'Gilligan's Island' creator Sherwood Schwartz dies (94)

SFGate.com ^ | 7/12/11 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- The man who created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch" has died.

Great niece Robin Randall says Sherwood Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday. He was 94.

Schwartz was a veteran comedy writer when he created two of TV's best-remembered sitcoms in the 1960s. Over the years, they have inspired parodies, spinoffs and countless stand-up comedy jokes.

[DManA]

They named the boat the SS Minnow to spite FCC Chairman Newton Minnow who called TV “a vast wasteland”.

[angcat]

LOL no kidding. He also created the Brady Bunch.

[freedumb2003]

How sad.

He created the most beloved and memorable comedy series’ in TV history — and the humor was timeless and is as funny today as 40-50 years ago.

It was a sad and dark day when the “suits” decided almost overnight to remove his family-style shows.

RIP — you were a pioneer to be remembered forever in media history.

[WOBBLY BOB]

IIRC, Tina Louise wanted to be the star and he told her “there’s a reason it’s called ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and not ‘Ginger’s Island’.”

RIP, Sherwood.

[freedumb2003]

>>IIRC, Tina Louise wanted to be the star and he told her “there’s a reason it’s called ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and not ‘Ginger’s Island’.”<<

And she, of course, did the smartest career move in TV history since Parnell Roberts left Bonanza by having nothing to do with GI after the series concluded. I mean, look at what a huge star she became, right?

[NormsRevenge]

Report: ‘Brady Bunch’ creator Schwartz dies [also wrote Gilligan Theme]
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:33:10 AM · by Red Badger · 9 replies
MSNBC ^ | 07-12-2011 | Staff

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2747391/posts

[Huskrrrr]

I wonder who holds the patents for all those bamboo tools and devices invented on the GI?

[fishtank]

I respected the show when I heard last year that it was modeled after the dangers of the seven deadly sins.....

.....every character was a personification of said sins.........

[NEWwoman]

Favorite show as a kid. Clean comedy.

Blogged about the show here:
http://smithsk.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-years-lessons-from-gilligans-island.html

[lormand]

If he were working in today’s environment, he would be forced to include a “positive gay character” in every sitcom.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Yogurt, Lone Star, and other users of the Schwartz are in mourning.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Probably Al Gore- one of Biden’s “green jobs” ...saved or created.

[NEWwoman]

Favorite show as a kid. Clean comedy.

Blogged about the show here:
http://smithsk.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-years-lessons-from-gilligans-island.html

[Miles the Slasher]

"I respected the show when I heard last year that it was modeled after the dangers of the seven deadly sins..... .....every character was a personification of said sins........."

What sin was Mary Ann?

[Miles the Slasher]

"I respected the show when I heard last year that it was modeled after the dangers of the seven deadly sins..... .....every character was a personification of said sins........."

What sin was Mary Ann?

[cynicalman]

besides how many were a Ginger watcher. Mary Ann was the one.

[katana]

What sin was Mary Ann?

Mine (at least in my adolescent imagination)

[WOBBLY BOB]

gluttony- she was quite a coconut creme pie hound.

[texaschick]

I would guess envy. She always thought Ginger was prettier than her.