The Untold Truth About 'Gilligan's Island'

S.S. Minnow

The castaway's boat wasn't named after the fish called Minnow. It was actually named for Newton Minow, a producer whose creator Sherwood Schwartz believed "ruined television." Minow was the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 1961. 

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