Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, dead at 70

"Writer-creator Sherwood Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications."

I am trying to wrap my mind around this. What did we learn from watching Gilligan's Island?

One thing I noticed, the Howells were treated like royalty, although money has no value on an uncharted desert isle. What's up with that? Did the Howells posess some sort of charismatic quality, which caused money to flow to them, instead of the other way round? Why, I remember Mr. Howell when he only had one wheel on his wagon.

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