Why did American actor and restaurateur Alan Hale Jr.’s career never fully recover following his unceremonious firing during the second season of “Gilligan’s Island” (1964-1967) due to allegedly inappropriate on-set behavior?
Question: Why did American actor and restaurateur Alan Hale Jr.’s career never fully recover following his unceremonious firing during the second season of “Gilligan’s Island” (1964-1967) due to allegedly inappropriate on-set behavior?
Not certain where you got your “facts”, questioner, but Alan Hale Jr. remained with Gilligan’s Island for the pilot and all 98 episodes of the original series. He was also cast (a voice role) in the 24 episodes of the 1974 animated series, 13 episodes of the OTHER animated series Gilligan’s Planet, and the four Gilligan’s Island movies. Had the second film been made into the weekly series that was envisioned, Hale Jr. would have been cast as The Skipper as he had been for nearly twenty years.
Hale Jr. was never “fired”, and he even had a modest television and film career apart from Gilligan’s Island for the remainder of his life. Hale died of cancer in 1990.