Doll-A-Day 2019 #186: Gilligan's Island Skipper and Professor

  What with one thing and another,including the fact that our car is about to die and has only been making trips to the grocery store and Ken's workplace,Korglady's prize was only recently mailed.So watch for it Korglady,and let me know when it arrives.
  Today we're looking at some old friends.

It's The Skipper and The Professor from Gilligan's Island. There was a Gilligan doll too, but I don't have it. While they made a special portly body sculpt for The Skipper,they didn't do a special skinny one for Gilligan, and he looks way too buff.

These dolls are from 1997,and were made by Premiere, the same company who made the Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa doll you saw HERE,and the Laurel and Hardy dolls you saw HERE. Also like those dolls they were Target stores exclusives.

They are numbered,limited editions.

The back of the boxes are alike. They feature pictures from the show,but mostly Gilligan. There are  only 2 pictures of the Professor. One is on the side of the boxes.

The box back has a flap that opens to show more scenes from the show.

This picture from the first episode shows The Professor and The Skipper,and Gilligan.

It wasn't a 'three hour fishing party'. It was 'a three hour tour'! Duh! Haven't these people ever heard the theme song?!

The Skipper wears his blue shirt,but his khaki pants are too dark.

His skipper hat is part of his head, and not removable.
 

The Professor wears his khaki pants. They're a bit dark too.

He has a brown vinyl belt.

They made a mistake with his shirt though. Instead of the light blue shirt The Professor always wore, for some reason they've given him a blue and white striped shirt.

He also has molded and painted socks. (His shoes are molded too,and like the socks, part of his legs.)

The shoes on neither are accurate. Both characters wore blue deck shoes,and both dolls wear white shoes.
 

The Skipper has blue socks.

The Skipper was portrayed by Alan Hale Jr.,and this doll is an ok likeness. Not great,but ok.

Russell Johnson played The Professor. The doll's likeness to him is pretty good.

Both dolls come with two accessories...
 

The Skipper comes with a life preservers and the ship's wheel.

The Professor also comes with a life preserver,as well as the radio,the castaway's only contact with the outside world...except for all those people who kept dropping in on them throughout the series.

 ...and a stand.

The radio is a good idea. The radio featured prominently in a lot of plots.And they didn't do a terrible job with the mold. The life preserver even makes sense, but it could have at least had 'SS Minnow' written on it. And they could have given the life preserver to only one of them. There were plenty of  other things they could have chosen. The Professor could have had one of his inventions,or a book. The Skipper could have had a bamboo or coconut cup,like they used on the show. The best accessory they could have given The Skipper would have been a removable hat to hit Gilligan with.
 Both dolls are jointed at the neck,shoulders, and hips, as well as having jointed knees and elbows.
 

They have different hand sculpts. The Skipper's right hand seems to be sculpted for strangling Gilligan.

Alan Hale Jr. was the son of, obviously, Alan Hale. Alan Hale (the father) was an actor too. He was a Warner Brothers contract player. He's best known for his role as Little John in the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood" film, starring Errol Flynn. He also appeared in Laurel and Hardy's "Our Relations" as a waiter, and in Danny Kaye's "The Inspector General" as 'Kovatch',as well as many other famous films like "Algiers","The Prince and the Pauper","Of Human Bondage",and "Hollywood Canteen", where he appeared as himself. Alan Jr. greatly resembled his father,and is more well known these days. Whenever Ivy and I are watching something and Alan Sr. shows up we always say, "Skipper's dad!".

The Skipper,Alan Hale Jr., on the right, with his dad,Alan Hale.

  The other characters on "Gilligan's Island" used actual names. Even Gilligan had at least one name. (And only one is ever mentioned. The show's creator Sherwood Schwartz said that if Gilligan had ever been given a full name, it was to have been 'Willy Gilligan'. I like 'Gilligan' better as a first name.) The real names of the Skipper and the Professor characters were used only once. The real names were mentioned in the pilot episode,when the radio announcer is talking about the ship wreck. (There were two 'pilots':one that wasn't actually used,where the Professor character was played by a different actor,and one that used the regular cast.)  But what were those real names? Can you remember?

'The Professor',whose real name was 'Roy Hinkley'.

'The Skipper',whose real name was 'Jonas Grumby'.
  Those are today's dolls. See you tomorrow for another one.