Reason For Half Mast
You may or may not have noticed the half mast flag in the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island. It turns out that this was a tribute to John F. Kennedy. The crew just finished filming the pilot episode on the same day JFK was shot.
Reason For Half Mast
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Inside Joke
Sherwood Schwartz, creator of the Gilligan’s Island confessed that he hated Newton Minow, the head of the Federal Communications Commission or FCC. As a joke, he named the shipwreck after him, thus the S.S. Minnow. Quite the joke, eh?
Inside Joke
