On this day in 1967, Gilligan’s Island, a TV comedy about seven people stranded on a deserted island, aired its last episode. Featuring Bob Denver as the happy, hapless Gilligan, first mate of the ill-fated SS Minnow, the show also starred Alan Hale as the Skipper, Jim Backus as millionaire Thurston Howell III, and Tina Louise as the glamorous starlet Ginger. Although the show ran for only three years, it aired in reruns for decades. The characters were resurrected in three TV movies.