Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz. The show's ensemble cast features Bob Denver,Alan Hale Jr.,Jim Backus,Natalie Schafer,Tina Louise,Russell Johnson,and Dawn Wells. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26,1964,to April 17,1967. The series follows the comic adventures of seven castaways as they try to survive on an island where they are shipwrecked. Most episodes revolve around the dissimilar castaways' conflicts and their unsuccessful attempts to escape their plight,with the ship's first mate,Gilligan,usually being responsible for the failures.
The year 1966 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in that year.
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw,and his film work included leading roles in several adapted literary classics.
The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio,and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play,Me and Molly;a 1950 film The Goldbergs,and a 1973 Broadway musical,Molly. It also briefly spun off a comic strip from June 8,1944,to December 21,1945,with art by Irwin Hasen,a comic book artist who worked on various DC Comics titles and would later do the Dondi comic strip.
A television pilot in United Kingdom and United States television,is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is,therefore,a test episode for the intended television series,an early step in the series development,much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity.
Gertrude Berg was an American actress,screenwriter,and producer. A pioneer of classic radio,she was one of the first women to create,write,produce,and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929),later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award,both for Best Lead Actress.
Natalie Schafer was an American actress,best known today for her role as Lovey Howell on the sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964–1967).
Leonard Francis Penn was an American actor and director. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.
The following is the 1961–62 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1961 through April 1962. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series,new series,and series cancelled after the 1960–61 season.
Marion Ross is a retired American actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days,on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Before her success on Happy Days,Ross appeared in a variety of film roles,appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954),Sabrina (1954),Lust for Life (1956),Teacher's Pet (1958),Some Came Running (1958),Operation Petticoat (1959),and Honky (1971),as well as several minor television roles,one of which was on television's The Lone Ranger (1954). She was also twice nominated successively in 1992 and 1993 for the Primetime Emmy Award for her performance on the CBS television comedy-drama Brooklyn Bridge and later netted another Emmy nomination in 1999 for a two-episode appearance on the popular CBS drama Touched by an Angel. Ross also starred in the high-profile,long-anticipated sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983),The Evening Star (1996),in a turn for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress,as well as both a nomination and win for a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Mary Wickes was an American actress. She often played supporting roles as prim,professional women,secretaries,nurses,nuns,therapists,teachers and housekeepers,who made sarcastic quips when the leading characters fell short of her high standards.
Eleanor Audley was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work. She played Oliver Douglas's mother,Eunice Douglas,on the CBS sitcom Green Acres (1965–1969),and provided Disney animated features with the voices of the two iconic villains:Lady Tremaine in Cinderella (1950),and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty (1959). She had roles in live-action films,but was most active in radio programs such as My Favorite Husband as Liz Cooper's mother-in-law,Mrs. Cooper,and Father Knows Best as the Anderson family's neighbor,Mrs. Smith. Audley's television appearances include those in I Love Lucy,The Dick Van Dyke Show,Mister Ed,Hazel,The Beverly Hillbillies,Pistols 'n' Petticoats,and My Three Sons.
Aneta Louise Corsaut was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968),Judge Cynthia Justin on Matlock (1991–1992),and Jane in The Blob (1958).
Jeanette Nolan was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards,she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974),and in films such as Macbeth (1948).
Hyman JackAverback was an American radio,television,and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.
Four Star Television,also called Four Star International,was an American television production company. Founded in 1952 as Four Star Productions by prominent Hollywood actors Dick Powell,David Niven,Charles Boyer,Ida Lupino and Joel McCrea,it was inspired by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz founding Desilu Productions a year earlier. McCrea left soon after its founding to continue in films,television and radio,and was replaced by Ida Lupino as the fourth star—although Lupino did not own stock in the company.
House Calls is an American sitcom that lasted three seasons and 57 episodes,from December 17,1979 to September 6,1982,on CBS television,produced by Universal Television and based upon the 1978 feature film of the same name.
Addison Whittaker Richards,Jr. was an American actor of film and television. Richards appeared in more than three hundred films between 1933 and his death in 1964.
Vaughn Everett Taylor was an American actor. He became known for his roles in many anthology series,including Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1957) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1954). He also appeared in films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Psycho (1960).
Arthur Paul Smith was an American comic character actor with a perpetually perplexed or,alternatively,bemused expression,who,during the 1950s,1960s,1970s and early 1980s,appeared in scores of television episodes,primarily sitcoms,including regular roles in five series,and was also seen in numerous theatrical features,television films and commercials,frequently in brief,sometimes unbilled,comedic bits. Best known for The Doris Day Show (1969-1971).
