Gilligan's Island Cast on Tom Snyder 1993

but before we do i want to just put up the books that all of these people have written because each one has his or her own story to tell you want to put them up there fort lee here is marianne's gilligan's island cookbook this of course is from dawn wells then we move right along to our next selection here on gilligan's island this is russell johnson's book okay and the final selection is gilligan maynard and me by the star of gilligan's island and dolby gilles before that bob denver now these are available for three easy payments of 33.95 and if you call now 1-800 gilligan you'll get the wishing wells the dawn wells fashion guide absolutely free call now don't be left out don't be the last one to order before christmas before i get to the chorus no very quick i don't have a camera for it i'll i'll save it till later but there's a headline in the new york post you got it there's a headline in the new york post today this was just faxed in from gotham apparently roseanne and tom arnold uh have proposed matrimony to their young attractive assistant and she is accepted and they're going to become a threesome uh i i'm told that she supposedly is wearing a an engagement ring and that soon it'll be roseanne and tom and this woman all living together under the same roof as a married couple of three people and she said her mother did weird things wow man anyway let's go to the chorus here they are and i'm going to introduce them to you first of all these are all staff members here at cnbc no you don't want your names okay here we go okay and uh one two three four back and you'll hear a tale of a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this the weather started getting rough the tiny ship was tossed if not for the courage of the fearless crew the minnow would be lost the mirror would be lost the ship sucked on the shore the billionaire and his wife the movie star the professor and [Music] [Applause] just one more group shot before they go away folks take a look at this chorus and remember it well thank you gang back with bob denver and then joined by dawn wells and russell johnson here on the gilligan's island reunion and sooner or later your calls along the toll-free highway we'll be right back with the stars after these messages [Music] what are you doing i'm making notes for the book you mean you're writing a book that's one of the reasons i wanted to be off by myself it's going to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island no kidding i think it's a book people will buy don't you sure i'll buy one i'm dying to find out what happens to us what what a prophetic clip here's bob denver uh who joins us now from the cnbc bureau in chicago bob thanks for coming on how you doing tonight thank you tom i'm doing really good i forgot about that scene i never even dawned on me do you recall the scene at all it's the first time i've seen it in years yeah i think i said i was going to write a book too yeah yeah perfect that's great i absolutely agree i want to talk here for a little bit because i haven't heard you talk about the work that you did with jim backus who was on gilligan's right and and i believe allen hale right and you guys did very physical comedy and few peop so many people identify bacchus as magoo that they forget what he did on on the gilligan show well he hit me with a swagger stick a lot yeah i gave it to him as a prop one time as a joke i said why don't you have a swagger sticker was i sorry thereafter yeah hey gilligan how are you doing you cut it out give him back the stick yeah yeah and didn't he come dressed up in magoo costume one day he did a vegas act once where he dressed up as magoo and i said jim you look just like magoo and he did he had the nose i saw the magoo nose but with the outfit and the glasses and the whole thing on he looked just like magoo i said did they you know draw the character off you and he said looks that way doesn't it you know he's so great how did how did you make the physical comedy on island work i mean it worked so well was it careful rehearsal or just that you guys worked well together and trusted each other in situations well i had allen hale and he was so big and strong there's no way i could hurt him i could use him like a tree i could climb on him and run across the stage and leap in the air and he'd catch me put me down real easy and you know there's no way to rehearse our physical gag so we just kind of mumble to each other like well i'll fall down and you get up and then not you can fall on me then like he goes oh let's just do it you know so we go out there and just fall and you know and just no rehearsal just kind of run around yeah you know and just trust each other that we wouldn't hurt each other and of course we never did you know your book is titled gilligan maynard and me maynard being uh maynard krebs right uh from uh adobe gillis how did you get to dolby gilles and then with that ended how do you get to gilligan's island yeah it was interesting uh in fact i didn't i hope so i did adobe gilles where i was blasted off to the moon in a rocket with a chimp and we landed on a desert island a tropical deserted desert island i should have known something was coming but after i finished that i went met with sherwood schwartz and he was looking for