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RIP Russell Johnson (the professor on Gilligan's Island)
dawn wells facebook page ^ | january 16, 2014 | dawn wells

Posted on 01/16/2014 12:04:13 PM PST by lowbridge

Dawn Wells has posted on her facebook page that Russell Johnson passed away this morning.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: gilligansisland; hollywood; itcamefromouterspace; obituary; outerlimits; russelljohnson; theprofessor; thisislandearth; twilightzone
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To: Steely Tom

I remember Karen Black was so hot, she had a wandering left eye and it became like a beauty mark for her.


121 posted on 01/16/2014 1:24:20 PM PST by Anton.Rutter
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To: Gefn
I was told that the name “Gilligan” came from from Newton Minnow

Is he who the SS Minnow was named after?

Ironic, isn't it? Minnow turned out to be right, as exemplified by the show using his name. Which I watched 5-10 times per episode, by the way, as it was on after school.

122 posted on 01/16/2014 1:25:57 PM PST by Defiant (Obama is The Bard of Canard.)
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To: traderrob6

Re: Skipper = Jonas Grumby

Now that I would never have come up with. I wonder how many episodes there were when they mentioned the names of the professor and the skipper.

What about Gilligan’s last name? Lol.


123 posted on 01/16/2014 1:26:34 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Steely Tom
Well now. Never knew Sharon Tate had a role or two in the Beverly Hillbillies.

Learned something.

124 posted on 01/16/2014 1:28:02 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: ETL

That I don’t know.

Here’s another...MaryAnn Summers.


125 posted on 01/16/2014 1:28:59 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Anton.Rutter
I remember Karen Black was so hot, she had a wandering left eye and it became like a beauty mark for her.

She didn't make that much of an impression on me. Looking at her pictures now, she reminds me a little of Loretta Swit. She didn't stay cute very long. Maybe her lifestyle choices? Married four times; one lasted only 18 months.

126 posted on 01/16/2014 1:30:16 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: ETL

Is this a Bush Shot Reagan conspiracy thread now?


127 posted on 01/16/2014 1:31:11 PM PST by Defiant (Obama is The Bard of Canard.)
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To: ETL

Actually it’s uncertain whether “Gilligan” is his first or last name.

Here’s another, Lovey’s maiden name- Eunice Wentworth.


128 posted on 01/16/2014 1:33:15 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Steely Tom
Besides Dawn Wells, there's Barbara Eden, and... well...

How about Elizabeth Montgomery? Smokin'! And hubby bein' a homo, I'm sure she got lonely.

By the way, Sharon Tate had a thing going on with Jethro during the filming. That ruined it for me.

129 posted on 01/16/2014 1:33:26 PM PST by Defiant (Obama is The Bard of Canard.)
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To: ETL

Thank you. Thank you.

Now whenever the question of Ginger or Mary Ann comes up...

Keep these images of Tina Louise in mind.


130 posted on 01/16/2014 1:33:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Steely Tom
Saturday morning remember the "The Secrets of Isis"

And when she wore those glasses.....Yowza!

Her name is JoAnna Cameron, I don't think she did anything after that, but she sure made me look forward to Saturday mornings.

131 posted on 01/16/2014 1:36:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Defiant

“Russell Johnson played Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan’s Island.”

http://classictelevisionshows.blogspot.com/2013/04/gilligans-island-will-they-ever-come.html


132 posted on 01/16/2014 1:37:41 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Defiant

It was a treat to watch these shows after school, and when I saw them they were on second and third reruns in the early/mid 70s. Just saw another thread the original Adam West Batman is being released on DVD. I gotta pre order that, and make popcorn.

P..S wasn’t Sharon Tate also on Petticoat Junction?


133 posted on 01/16/2014 1:38:51 PM PST by Gefn (RIP Holly, April 1999-December 31, 2013 the best cat ever)
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To: Defiant
How about Elizabeth Montgomery?

She was too much like my mom.

But yeah, she's majorly sweet. They never ever played up her sex appeal in any way though. Unlike NBC's Jeannie, ABC's Bewitched kept midriffs covered, as I recall.

Samantha was always a wife. Jeannie wanted to be a wife.

134 posted on 01/16/2014 1:38:55 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: traderrob6

Just don’t try to tell me you knew all these names without having to look them up somewhere. :)


135 posted on 01/16/2014 1:39:14 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: dfwgator
Her name is JoAnna Cameron, I don't think she did anything after that, but she sure made me look forward to Saturday mornings.

Wow! She looks a little like Liv Tyler.

136 posted on 01/16/2014 1:40:48 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: ETL

LOL, actually yes. I have a great mind for remembering worthless trivial inconsequentia.


137 posted on 01/16/2014 1:42:47 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Steely Tom

A few years ago I saw an interview with Sherwood Schwartz, the guy who thought of Gilligan. He was complaining about back in the day how they had to cover up the girls belly buttons for the TV censor

The comment about Mary Ann, Ginger, and I Dream of Jeannie made me think of this for some strange reason. You never saw their navels.


138 posted on 01/16/2014 1:43:29 PM PST by Gefn (RIP Holly, April 1999-December 31, 2013 the best cat ever)
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To: ETL
Aw crap.


139 posted on 01/16/2014 1:44:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: Defiant
Skipper too, as I recall.

Alan Hale Jr. was a very decent person, according to everything I've heard.

I remember reading that well after the show ended, he'd dress up and get his Skipper on and go visit sick kids in hospitals and that kind of thing, just because they were sick kids away from home. He had a restaurant for a while IIRC.

140 posted on 01/16/2014 1:45:02 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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