He was a family man, in addition to being a comedy-actor in various roles like on Dobie Gillis and Dusty's Trail. He really was friends with Alan Hale Jr. like on the show.
In the beginning of the show, they are leaving the dock. In the background the flag is at half mast. Because the scene was shot at the time Kennedy was assassinated! The only sitcom to have an historical reference!
@@simpleman283, the Kennedy family was tied up with the mob...The JFK jetset quasi-god image was a product of being Eastern, a liberal, and having money= hyped by NY-BASED LIB TV. His family was dirty= illegal bootleggers, and as for him, and Bobby, ask Marilyn Monroe..oh, you cannot..nor would you have been able to ask her..in 1965.. Nor, could you ask Mary Jo..in 1970..thanx TEDDY.. JFK's dad and granddad were in deep with the Irish Mafia.. BOBBY KENNEDY AND JFK were big in investigating Sam Giancana after the latter fixed the CHITOWN portion of ILLINOIS's chapter in the prez election of 1960.. That is what offed JFK.. Ironically, but not coincidentally, that connection may have gotten BOBBY KILLED five years later when he was running for president= mob investigations.
It was not only filmed at the time, it was filmed ON November 22, 1963. Also, can you please rephrase your comment, "SHOT at the time Kennedy was assassinated" seems a bit harsh, don't you think?
I watched almost every episode of Gilligans island and grew up loving All the characters in the show. I remember Mary Ann as in my own opinion, the prettiest of the two girls and who doesnt love Bob Denver? Funny, often silly, but fun to watch him do his thing. I loved watching that show!
Jonathan Harris often said that the reason he was the “special guest star” on Lost in Space even though he was signed to play a regular character was because everyone else was already signed and the billing positions were already contractually obligated. He had to be last. So he arranged for himself to be billed as he was because it would bring him greater visibility. Not quite analogous to Tina Louise’s story but similar enough. I am glad Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells ended on the opening credits. Bob Denver deserves credit for that.
A very touching story of Bob Denver watching out for Mary Ann and Professor to be billed in opening credits, and Tina helped out too! Stand up guy! I remember watching Dusty Trails show after Gilligan which included actors Bob and the Skipper. Unfortunately that show did not have the magic of Gilligan's Island. Gilligan was sometimes like watching a live action spoof of crazy inventions, like seen in the Flintstones cartoon shown introduced each week. Fun to watch.
That Bob Denver did shows what a great guy he is. However for Tina Louise to have done what she did by removing that clause from her contract, shows that Ms Louise is a classy lady. Every single actor on Gilligan's island are great actors. That is why the show can still be seen on TV, six decades later!
Tina Louise's logic does not work out. Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire & his wife - the movie star (no name given) & the rest. How is TL going to be remembered if she is the last name but has no name? The professor & Mary Ann - Mary Ann had a name but no descriptor like Gilligan. The way the song starts, it ends. Who would have thought a show done in a parking lot would be so popular. I am certain the actors did not think about continuous residuals for 10000 replays.
Since I was a little kid during all this and totally enthralled by this show, hearing behind-the-scenes stories about these people fills me with awe and feels like the first time I ever saw my 4th grade math teacher in a restaurant with a man or caught her smoking outside the school. Dawn Wells was the girlfriend every good kid was intimidated by and every bad kid secretly wished he could get.
For me Bob Denver was the main attraction of the show but at the same time it wouldn’t have been he same if any of the characters went missing. There was an intrinsic harmony and equilibrium that existed because of what every character brought to the show.
My Mom raised my sister and I watching a lot of older TV shows and movies, including Gilligan Island reruns, and I'm so happy that she did. I'm an adult now and I have all three seasons of Gilligan's Island on DVD, and it's still one of my favorite shows, ever. Same with my sister.
After I saw the original pilot, the fact that the first season song did not include them made sense. however, though I later knew Bob Denver spoke up for the professor and Mary Ann being included, I did not know he had to push that hard for it. makes me respect him even more for that. Thanks for filling in the blanks.
We didn't know people's names when we watched these shows as kids. We didn't know Eddie Albert got a medal for service in WW2 and we didn't know that many of the daytime tv actors we saw had had long and varied careers on stage and in other areas of life. You've opened up some interesting information here and it's a pleasure to take a couple minutes out of the day and find out little bits of info here and there about the cast members we grew up loving. Dawn Wells was a treat!
