The Boston Dangler
Lifer
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/article...creator_sherwood_schwartz_dies/?p1=News_links
The name of the boat on "Gilligan's Island" -- the S.S. Minnow -- was a bit of TV inside humor: It was named for Newton Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s had become famous for proclaiming television "a vast wasteland."
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