Despite what the critics thought of Gilligan's Island when the show made its debut in 1964 (and their comments were not kind) ...

Thanks to the earworm that is "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island," most audiences know how Gilligan (Bob Denver) and the other ...

and the Howells drink Maxwell House coffee. Maxwell House had a huge TV advertising presence on CBS in the 1960s when "Gilligan's Island" was on the air, and might be the first product featured in ...