RIP to Sherwood Schwartz, creator of such unshakeable TV icons as
Gilligan’s Island &
The Brady Bunch,
passed on at 94. In his memory...
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s honor the gigantic “Black Morning Spider” that menaced the Seven Stranded Castways on That Uncharted Desert Isle, until they were saved by a pigeon named Walter, in one of the weirder episodes—& that’s saying something—of
GI.
This imposing arachnid was played, by the way, by the Hungarian costume-maker & performer Janos Prohaska, perhaps better-known as the Mugato & the Horta on
Star Trek.
