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Goodbye Gilligan.  In case you have not heard, Bob Denver, the actor you played Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island", has passed away.  He died from cancer, and he was 70.  I was in elementary school when that show came on in 1964.  I was 11 then.  Now, I am 52. It was very goofy, and unrealistic; but it was also great fun.  How many guys haven't wished they could be on a deserted island with Mary Ann and Ginger??  Now, of course, I would change that to some hot latina!!  In the midst of the agony and tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, this is a very small story, but I just thought some of you might want to comment on it as well.

                                       OkieMan

... in response to Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 6, 2005

Gilligan was the character that many people aspired to be, with not a care in the world.  He was always trying but his lack of co-ordination and goofiness always messed up everything. Maynard was also a great chacter.

Beattledog

... in response to Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Beattledog on Sep 7, 2005

I don't think I would want to be Gilligan. He wasn't getting any.

Didn't he and the Skipper have a "thing" going on on the side? I always wondered about those two... :-)

... in response to Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Ray on Sep 7, 2005

Weren't they "bosom buddies" on the show? Things that make you go "huh".

... in response to Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 6, 2005

Okieman,

Bob Denver died at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem,  NC.  I work at the Hospital sometimes.  I didn't know he was there until today.  I remember watching the show in the 1970's and 80's.  He will be missed.

Keith

... in response to Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 6, 2005

Denver was also Doby Gillis's goofy sidekick,Maynard I think was his name.Strange when a guy who seemed like a perpetual kid gets old and dies.
I watched a folk music reunion about 5 years ago on TV.It was depressing,they all looked so old.I would rather remember them as they were.
Lucky I don't change much.But really,it might be vanity,but I think I look so much better then the people in my class reunion foto.Whats really odd is the best looking ones before look the worst now.Guess I am just a late bloomer.Or hopelesly biased.
I explained the drugs I was taking to the doctor doing the anesthetic for my Colonoscopy.She questioned all the hormones I do,hormone replacement therapy.I said I am a 62 year old guy with the hormones of a 20 year old.She say you look 40.She lied.I look 50.Don't believe it ask me again.

Pete

... in response to Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Pete E on Sep 6, 2005

Yep

Dobie Gilis Sidekick was Maynard G. Krebs, the ultimate Beatnick. A really funny character

And who needs a latin woman if they all looked like MaryAnn,Man ,  she still gets my moter running when i see that show.
Yeh, i live near Wake Forest Hospital and had no clue he was there either, but then again i was in Colombia a few years back when Tom Cruise was in Medellin getting some plastic surgery on his eyes and never knew. .

... in response to Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Kiltboy1 on Sep 7, 2005

Kiltboy 1,

I am firmly convinced that if a guys doesn't get turned on watching "Mary Ann"  aka Dawn Wells run around the island in her short shorts-- something is wrong!  The second best was Daisy Duke on Duke's of Hazzard. Another dumb show that just struck the right chord with the public-- and her legs all the way up to her hiney!  ha

                               OkieMan

... in response to Re: Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 7, 2005


Don't forget Pettycoat Junction.  

"Lot's of curves you bet, even more when you get to Pettycoat, Pettycoat Junction".

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by pablo on Sep 7, 2005

Pablo,

Ah yes, that takes me back to the good ole days.  There were many TV shows back then that had sweet, attractive, but also nice women (as opposed to bitchy, lisbo feminists).  I certainly enjoyed watching Barbara Eden in that Genie outfit!!

                                       OkieMan

... in response to Re: Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 7, 2005

From another source, paraphrased:

"That was Catherine Bach in the role of Daisy Duke, sexy cousin of Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), a couple of wild boys buzzing through the backwoods in the "General Lee," a souped-up Dodge Charger. Bo Duke is at the wheel. Cousin Luke rides shotgun. Good ol' boys who are good enough when it comes to righting wrongs and staying a step ahead of Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and Sheriff Coltrane (James Best). Catherine Bach is Daisy Duke, a smart, short-shorts wearing beauty who can make bacon sizzle from 200 paces away. Denver Pyle is wily Uncle Jesse. Ben Jones is car-fixer Cooter. And barrel-voiced Waylon Jennings provides the witty episode narration. Welcome y'all to Hazzard County!"

She floated my boat then and now!

I did my graduate work in south central Kentucky. The closest town to me was Pig, KY and I had to drive nine miles to get there. Very rural, and very similar to this and other shows of the time. Actually, I miss it. My friends there never ask when I'm coming to visit, they ask "when are yuh comin' home sun?" You just don't get that in Houston, or any other metro area. I suppose that's one of the many reasons I like LA women.

