Although he was lionised by the counterculture of the 1960s, its staunchest critic, Ronald Reagan, awarded Fuller the Presidential Medal of Freedom before his death in 1983.
Older and living anonymously in Chicago, Cal was 14 when Loyalty Island faced this uncertain future-an age when he could still lionise his father and the other fishermen, but also be a keen observer.
" They were the new Charles and Diana, " says his friend and former team-mate Gary Neville, a perceptive description of a couple who, like the ill-starred royals, were both lionised and lacerated by the media.