a gilligan and we talked about the show and i had he had me laughing so hard with the premises that i finally said i'd love to do it you know i could do physical comedy and he said fitzgilligan perfectly you know i said well i'd love to do it and that's how i got from one to the other you mentioned sherwood schwartz you hear talk every now and again that mr schwartz is planning a gilligan's island movie for a theatrical release if you heard that you're not in your head oh yeah you would be involved with that you'd be you'd be gilligan hello tom are you dreaming no it'd be one of those big summer features like they did with the beverly hillbillies this last summer and like i guess i'd go watch it and see it you know but it wouldn't be any of us from the original show you know be like john candy and playing the skipper and i don't know who else he has in mind for the rest of the cast gotcha gotcha and bring us up to date on on uh bob denver now what what is bob denver doing these days i'm doing that book tour yeah i know that but you haven't you haven't enough for a while but you have a real job in television don't you well i'm not you mean the weatherman thing yeah yeah that was i did it as a joke i mean basically as kind of a little gag for local weather people down there in west virginia and i went on the wire service that i'd quit acting and became a weatherman i'm not true that's not true willard scott somewhere is breathing an enormous side i hope so once you know once it gets on the wire surface you're dead you could deny the rest of your life and then the other thing around the office you know the kid the the boys and girls of the color cast and i'm one of them around the office always saying you got to ask him about uh about uh tina louise and and and and and you know what happened there so why are you going to ask me about it yeah well i guess you know it was just you know tina really didn't like the show that much you know i she was quoted the tv guide is saying if i wasn't on i wouldn't watch it so you know it wasn't she wasn't thrilled being on it and we just we got along with her it was just i mean like when in in the early days had she been promised something that that the producers didn't deliver or they they gave her one concept and the show went a different way or or well i think you're writing all those things you just said yeah i don't know it was kind of interesting to watch her work i mean she did her movie star role perfectly and she knew her lines and she always came in but she never like joined the family of you know the cast and or crew yeah you know what's more or less i'm not you know she doesn't want to talk about it much now either i understand that i won't pursue it with you because if i want to ask about her i should ask her i'll get her on here sometime and and it will come up i dare you i've got she won't say the name show you'll have a hard time interviewing her well oh no i hear though she's saying gi now richie referring to her stomach disorders yeah a little more intestinal track by the way tina how are your gi's none of your business tom to what do you attribute and i know you've been asked this before and we talked about this on a program i did with dawn wells on radio about a year and a half ago what makes gilligan's fly what fuels this show there were less than 100 original episodes and to this day they play all over the world must have been dawn wells and russ johnson no i think it's just you know the physical comedy and the silliness and there is no time frame on the episodes i mean there is no like it was shot in the 60s you can't tell that and it's you know kind of timeless and it picks up the one two three four five-year-olds every year i get a lot of letters even this year my my one-year-old is watching the show could you send an autographed picture for his second birthday he could say gilligan and skipper you know so if you're picking up the one two three four five-year-olds every year it just keeps rolling on sure you know sure so i think that's why and uh what about the dolby gilles uh features or the the series is that still running it ran on nickelodeon i don't know if it's still on nickelodeon for about the last six or seven years it was weird when nine-year-olds come up and go maynard did you like all those peanuts you ate and i'm going how old are you you know he's nine you know and they're growing up with it too you know nickelodeon have you watched and i will confess to you i've not i think i saw it for about 15 minutes one night uh beavis and butthead on mtv have you seen this act no i'm sorry i missed it so far don't be oh i see okay i meant to catch up on it but i just haven't had a moment yet yeah what what do you think of television these days do you watch a lot of television i watch you know pretty much like i think most people um i like you know home improvement i like you know northern exposure i like murphy brown i like charles koralt on sunday morning yup and my comedy channel c-span you know let's stand up in town i think isn't c-span the very best though those stand-ups are great yeah i can go on a little too long sometimes but i mean you'll see a guy anywhere going and ladies and gentlemen my honorable members in the congress and then they take the wide shot and there's nobody there not a soul