Television was a completely different ball game when the island of Giligan premiered at CBS in 1964. There were prestigious programs such as "Playhouse 90" and "Kraft Television Theater", but the media was largely considered smaller than the cinema. Movie stars would not dare to cut their bigger than life, with a large screen taking a role in a one -hour drama, let alone sitcom. Television is where the washed actors went to complete their careers.

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Sitkoms could be artistically made in the 1950s and 1960s, As evidenced by the classics like "I love Lucy", "Honey Month" and "Dick Van Dyke's show". On the other hand, they could also result in things like "G -Din", "Car 54, where are you?" and "My favorite Marsian". The directors of the network basically did not care one way or another as long as the eyeballs were drawn, but when it comes to examinations, it is always worth remembering that there are human beings at the end of the sharp notifications. And people who worked on a series showing horses that speak or alien, who were announcing for hours, making shows that thrilled millions of television spectators did not enjoy the opening of their morning newspaper and reading about how their buffer contributes to the fall of Western civilization.

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As an experienced comedy writer who worked on the radio version of "The Adventures of Ozi and Harriet" and the wildly popular "Red Skelton Show" for TV, Sherwood Schwartz knew he had a knife to make people laugh like pigeons. So, when, in unthinkable pain, he created "Giligan Island", " An awkward sitcom about seven Castaways shipologists on an undiscovered island in the Pacific Ocean, he was ready for bricks. But the cast had to grow thick skin quickly when critically invested on them.

In an interview with Munchi's venerable evening stamp (through Metv), Schwartz said he had left for the first season knowing there was a hit series. "The pilot was destined three separate times in front of a different audience, and these people liked the street," he said. "They couldn't be wrong." This is true. Unless you pay people to enjoy the enjoyment (and even then), the real, convulsive laughter cannot be lying.

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Schwarz then got a little blurred with Munchi's evening stamp about his regular people's shooting facility. "I had conviction it would be a hit," he said. "How? My business is to know what people want. I have been associated with four plays in the past 15 years who have never been out of the top 10 in the rating ... and how do you know what people want? I am commercial. I laugh at what people out We laugh at our business. "

Although "Giligan Island" will only air three seasons despite being popular (It was frustrated to live "Gunsmoke" at the request of the former CBS Honcho William S. Paley), Schwarz's commercial instincts will be backed up years later by the success of Brady Banc. He laughed at the bank. Don't laugh? (At least, not initially?) Alan Hale Runior, who played the "Island Giligan" skirt.

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"Of course, we were shaken by those first views," Veteran of show business said. "Who wouldn't be? We just decided to try harder."

Giligan's Island has become a union cut, which still finds fans through streaming 62 years after its premiere. It is not art, but it works incredibly well on its modest terms.