Ahoy There Maties! Welcome to the November edition of the "Gilligan's Island Fan Club." We finally did it! We now have our own domain running the system! www.gilligansisle.com will be seen throughout our pages, and not the normal home.san.rr.com stuff. Well, there are still some rr.com pages out there, but that's just to facilitate the enormous space we need to run this site. To a lot of you this news might be no big deal, but to us...... it's one step closer to civilization! http://www.gilligansisle.com Hope everybody had a nice Halloween! We sure did! The Skipper was a Pirate, the Howell's were dressed up as Hobo's, and I was dressed up as a Ghost. If any of you dressed up as one of the castaways this year, and would like to have your picture added to our site, just send the scanned image to us. If you watched the "Simpson's" halloween special, Gilligan appeared once again in a short clip. The comic collector dude captured all of the famous people in the world. (Xena, Gilligan, and more) That just goes to show you that everybody still remembers Gilligan, just as they remember George Washington! Fan club member Tom Prisk sent us this great interview with Bob Denver (Gilligan). Check it out for some good reading. http://classictv.about.com/entertainment/tv/classictv/library/weekly/aa070299.htm sent by Tom Prisk A new comic strip was sent to us by David P Simpson. Here you go: http://www.san.rr.com/gilligan/comics/comic16.gif Want to purchase some collectibles? One of our members are selling cards. Here's what he says: I have sheets of Topps Gilligan's Island cards from the mid-1960's. The sheets contain 9 cards still uncut. I'm currently selling them on eBay. If you'd like any other info about them, please contact me. Bob RLB777@bitsmart.com For those of you who play the Professor's daily trivia, we have revamped a lot of the pages due to the cheaters on the game. Seems that people would use 10 different login names and hog most of the top 25 scores. It has been programmed to detect your computer, and will let only one question per day be played on that same computer. Unfortunately, the kids and spouses who play the game on the same computer won't be able to play. We didn't know of any other way to stop the cheating from happening, and some innocent people had to suffer. Sorry for the incovienance. We are currently experiencing problems with the trivia site, and hope to have it fixed shortly. Last week we did a story on Middle Bass, and I called it a lake, but it was actually an island off the coast of Sandusky, Ohio in Lake Erie. Thanks to Joe Kenney and Tim for the correction. For those of you who have cable. The Nostalgia Channel will be airing Leslie Uggams with guest Bob Denver on Wednesday, Nov 24 at 06:30pm. If any of you can tape it for us, that would be fantastic! We'll put your name up in lights. We can't get cable from way out here! I've been told about an old commercial by Alaska Airlines. The setting of the commercial in an Alaska Airlines jetliner. The mother of the president of Alaska Airlines is seated next to she recognizes as "the professor from Gilligan's Island". The actress really is the mother of the president, and is frequently featured as a person who cannot be convinced that you don't have to pay more for the great service on Alaska. He tries to convince her that by his calculations you don't pay any more for Alaska, than you do for the discount airlines. She states that his calculations are not always that reliable, because in 3 years of network television and 33 years of syndication he still couldn't get them rescued. His last line is "...first I get cut out of the theme song, and then this!". We will contact Alaska to see if we can get ahold of this one. Hey, let's CHAT! Chat with your fellow fan club members this Saturday! Go to our chat page to find out how you can participate. It's as easy as entering a tagname. http://www.gilligansisle.com/chat.html Well, I have to go eat something now. It appears that the Skipper noticed that I am 10 pounds underweight. If I don't gain some pounds, I'll never be allowed to re-enter the Navy. I have 5 coconut cream pie waiting for me! Life is good! Willy Gilligan Gilligan's Island Fan Club www.gilligansisle.com