who's he talking to folks hey who gave these guys off from thanksgiving until after new year's it wasn't me i didn't sign anything like that no you know what have been some of the things along the way in the book tour that have been if there have been any unusual or different things at signings at bookstores or on radio talk shows or stuff like this you got a hell of a question on the larry king show didn't you yeah if you and the skipper had a homosexual relationship i said where was that call from they said san francisco i said well you should have double checked it anyway you know larry went whoop you know he woke up mean larry came right up in the chair boy yeah yeah there's a great line you know keep your day job now we'll go on you know and but i guess on the tour i'm just running into people from my past a lot you know people that live all over the country that you know i guess they've always thought they'd you know never see me but there i am and my daughter got me again she came down and had me sign the book and she's standing in the line and i have a picture of his little baby in hawaii with hawaiians holding her and this picture book comes down to her voice say please sign that picture and i started to go and i'm looking at i said well why would anybody want this picture and there she is just laughing at me i said you're back in line again get out of here you know as kids they did it to me all the time you know when i sign autographs little kids they get in the line and i'd be signing autographs and i hear their name and there they are going thanks dad let's get out of the line keep get out of here you know she got me in new york flat out it's not bad enough you have to sign for hundreds of people waiting but then the kids well come around and around you know and in los angeles i saw dwayne hickman he came out and signed with me you know dobby yeah and then i looked up and there was michael j pollard the guy that replaced me for one episode i went michael how you doing and he said fine you know so i checked the story i had in the book about him he said it was true then he kind of waved to me as he's going he says see you again in about 30 years bob i said okay michael you mean he replaced you for only one episode yeah and he came to california you know i'm signed to the series for over 30 episodes so i quoted him he'd heard about people coming to california to discover gold didn't know it was true until now was he went right back worked a week and went home with 30 episodes under in his pocket but why would he replace you for one week because i got drafted really oh i got you yeah i drafted me really personally drafted me got you yeah anyway we're talking with bob denver we'll be joined by dawn wells and russell johnson two other cast members uh bob will stay with us if you can on the on on the uh on the television highway here from chicago though is that satellite coming in tonight yes okay uh yeah be on radio two folks uh we're at 100 800 74526 100 tom's got his own 100 line man seven four five two six get off me we'll be right back sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip that started from this traffic port aboard this tiny ship the mate was a mighty sailor and the sniffer brave and sure five passengers set sail that day for a three-hour turn a three-hour tour kids did pretty well i mean they were undoubtedly better there but they rehearsed it for weeks and shot it and color on film uh we continue with bob denver whose book is called gilligan maynard and me he's on the air from chicago cnbc out there and joining us here in the studios uh we have uh the original marianne dawn wells is here she is the uh huh the original one yeah yeah yeah and the one and only and hers is called marianne's gilligan's island cookbook i hold it here in my hand she also has the uh the the ready to wear that you'll be looking for and last but not least the professor russell johnson here on gilligan's aisle how come you all and and of course you know bob who's in chicago bob say hi to to dawn and say hi to russell hi guys how you doing how you doing why do you all have books at the same time that's a good question it's like a good answer professor what's the answer to that one i think because the publishing houses decided it would be a good time to put out books written by old tv people 30 30 years really when the since the pilot film was made so it's kind of a 30-year thing i got you yeah and are you do you all have the same publisher or do you all have different publishers we have different publishers and like when excuse me i don't mean to play footsie with you but then again it's so cold in the studio and i've been lonely for a long time when your publisher called you then did you call me do you all call each other and say hey a publisher call we're all going to do books i think we were all really in cahoots with each other i think we all talked about it yeah yeah and i don't think any one of us were approached by the same publishers particularly no it's true it's true when this show was on the year it was very very popular it ran less than 98 episodes that's right what took it off the air all of you political i think well i'll tell you what took it off the earth uh cbs had uh dropped gunsmoke which was in its 14th year and its ratings were bad and