For me, it was Dubov. The exiled president is a close second.
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Really? I had a big crush on Jenny Piccolo for a while.
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When I was thinking about it, I chose characters in episodes that make me skip the episode. Though the Take a Dare guy was a creep and Kincaid an animal, I would watch those episodes if they were on. If it was Dubov or the exiled president episodes, I would definitely flip the channel.
shareYeah...it's fun to see Johnathan Kincaid (Rory Calhoun) and Take a Dare's George (Strother Martin), or even Boris Balinkoff (first episode only, 1966's "Friendly Physician, season 2, April 7), (Vito Scotti), and the "Ghost" (Richard Kiel) at least for the elaborate creepy house/set (in the first one), and the sinister, eerie undedrscore..
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Yeah, me,too.
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Me,too, but getting back to Gilligan, mine was oin Mary Ann. And of course, as you can see in my pic, of Courtney Thorne-Smith.
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I assume you were referring to her true alter ego, Miss Cathy Silver's dad, Phil "Gladysa" Silvers, who'd played Harold Hecuba (played by Phil, who anonymously produced this with Jack Arnold and creator Sherwood Schwartz, and like Tina Louise in the later Eva Grubb one, got a beginning credit special guest star credit),in referenmce to "The Producer", so something nasty was said about that episode? (Directed , as the only Gilligan episode to have this fact associated with it, by two directors, including a returning Ida Lupino (actually an actress in her own right and director of one of Hans Conreid's Wrongway Feldman appearances in the black and white debut season) and George M.Cahan).
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I might have said that Ginger lookalike that ended up stealing her identity, but that just be because the episode annoys me so much.
That was probably their best opportunity to get off the island; girl shows up, wants to stay there, says they can take her boat. First they plan to make her go back with them (seriously, if she wants to stay there, let her. Or tell someone about her when they get home), then they all go to sleep and leave her loose after she'd shown her colors; apparently it occurs to no one that she might take off while they sleep? They all blamed Gilligan pretty much automatically, but they ALL blew that one.
My vote is Eva Grubb, mostly because I never cared much for Tina Louise/Ginger anyway. I'll buck the trend and admit I liked Dubov. The exiled president wasn't a great episode but at least had a good dream sequence.
shareAgreed..it was the final in the "lookalike" triolgy and more of a dramedy due to the storyline about why Eva came to the island. (Gilligan and Mr.Howell were the previous.)
It's also the only one not written by Budd Grossman, but was Joanna Lee's last for the show (director being Jerry Hopper; he didn't direct either of the previous). Mary Ann (now THAT would be a real lookalike story!), Lovey, Professsor or Skipper never had a lookalike episode written for them. '
Interesting note: like the Harold Hecuba one from the same season, in addition to sharing a wild chase music cue at the party scene with the Hebuca one, Eva Grubb, like Phil "Gladasya" Silvers in Hecuba, gets a full frontal guest star credit! Music's pretty good at the opening, and dig that island record stereo that The Professor cranks. Gilligan's no better, even if he's not that bright, than Grubb for the Grub/Grubb pun at the tag,either.
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Dubov or the surfer guy.
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The Paleys.
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This is a pretty interesting blog on the demise of Gilligan's Island. It talks about the ratings, what it was up against and its likely fate had it been renewed.
http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-gunsmoke-gunned-down-gilligans.html
I always thought that "Run, Buddy, Run" had been cancelled along with "Gilligan" to make room for "Gunsmoke." Apparently, "Run, Buddy, Run" had already been cancelled and was to be replaced by a series called "Doc," starring Eldon Quick. That's the show that was cancelled along with "Gilligan." Somewhere, there's no doubt a pilot episode for "Doc." Sounds like it may have been a sitcom version of "Dr. Kildare / Ben Casey" - or even "Old Doctor Young." It might also have been a "dramedy," like "Julia."
My impression from this blog and other sources is that Gunsmoke would appear to have been an early casualty in what would become the rural purge were it not for Paley's intervention.
That may not be an accurate assessment as GI was gone by 1967, and as the one commenter on the blog noted, GI may have survived a fourth season but most likely not a fifth, so GI would have been gone by 1968; the purge seemed to have begun in earnest by the turn of the decade although some older programs such as game shows (e.g., What's My Line?) had already been canceled.
Still, intriguing to think that GI was collateral damage in the rural purge, which, ironically, gave Gunsmoke a new lease of life even as it was on life support until Paley resuscitated it.
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"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." -- William Faulkner
Amusingly, Roy Clark recorded a song about the "rural purge" in 1971 - probably before it was even called by that name. The song was called (wait for it) "The Lawrence Welk Hee-Haw Counter Revolution Polka" (see youtube link below).
Mostly about the supposed demise of Welk's show and Hee-Haw (and how both survived in syndication), the song contains the lyric "They're picking off our heroes in New York," a reference to New York TV execs (like Fred Silverman) cancelling "rural" TV shows.
The song also suggests the influence of a younger, urban generation (of TV viewers) with the line "The hippies say they'll overcome us all."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoL64uvm-ko
Hilarious! Musical satire can be very effective. Thanks for posting the link!
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Here they all are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9I5ofpMj8U