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Maybe you didn’t catch this but Jim Backus played Thurston Howell III on the show, but that character was a small nod to another one he played. Gilligan’s Island producer, Sherwood Schwartz also had the show The Alan Young Show on which Jim Backus was playing Hubert Updyke III. So when Shwartz was pitching Gilligan’s Island, he said, “the island would be a social microcosm and a metaphorical shaming of world politics in the sense that when necessary for survival, yes we can all get along.”
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