Bye bye "little buddy".

[Borderstone]

I don't know if anyone else has heard but last night I heard on the news and ET,that Bob Denver of Gilligans Island passed away friday night from cancer.

Less than 1 1/2 hour after hearing this news,I paid my own tribute by playing my copy of "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" on DVD. The 1978 reunion movie where the castaways are finally rescued.

Bob was in other shows besides Gilligan,he aslo was Maynard G. Krebs:beatnik in "Dobie Gillis" and also starred in "The Good Guys","Rascals",animated versions of Gilligan on CBS 1970's Sat. mornig cartoons and also in that decade a live action kids show called "FAr Out Space Nuts" where he accidently launched himself and a fellow astronaut into deep space.

Like many folks,I grw up with the re-runs starting around 1975 and never stopped watching.
My favorite episode of "Island" was "Gilligan's Double" where a spy made up t look like Gilligan shows up.

Rest in peace Mr. Denver,they may have thought your show silly,but the everyday kids & folks thank you for the laughs.

[Auburn Annie]

I'm dating myself (so what else is new?) but I remember Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - WORK!! lol. Hard to wrap my mind around him being 70; he will perennially be about 30, and a young 30 at that. And from all reports he was as sweet a person in real life as Gilligan was.

For those of you too young to remember "Maynard" - everybody knows Gilligan - here's a link to the show: http://timstvshowcase.com/dobie.html

It ran 174 episodes (I didn't realize it was on the air that long, but I was 7 when it debuted.)

And a bit of TV trivia for you all: the characters Leander Pomfritt and Ruth Adams (also Imogene Burkhart) were played by the same actors who play Martin and Natalie Lane, Patti Duke's parents on her TV show: William Schallert and Jean Byron. Truly a small world.

There were an amazing number of good actors in the cast: Tuesday Weld (Thalia Menninger), Michael J. Pollard (Jerome Krebs), Warren Beatty (Milton Armitage) as well as Sheila James, both Hickmans (Dwayne and Darryl), Herbert Anderson (who later played Dennis the Menace's father), and Raymond Bailey (Milburn Drysdale of The Beverly Hillbillies.)

[ September 08, 2005, 07:50: Message edited by: Auburn Annie ]

[Borderstone]

Hey Annie. I was fortunate enough to see "Gillis" reruns here in Phoenix in the '80s and saw just enough episodes to know what was going on in their reunion movie.

Imagine! Maynard G. Krebs had become a well to do money maker!

(I wonder if they got the name for the Gilligan character from Gillis?)

I'm such an avid Gilligan fan that I got Sherwood Schwartz'z book about the making of Gilligan's Island, and he says he was looking for a silly-sounding name that had hard letters. He very well could have been influenced by the name Gillis.
He went to the phone book and got the name Gilligan, and the rest is history!

[Borderstone]

By the way,did you guys know that Gilligan's 1st name was Willy? Bob said if it had ever been needed,that would be the character's name.

Willy Gilligan!LOL :D

[The Rez]

The "G" in Maynard G. Krebs stood for "Walter."

My kinda stuff.

The Rez

. . . w/ a tip of the esspresso to Thelonius Monk and Ginzberg's "Howl"

[ELizabeth]

I haven't thought of Ginsberg's 'Howl'in ages. Isn't there a line in that poem that says 'all the good (poets?)are (have gone) insane'? The Beat poets - Ferenghetti,Kerouac, and Ginsberg! When I was in college I carried a dog-earred edition of 'On the Road'at all times. Oh my
how they influenced Brando,Dean and Dylan.

'Those were the days my friend
we thought they'd never end'- Mary Ann Faithful

Gilligan rules! I miss mr. denver.