uh uh the cbs affiliates raised kane about it also william paley who his wife william paley was the head of cbs babe haley right one of her favorite shows was gunsmoke and when she heard that it was taken off off the air she raised cane so they put it back in and in order to do that it was an hour show at the time they had to take two shows out two half hours and we were one of them you were expendable we were yes and we were in the top 20. i mean now i don't think anybody would do that i know you'd be desperate to make the top 20. but i think william paley was happy to get rid of us why i don't think he thought that we represented uh you weren't cbs the idea of you weren't the tiffany that's right you know we were not exactly edward r murrow right you were a homespun kind of corny we can say that now we're still around and he's dead yeah that's right that's by the grace of god however we're still going i i i wouldn't want to be responsible for being the one who said that the reason god called william bailey home was because he canceled gilligan's island uh how did you get the news bob that the show was going off the air sherwood schwartz called everybody in the cast and told him that story and i said what makes sense to me another major network decision that you go what what you mean the gun smoke bumped us off and he said yeah so i said well it was really great working with you sure would on to something else you know i hope i get my residuals the two years of residuals boy that'd be nice you know do you still get residuals from the shows we only got paid for the first two five runs of each episode which lasted about two years was it yeah we haven't had anything in 28 years videos are out now though this could be a different issue but but let me ask you when you all signed your contracts you said you got paid for the first five plays at the time that was fair didn't you say okay well you know you made a deal that was it yes nothing you can do about it people have tried uh through the years to see if uh if uh remuneration could be made from those old shows but uh nothing those those contracts existed and they were valid and there's nothing you can do yeah exactly that's why the issue of the video tape it's interesting that's a whole new thing you couldn't negotiate that 30 years ago because it didn't exist it's like joe dimaggio getting a hundred thousand dollars a year and a guy who's hitting 220 today is a 3.5 million that's right yeah you know or he ain't gonna play you know when i started late night television at one o'clock in the morning that paid me 2 500 a week for it okay and i at the time i thought this is great this is this is great you know letterman's getting 14 million you know you know so i mean you know things have a way of changing what are some of the recipes we can look forward to uh in the in the in the gilligan that's a good question good home cooking i'm a really good cook my mother's a phenomenal cook three generation of wells family recipes a lot of recipes from the cast russell's good cook a lot from him bob's a vegetarian a lot from his family um well what did you get from bob steen carrots lots of vegetable dishes lots of wonderful vegetables like what steamed zucchini you had a um you have a sweet potato casserole i think bobby yeah i know there's about eight or ten of his um mostly vegetables but you can ball new names oh i know what i'm having the hardest time my co-authors ken beck and jim clark did the aunt b cookbook and they've got these funny little names s.s minostroni and weenie linguini but the recipes are authentic and there are 13 coconut cream pies all right okay page 217 is the best my great-grandmother now russell you have no recipes in your in your book but i i hope you write about the professor and how you made him yours how did you make the professor your character well i tell you i uh i'm an actor i started from a certain point uh doing the best i could making the professor mine the writers as time went by would write as they saw how you did things and would they excuse me for interruption i don't mean but would the writers get together with you and and maybe the other cast members say this is what we're looking for this is who this guy is this is how we envision this guy and then you would no no no like i said the writers never talked to you about this they they watched what was happening in a sense and kind of wrote toward how we did what we did uh someone asked me that question as a matter of fact just today i think the professor and i think all these characters are a pr are a process the professor that was in the first show is different than the professor that was in the 98th show gotcha you understand it's an ongoing process yes and marianne grew i'm sure and and gilligan grew all of them never grew up that's true let me pause here for the folks along the way we're talking tonight with russell johnson and with don wells and with bob denver about one of the great television classics of all time called gilligan's island we'll join you on the toll-free highway right after these words from our sponsors same pigeon that flew on the island yesterday somewhere beneath all that blubber is a sleek long-distance carrier pigeon he looks like he swallowed a basketball how someone has been feeding him in the middle of the