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Radio On The Waltons

gar fla said:
How about when that rock band came to the island and they somehow managed to find the electricity to power their electric guitars. ;D


Here's a video someone made of a replica of the Gilligan's Island radio playing the original news bulletin of their missing boat.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCjGgQnYXzs
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Now gar, that's called "Artistic license"! Kinda like in cartoons....Wile E. Coyote falling off the cliff over and over, but never dying.....(That's ludicrous enough; but he obviously buys all these bizarre gadgets to catch 1 bird, when he could buy multiple dinners with that money.....actually that's what makes those things so funny.)

BTW was that the G.I. episode with the Mosquitoes & the Honeybees?

The 60s were full of cartoony sitcoms, but we all remember 'em!

cd
 
Back to the Waltons.
The radio was most likely a Prop.
Probably the only things that worked were the lamps that illuminated the dial and the lamp (behind a piece of scrim and a green filter) which illuminated the place where the Magic Eye was once located.
Has anyone noticed how 'thin' the audio sounded from the radio? Those radios actually sounded pretty good. Much better than the sound that you hear on the Waltons.
 
And what about the episode where Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio because something happens to his fillings.

The regular radio stopped working and they used his mouth to listen to some important news bulletin that saved their lives or something.


Now that's sure relevant to DX and reception.


;)
 
OK. OK. Let's just clear up a few things here. Besides the radio being powered by a combination of solar cells made from parts of the boat's hull and mangos and the baby monkeys playing in the bamboo spinning cage to keep the power going,

And what about the episode where Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio because something happens to his fillings.
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which is quite common if you have your fillings arranged in the proper way to make a fractal antenna AND you keep you ear close to the ground to make best use of the saltwater path ground conductivity. Also,

There are no clothes to my knowledge that could withstand being worn day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year like that. And can you imagine the SMELL after a week with no deodorant?......
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Of course not. Remember we only saw them once a week for 30 minutes. The rest of the time they ran around the island buck naked - out of necessity, mind you. (Now you know why Gilligan was so frustrated every time the skipper called him "little" buddy...)

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('scuse me. I have to go get another creative license. The one I have just expired...)
 
trusty said:
OK. OK. Let's just clear up a few things here. Besides the radio being powered by a combination of solar cells made from parts of the boat's hull and mangos and the baby monkeys playing in the bamboo spinning cage to keep the power going,

And what about the episode where Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio because something happens to his fillings.
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which is quite common if you have your fillings arranged in the proper way to make a fractal antenna AND you keep you ear close to the ground to make best use of the saltwater path ground conductivity. Also,

There are no clothes to my knowledge that could withstand being worn day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year like that. And can you imagine the SMELL after a week with no deodorant?......
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Of course not. Remember we only saw them once a week for 30 minutes. The rest of the time they ran around the island buck naked - out of necessity, mind you. (Now you know why Gilligan was so frustrated every time the skipper called him "little" buddy...)

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('scuse me. I have to go get another creative license. The one I have just expired...)
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Hmmm, buck naked with Ginger & Mary Ann; Ok back to the real world.
 
radioman148 said:
h and another thing that I want explained is how those batteries in that radio lasted so long on Gilligan. ;D
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There was one episode where the batteries died. They found others but those were dead too from being stored so long. The Professor realized they were rechargeable and the group did one of these science experiments that involved stirring some liquid in coconuts.
 
vchimpanzee said:
radioman148 said:
h and another thing that I want explained is how those batteries in that radio lasted so long on Gilligan. ;D
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There was one episode where the batteries died. They found others but those were dead too from being stored so long. The Professor realized they were rechargeable and the group did one of these science experiments that involved stirring some liquid in coconuts.
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It's amazing what that professor could do. Anything but get them off the island.
 
He would have gotten them off the island if Gilligan didn't keep messing things up every chance they had to leave. :-\
 
radioman148 said:
Bongwater said:
One other oddity about Gilligan's Island (aside from all those clothes on the Howells, Ginger and Mary Ann), you'll notice the Professor, the Skipper and Gilligan wore roughly the same outfits.

There are no clothes to my knowledge that could withstand being worn day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year like that. And can you imagine the SMELL after a week with no deodorant?......
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They probably bathed in the ocean, we just never saw it. ;D
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It would have been hard to work the blurrer ribbon and show them in a bathing scene when they all had to have one leg out of the water. Or had times changed since Lucy and Ricky? ;D
 
quadraphonic said:
radioman148 said:
Bongwater said:
One other oddity about Gilligan's Island (aside from all those clothes on the Howells, Ginger and Mary Ann), you'll notice the Professor, the Skipper and Gilligan wore roughly the same outfits.

There are no clothes to my knowledge that could withstand being worn day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year like that. And can you imagine the SMELL after a week with no deodorant?......
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They probably bathed in the ocean, we just never saw it. ;D
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It would have been hard to work the blurrer ribbon and show them in a bathing scene when they all had to have one leg out of the water. Or had times changed since Lucy and Ricky? ;D
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Did they take bathing suits on a 3 hour tour?
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
FreddyE1977 said:
cd637299 said:
Which reminds me....to true Gilligan fans----was there, or was there not, one episode where the voice on the radio said that "This is KGU in Honolulu"? ISTR the announcer saying that...or, I am dreaming/hallucinating again.

cd
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I have seen an episode where the announcer says he is broadcasting from Honolulu, though I don't remember what
call letters he gave. There is definitely an episode where the announcer says he is from KDKA in Pittsburgh (which would
have been quite a DX catch!)

KDKA-TV is a CBS affiliate, and would have been running Giilgans Island at the time.
I wonder if perhaps this was some kind of cross-promotion strategy CBS was offering
to their affiliates?
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They could have cross referenced by having Bob Crane do the announcing on KNX 1070. I'm not sure if there was any time overlap between Gilligan's Island and Hogan's Heroes though. Bob Crane was also on WICC Bridgeport, CT, and mentions in one or more epidoses being from Bridgeport.
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and Crane was, ironically enough, replaced by Rege Cordic, who left KDKA and went out to KNX after
Crane took the full-time acting gig on Hogan's Heroes.
 
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