Name That Skipper!
Most thought that the Skipper only was known by his job. Did he ever give his full name? Actually, during the 1964 pilot he did reveal his full name. The Skipper was really named Jonas Grumby. Remember when Alan Hale Jr.’s character passed and they scattered the ashes? Someone said, “It’s what ‘The Skipper’ would have wanted.” Well, Jonas, but same thing.
Name That Skipper!
Breaking The Fourth Wall
The fourth wall is the term for the space between the camera crew/audience and actors. Notoriously, Skipper would break that wall by looking straight at the camera to make a face. Apparently, there was also a plan for movie number four. Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, said it began with thinking the world was destroyed, “The seven of us think it’s destroyed and we get married. Gilligan marries Mary Ann and they have a baby boy. The Professor marries Ginger and they have a baby girl. And then there’s like a Blue Lagoon sequence where the kids grow up, so when Gilligan’s son is twenty, he sails off to see whether the world is really destroyed, and of course it isn’t. They heard it on the radio, and Gilligan broke it just before the disclaimer came on.”
Breaking The Fourth Wall