Maria, who first appeared on the show in 1971, made Latinx girls feel represented on the small screen. "They kept telling me to be myself. I remembered my own childhood growing up in New York ...

The iconic children's show is turning 50! And while you likely watched it as a child or with your own kids, this is what you didn't get to see.

Be it "Gilligan's Island" viewers badgering the Coast Guard to rescue the S.S. Minnow's poor shipwrecked crew or grown-up ...