What is right is what is right? What about none of these actors being paid for all the re-runs? What a rip off! These shows have been on for 60 years and they never got a dime! Ruined any other acting they did because they were type-cast! Hollywood sucked then and it sucks now!
@@What_Fred_Said I agree the entire cast got shafted by a greedy Mr. Schwartz. I don't know if the actors' salaries were comparable to other sitcoms, but it didn't seem like it was. But the biggest insult was only paying them royalties for the first few re-runs and zero after that. Considering Schwartz himself made millions off of their work. I guess in those days though, the actors were happy to be getting a paycheck and perhaps didn't understand how to properly negotiate a contract that would ensure that they would get due compensation if the show became a success and ended up in syndication.
I watched probably every episode when I was growing up, and Dawn Wells was one of my favorite characters on the series. Knowing how little she and her co-stars were paid (considering the enormous wealth made by the owner/producer of the show), I hope future stars and celebrities will learn about how to negotiate contracts so that they can actually live on their earnings if they don't have long, well-paid careers. God bless Dawn Wells.
I read that the producer Sherwood Schwartz made over 90 million in residuals from this show and none of it was shared with the cast members . Watch " Cool Classics " video on the Brady Bunch to see how Schwartz treated the kids to cut costs .
Major Nelson also got screwed out of all his royalties for I Dream Of Jeannie, which aired on CBS. Then later when he was playing JR Ewing on Dallas, he didn't show up to work after the summer of "Who Shot JR?" For its time it was as big of a cliff hanger as the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Every red-blooded American tuned into Dallas to see what happened. But no JR. Larry Hagman sent his agent in instead, to renegotiate his contract. This was payback for Jeannie. He really ripped them a new one. He got a huge salary increase, rerun royalties, creative control, and hiring/firing authority on the set.
You know, you're right. If not for the two of them the rest of the crew would have died. Professor and Mary-Ann were the fewest number of people who could have survived.
Dawn Wells was so unbelievably beautiful.... I think she was way prettier than Ginger.. both Gingers.. Rest in peace to all these wonderful actors that brought fond memories and joy to my childhood and many many others... Thank you especially Bob for being the stand-up guy that you were... Wishing Tina Louise my best wishes and good health.. she is the only one of the cast still alive.. Much love
I always think it's so mean and unnecessary to say who is prettier. They're both beautiful I'm their own way and are much more than their looks. They were both outstanding actors.
I'm just seeing this. I think Bob did the right thing. It is said that Bob and Dawn remained friends till he died. It was said Dawn was the one sending Bob weed to help his pain towards the end of his life. If she was I don't think either would of told, now that's a friend. Today there is medical cannabis for those with certain illness. In fact a friend of mines son moved to colorado to help grow medical cannabis. That was 7 years ago. I must say I do not use Cannabis oil,or other medical products. To each his or her own. I do think Bob got injured a lot while filming Gilligan Island. I still watch Gilligan Island on me tv. Yes the earlier version of the song did not include the professor or maryann. Now I know who had a hand in it. I wouldn't want to be called the rest either. So I applaud Bob Denver for speaking up and seeing that all was treated fair. Dude you put the Cool in Cool Classic. I'm still finding videos I missed, also rewatching those I have. I enjoy everyone of them. It may be a year later, but what matters is that I'm seeing this and others now. And Enjoying all of them. I haven't see a bad one yet.👍💯%❤👏👏👏. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita James. ✌🖖🤗👋.
I am New to ur channel. I love it .. you have a great voice and laugh. A pleasure to listen too.. thanks it's refreshing to actually watch the shows I grew up with fun facts .👍
@Donna Green “Mary Ann went to college, too Ironically, science and medicine” What are you talking about? Mary Ann was an uneducated country girl. Dawn Wells, the actress who played her, had a university degree in theater arts and design.
@Pepe Le Moko “Bob Denver was the only cast member with a college education.” In fact, he had a university degree, which is higher than college. But Dawn Wells also graduated from university, so he was not the only one.
@@Brinta3 Ummm... hate to tell you that one is no different than the other except in that a University will also offer courses towards a Masters and Doctorates. But they both offer Undergraduate degree's. It all depends on her degree of education that she attained.
@@Tovek Yes, I was partly wrong. You can indeed get a Bachelor’s degree at both a college and a university (at least in the USA). From what I can find, both actors got a Bachelor’s degree at a university, and therefore the original statement was wrong anyway.
