Private Pike Mainwaring refers to Pike as 'stupid boy' as he did in the series.<ref> Private Pike Private Frank Pike is a fictional Home Guard private and junior bank clerk; he was appointed as the platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in The Man and the Hour. He is frequently referred to by Captain Mainwaring as "stupid boy". In the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army" he was portrayed by Ian Lavender. Pike was born in 1922, and is the youngest of the Walmington-on-Sea platoon. Aged 17 when the series begins, he is not old enough to join the army, although presumably he
S. S. Minnow and the castaways ended up marooned back on the very same island they had escaped months before. The "Minnow III" is the plane built by the Professor in the made-for-TV movie "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island," the sequel to "Rescue From Gilligan's Island". It does not have the prefix "S. S.", as it is not a steamboat. The S. S. "Minnow" used in the opening of the second and third season color episodes, previously named the "Bluejacket", now resides at Schooner Cove Marina on the east side of Vancouver Island, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia. Having put the boat through