Strangely enough, Gilligan's Island wasn't the first 1960s beach-themed project that actors Bob Denver and Tina Louise made together.

Tina Louise stopped playing Ginger after Gilligan's Island came to an end, but Ginger lived on in spin-offs and TV movies without her original performer.

Before Gilligan’s Island introduced the world to movie star Ginger Grant, she was something else entirely: a secretary played by Kit Smythe.

Though Tina Louise disliked her Gilliagan's Island character, Ginger, initially, she eventually began to appreciate her once the writing changed.

Tina Louise, who starred as Ginger Grant on the hit '60s sitcom "Gilligan's Island," recently released the audio version of her 1997 memoir, "Sunday." ...

'Gilligan's Island' first aired in 1964. Read to find out what happened to the cast after the show went off the air.