Considering he actually built things...
He was a scientist of some sort on the show. And I think I read somewhere that the actor had actually worked as a teacher.
There is a YouTube video or two that theorize Gilligan’s Island was a form of purgatory.
“”Professor” Roy Hinkley Jr., M.A. B.S. Ph.D. is one of the main characters on the show. He is a science teacher at a high school, and because of his academic experience he is almost solely referred to as “The Professor” by the Castaways instead of his real name.”
https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/The_Professor
I always figured he was an engineer, but I’m open to consider he was a twisted psychologist.
Womans studies. He flunked
I think he was “part of the Swamp” if you ask me.
A Dr. Fauci in Levis and boat shoes.
I believe he was a Professor of Tropical Innovations.
It’s a rather narrow field. Lucky for the rest of the group that he was also on the cruise.
More importantly: Ginger or Mary Ann?
He was gay, you do the math.
Years ago I was in a revival house watching It came from Outer Space in 3D. Russell Johnson has a small bit part in it and he appears in a scene in a car and the group I was with yelled out it’s the Professor!! Everyone in the theatre laughed.
Sherwood Schwartz, the brilliant creator and producer of the show, wrote that he received volumes of mail from people who “knew” the location of the island and how the castaways could be rescued. A definite percentage of the population, no doubt voters, in the 1960s beleived the show was real. There is little doubt that given the popularity of vampire shows, chain saw massacre and comic book films, that percentage has increased greatly and they vote. Trump cannot depend on logic alone to ensure his reelection.
Russell Johnson (The Professor), a real American hero. Flew 44 combat missions in WW2.
From wikipedia:
After graduating from high school, Johnson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. On completing his training, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He flew 44 combat missions in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a bombardier in B-25 twin-engined medium bombers.[4]
On March 4, 1945, while flying as a navigator in a B-25 with the 100th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, his B-25 and two others were shot down during a low-level bombing and strafing run against Japanese military targets in the Philippine Islands. The B-25s encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire, and all three had to ditch in the sea off Zamboanga. Johnson broke both ankles in the landing, and his bomber’s co-pilot was killed. Johnson received a Purple Heart for his injuries. He was also awarded the Air Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three campaign stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one campaign star, and the World War II Victory Medal.
Johnson was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant on November 22, 1945, then joined the United States Air Force Reserve.[5]
He was a Professor of Psycho Ceramics, just like J. S. Carberry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_S._Carberry
Lot’s ‘O fun!
He was a eunuch. With Ginger and Mary Ann runnin around all dolled up he must’ve been. Gilligan was too stupid, Skipper too fat and Mr Howell too old and he was stuck with Mrs Howell.
Gender Studies?
That wasn’t a problem back then so no need to study it.
Maybe Economics before the wreck .... ‘gender studies’ after? :-)
Slightly OT but does anyone remember the episode where a Japanese holdout from the war sails his mini-sub into the lagoon?
He had buck teeth and coke bottle bottom glasses and other stereotypes of the day. Current TV muckety-mucks would have a cow if anyone proposed such a thing today.
Russell Johnson played him. He was a B-25 bombardier in the Pacific in WWII. Flew 44 missions. Shot down during a low level strafing attack. Broke both of his ankles in the crash and that ended the war for him.