night uh ginger and i fed him a whole bowl of milk well it's good for babies gilligan and i gave him a little bitty piece of pie half a platter we're joined by the stars of gilligan's island we have with us tonight russell johnson his book is called here on gilligan's island the professor's behind the scenes guide to everything he wanted to know about the island gilligan maynard and me by bob denver who's on the wire tonight from chicago illinois and uh marianne's gilligan's island cookbook uh by dawn wells all of them joining us tonight on the color cast so you were saying the professor by nine episode 98 was a character that that you know russell johnson evolved and gave interpretation to that's true yeah same with the merry christmas and the depth developed i think the characters were kind of surface at the beginning a little larger than life and i think we grew the the depth developed i think what about behind the scenes you know part of your book title russell is behind the scenes how were you guys uh backstage did you become friends bob as you as this show evolved through the 98 episodes oh yeah we still are friends we've been friends for over almost 30 years now really it's been like we get together like two or three times a year and do some kind of personal appearance no kidding in my line as we get rescued wherever there's a body of water that's true that's true we've been on more lake michigan chesapeake bay in new york harbor and on lake michigan and taking on a three-hour tour with 500 people on a coast guard showing up back to shore but it's true we had a good company we had good good chemistry and we've been friends and it was hard to lose the people in the cast who were gone uh jim backus and natalie natalie shaffer oh what a difference and of course the skipper allen hale what a what a great man i loved allen i mean he was really a terrific person they all were i mean it was just oh you mentioned jim backus you know i'd see him on the streets around town here and he was such a dear soul he always had a smile on his face and a kind word for everybody and generous with his comedy you know most comedians don't want to share and he'd tell you what would make it a little funnier why don't you try it this way yeah and you know he was known from a from a goo and what a great character that was i can just see him well he would slip into that you know oh yeah how could he not yeah off camera to break us up as he would leave he would do his magoo and then he'd have something raunchy to say off camera and we'd have to do the whole cover again and he always said that the little outtakes on the goo were dirty he said if you watch mr magu mumbling away listen to what i'm really saying i'm really saying something dirty i haven't gotten the tapes now since it's really true but he always told me we're going to the phones in the first up tonight is john in orlando florida hello hi how you doing pretty good thanks john uh it's great you guys are i got a great show i love that's one of my favorite shows of all time gilligan's yeah thank you john great i just have a question um what are some of the funniest things you have any stories about uh people coming up to you like fans and just doing funny things do you have any stories well on a book signing a tour i was in uh the village in new york signing books and someone's uh the long the line was there and someone said oh look there's ginger and i looked at my there was beautiful bread wig beautiful gold lame gown and as uh ginger came up to the table i said how beautiful how nice to see you he said hi how are you i had a darling man in kansas city the line was very long about an hour and a half and he had gone home and dressed up it was in the evening and he put on a suit and shined his shoes and a top coat he was about 50 and by the time he got to the line he had a rose all wrapped up in the rose put the rose on the table and said i've been waiting for 30 years to have a coke date with marianne and he took two crystal goblets out of his top coat and a can of coke and he said champagne would not be appropriate oh isn't that dear how sweet excuse me i would just hope you took him back to your room [Laughter] a little hard at walmart to do that excuse me how about bob denver on the tour here with the fans i i had one the other night where he was the street person came right in and nobody noticed and i gave him 10 bucks to get rid of him it was like the people in the line had to wait and he's going all i need is 395 pennies and i can get a bold big piece soup and take it up to my friends and i keep looking for the owners of the bookstore are they listening to this guy and they think he's like a friend of mine and finally finally they said who is that i said it's a street person hitting me up for some money you know so he took out some money and he i said dude this is what you're looking where'd that go because i want to kiss you i want to kiss you i said no you just went to the store we'll see you later panhandle right i have three pounds of plastic taped inside my belt you don't give me a hundred dollars i blow up the store right now you know there's always one guy at a books at my book signings anyway there's a line of people there's always one guy who stands off to the side and he talks to you and asks you questions he