Original Professor, John Gabriel, from the Gilligan’s Island pilot speculates that he was fired for being too sexy.

Is there an article to back up your claim?

[bold]#Justice4SexyProfessor

Sure, MaryAnn.

PROOF.

His speculation starts about 1:50.

Later they assured him he was simply too young.

We'd ask him but he's, you know, dead.

I used to think he was soooo hot as Seneca Beaulac on Ryan's Hope.

Original calypso theme song - composed by John Williams!

The appearance of John Gabriel is limited to mere seconds, so as to avoid sexual overload in the opening credits.

Russell Johnson was a DILF. Though I didn't care for his blow dried bouffant in later episodes.

Original Ginger:

If anyone was deemed too sexy it would’ve been Skipper! Woof!

Russell Johnson was way hotter than that guy. Gabriel looks like sexual predator more than a sex animal.

And I'll always love Johnson for the support he gave his gay son David as he battled publicly against AIDS, and then continued his late son's charity work for the cause. This was WAY before it was fashionable.

Gabriel also played Mary's beau, Andy Rivers on multiple episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I remember him when I was a little kid and my mom would watch Ryan's Hope. I think he put Delia in her place, or something...

I thought the professor they had on the show was hot AF....my taste for sure!

They were both guys I would love to have been stranded on a desert island with.

Russell Johnson was perfect as the professor. I thought he was nerd/daddy hot on GI and if you dig around he was hot in many old b&w t.v. shows.

Also, Tina Louise may have been a cunt but as Ginger she was perfection. They were all great doing a really dumb show and making it work.

We're still talking about it.

Denny Miller, who also brought excessive sex to the show and had to be limited to two episodes (the lost-at-sea surfer boy and Tongo, the ape man who turned out to be a method actor) was married in real life to Kit Smythe, the original Ginger at r9.

The video’s title and thumbnail are deceiving on that count.

I'm too sexy for this boat, too sexy for this boat ...

He was handsome, muscled, and hairy. I dreamed of doing him.

I'm honestly surprised by everyone's preference for Russell Johnson. Oh well, more John Gabriel for me.

But could Russel Crowe carry a tune?

^ Oops, Russell Johnson. We already know about Russell Crowe, unfortunately.

Put down your arms, polarized Professor lovers.

Here’s a pic of John Gabriel on Here’s Lucy. Because if there’s anything that impassions DL, it’s Lucy.

^ I have to be the only gay who is not a fan of Lucy.

Denny Miller as the surfer on Gilligan’s Island.

ASS ALERT

R23, she is widely despised here.

R19: the Russell Johnson thing is a nerd attraction.

Denny Miller played the Gorton Fisherman in all those TV commercials and retired rich and happy.

R22, is that a still from Gabriel's audition to play Beuregard in Mame? I always felt that the fundamental problem with the film version of Mame was Robert Preston. If Lucy had someone she could play off of and had more sexual tension with, it would have gone a long way to putting the film over as the box office sensation it should have been.

That cunt Carol Brady chose her gay husband over me.

Denny and Mrs. Brady had matching hairdos, r29!

OP damn he was hot

The sad thing is, he used the word "anyhow."

R28, Lucy? Sexual tension? You gotta be joking!

At R24 everybody looks like they want to f#ck him! Even Skipper!

Someone bought me a bucket hat that you soak in water to stay cool. Now I look like an old Gilligan that's eaten all of Mary Ann's coconut cream pies.

R22, Is that John Gabriel with Lucy or Bea Arthur?

R22, Is that John Gabriel with Lucy or Bea Arthur?

John Gabriel wanted to do Mame with Lucy AND Bea Arthur, but Gary....

R18- I remember him as a spokesperson for Oldsmobile.

John Gabriel trying to plant his dick all over the cast of Here’s Lucy.

Gale Gordon, don’t drop the soap. .

I LOVED Gilligan's Island as a kid - Russell Johnson was the first crush I jerked off to, followed swiftly by the still living Mark Godard from Lost In Space.

It's ironic isn't it that the show owes its existence to the great actress Ida Lupino, who of course directed multiple episodes of Gilligan's Island.

