Ahoy There Maties!

Welcome to the November edition of the Gilligan's Island Fan Club. 

Well, we finally did it! We have our own domain name for the club. Since
other choice domains were taken, the closest one we could find was 
www.gilligansisle.com. If you are running Netscape, all you need to do is 
type gilligansisle. If you are using Internet Explorer, then unfortunately
you must type it all (www.gilligansisle.com). We are still working on a fixed
domain, as when gilligansisle is entered, it only takes you to our current 
page. You'll see when you try it. Also I have another e-mail address which is
at gilligan@gilligansisle.com. Use whichever e-mail address you want as I can
still be reached at gilligan@san.rr.com. Hopefully we will add another
feature and make the surfing a little more professional with a full domain
and page search engine. Feel free to advertise our site at: 
www.gilligansisle.com.

Looking for volunteers for the web page. We need a Skipper, Professor, 
Thurston, and a Lovey. These four selected people will have their e-mail's
on the main page so folks can contact them for answers to their questions, 
comments, ect... They would also be responsible for promoting the web
site to any page or search engine out there that might have use for such a 
link. In addition, the selected will do small tasks when called upon (trivia, 
info gathering, newsletters, ect...) Most likely all you will really do is 
answer questions from people who write to you. In order to be accepted, you 
need to have all or most of the books, all or most of the episodes on tape, 
and you really need to know your Gilligan stuff. You will also need 
everything on our site to work on your computer (.wav's, realaudio and video,
midi's, everything). Web TV is out of luck as I don't think they can view 
Real Video and Audio). If you are interested and think that you are a 
Gilligan know-it-all, drop me an e-mail.

Russell Johnson (Professor) has his biography up on our main page. Everything
you wanted to know about him is here, including his war days, and other
shows he appeared in. Pretty interesting if you're a Professor nut.

Finally, information on the Gilligan's Island radio used in the show! We have
gathered all of the facts we could (which isn't much) but interesting never 
the less. You can see it on our site at:
http://home.san.rr.com/gilligan/radio.html

Did you dress up as a member of Gilligan's Island for Halloween this year?
If so, float us a picture so that we can add it to the site. This should
be interesting.

New banners have been created by fan club member Ralph Campbell, and I might
add that they are fantastic! One way to promote Gilligan's Island is to add
one of these to your page, or any other page that might be interested.
http://home.san.rr.com/gilligan/banners.html

Did you go to the Oct 20th Cruise with the four castaways? If so, I would
love to hear about it, and please send pictures if you have them so I can
post them here on the site.

Katiedog writes, "I heard that some cable station out here in the New England 
area was canceling reruns of Gilligan's Island because of the Bob Denver 
marijuana incident...That's all I know.  Not sure what station, local or 
national. Maybe someone else has heard more about this." I have not heard
anything myslef, but maybe somebody on the East Coast can enlighten us.

_____________________________________________________________________________

And now for some Internet News! These URL's have been brought to my attention
and I thought that I would share them with you. Special thanks goes to all who
kept me informed.

If you own a Palm Pilot, then this site is a must! Josh Aversa, the creator
of the segment has done a wonderful job in creating a Gilligan's Island
theme!
http://members.xoom.com/PPilot/Gilligan/

Want a picture of the whole cast with their original autographs? The price
may be a little steep, but for ALL of the castaways?
http://www.wallsoffame.com/html/television_51.html

You can spend a vacation at Gilligan's Island according to this site.
http://www.copamarina.com/b05.html

This is where the S.S. Minnow took off from Hawaii.
http://www.hawaiicam.com/features/factoid/index.html

There's even a Gilligan Titanic song
http://www.wnok.com/mrtitan04.html

Purchase Mary Ann's Cookbook here:
http://204.127.237.108/c_2455.htm

This guy doesn't think that Willy was Gilligan's first name.
http://snopes.simplenet.com/radiotv/tv/gilligan.htm

It has been brought to my attention that a song was played on Dr. Demento
several years ago called "La Isla Gilligan" and was sung by Guns n' Moses. 
If anybody has that song, could you please let me know so I can put it up
for all to listen to?

More info about the Oct 20th cruise here:
http://www.cbs.com:80/prd1/now/template.display?p_story=88835&p_who=network

The castaways were awarded the American Icon Award. Go here for details:
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/1021/n_ap_1021_74.sml


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This time they made it back from their three-hour
cruise. The surviving cast members of "Gilligan's Island" -- Bob Denver,
Tina Louise, Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson -- reunited Tuesday night
for a Potomac River cruise on which they were honored with American Icon
awards by Women in Film & Video. Denver, Wells and Johnson long ago
accepted the fact that they will always be linked to the '60s show but
not Louise. She usually doesn't even take part in such reunions and The
Washington Post says she doesn't list "Gilligan's Island" on her resume.
"It's a part I played," she said. "I'm not with it like all of you
people. I don't get it. My most important role is as a mother."

Here comes the gripes! (I saved it for the end)

There are some of you out there that have put me in your special mailing 
list. Although I appreciate the invitations, I simply don't have the time to
sort through all of the 'check this out' e-mails out there. This site
receives approximately 35 e-mails a day, and by sorting through a bunch of
'get rich' schemes and chain letters, it keeps me from answering urgent e-mails
in a timely matter. Thankx for thinking of me tho', and by all means, I'm not 
talking about those people who keep me updated on events in the news and on
the web. We have 1,800 members worldwide, and with all of that brain power,
somebody has to know something. If you hear or see anything out there 
Gilligan-Related please let me know.

I've brought it up before, and I'll bring it up hopefully one last time. If
you are on AOL or Web TV and change your account or delete or quit that
service, please inform me of such a change. The last newsletter returned 50
AOL and Web TV addresses. I dread sending out newsletters these days because
I know I will get a ton of returns, and I have to delete those ONE by ONE.
(Yuk) I must add that this is VERY time consuming.

(Ahhhhhh.....I feel better now)

If any of you get this newsletter twice, please let me know.

That's about it for now. Mary Ann and I found this neat pancake syrup and it
holds as strong as glue! I'm gonna spread it over the entire Minnow now.
Hopefully this will make the boat strong enough to make it back to Hawaii.


Willy Gilligan - Webmaster
gilligan@gilligansisle.com

Gilligan's Island Fan Club
www.gilligansisle.com