Technically there were 4 Opening themes, 1)The calypso in the pilot 2)The Movie Star and the rest, season 1 3)The professor and Marian, season 2 and 3 4)The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, where they ere rescued on fine day but it took a long long while, in the tv movie globe trotters on Gilligan's isle. Not to mention 3 closing themes, pilot season 1-3+1st movie 2nd and 3rd movie, where "no phone no light no motorcars" is now a wondrous luxury.
I had heard of Bob Denver standing up for Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson, only the part of Tina Louise was not mentioned. The story was a little different but the gist is the same. Hooray for Bob Denver‼️
According to Dawn Wells, he was the smartest man she ever met. He was a complete genius. I would compare this to Rowan Atkinson (genius) playing the goofy and stupid Mr. Bean.
After all I have heard about how Tina Louise hated her time with the show, tho not the people she was acting with, and felt cheated out of being its star, I think she is the one that was a stand up person in this. She could have killed the show by fighting over her contractual placement in the credits, but didn't.
It's sad how Gilligan's Island really did tremendous damage to Tina Louise's career. She even knew that at the time but fulfilled her obligation. The show wouldn't have survived if Ginger was killed off or recast. That is class.
Something like that happened in Friends too. They were not all going to get paid the same amount of money. So they got together as a group and stayed loyal to each other and demanded that every single person get the same amount of money that’s how they were able to get that big payday at the end good for them!
GI paid the stars $700-1200 per week. Changing the wording of the theme song was only a good will gesture with zero financial benefit. Dawn Wells died broke and needed a Go Fund Me for her medical bills. ‘Friends’ cast members got $1,000,000 PER EPISODE. Not exactly the same situation.
I remember Bob was smoking cannabis back then, years later he became an activist. We use to get high, red bud, Acapulco gold, Columbia and watch Gilligan's Island and the Munsters laughing.
Fun Fact: In the original "unaired" pilot(in quotes because it's all over RUclips and was shown during a Gilligan's Island marathon), the theme song had a Calypso sound and was written by none other than John Williams. Another Fun Fact: The band that sang the Gilligan's Island theme was a group called The Wellington's. We know them from the show as The Mosquitos.
One obvious question that wasn't answered: Was Tina Louise asked if she wouldn't mind changing the contract?? If not, why not just ask her first before going to all the trouble of hiring song writers, presenting the new song, having it turned down, Bob saying he wanted his name to go last, etc.?? I'm wondering if either they knew she wouldn't agree to it right away or if Sherwood was against it for some other reason. That would be interesting to know. Loving your videos!
Being billed last can actually be a good thing if you're billed as, "Also Starring As..." or "And... As." Tom Bosley on Happy Days, Ann B. Davis on The Brady Bunch are both examples that the extra acknowledgement of an "And...as" suggests that they're considered a high-ranking star in the show as opposed to a lesser player. Jim Backus was a big name and was billed as "Also Starring..." and Tina Louise shows up as "AND Also Starring..."
"...There are TWO Versions..." EEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRP Nope, THERE ARE THREE VERSIONS, or did you FORGET about the Version from the PILOT that was more Calypsoesque. then the OTHER Two Renditions.
A very uplifting story I forgot to tell you in my last comment but four-star studios was half a mile from my house when I was growing up in studio city and I played Little League over on Moorpark Street between Laurel Canyon and Colfax and Alan Hale Junior used to come by and watch our games. My uncle Richard was a key grip on the show.
@@CoolClassics I also had a paper out in the studio city area and the gentleman that starred in Mr. Ed was one of the people on my route his name was Allen something or other I can’t remember he was a real nice man and because my uncle was a key grip a he worked a lot of shows over there so one of the shows he worked on was combat so I got to see combat being filmed on the site it’s actually pretty boring
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The problem wasn't Tina, the problem was Schwartz. Maybe he was afraid if he gave Wells and Johnson (already two accomplished film and television actors) screen credit he would have to pay them more $$$. Schwartz wound up making millions in syndicated re-run residuals while the cast got s***. Wasn't a generous man. Fun facts: Schwartz got Gilligan's name out of a phone book. Gilligan was also the only character in the show with NO first name (it was said that Schwartz intended it to be "Willy," but it was never used). Though Denver always claimed "Gilligan" was his character's first name, Gilligan is a surname of Irish origin.
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Denver did a great thing. 56 years later I always remember mainly, "The Professor and Marianne" in my dreams when singing the theme song.
Me too glad Denver did that
Glad to hear that the entire cast all liked each other. It shows in the heartwarming series.
That was awesome! Always loved Bob Denver, and this just makes me love him more. Thanks for this!
