The Untold Truth About 'Gilligan's Island'

Fans Got Older

The show had been over for decades when Russell Johnson got a call to speak at a biochemical conference in San Francisco. Russell, who wasn't a real professor and only played one on the TV show, said that he released everyone at the conference as a Gilligan's Island fan all grown up. "There were four or five hundred PhDs there, and every one of them was a Gilligan's Island fan."

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