[WIMom]

As I was grabbing the pictures, I found out that the Professor and Mary Ann didn't have it in their contract to be considered main characters. After the first season, and the popularity of the series, it was changed.

[phillibuck]

A friend of mine told me he watched the movie that was on about GI last Sunday night and they said that Bob Denver specifically told the producers, either add "the professor and Mary Ann" rightfully at the end of the theme song, or just include me (Gilligan) with the "and the rest" part. He evidently was pretty cool and wanted everyone to get noticed. So the producers had to buckle and change the words.