I spent countless hours watching re-runs of Gilligan's Island and other 'cool classic' sitcoms as a teenager.
Funny how the guy who played the goofy character actually had so much 'character'!
He was a family man, in addition to being a comedy-actor in various roles like on Dobie Gillis and Dusty's Trail. He really was friends with Alan Hale Jr. like on the show.
@@SovereignStatesman Got to meat Alan Hale in a restaurant, one of the nicest guy I've ever met. Ask if he was the Skipper, he loved that
I was going to make a comment but I could not better yours so I will like yours.
the real bob denver is a great guy.
You nailed that one
In the beginning of the show, they are leaving the dock. In the background the flag is at half mast. Because the scene was shot at the time Kennedy was assassinated! The only sitcom to have an historical reference!
That's awesome trivia
Bewitched pilot was shot that day also.
I was born that year!! 😋
@@simpleman283, the Kennedy family was tied up with the mob...The JFK jetset quasi-god image was a product of being Eastern, a liberal, and having money= hyped by NY-BASED LIB TV.
His family was dirty= illegal bootleggers, and as for him, and Bobby, ask Marilyn Monroe..oh, you cannot..nor would you have been able to ask her..in 1965..
Nor, could you ask Mary Jo..in 1970..thanx TEDDY..
JFK's dad and granddad were in deep with the Irish Mafia..
BOBBY KENNEDY AND JFK were big in investigating Sam Giancana after the latter fixed the CHITOWN portion of ILLINOIS's chapter in the prez election of 1960..
That is what offed JFK..
Ironically, but not coincidentally, that connection may have gotten
BOBBY KILLED five years later when he was running for president= mob investigations.
It was not only filmed at the time, it was filmed ON November 22, 1963. Also, can you please rephrase your comment, "SHOT at the time Kennedy was assassinated" seems a bit harsh, don't you think?
Back then everyone was human, Humble and were a family on set this is beautiful R.I.P to the cast that passed away 😢
I watched almost every episode of Gilligans island and grew up loving All the characters in the show. I remember Mary Ann as in my own opinion, the prettiest of the two girls and who doesnt love Bob Denver? Funny, often silly, but fun to watch him do his thing. I loved watching that show!
Jonathan Harris often said that the reason he was the “special guest star” on Lost in Space even though he was signed to play a regular character was because everyone else was already signed and the billing positions were already contractually obligated. He had to be last. So he arranged for himself to be billed as he was because it would bring him greater visibility.
Not quite analogous to Tina Louise’s story but similar enough.
I am glad Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells ended on the opening credits. Bob Denver deserves credit for that.
Jonathan Harris. Another great actor who always seemed to be a good person. Not his characters. The man himself.
A very touching story of Bob Denver watching out for Mary Ann and Professor to be billed in opening credits, and Tina helped out too! Stand up guy! I remember watching Dusty Trails show after Gilligan which included actors Bob and the Skipper. Unfortunately that show did not have the magic of Gilligan's Island. Gilligan was sometimes like watching a live action spoof of crazy inventions, like seen in the Flintstones cartoon shown introduced each week. Fun to watch.
That Bob Denver did shows what a great guy he is. However for Tina Louise to have done what she did by removing that clause from her contract, shows that Ms Louise is a classy lady. Every single actor on Gilligan's island are great actors. That is why the show can still be seen on TV, six decades later!
Tina Louise's logic does not work out. Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire & his wife - the movie star (no name given) & the rest. How is TL going to be remembered if she is the last name but has no name? The professor & Mary Ann - Mary Ann had a name but no descriptor like Gilligan. The way the song starts, it ends. Who would have thought a show done in a parking lot would be so popular. I am certain the actors did not think about continuous residuals for 10000 replays.
Fkng BEAUTIFUL!👏👏👍👍👍
Back when a man could show some chivalry and not get castrated for it... Bob Denver was definitely someone I wish I could have known! BRAVO!!
Excellent shows.
Since I was a little kid during all this and totally enthralled by this show, hearing behind-the-scenes stories about these people fills me with awe and feels like the first time I ever saw my 4th grade math teacher in a restaurant with a man or caught her smoking outside the school. Dawn Wells was the girlfriend every good kid was intimidated by and every bad kid secretly wished he could get.
For me Bob Denver was the main attraction of the show but at the same time it wouldn’t have been he same if any of the characters went missing. There was an intrinsic harmony and equilibrium that existed because of what every character brought to the show.