never buys a book but he just asks and talks and it just goes on and on and you want to say would you please get the hell out of here or just buy a book and then go on your way oh no there's no way he's going to buy a book you know all right john i'm glad you called thanks okay here's jennifer also in florida hello hello hi jennifer hi jennifer hello i'm sorry for a second this is for marianne yeah yeah this is confusing turn it down because it sounds off um i do is that coconut cream pie recipe in your book yes i have 13 coconut cream pie but the best one is page 217 my great-great-grandmother's it's called mary ann's favorite bob had it in the face for a few couple of few times in the episodes but it actually tastes better than it looked somebody told me you were bringing a pie tonight did you bring a pie no was i supposed to no no i've been cooking all day but don't worry about it don't worry about it anyway jennifer there's 13 recipes for coconut cream pie in this book okay well my daughter and i and my girlfriend kathy we love you we sushi is always our favorite oh bless your heart thank you okay bye bye jennifer hi moving on to tom in milwaukee hello thomas how are you tom good i'm just terrific thank you i want to spread some thanks around here uh particularly to the professor and to posthumously the skipper because i have won many many of brewski here in milwaukee with one of the greatest trivia questions you can imagine and that is what were the real names of the professor and the skipper i don't mean their names their actors but i mean they had actual names on the show do you know what they are oh absolutely okay the professor was roy hinckley and the skipper was jonas grumby true that's correct and i wish i could i wish i could count the number of beers that i have won i think he won too many even even if you could count them thomas you probably could not remember them all couldn't count them on the same night that's true okay now now here's a couple for you uh who was gilligan's best friend gilligan's best friend little brother that wasn't it no no i got you i have no idea his best friend was skinny mulligan kenny mulligan by god what caused the skipper and gilligan to go bald certainly not a brewski i don't know no no no right it's worked on me uh laundry bleach for crying out loud no not for crying you remember this now don't you well these are going to win me some more beers that's right as long as no one else is listening and the reason that i that i have all these answers at the tip of my fingertips is they're all written down on this page there are many many a trivia book out and that's kind of that's that's got the kind of stuff that should go in there i'm glad you called thomas thanks tom if i could just say one real quick thank you to you oh come on no no really no i'm coming out there with the wisconsin badgers to the rose bowl hopefully and because of your live show by hooker crook i am getting to the smoke house for dinner thanks a million hey listen i'll tell you what i i'm going to be ch is that game on television this weekend uh it's on the uh espn yes it is i think it's on at 8 30 pacific time so because 30 here in milwaukee and it's uh it's even delayed because there's a basketball game that's preempting the first part of it wait a second wisconsin is playing for the roses and they're and they're preempting the game for for who the milwaukee bucks for the first quarter or so i would say of of what the bucks no no no the it's kentucky and depaul is going to be on espn and they are preempting the first quarter of the wisconsin michigan state game from tokyo geez man yeah i'm shaking my head too and by the way folks i'll be right with you who made the decision for wisconsin and michigan state to go to tokyo to play for the rose bowl for crying out it was made two years ago tom and of course back then who knew that they would be playing for the rose bowl game and they were they're making a ton of money out of the thing a ton my foot they're making 400 they're making 400 they're making 400 g's a piece is all they're making well if they had the game in madison they figured they might make 500 g's a piece yeah as a home team yeah and of course you and i would hate to go back to that per evening wouldn't we anyway hold it hold it hold it russell big mouth over here says ucla is going to kill him anyway well what do you expect out of a professor and a west bless you tom take care and thanks for your compliment and if you come out here for the rose bowl just call cnbc and ask for a number i want to talk to you fantastic all right thank you i'll make sure you get to the smokehouse kid well i'd love to have you as a guest but your celebrity status that that when i when when you say you'll pay that is also possible good night thomas good night be well we'll be right back uh after these messages what a nice man [Music] yes yes they're down there i just threw them some mattress patches yeah well there may be explosive gases down there gilligan don't like that get back everybody [Music] [Laughter] we are back with uh russell johnson what'd you say about subtle comedy yeah right listen we'll pay stuff that's right boy you really got it for people tonight the poor son of a is dead and buried in his grave and you're on this guy i read it i read i read