Gilligan s Island premiered in 1964, the network was worried about two things. There were network censors back on those days, and they were really strict, Dawn Wells told PEOPLE in 2018. They had to make sure that Ginger wasn’t showing too much cleavage and that I wasn’t showing too much belly button. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Some of the problem was the producer s decision to have Wells 26 at the time tie her gingham shirt into a knot to expose her midriff. Even back then, sex sells, laughed Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers on the CBS family comedy.