Island gene pool

I can never watch these kinds of movies without thinking about how to populate a deserted island, without inbreeding. It would be tough here, in this case....SFR...

...but it could very easily have been done on Gilligan's Island.

First, you would have to determine how many people the island community could feed/support. But the more people, the more workers for farmiing/harvesting, fishing, hunting, building, etc.

Assuming that Mrs. Howell can no longer have children, the professer would devise a breeding program to populate the island.

My plan would call for adding 100 people, as quickly as possible.

The Skipper would breed with Mary Ann, having as many children as possible...
The Professor would breed with Ginger, again--having as many as possible...

And because Gilligan is the youngest...he would have to wait--and be ready and able to breed with only ONE of the offspring of the other couples. In a few decades, there would be plenty of people on the island who were not related. Mr. Howell might be needed to dilute things even further.

I am sure that the Professor could keep track of everything until there was no more inbreeding left. I always believed that the long term survival of the castaways was up to the Professor anyway....they were either going to survive on the island...or get off of it...through him and him alone. This, in spite of the fact that the Skipper is the "captain" or Mr. Howell is the millionaire....neither one being fit to be the leader of 7 castaways.

Back to Swiss Family Robinson, I know it would be tougher to repopulate the island---but I would be curious as to whether it could be done...

Just something to think about on a rainy day in paradise...