 The fourth "Minnow" was built on the CBS Studios set in the second season.The "Minnow" was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U.S. FCC, in response to Minow's landmark 1961 speech "Television and the Public Interest"; the speech lambasted television producers for producing, among other things, "formula comedies about totally unbelievable" characters (not unlike "Gilligan's Island") and creating a "vast wasteland" of bad television.The final day of filming the pilot was Friday, November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.