Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Gilligan’s Island is a classic in it’s own right with so many episodes I know by heart. With so many stars and guest stars, you can always count on Gilligan for a laugh. I can remember the whole funny cast by name Gilligan ( Bob Denver ) Jonas The Skipper Grumby ( Allan Hale Jr
) The Professor Roy Hinkley ( Russel Johnson ) Ms. Mary Ann Summers ( Dawn Wells
) Ginger Grant ( Tina Louise
) and Thurston Howell III ( Jim Backus
) with his wife Mrs Unis Wentworth “Lovey” Howell ( Natalie Schafer ).
Some of our favorites include the Surfer Boy played by a young Kurt Russel, the Japanese sailor and the Russian spy that looks just like Gilligan. We also like the episode where the space camera gos awry and lands on the island while they are collecting feathers for a bed and making syrup. They end up looking like huge bird people and the NASA people think they are looking at life on another planet.
Relive the fun at your own pace and enjoy the entire series on DVD. We watch ours regularly and still see new things we missed before.
CMC Admin
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
We loved The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
(1959) with Dwayne Hickman
as Dobie Gillis and Bob Denver
as Maynard Crebs. This was pre Gilligan’s Island
Bob Denver. Dobie Gillis worked in his father’s grocery store if you could call it that.
His dad was always trying to get a little real work out of Dobie but it never really happened. Dobie was too busy chasing girls at the high school and dodging Zelda Gilroy played by Sheila James Kuehl who was in love with him.
One of the girls is a young Tuesday Weld as the pie in Dobie’s eye, Thalia Menninger. Several other people that made guest spots later were seen in other tv show later on. The TV series was baser on a movie from 1953 named The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. Classic Television at it’s best and available on DVD.
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