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Gidget connections[]

Felt like doing some research on this page, and specifically this series' connections:

Gilligan's Island: I watched the crossover episode and no, it doesn't count. It was considered a crossover in the original Tommy Westphall site, but they got it totally wrong. In the episode they shipwreck, and then the captain of their boat is revealed to be Alan Hale, the ACTOR who played Skipper on Gilligan's Island, and they have many references to the show. So it's not even an arguable dream sequence or something like that, it's just an actor as himself. The actor who played Gilligan also appears at the end.
Poobala.com, a much more reliable and indepht site about TV crossovers confirmed it as a non-crossover.

The Flying Nun: the Tommy Westphall site mentioned both the Flying Nun and Gidget having been in a band by the same name, which is a weak connection, but they were both ABC shows, so I thought it was possible... until I realized that the actress who played Flying Nun is the same one who previously played Gidget! So if they put this reference in Flying Nun it was basically just an easter egg, as if the two characters shared the same history, but it couldn't actually be the same band since that obviously isn't the same character! (no it can't be Gidget who later becomes a nun, their full name is different) So I didn't know what to make of it, and this time Poobala.com doesn't seem to mention anything about this connection! But while searching for a reliable source I looked up the book Television Series of the 1960s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details. Here it does confirm the band reference, but it also adds one that got ignored by the Tommy Westphall site: Gidget and Flying Nun went to the same high school! Now, a School is an actual place, it's not just a band name, so I took that as the one actual stronger reference.
Now, I don't know when exactly these two details about Flying Nun sharing Gidget's past were revealed, but the book's introduction says "Each entry was created by acquiring and watching available episodes of the show." so I take it it's information from the episodes themselves, not behind the scenes revelations, interviews or anything else. So I put the date of the link to the generic year when the Flying Nun started airing, I will update it if I get around to watching The Flying Nun (don't know how I'll explain to my friends that I still have to watch Game of Thrones, all Netflix series and a lot of other stuff... but I'm gonna watch Flying Nun)--Kombatgod (talk) 02:09, February 10, 2019 (UTC)

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