I love how Skipper has hearts in his eyes in r24's picture, just like the girls do.

His wife played that trashy bitch Edna Thornton Sago on All My Children.

I think Russell was hotter too. And regretfully, the role probably stymied his career. Interesting article.

At Lucy's age in Mame who was she going to have sexual tension with? Lloyd Nolan

[quote]? I always felt that the fundamental problem with the film version of Mame was Robert Preston.

Um, no. There was a much bigger and much more fundamental problem.

[quote]I have to be the only gay who is not a fan of Lucy.

I was a fan of "I Love Lucy."

"The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy" are torture to sit through.

John Gabriel's hair in OP's photo looks too bizarre. That's why he wasn't hired.

@r41, "I LOVED Gilligan's Island as a kid - Russell Johnson was the first crush I jerked off to"

Yeah, he made me think about stuff too 😛

Maybe he just didn’t look very smart.

R51 - Poor thing couldn't even figure out how to button his shirt...

He could plug MY hole any time!

John Gabriel.

Oh, my god, the guy in R29's photo looks like Trump. 🤢

[quote] I have to be the only gay who is not a fan of Lucy.

You're not alone, I couldn't care less about her either.

Actors who are always showing off their hairy chests are sluts. Charlton Heston, Tom Selleck and John Gabriel ---- all sluts.

Miss Locher recently did a John Gabriel tribute with his two daughters and several of his Ryan's Hope co-stars. Ilene Kristen said that he hated the storyline where his son Edmond dies in a fire.

Those khakis on The Professor!! Mmmmmm mmmmm

Looke at the men on Gilligan's Island. John Gabriel sticks out as too masculine. He look like a man who has sex. You don't look at Skipper or Gilligan and think of them as sexual beings. Mr. Howell is safely married -and if you think of him in terms of sex at all, it's the comfortably-married-and-do-it-on-birthdays-and-special-occasions type. It's not the Russell Johnson wasn't a handsome, sexy man -but he didn't project himself as a sexual being. Clearly Sherwood Schwartz thought Gabriel could be the Professor -but the network types wanted someone who was less of a sexual threat to the two women. Remember, this was a time when belly buttons had to be kept covered. No hint of sex on the island!

Yet they apparently never thought Ginger or Mary Ann were too sexual????

I mean, come on.

r19 for the old f/hags, he's more representative of leading male love interests from that era.

O.G's would have been better set for the mid to late 90s in his youth to 30s.

while post forty, he was everything the 80s was made of.

J.G. would be considered "attractive" by today's standard but back then, he was basic bitch.

Don't confuse "sexy" with "sexual," R61. Mary Ann, beautiful and sexy as she was, exuded a fresh-scrubbed, wholesome quality. She wasn't a sex pot. And Ginger? She was a siren; a vamp. She constantly tried to use her feminine charms to get what she wanted from the men, but she never gave them what they (presumably) wanted. The censors of the day didn't want audiences to think there was hanky-panky on the island. Ginger clearly wasn't going to do anything with the men - Howell was married and older; the skipper was older and fat; Gilligan was to all intents a little boy, an innocent. That left the professor. He was emasculated with his intellect. (Again, that was easier to imagine with Johnson than with Gabriel.)

Today, of course, audiences would presume a ton of sex on that island. If Ginger was saying "no" to the men, she would be hitting on Mary Ann instead. And who knows how the men would take care of business? Maybe Gilligan would be a pass-around bottom... But not back then. In the 60s we had married couples sleeping in separate beds.

Married people had to sleep in separate beds if they didn't want more children. Birth control was a sin. Especially among the Irish who would happily have 14 children rather than offend Our Lord.

It's hard to be hot and beefy on a sitcom. The other cast members feel threatened!

I had a gayling crush on the Professor. And he was smart! He could build a radio out of coconuts and have Gilligan power it with a bicycle and they would all be saved!

The professor was supposed to be a closeted gay man. right? From IMDb:

[quote] This has got to the campiest TV show of all time. When you look at Gilligan's Island you see a stereotype of the different types of people who make up our society. You have the working closet gays (Skipper and Gilligan); the intellectual college homosexual Professor; the bisexual stripper, model, actress, coke whore (Ginger); the sweet closet lesbian (Mary-Ann) and the older rich kinky swingers (the Howells).

