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'Gilligan's Island' Star Russell Johnson Dies of Kidney Failure
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| January 16, 2014
| LESLEY MESSER
Posted on 01/16/2014 12:45:00 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler
I have recently begun watching it again on ME TV.
A couple of things my memory was a bit foggy on. Tina Louise was better looking than I had thought and Mary Ann may have actually had too much of the right stuff.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:05:37 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: MrNeutron1962
To: massgopguy
make that Robert Kennedy’s assasination. The original opening was filmed shortly after that event.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:13:09 PM PST
by
NCC-1701
(I am proud of what America USED TO BE.)
To: knarf
You mean the Sixties TV shows. The Seventies were all about liberal social manipulation through TV shows.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:15:27 PM PST
by
kristinn
(Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
To: greene66
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:16:23 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
On the other hand, time has not been kind to Tina Louise. Wow that was a little shocking. I last seen a pic of her about 5 years ago and she seemed to be holding up pretty well. I must be getting old too because Mrs. Howell looks good to me now!
Turn UP the Volume!
To: NCC-1701
The show ran from 1964-67. JFK killed in 1963, his brother RFK in 1968.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:28:22 PM PST
by
kristinn
(Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
To: Timber Rattler
RIP Professeor.What a fun,silly show.
Remember him saying if they did GI today
they would all be living in one tent.
The innocence is long gone tody.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:29:35 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: KeyLargo
.. still being the same age in our mind ..memories never aging, as eternity races on . . sigh
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:36:35 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: Beowulf9
Russell Johnson graduated from Girard College in Philadelphia and by way of an acquaintance who graduated from Girard, I was introduced to Mr. Johnson and we corresponded for a brief time.
I real gentleman and a nice guy.
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:44:54 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: RckyRaCoCo; All
Thought I read somewhere that the cast never received royalties for the decades it ran in syndication? Except Dawn Wells...at the time she was married to a slick Hollywood agent who saw to it that she got future royalties, and she did---the only cast member to do so, and it has made her a wealthy woman.
BTW, Dawn runs an active Facebook Page for anybody who's interested.
The Real Mary Ann
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posted on
01/16/2014 2:59:07 PM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: kristinn
I remember an interview of Jim Backus many years ago.
He mentioned that they were trying to show social conditions tho he said he personally never understood what they were doing.
He and Sherwood Schwartz were good friends but he still thought the show was a bit silly.
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:01:26 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Beowulf9
Not sad. At 89, he lived a full life and got to co-star in a legendary (albeit shortlived) TV show.
I would definitely trade places with him but make it about 60 years ago so I could experience all of that!
To: Timber Rattler
The guy who shot Reagan?
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:03:18 PM PST
by
x
To: sten
Oddly enough, my favorite geek hero of the 60’s was Greg Morris of Mission: Impossible. This is what I wanted to do...work behind the scenes running everything and making stuff work. This actually came true for the most part.
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:04:12 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: x
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:08:03 PM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Timber Rattler
God Bless Professor...R.I.P.
To: Harold Shea
If they did Gilligan's Island today, they'd find an underground bunker with some old radio equipment, and a secret code that they have to enter every 45 minutes...
-PJ
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:21:35 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
I always thought that hole in the hull of the boat was repairable...
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:29:04 PM PST
by
cld51860
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Yo-Yo
Thank you so much for posting that link!!
What a trip down memory lane with some really great trivia.
I had the chance to meet Alan Hale at his restaurant, The Lobster Barrel and yes, he wore his hat.
Great stuff, thanks again!!
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posted on
01/16/2014 3:47:13 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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