Radio Transmissions
Needless to say, among the key aspects of the hit show is that the characters of Gilligan’s Island got radio transmissions by using a Packard-Bell radio with an AM band. Turns out, the crew was actually responsible for adding in an antenna for telescoping. They chose to do this so that they could make things a bit more imaginable. The crew of Gilligan’s Island thought the antenna might help viewers believe the idea more that messages which are long-distance would be received. However, the actual Packard Bell model didn’t ever have an antenna, nor did it have a handle.
Radio Transmissions
Inventive Prop Team
One other essential feature of the show Gilligan’s Island is the fact that island scraps were able to be made into outrageous technology. Needless to say, this certainly posed a real challenge for members of the prop team. There was a need to be really creative, as well as inventive, despite only having a limited number of quite random things. It is retrospectively called Macgyvering, because that wasn’t certainly a thing then!
Inventive Prop Team
