Gilligan Dead!

[raj]

Bob Denver has died:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050906/ap_en_tv/obit_denver
Sniff.
RIP, little buddy.

[odinn7]

Wow...that's too bad. The show was kinda stupid but it was a part of childhood for many. Now I feel really old.

[trekgeezer]

Beat me to it. I just found out.  I actually liked him much better a Maynard G.Krebs, the beatnik on the Dobie Gillis show.

Did anyone else here ever see his series Dusty's Trail (1973). It was a clone of Gilligan's Island only set in the old west.  It starred Forrest Tucker as the Wagon Master (the Skipper).

He was a funny guy. RIP Bob



Post Edited (09-06-05 14:47)

[Derf]

trek_geezer wrote:

> Did anyone else here ever see his series Dusty's Trail (1973).
> It was a clone of Gilligan's Island only set in the old west.
> It starred Forrest Tucker as the Wagon Master (the Skipper).
>
> He was a funny guy. RIP Bob
>

I even just bought The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West (the Dusty's Trail pilot or at least a couple of episodes, I'm not sure which) on DVD for a buck.

Gilligan's Island has always been one of my favorites. R.I.P. Bob. That just leaves Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells and Tina Louise.

[AndyC]

Gilligan's Island was one of my favourite shows growing up. This is more of a surprise since Denver is pretty much frozen in my memory as a bumbling kid. It's easy to forget that was 40 years ago, and he was around 30 at the time. Heck, the show was off the air for years before I saw it. Still, when you put it into perspective, it was no older at that time than shows of the 90s are today. Now I'm feeling old.



Post Edited (09-06-05 16:21)

[daveblackeye15]

R.I.P.

I always thought he would have been a good guy if I were to meet him in person.

And I just watched the episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast in which he was interviewed.

To be or not to be.

[nobody]

I also bought "The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West" on DVD for a buck. I had no idea I'd be watching it as a tribute to Bob this weekend.
R.I.P.

[Ash]

I f I were able to attend his wake and walk up to the casket, I'd tuck a dime bag of the finest green herb into his hand.

Read this.



Post Edited (09-07-05 03:12)

[Menard]

I remember Bob Denver fondly as Maynard G Krebs and as Gilligan. I also remember him in a short lived Saturday morning live-action show in which he starred along with Chuck McCann, in what was essentially Gilligan goes to space. It seems that with subsequent shows which followed Gilligan's Island, Space Nuts and Dusty's Trail, he could not escape that typecasting as Gilligan.

Being that a lot of us remember Bob as Gilligan and have not seen him much in recent years, it has escaped us that he was getting older as we will always have him in our minds as that vibrant, bumbling Gilligan. Gilligan has become one of the more memorable characters from television who was a part of our childhoods as well a part of the childhoods of children today. It takes a talented and charismatic actor to make a character that loveable.

It is sad to hear of yet another life passing, yet, with the work he gave us, we can still look to him for a smile when we need one. We can thank him for that.

[Scott]

Must have seen every Gilligan's Island episode rerun at least twice during the 70's just after school.



Also saw him in a couple Dobie Gillis episodes.





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[AndyC]

Man, looking at that picture, it hits you that most of the cast are no longer with us. And Dawn Wells is 66, Tina Louise is 71 and Russell Johnson is 80. Hard to imagine when they're all perpetually young in reruns.

[raj]

I read a story at some point that Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) got busted at one point for supply Bob with weed.  Sweet, innocent Mary Ann.  Who knew that the reason she was so into pies was due to the munchies?

[AndyC]

raj wrote:
> Sweet, innocent Mary Ann.  Who knew that the reason she was so into pies was due to the munchies?

I guess they couldn't have had her baking brownies on the island.

[Dutchman]

Hated to hear of Bob Denver passing away. His son, Pat Denver, is a good special effects expert...I saw him on a Bigfoot documentary once & he looks exactly like his dad

[Just Plain Horse]

The upside is, he'll never have to listen to anyone call him "Little Buddy" ever again...