I agree.The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
My Mom raised my sister and I watching a lot of older TV shows and movies, including Gilligan Island reruns, and I'm so happy that she did. I'm an adult now and I have all three seasons of Gilligan's Island on DVD, and it's still one of my favorite shows, ever. Same with my sister.
love Bob Denver!!!
Love your videos! Filled with interesting information about iconic actors! Thank you! 💝😀😉
Thank You Melinda :)
Little Buddy.
Stars with ethics. Love it.
That is great on Denver’s part. It was a different time. Now good is called evil and evil is called good.
Unfortunately, what you posted is So disgustingly True.
Go Team Bob Denver - what a great guy! Some things are more than money or fame! from Texas
That was a great story!
Watched from Yosemite Kentucky.
After I saw the original pilot, the fact that the first season song did not include them made sense. however, though I later knew Bob Denver spoke up for the professor and Mary Ann being included, I did not know he had to push that hard for it. makes me respect him even more for that. Thanks for filling in the blanks.
We didn't know people's names when we watched these shows as kids. We didn't know Eddie Albert got a medal for service in WW2 and we didn't know that many of the daytime tv actors we saw had had long and varied careers on stage and in other areas of life.
You've opened up some interesting information here and it's a pleasure to take a couple minutes out of the day and find out little bits of info here and there about the cast members we grew up loving.
Dawn Wells was a treat!
Here it is 2021, and I find myself currently watching Gilligan's Island for probably the 4th time.
4th Time? Hell I’ve watched it hundreds of time!
What is right is what is right? What about none of these actors being paid for all the re-runs? What a rip off! These shows have been on for 60 years and they never got a dime! Ruined any other acting they did because they were type-cast! Hollywood sucked then and it sucks now!
@@What_Fred_Said When I say the 4th time, I mean the _entire series._ 😉 How did you manage to watch it _hundreds_ of times? 😱
@@What_Fred_Said I agree the entire cast got shafted by a greedy Mr. Schwartz. I don't know if the actors' salaries were comparable to other sitcoms, but it didn't seem like it was. But the biggest insult was only paying them royalties for the first few re-runs and zero after that. Considering Schwartz himself made millions off of their work. I guess in those days though, the actors were happy to be getting a paycheck and perhaps didn't understand how to properly negotiate a contract that would ensure that they would get due compensation if the show became a success and ended up in syndication.
I watched probably every episode when I was growing up, and Dawn Wells was one of my favorite characters on the series. Knowing how little she and her co-stars were paid (considering the enormous wealth made by the owner/producer of the show), I hope future stars and celebrities will learn about how to negotiate contracts so that they can actually live on their earnings if they don't have long, well-paid careers. God bless Dawn Wells.
I read that the producer Sherwood Schwartz made over 90 million in residuals from this show and none of it was shared with the cast members . Watch " Cool Classics " video on the Brady Bunch to see how Schwartz treated the kids to cut costs .
Major Nelson also got screwed out of all his royalties for I Dream Of Jeannie, which aired on CBS.
Then later when he was playing JR Ewing on Dallas, he didn't show up to work after the summer of "Who Shot JR?"
For its time it was as big of a cliff hanger as the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Every red-blooded American tuned into Dallas to see what happened. But no JR.
Larry Hagman sent his agent in instead, to renegotiate his contract. This was payback for Jeannie. He really ripped them a new one. He got a huge salary increase, rerun royalties, creative control, and hiring/firing authority on the set.
Those days are loooong gone. Not unusual now for sitcom stars to earn $1,000,000 PER EPISODE. ‘Friends’ set that standards over a decade ago.
Bob was a class act, all the way.
Sounds like everybody wins. Good deal!
I had new this story, but didn’t know about the part the Bob Denver had in the changing of the theme song, great job sir
Nice story with a happy ending.
Awesome!
Excellent info, thank you. Sherwood should have also shared some residuals with them.
The Professor and Mary-Ann were my favorites
You know, you're right. If not for the two of them the rest of the crew would have died.
Professor and Mary-Ann were the fewest number of people who could have survived.
Great story thank you 😊
Nice story. Loved that show.
Back in the day when people had values/morals.
Questionable.
Dawn Wells was so unbelievably beautiful.... I think she was way prettier than Ginger.. both Gingers.. Rest in peace to all these wonderful actors that brought fond memories and joy to my childhood and many many others... Thank you especially Bob for being the stand-up guy that you were... Wishing Tina Louise my best wishes and good health.. she is the only one of the cast still alive.. Much love
I always think it's so mean and unnecessary to say who is prettier. They're both beautiful I'm their own way and are much more than their looks. They were both outstanding actors.