the book on him i read his biography and so you have about the picking no i mean i just want you to know that i'm not uh i'm not really putting mr paley down i'm just saying that he and i had uh different ideas uh artistic differences very good yeah okay let me just uh uh show these books now which one have you got first and forwardly put them up there and i'll go through them with you notice how they just respond to my everything uh here is marianne's gilligan's island cookbook uh next up i believe we have uh here on gilligan's island behind the scenes with the professor russell johnson and the final selection gilligan maynard and me by bob denver who joins us tonight out of cnbc in chicago and what is uh you've got two don't kind to me now well why do why do the girls always get two you know what is wishing well i have a clothing line company really for people who have yes honestly well i never would have it's actually very serious for people have difficulty dressing people in nursing homes people coming out of surgery people that are aging the dignity the quality of life disappears as you age or infirm and i had a grandmother who had a stroke that my mother took care of for a long time i'm a spokesperson for children's hospital and i very involved with a young woman who went through a heart and lung transplant and i had a dear friend in a nursing home for 11 and a half years and there's just no quality of life left so i've designed a line of clothing with pretty colors pretty fabrics things that are breathable um easy to get in and out of if you can dress yourself there's velcro it's very simple if the caregiver has to address you it's instantaneous and it's uh i am pleased to uh to publicize this because it shows great thought and great caring for people who need some consideration and and it's it's and incidentally there's nothing wrong with me at all but i wouldn't mind having something that's easy to get out and easy to get off got a nice shirt for you terrific yeah not that i would ever have to take it off in a hurry know oh i know oh you know oh yeah the catalog is called enrichments the wishing wells collections is the title of my company but i've gone with a large catalog company out of chicago now that's distributing for me and it's a free catalog so well i wish you well thank you very kindly let me just hold it up here so the folks can see it and then let's go to sam waiting patiently in indiana hello tom good evening hi sam and hello castaways hello sam i have waited 30 years for this moment and before i get to my question russell yeah the reason i did so well in science class in school was because you were such an inspiration as the professor wow he's very kind sam and i'm gone on you for 30 years and bob you're not so bad either but what i wanted to ask each of you uh do each of you have a favorite uh episode uh if you can think of one yeah i do yes i don't well i i enjoyed the episodes in which we had dream sequences that allowed us to become other characters and and to play other things i enjoyed those very much my favorite was doing the eliza doolittle character i think the episode was a dr jekyll and mr hyde and i got to play the cockney accent but the favorite i think to watch is the hamlet let me have you hold on for a second here i got a commercial i must do sam can you stay with us for a few minutes absolutely all right back with more favorite episodes from our three castaways as sam and indiana calls them we'll be right back here with all of you on the toll-free exchange after these messages we'll give you the address for our toy train slide leaves air returns to tom thank you so now uh your favorite episode bob for sam here our viewer in indiana i never had one either but i guess that hamlet you know episode is one of the favorites for the fans i hear a lot about that some woman thanked me for putting all the lyrics in my book because she used to sing it to me or not to be la la la la la and she said no i can sing all the lyrics and my husband really hates me and you know i heard a rumor that the new york shakespeare festival wanted to open their season doing the hamlet from gilligan's allen and ted turner want to charge an astronomical amount of money this was rumor and so they couldn't do it does turner own the shows now yes uh-huh yeah you say that with such a smile on your face yeah listen bill paley is terrific all right sam how good are you on this can i give you a few questions throw them at me i can answer any gilligan's trivia okay in the in the jack and the beanstalk dream sequence who played the miniature version of gilligan uh i thought i was good at gilligan i don't know who i have no idea who played it is bob denver's son patrick denver is that not correct bob that's correct okay oh he was adorable probably just one more well all right here we go what did the castaways use to repair the minnow mary ann's pancake syrup all right yes recipe 63. [Laughter] thank you sam for calling thank you very much all right sir bye bye here is ray in maine hello hi there hi hi thanks for having me on your show thanks for being on oh great and uh how are you right 30 years to talk to anyone because i'm a little bit younger than that um i do have a question though what was um what was the reason that marianne and the professor were left