The series itself was famously dismissed by critics when it premiered in 1964. Its premise-a three-hour tour gone oh-so-wrong-was absurd even by sitcom standards, and its broad comedy made no attempt ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "Gilligan's Island" was Alan Hale Jr.'s most high-profile gig. The actor portrayed Captain Jonas Grumby, aka The Skipper, on the show, its ...

Alan Hale Jr. was born Alan Hale MacKahan on March 8, 1921, in Los Angeles, into a household where show business was neither exotic nor romanticized. His mother, Gretchen Hartman, had worked as a ...