I'm just seeing this. I think Bob did the right thing. It is said that Bob and Dawn remained friends till he died. It was said Dawn was the one sending Bob weed to help his pain towards the end of his life. If she was I don't think either would of told, now that's a friend. Today there is medical cannabis for those with certain illness. In fact a friend of mines son moved to colorado to help grow medical cannabis. That was 7 years ago. I must say I do not use Cannabis oil,or other medical products. To each his or her own. I do think Bob got injured a lot while filming Gilligan Island. I still watch Gilligan Island on me tv. Yes the earlier version of the song did not include the professor or maryann. Now I know who had a hand in it. I wouldn't want to be called the rest either. So I applaud Bob Denver for speaking up and seeing that all was treated fair. Dude you put the Cool in Cool Classic. I'm still finding videos I missed, also rewatching those I have. I enjoy everyone of them. It may be a year later, but what matters is that I'm seeing this and others now. And Enjoying all of them. I haven't see a bad one yet.👍💯%❤👏👏👏. Love,respect and positivity always. Neita James. ✌🖖🤗👋.
What a guy!
I am New to ur channel. I love it .. you have a great voice and laugh. A pleasure to listen too.. thanks it's refreshing to actually watch the shows I grew up with fun facts .👍
Thank you so much!
God bless Bob.
Good job, Mr. Cool Classics!
WOW..great story. Subscribed.
Bob Denver was the only cast member with a college education.
@Donna Green
“Mary Ann went to college, too
Ironically, science and medicine”
What are you talking about? Mary Ann was an uneducated country girl. Dawn Wells, the actress who played her, had a university degree in theater arts and design.
@Pepe Le Moko
“Bob Denver was the only cast member with a college education.”
In fact, he had a university degree, which is higher than college. But Dawn Wells also graduated from university, so he was not the only one.
@@Brinta3 I was going by an old interview with Russel Johnson (the professor)not sure why he didn't mention Dawn Wells
@@Brinta3 Ummm... hate to tell you that one is no different than the other except in that a University will also offer courses towards a Masters and Doctorates. But they both offer Undergraduate degree's. It all depends on her degree of education that she attained.
@@Tovek
Yes, I was partly wrong. You can indeed get a Bachelor’s degree at both a college and a university (at least in the USA).
From what I can find, both actors got a Bachelor’s degree at a university, and therefore the original statement was wrong anyway.
Didn't know that fact! Thanks for sharing!
Technically there were 4 Opening themes,
1)The calypso in the pilot
2)The Movie Star and the rest, season 1
3)The professor and Marian, season 2 and 3
4)The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, where they ere rescued on fine day but it took a long long while, in the tv movie globe trotters on Gilligan's isle.
Not to mention 3 closing themes,
pilot
season 1-3+1st movie
2nd and 3rd movie, where "no phone no light no motorcars" is now a wondrous luxury.
Yes Sherwood was something else !! Keep reading & hearing bad stuff about him.
He got luck with a fabulous cast. Thanks.
I had heard of Bob Denver standing up for Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson, only the part of Tina Louise was not mentioned. The story was a little different but the gist is the same. Hooray for Bob Denver‼️
I grew up being told Tina was a bi***. But after this and a few others, I know she wasn't, she was just mad at being lied to.
Very cool
According to the unreleased pilot episode transcripts, Gilligan's name was Willie Gilligan.
Willy
He died young (70). He could still be here with us!
Never heard anything horrible about Bob Denver. Always seemed like a good guy. A good friend you could talk with.
According to Dawn Wells, he was the smartest man she ever met. He was a complete genius.
I would compare this to Rowan Atkinson (genius) playing the goofy and stupid Mr. Bean.
Wasn't he married 3-4 times? You might want to check with his ex's on that.
Well, he "stood up" for Dawn Wells. I have to admit, as a young man, I did too.
They where great my God Bless them all.
After all I have heard about how Tina Louise hated her time with the show, tho not the people she was acting with, and felt cheated out of being its star, I think she is the one that was a stand up person in this. She could have killed the show by fighting over her contractual placement in the credits, but didn't.
It's sad how Gilligan's Island really did tremendous damage to Tina Louise's career. She even knew that at the time but fulfilled her obligation. The show wouldn't have survived if Ginger was killed off or recast. That is class.
