- The cast of "Gilligan's Island," from left, Russell Johnson, as the professor; Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III; Natalie ...

Sherwood Schwartz's 1964 sitcom "Gilligan's Island" is simultaneously hopeful and hopeless. It is hopeful in that seven ...

More than 60 years ago, seven castaways arrived on a deserted island. Find out what happened to the cast of 'Gilligan’s Island' after the series finale in 1967 CBS Photo Archive/Getty In 1964, a ...

In discussions of Sherwood Schwartz's 1964 sitcom "Gilligan's Island," one can often detect a note of ambivalence from the speaker. On the one hand, "Gilligan's Island" may be one of the most ...

It's pretty tough to look at Gilligan's Island and take it seriously, but in some ways that may have been the point when writer/producer Sherwood Schwartz created the show in 1964. Times were dark ...