Dramatically Different Pilot
Now that we are seriously getting into things, we need to tell the fans that how the show turned out wasn’t completely in accordance with the pilot. Most importantly, the characters of Gilligan’s Island were different. Also, the ladies were really secretaries and an educator for secondary school. Therefore, the network came to a realization that this drastically different pilot could baffle fans. Thus, there wasn’t any re-broadcasting of it until the point that they evaluated audiences would have the capacity to sort out these discrepancies. Only in 1992 did they re-broadcast it!
Dramatically Different Pilot
Contract Clause
From the whole Gilligan’s Island crew, Dawn Wells was the one who best benefited financially from the entire franchise. Everything is thanks to her then husband, who was an agent for television and urged her to include on her contract a specific provision in fine print. Within the provision, it said Wells was to get royalties for each syndication Gilligan’s Island gets from that point on. At present, when you think about the show even playing reruns today, what she did was fantastic. That implies Wells still gets checks from being Mary Ann!
Contract Clause