What a class act
Something like that happened in Friends too. They were not all going to get paid the same amount of money. So they got together as a group and stayed loyal to each other and demanded that every single person get the same amount of money that’s how they were able to get that big payday at the end good for them!
GI paid the stars $700-1200 per week. Changing the wording of the theme song was only a good will gesture with zero financial benefit. Dawn Wells died broke and needed a Go Fund Me for her medical bills. ‘Friends’ cast members got $1,000,000 PER EPISODE. Not exactly the same situation.
Hahaha you sounded like Bob Denver when you sang the Gilligan's Island song
Class act by Bob.
Sing it boy!!
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I remember Bob was smoking cannabis back then, years later he became an activist. We use to get high, red bud, Acapulco gold, Columbia and watch Gilligan's Island and the Munsters laughing.
love the singing
Fun Fact: In the original "unaired" pilot(in quotes because it's all over RUclips and was shown during a Gilligan's Island marathon), the theme song had a Calypso sound and was written by none other than John Williams. Another Fun Fact: The band that sang the Gilligan's Island theme was a group called The Wellington's. We know them from the show as The Mosquitos.
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Please I Beg You on bended Knee No More Singing!
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I was thinking the same thing. lol
Oh, stop. It was fine. Let's hear YOU sing. Have a chill pill.
@@CoolClassics You're ok , It's a lot better than what I could have done .
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Dawn Wells is simply DARLING!
Was
Sad they all passed. I think Tina Louise only one left.
They haven’t all passed. Tina Louise is very much alive
Another great one.
Wow!!! Bob Denver!! Now THERE was a REAL human(e) being!!! :) :) :) :)
That was an interesting tid-bit. Smart man. Since the show was named around Bob, he held cards.
Barry
Beautiful
damn. can't believe bob pulled a move like that. way to go! what's right is right.
way awesome, just last night the song came to mind the second version is the one I had known. either way. miss them.
They also may sound alike but were sang by two different bands .
Read bobs book. Super nice, honest guy.
I remember Russel Johnson he played a very small part in: The Greatest Story Ever Told. The Movie of Christ Jesus.
Cool story
Everybody loves Maryanne
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I did notice how "the Professor and Mary-Ann" part sounds a little different from the rest of the song
It was re-recorded. New song. New band.
One obvious question that wasn't answered: Was Tina Louise asked if she wouldn't mind changing the contract?? If not, why not just ask her first before going to all the trouble of hiring song writers, presenting the new song, having it turned down, Bob saying he wanted his name to go last, etc.?? I'm wondering if either they knew she wouldn't agree to it right away or if Sherwood was against it for some other reason. That would be interesting to know. Loving your videos!
Sherman Schwartz should be ashamed if he is still alive. Very infuriating! At least they had Bob Denver to stand up to him.
Interesting story. You find out who has some real integrity when they’re willing to put their all on the line for what they believe is right.
Wow....didn't know that. I don't think that anyone would put themselves on the line for others like that today.
Being billed last can actually be a good thing if you're billed as, "Also Starring As..." or "And... As." Tom Bosley on Happy Days, Ann B. Davis on The Brady Bunch are both examples that the extra acknowledgement of an "And...as" suggests that they're considered a high-ranking star in the show as opposed to a lesser player. Jim Backus was a big name and was billed as "Also Starring..." and Tina Louise shows up as "AND Also Starring..."
Have you done an episode on Bob Denver? I can't see one when I search your channel.
Not yet, I got preoccupied jumping between Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hogan's Heroes :)
"...There are TWO Versions..." EEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRP Nope, THERE ARE THREE VERSIONS, or did you FORGET about the Version from the PILOT that was more Calypsoesque. then the OTHER Two Renditions.
It wasn't the Lucy show with out Lucy and it's not Gilligans Island with out Bob Denver. Grew up with the best era in television the 60's and 70s.
Thats a good way for them to work together.
A very uplifting story I forgot to tell you in my last comment but four-star studios was half a mile from my house when I was growing up in studio city and I played Little League over on Moorpark Street between Laurel Canyon and Colfax and Alan Hale Junior used to come by and watch our games. My uncle Richard was a key grip on the show.
Very Cool! Wish i could have visited the studios back in the day!
Thanks for sharing!!
