Sherwood Schwartz gave us Gilligan and the show’s theme song. Who didn’t love Gilligan? Like Robinson Crusoe, I never wanted them to get off the Island. Before that he worked with Jim Backus on I Married Joan; the Nelsons on Ozzie and Harriet and Red Skelton on the Red Skelton Show. He must have been a very funny guy. Lived a long life and productive life, too. But, what is more important, is that I never heard of him, yet his TV work had an enormous effect on my life.
Don’t remember any people of color or ethnics on the show. He created the shows in the 50’s through the mid 70’s. Men didn’t have real jobs; if they did, they weren’t very good at them. The Captain was incompetent, Gilligan was a fool, and Ozzie didn’t have recognizable employment. The women looked good and spoke and acted stupidly. Everyone got along in the end, even if they were of different social and economic classes. There were people who acted retarded. They were accepted also.
