"Gilligan's Island" only ran for three seasons starting in 1964, but it taught the world that if you're stranded on an island with seven people, it's best to have a Professor, a Skipper and a bumbling ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a show that became such a big pop cultural hit, "Gilligan's Island" had a somewhat fraught history. For one thing, the pilot episode ...

This Oct. 2, 1978 photo shows Russell Johnson, as the professor, posing during filming of a two-hour reunion show, "The Return from Gilligan's Island," in Los Angeles. NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Russell ...

Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as “The Professor,” the fix-it man who kept his fellow “Gilligan’s Island” castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.

It helped that "Gilligan's Island" featured a theme song that surely remains one of the most strikingly efficient in TV history, with Schwartz and George Wyle's "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" ...