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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, dead at 70
I don’t know how many readers of Spankin’ are old enough to remember the 1960s TV show "Gilligan's Island", but I grew up watching that show on my grandma’s black & white tv. No, we didn’t have colour then and only two channels to watch!
Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy castaway Gilligan made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died. He was 70. He died Friday September 06, 2005 at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina, of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer.
His wife, Dreama, and children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with Denver, who also had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year.
Denver's signature role was Gilligan, but when he took the role in 1964 he was already widely known to TV audiences for another iconic character, Maynard G. Krebs, the bearded beatnik friend of Dwayne Hickman's character Dobie in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".
Thanks for the laughs, Bob. The kid in me will always remember you.
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RIP Bob Denver, you provided us with a bundle of laughs.
I remember rushing to get home from school to watch the hilarious antics of
Gilligan, the Skipper, the Professor, the Howells et al. I even watched a couple
of episodes a few months back and it still made me laugh (no sick comments please).
Here's a question though .... when we watched it in black & white why did we
always believe the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr), about Tina Louise being 'Ginger' ?
I remember rushing to get home from school to watch the hilarious antics of
Gilligan, the Skipper, the Professor, the Howells et al. I even watched a couple
of episodes a few months back and it still made me laugh (no sick comments please).
Here's a question though .... when we watched it in black & white why did we
always believe the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr), about Tina Louise being 'Ginger' ?
Ah, Mr Dale, those were simpler gentler times when we weren't so suspicious of things. If Skipper said she was "ginger" then she was ginger lah.
dave
dave
I'm afraid that secret has died with Gilligan. Apparently he stumbled on her taking a bath at the waterfall one day...
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