Talk:Gilligan

Real name

The very first episode of Gilligan's Island lists the full character names in the shows ending credits. FYI - The Skipper's name is Johnas Grumby.

Yeah, we knew the skipper's name. As far as I'm concerned, though, the section of this -- and the pointer from the disambig page -- are both inaccurate. By the general rules of canonicity for broadcast television, Gilligan's first name is as yet unknown, and we should probably say so.
--Baylink (talk) 04:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I think it's a little strange that he should go by his last name only. I can't think of a single person who does that.74.100.60.53 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC).

I always assumed that Gilligan was a first name. And why was the professor only called "the professor", and Mr. Howell wasn't called Thurston?Flight Risk (talk) 20:32, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Age

In the episode "Meet the Meteor", a meteor hit the island that aged living things. Gilligan thought it would've age the castaways 50 years (as said in the dream scene many times that it was the 50th anniversary on the island,) and at the end of the episode looked in the mirror and said "I look pretty good for a man of 72!" Which we would infer that Gilligan was 22 years old, right? Korg TM 50 CTM (talk) 00:42, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

But to be a Korean war veteran, he would need to be a minimum of 29 years old when the show first premiered. Coincidentally, this was also Bob Denver's age when the show premiered. 140.194.140.31 (talk) 18:51, 23 October 2023 (UTC)