 On the 2004 DVD release of season one, "Gilligan's Island — The Complete First Season", a documentary called "Before the Three Hour Tour" shows that Sherwood Schwartz's original treatment for the series indicated that Gilligan's full name in the failed pilot was to be "Willy Gilligan", but that rendition, with other unfamiliar castaways, was canned and did not air.The documentary also reveals that Schwartz found the name "Gilligan" by flipping through a Los Angeles telephone directory.Another story was that the term "Gilligan" was once mariner's slang for an unlucky or jinxed member of a ship's crew.