Despite what the critics thought of Gilligan's Island when the show made its debut in 1964 (and their comments were not kind) ...

Left, Alan Hale Jr. as the Skipper, Tina Louise as movie star Ginger Grant and Bob Denver as Gilligan in "Gilligan's Island." Credit: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo CLAIM TO ...

but there was also the professional relationship between the Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr.) and his first mate, Gilligan (Bob Denver). As audiences would eventually learn, Gilligan was kind of clumsy ...