
Gilligan’s Island (CBS) 1964-1967
Shown from left: Bob Denver (as Gilligan), Alan Hale Jr. (The Skipper), Russell Johnson (as The Professor)
The TV series Gilligan’s Island was everybody’s favourite in the late ‘60s. Sixty years later in this apocalyptic, pandemic world, people who have first-hand memories of the series are falling off the twig at an alarming rate. In what could be the final nail in the coffin for the few surviving fans, new evidence has emerged that Led Zeppelin wrote the theme song for Gilligan’s Island. Here’s Puddles, my favourite clown, putting all the pieces together.