out of the theme song i believe it was the first season we were there and the rest instead of the professor in marianne yeah there were three um characters in the original pilot that were schoolteachers or or something and when they sold the series and went on the air they changed those three characters to a professor a farm girl and a movie star and russell and i tested in los angeles teen louise tested in new york city and my understanding is she was cast before we were her agent negotiated that she was in fifth position nobody after her and then we got the parts and had no choice once we were on the air and all seven of us were going to be stranded for the rest of our lives they rewrote the contract is that what you feel was correct russell i'm looking to you for validation here that's absolutely it okay that's it okay great i always thought it was great also that the professor could do just about anything with coconuts and bananas and but he couldn't get the castaways off the island i mean he could just about make a nuclear reactor out of coconuts and bananas but he wasn't a great raft builder either that's right bobby that's true i was uh recently uh back uh invited back to mit yeah you were mentioning this earlier uh uh they were they have a program each year which they call the ignoble awards ignoble ignoble awards in which there are nobel laureates there and they give awards to people who have done rather strange things but anyway i i had to give a three thirty second speech and i said uh i said i've been asked through the years why i could uh uh make a radio out of a coconut but couldn't get us off the island and i said as you may know that one of my degrees is from this very institution which is why i could make a radio out of a coconut and couldn't get us very good anyway ray do you want a trivia question sure why not all right hold on what did gilligan eat that allowed him to read people's minds oh it was some sort of berry wasn't it oh you're so close it was some kind of seed guess what kind of seed oh you got me sunflower sunflower oh no i'm learning more about the world [Laughter] denver chicago says damn he says i'm learning more about this [Laughter] i'm glad you called ray thanks bye-bye amy and colorado hello hi hi i wanted to know if any one of you had any plans to do a sitcom or movies any more acting say it again amy we didn't hear it okay i wanted to know if they had any plans to do a sitcom or any asking what's in the future for all three of you bob we'll start with you out in chicago i was afraid to do that i'm going to um basically start a ho a chain of putt-putts indoor miniature golf courses which are done like a jungle and you play in a jungle and get a hole in one in 18 that volcano goes up it's kind of like the gilligan's island set are you are you serious yeah and all the proceeds wherever the hut is built the putt-putt's built all the proceeds go to the handicap locally right in that area so i'm going to have a little chain of them wow yeah that's someone that's a wonderful idea yeah that's a great idea i thought for a minute he was kidding because because there was a movie remember where goldie hawn overboard yeah where uh the picture that she did with kurt russell where his dream is to build miniature golf courses i thought you were spoofing me i really did that's wonderful that'll take a little time um dawn well i have the clothing line of course and i'm very involved in my college i'm a board of trustees of stevens college which is women's college they're very few women's college left i'm very involved with that um and there's there are no men's colleges left so you so don't shed any teams well i do there were 250 when i graduated they're only 86 left now well there are no business colleges left they're all good do we care no no of course we don't it wouldn't be politically correct to care yeah oh they can't come in mills college but we're going into the air force accountability it's a whole other show and all right and i'm acting too i'm still doing that i'm doing a play and and the professor russell i uh do voice over work up in seattle i uh do radio and television commercials uh the voice behind them and i do narration for industrial films and uh i'm uh available [Laughter] i thank you all for joining us the time is up bob denver in chicago thanks for staying with us my friend i appreciate it my pleasure okay bob's book is called gilligan maynard and me uh here on gilligan's island this is the book by russell johnson the guide to everything you wanted to know behind the scenes out now in soft cover and also to uh to dawn wells her her newest uh book is called mary anne's season we got a lot of books i know i know gilligan's island uh cookbook and by the way russell and dawn will be at book soup on the sunset strip in los angeles tomorrow night from seven to nine signing their books this is a great bookstore run by caring and loving people and i am happy to plug your appearance there tomorrow night seven to nine russell and dawn book soup sunset strip in los angeles thanks tom thanks tom thank you all for watching back tomorrow night same time same station stay tuned now for bob berkowitz out of fort lee that's all from burbank at this time sweet dreams everybody [Music]

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