gilligan's Island" http://preview.tinyurl.com/6s8x4k
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> There is yet another way that OTL-Gilliganverse could be different.
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> The original pilot for the series (view the first third here
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aWS7ugvSYs
) was altered in several
> ways before the season began.
>
> "The pilot episode was not broadcast, because of casting changes and
> restructuring of characters. In the pilot, the part of the Professor
> was played by John Gabriel. Instead of the movie star and the Kansas
> farm girl, the pilot had two secretaries: Ginger, a practical redhead
> played by Kit Smythe, and Bunny, ****trayed by Nancy McCarthy as a
> cheerful, stereotypical dumb blonde.
>
> The pilot had a different theme song with a Calypso beat and singer
> and somewhat longer opening credits shots, including scenes of
> Gilligan carrying the Howells' luggage to the boat, and spilling
> coffee on the Skipper during the storm. The episode proper begins with
> the castaways waking up on the beached boat, and deals mostly with
> practical problems: exploring the island, trying to fix the
> transmitter, building huts and finding food."
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>
> If the series was aired as originally cast we very well would have no
> memory of the show today as it might have been prematurely cancelled.
>
> If the show did in fact have the same run as OTL, the Ginger/ Bunny
> dynamic is entirely different from the Ginger/Mary Ann dynamic.
>
> Pub and dorm room bull sessions would thus lose one of their treasured
> tropes. ("Ginger or Bunny?" lacks punch)
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> OBWI The Australian National Anthem sung to a Calypso beat?
The original "Gilligan" was supposed to be Jerry van Dyke, but he
dropped out for the smash hit "My Mother the Car". Even the name is
uncertain, whether Gilligan is the first or last name of Maynard
Krebs. The wiki site says Racquel Welch tried out for the, wait for
it, Mary Ann role.
> http://tinyurl.com/5k3hlw
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