Episode 6 - Gilligan's Island

Dearly Departed Podcast

Mike Dorsey

True Crime, Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We take a fateful trip to Gilligan's Island and talk about the real life fates of the show's creator and 7 main "castaways." We also talk Scott Walker, Bea Arthur, and more!

Dearly Departed Podcast host Scott Michaels' photo of Sherwood Schwartz's grave marker

Scott Walker (Dezo Hoffman/REX/Shutterstock)

Watch: Tribute to Richard Erdman's "Leonard" character on Community
Article: Deputy Digby Rowe tackles Charles Manson in court
Buy: The Gilligan's Island DVD set (it's also on Amazon Prime)
Watch: The original Gilligan's Island intro from the pilot before the show was changed
Article: Read about Newton Minow's famous "Television and the Public Interest" speech

Watch: The Howells' last TV appearance together for Orville Redenbacher's Popcorn

Watch: Russell Johnson (The Professor) talks about his Gilligan's Island castmates

Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel restaurant, circa 1985 (Flickr)

Scott Michaels with members of the Gilligan's Island cast, including Alan Hale Jr., Bob Denver, and Dawn Wells

Scott Michaels with Sherwood Schwartz

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.
0:19.8	From sunny Hollywood, California, I'm Mike Dorsey.
0:23.0	I'm Scott Michaels.
0:24.0	And this is episode six, lucky six of the dearly departed podcast.
0:29.7	Just a couple of white chicks sitting around talking.
0:34.0	Oh, man, death and coffee.
0:37.7	So today we're going to be talking about Gilligan's Island, which I love because, you know, the opening line to that famous theme song, which is just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a faithful trip could be like the slogan for this whole show.
0:50.2	And that'll be the last time it's heard today.
0:52.5	Is it?
0:52.8	We're not going to sing the song?
0:54.3	You all know it. One of the things I want to. And that'll be the last time it's heard today. Is it? We're not going to sing the song? No.
0:56.6	You all know it.
1:01.4	One of the things I want to talk about when we get to it is that, you know, that was not the original theme song.
1:06.1	And the original song from the original pilot that never aired is out on YouTube.
1:07.9	So we'll get to all that.
1:10.2	But before we do, hate mail?
1:13.0	Hate mail.
1:14.8	You know what?
1:20.8	I had to dig a little bit for this time because we did, you know, we've gotten a ton of positive feedback from this, which is really cool. Yeah, and we're now averaging over 2,000 downloads per episode.
1:23.7	We just crossed 10,000 total.
1:25.3	So thank you, thank you, thank you, everybody.
1:26.8	Thanks,000 total. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Thanks you, guys. It's really
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