Schwartz famous within the interview that he was trying to find a TV premise that may unite disparate characters and drive them to work together. He appreciated the thought of seven individuals, all from completely different walks of life, trapped in the identical place, making an attempt to type relationships. He thought for a second that everybody may work in the identical workplace, maybe, however that wasn’t doable as a result of, properly, somebody may get fired or merely go house. “The place might they be,” Schwartz requested himself, “the place they needed to get together with one another?” Is appears that stranding all of them on a desert island was the right answer.
The “Robinson Crusoe” parallels, he defined, have been only a coincidence:
“Lots of people assume that I learn ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and that is the place I obtained the thought for ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ Now, it does occur that ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is a favourite e-book of mine, however that is not what began it. I believe these individuals who imagine which have put the cart earlier than the horse. I used to be searching for a method that seven individuals — I do not know why I repair on the quantity seven, however that is what I did — the place might they be that they could not go away one another.”
Two sailors, an mental, a farmgirl, two millionaires, and an actor. That was Schwartz’s ensemble. The sailors, it appears, would essentially must be the ultimate characters to enter the equation, as they’d be carried together with the premise. The character work was conceived of first. Which means Gilligan himself the final one to hitch Schwartz’s ensemble. Or maybe the Skipper. Which was a great factor as a result of, as “Bizarre Al” Yankovic as soon as sang, I am ‘n Love (wit da Skipper).