LOS ANGELES – "Gilligan’s Island" recently celebrated its 55th anniversary -- and to toast the occasion, the Hollywood Museum threw a party with Dawn Wells, aka Mary Ann Summers, as the guest ...

When he first sold Gilligan’s Island and spoke to William Paley, he said, "What we have here is a social microcosm." Paley—or one of his executives—responded, "I thought this was a comedy." ...

It’s one of the most enduring openings in television history: a “three-hour tour” gone wrong that strands seven people—soon ...

If CBS had gotten its way, "Gilligan's Island" would have been a very different show from the one millions of fans remember ...

Gilligan’s Island is a famous TV show about castaways stranded on a deserted island. Every week viewers tuned in to see if the group would ever be rescued.But if a CBS bigwig had their way, the ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Gilligan’s Island” star Dawn Wells has plenty of reasons to be thankful in 2020. “At a time when it feels like everything is bad news, the good still outweighs the bad,” the ...

Gilligan (Bob Denver) is the title character from the classic TV series Gilligan’s Island. He’s famous for his childlike, clumsy demeanor, which often thwarted the group’s rescue attempts.

The two ‘60s shows “Gilligan’s Island” and “Star Trek” presented a Cold War view of the United States as a country which was doing the globalizing, rather than being globalized.