Gilligan's island cast death dates

To the eyes of this author, there are four perfect TV theme songs in the history of the medium. For instrumentals, the two best themes are Jack Marshall's surf-like monster music he composed for "The Munsters" and Danny Elfman's Platonic-ideal-of-a-haunted-house music for "Tales from the Crypt."

"The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" explains to potential viewers that the seven main characters of the show were on a three-hour tour of the Hawai'ian islands when their ship, the S.S.

Minnow, hit bad weather. The ship was damaged and washed up on an uncharted deserted island in the Pacific. The seven characters are listed: Gilligan (Bob Denver), the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.), the Millionaire (Jim Backus) and His Wife (Natalie Schafer), the Movie Star (Tina Louise), the Professor (Russell Johnson), and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells).

There is a lot of history to "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle," and several interesting stories of its making.

For one, the familiar "Ballad" wasn't the first theme song prop