Except for Mary Ann, that seems about right to me. She seemed more like a Questioning virgin.

@r66, "He could build a radio out of coconuts and have Gilligan power it with a bicycle and they would all be saved! "

He could do all that, but he couldn't patch a stupid hole in a boat 🙄

The boat was named the "S.S. Minnow," because as The Skipper got fatter and FATTER, his penis began to shrink under his belly, becoming barely visible, and that's what it looked like.

When he was young and first started out, it had been called the S.S. Trout.

It was only on three years? It has been rerun millions of times and none of the actors got residuals.

Gabriel's sexuality would have made him a perfect choice over Preston for Mame. Lucy always performed better when there was a clear sexual dynamic at stake. Look at ILL, clearly her and Desi were doing it. In truth all her great performances were fuelled by underlying sexual tension with her leading men: Desi, Henry Fonda, Gale Gordon

R54 - Oh My! John Gabriel looks like a cross between Danny Thomas and Dody Goodman.

John Gabriel’s Andy Rivers was the best of MTM’s dates.

65, I just discovered that Chip Oliver died this summer.

He was a temptingly meaty meathead.

If I ran into Russell Johnson this way, his belt would be unbuckled, the pants unzipped, and the majority of his bush, along with half of his cockhead, would be in the photo. Yes, his eyes are rolling back in his head.

[quote]But could Russel Crowe carry a tune?

Fuck no, R20.

Someone, please make this recipe and report back. On the island, I guess she substituted seagull eggs for chicken eggs, but where'd Mary Ann find vanilla extract? Hmmm? Miss Wells was a sweetie!

R74 - That's too bad. Oliver was a hottie who put the meat into meathead.

Denny Miller was super hot. Played Tarzan in one film in 1959. Was also on the old TV series Wagon Train (reruns are usually on channels like COZI-TV, ME-TV, Heroes & Icons, etc.). Denny guest-starred on the second episode of the Alice sitcom, as Mel's old friend, an ex-football player (and gay!).

No one wanted to kiss Flo's grits, R79. Absolutely NO one.

Denny Miller tells Linda Lavin he’s gay.

It’s done rather well.

I wish there was an alternate universe where we could see how Jayne Mansfield would have done as Ginger.

I suspect she wouldn't have been cunty about it later like Tina Louise.

Well, considering Jayne would have clearly had a recurring role on SVU for decades, she wouldn't have as much to complain about as Tina did.

[quote]Denny Miller tells Linda Lavin he’s gay.

She tends to have that effect on straight men.

R81, isn't that the episode with a one off change to the theme song, with Linda singing, 'There's a new GAY in town!' She would look for any reason to record another cut of that theme song.

Denny Miller filling out his tight gay pair of jeans on that episode of "Alice".

[quote]Maybe Gilligan would be a pass-around bottom...

The Professor would have fashioned a dildo device so the girls could join in and peg Gilligan, or each other. I always figured Ginger and MaryAnn explored the forbidden Sapphic arts in the privacy of their bamboo hut. I think it's safe to assume Skipper got his nut off in Gilligan's rosebud on a regular basis, too.

The Professor was highly skilled at autofellatio.

I like the idea of the Professor and Gilligan as more than friends.

^^ So did Gilligan!

OMG, that Denny Miller was hot. Gave me an instant boner. Damn. All you gaylings, be more like Denny and less like Alice.

A network executive wanted the castaways to escape "Gilligan's Island" after the first episode:

Kit Smythe reminds me of that actress from 90210 who dated Jason Priestley in real life.

They wanted a sexy DILF, not a young stud.

Russell Johnson, on the other hand, always reminded me of possibly being the love child of Ann Revere. If Ms. Revere could've or wanted to have a love child, of course.

Bummer about Chip Oliver. He really was the height of fuckability when he was in AITF Pilot #2.

Isn't it a bit too late for a wrongful dismissal claim?

Mary Ann was the Up The Butt Girl.

No, that was tranny Ginger. She looked like a drag queen.