Gilligan's Island - why so popular? (commercial, quotes, theme song, theme)
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Syfy has Sharknado, up to #5. AMC The Walking Dead, 2 different series. Two Broke Girls and Two and 1/2 Men. I watch The Walking Dead, mind you, but really, people question Gilligan's Island?
Gillian's Island is not the only show that wasn't very popular when it ran originally. The original Star Trek series was discontinued after 3 seasons due to the low ratings at the time.
Gillian's Island is not the only show that wasn't very popular when it ran originally. The original Star Trek series was discontinued after 3 seasons due to the low ratings at the time.
Star Trek fans claim the show was more popular than the ratings suggested. Perhaps who was watching it (eggheads and aspiring eggheads) was more important than how many were watching it.
Star Trek fans claim the show was more popular than the ratings suggested. Perhaps who was watching it (eggheads and aspiring eggheads) was more important than how many were watching it.
It was also a casualty of cost. You could make to cheap sitcoms, be pretty much assured there was an audience, and fill the space for what a half or more of what Trek cost. And the advertisers were not sure what audience to aim at. They knew there was one, just not the usual. If CBS had paid any attention the fandom which started during the first season, and the intensity of it, and if things had been closer to today, they just might have not given up. Today things are made for target markets but then it was to sell more soup. Today the sorts of things which trek fandom is willing to spend their money on is very much mainstream.
I love how despite all the jokes and belief that it would all go away, the techies and the nerds and the ones they joked about turned out to be the winners. Live Long and Prosper.
Star Trek fans claim the show was more popular than the ratings suggested. Perhaps who was watching it (eggheads and aspiring eggheads) was more important than how many were watching it.
Yes, and the generation who wanted to make all the techie goodies real. What would your average person have said if you'd told them in fifty years, laptops and smart phones and all the other toys we take absolutely for granted now would be an expected part of life?
There is a starfleet combadge you can buy which links with your smart phone. Keep it in your pocket and wear your combadge. It beeps if you get a call. Tap it and answer. Continue speaking hands free. Tap it to hang up. It responds to voice commands too. Say Call Mom, and it will dial for you.
I SO want one. I could even wear it on my Starfleet uniform.
Mary Ann, Mary Ann, Mary Ann, and banana cream pie.
It was about Mary Ann? I thought the attraction was about Gilligan, in part, who used to play "beatnik" Maynard G. Krebs, in the (now ancient history) Dobie Gillis show. He was a character, kind of a goofy type, who had a following.
One could ask the same question of a lot of shows back then. For example, anything with Mary Tyler Moore in it, and similar "working girl" shows. I guess those were a counterbalance to all the shows about stereotypical suburban families. Single women in the working world were somewhat of a novelty at the time, at least to the viewing audience.
It was about Mary Ann? I thought the attraction was about Gilligan, in part, who used to play "beatnik" Maynard G. Krebs, in the (now ancient history) Dobie Gillis show. He was a character, kind of a goofy type, who had a following.
One could ask the same question of a lot of shows back then. For example, anything with Mary Tyler Moore in it, and similar "working girl" shows. I guess those were a counterbalance to all the shows about stereotypical suburban families. Single women in the working world were somewhat of a novelty at the time, at least to the viewing audience.
Mary Tyler Moore's show is a major leap in television. You had a single working woman who was quite happy about it and not out looking, and was a voice for all the women who had made it and those who dreamed of.
A lot of the shows then were symptomatic of change. Even Gilligans Island, which was just meant as comedy, had people who had involuntarily dropped out and push comes to shove were really in no hurry to get rescued back the the busy real world.
It's also true that there's a direct line between Manard and Gilligan. They both were a part of the movement by some to 'drop out' of the norm and had their different drummers. Now, if Dobie had been on that boat????
I haven't seen it, but I understand that her film debut in "God's Little Acre" was well-received. She was very good in her role in the original of "The Stepford Wives".
I think she was hampered more by just not getting particularly good roles in not particularly good pictures.
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