@@CoolClassics I also had a paper out in the studio city area and the gentleman that starred in Mr. Ed was one of the people on my route his name was Allen something or other I can’t remember he was a real nice man and because my uncle was a key grip a he worked a lot of shows over there so one of the shows he worked on was combat so I got to see combat being filmed on the site it’s actually pretty boring
LIked and subbed :)
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Whenever I hear about Sherwood Schwartz I hear him acting like a greedy putz.
He let money become his legacy.
It's sad that we will never know how Dawn Wells really died. She deserved so much better.
Complications from COVID-19. But it doesn’t matter what or how...she’s gone. ;-(
@@markrothenberg9867It matters.
ººAll governments are brave snakes, saving the lives of fish from drowning.
ºIf you are obstructing your breath by wearing mask then you might want to check you own Carbon dioxide level.
I wore a mask eight hours a day while working construction and now I have to break my old habit of breathing due to the incurable disease called COPD. I didn't get from smoking or working in coal mine, I acquired COPD from wearing a mask for to long. if yon can taste a foul stench as you exhale, that's Co2 accumulating in your pathway, poisonings your system, it's irreversible and think of what it's doing to the IQs of children as not enough Oxygen is getting to their brains. (20% of deaths are due to COPD).
If you think that I'm in error, then try wearing two mask just to be on the safe side. Your body will tell you all that you need to know.
ºIf you ever want to reduce the world's population just make everybody wear a mask for about a year. COPD is silent and incurable. Meanwhile, the government's response to this will be "We were saving lives. blah, blah, blah."
ºI worked for over forty-three years and now I can't afford my own medications, but the government is going to take good care of me ? Right, I was born yesterday.
And by the way, every time that I got a flu shoot I end up getting the flu, I mean every time. It's been twelve years since my last shot and I haven't had so much as a cold since.
God's word makes it clear that "the whole world is lying in the hands of the wicket one". 1 john 5:19
ººWorld wild causes of death this year est. as of April, 2ᴺᴰ 2020
2,859,465 - Deaths from Hunger
2,099,810 - Deaths from Cancer
1,278,108 - Deaths from Smoking
639,456 - Deaths from Alcohol0
429,800 - Deaths from HIV/Aids
124,310 - Deaths from Season Flu
55,465 - Deaths from COVID-19
Source : www.worldometers.info
Almost 250 years of U.S. democracy and only six years of peace.
1720 Great Plague…1820 Cholera…1918 Spanish Flu…2019 Corona Virus
Their format never changes.
COVID comes from the same cruelty that gave us the imaginary Y2K bug.
There will always be more viruses on Earth than stars in the sky.
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
ººWhen you exhale through a mask you can feel your own breath being blown into your eyes.
You exhale 80% of what you inhale, if you are exhaling the virus, it's quite likely back into your own eyes.
The only thing that a mask does is show compliance, obedience, gullibility and submission.
ºIf you are wearing a mask then you have to breathe twice as hard twice as deep and twice fast
You sweat more and your pores open up.
ºIf you spend too much time sterilized and isolated you will weaken you immunities. They know this.
ºClose to 37,000 people a day (mostly children) die from a most horrible yet curable disease called starvation. But we are to believe that the governments are concerned for our health ? Our lives are truly in the hands of the wicked one.
ººIf you wear glasses and a mask then every time you exhale you'll fog up your glasses, effectively blinding you with every breath.
ººJust to add to the depravity, the vaccine patent number is 060606, and it contains an ingredient called 'Luciferase'. (you can't make this stuff up).
The elite made it clear to the world centuries ago, that nothing will be hidden from us, except in plain sight. (the best liars always tell the truth).
@liberty5568 I wouldn't be too proud about that, if I were you.
@@super_ficial so, our government wants all of it's citizens to be dead ? How will the government survive if there's no one left to govern ?
@@johnp1277 Where did I say, "Our government wants all of its citizens to be dead" ?
Bob "Gigachad" Denver
The problem wasn't Tina, the problem was Schwartz. Maybe he was afraid if he gave Wells and Johnson (already two accomplished film and television actors) screen credit he would have to pay them more $$$. Schwartz wound up making millions in syndicated re-run residuals while the cast got s***. Wasn't a generous man. Fun facts: Schwartz got Gilligan's name out of a phone book. Gilligan was also the only character in the show with NO first name (it was said that Schwartz intended it to be "Willy," but it was never used). Though Denver always claimed "Gilligan" was his character's first name, Gilligan is a surname of Irish origin.
Nice to know HOLLYWOOD wasn't always so self absorbed.
everyone loves maryann
It was watching this show, growing up, that helped make right Right and why today is so wrong. 🤐