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by CelticUrge on Sep 7, 2005

Celtic Urge,

Yeah, I know what you mean.  Here in the States, the old school Southern Fried honeys have always had a lot of appeal.  But, since I have made the change to the latina thing, it has in many ways brought back the original attraction between the sexes.  I have had a belly full of the feminist movement, and since I can't turn back the clock in reality, then I feel like being with a latina is the best option available.

                               OkieMan

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 7, 2005

If you grow up watching (in no particular order) The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, I Dream of Genie, Bewitched, Wonder Woman, Batman, Captain
Kangaroo, Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Gomer Pyle, The Andy Griffith Show, Warner Brothers cartoons, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Beanie and Cecil, Top Cat, The Green Hornet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, The Fugitive, The Prisoner, Dr. Who, Superman, Sea Hunt, Flipper, Gillagan's Island, The Greatest American Hero, Supercar, Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution, The Monkeys, The Banana Splits, Rowen and Martin's Laugh In, The Gong Show, Get Smart, Kung Fu, The Outer Limits, Creature Feature, Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, The Honeymooner's, The Hulk, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Bat Masterson, and, of course, the news at the time that just was not that important in my life, despite having a relatively low draft number the last year of the draft. Just assumed I was about to become a Canadian. I'm white enough! They stopped calling up men at one number below mine.

Is it any wonder I turned out the way I did? Some things in life are just really easy to explain. Funny thing is, sometimes I "just don't get" some other people that did not have these experiences in their own young lives. What? You just seem to have no imagination at all! Why is that? Where is your creativity?

Read a study on the american school/education system some years ago. The bottom line regarding creativity was that by just enetring your child in the system, the child lost 95% (don't recall exact number, but close to 100%) of his/her ability to be creative and think outside the box. And that was at some early age of less that 10 and as I recall closer to 5-7 years old. Scary!

Does anybody remember Don Johnson's first acting role? Check out "A Boy and His Dog" directed by Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball on Green Acres).

... in response to Goodbye Gilligan & The Shows I Know, posted by CelticUrge on Sep 8, 2005

Celtic Urge,

Some of those shows were great,and some were dumb, but they sure do speak of the era we grew up in.  One thing is for sure, they beat 90% of the garbage that is on the boob tube today.  I recently bought a cheap DVD that had many old TV shows on it.  Sea Hunt, Combat, Mannix, and one of my favorite-- The Alfred Hitchcock Show! But, of all the TV show DVDs that I own, my favorite is a collection of Twilight Zone Episodes.  That is great!!  But, the biggest  part of my collection is devoted to old classic movies.  (I am a true classic movie buff).  I am talking about movies like, Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, The Magnificent Seven, Guns of Navarone, etc.  Now, those are great.  Plus, I have a ton of John Wayne movies.  I have lost count.

                      OkieMan

... in response to Re: Goodbye Gilligan & The Shows I K..., posted by OkieMan on Sep 8, 2005

You know, I've never seen that movie. When I was about 9 or 10 my mother told me 'Your life isn't complete until you've seen Gone with the Wind'.....So never watching it is part of my plan to live forever. (and so far, it's worked)

... in response to Gone with the Wind, posted by Michael B on Sep 8, 2005

Michael B,

You seem like a nice guy, so let me give you some friendly advice-- rent the DVD set of Gone With The Wind.  You and your wife will enjoy it, and I think that you will come to the conclusion that most of us do- it is indeed, THE FINEST MOVIE EVER MADE!  Take care.

                                OkieMan

... in response to Gone with the Wind, posted by Michael B on Sep 8, 2005

Sounds like a good plan to me.

... in response to Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Pete E on Sep 6, 2005

Pete,

You are hilarious!  Your attitudes and perceptions also sound like my dad.  He is always commenting about someone else who looks old-- and sometimes these people are younger than he is. ha  Dad is 72.  At any rate, as all of us get older, it is often hard to comprehend the passage of time.  I must confess that I am becoming more like that all the time.  By the way, Bob's character on Dobie Gillis was Maynard G. Krebs, the beatnik.  All of that was in the late '50's, and I remember watching that show.  Maynard was funny, but when Bob Denver became Gilligan, he could have never known or understood that the show would continue into reruns for 40 years and counting.  Part of that was because Ted Turner bought the rights to the show back in the '70s, along with The Andy Griffith Show; when he launched TBS.  So, Gilligan's Island joined the rerun heavyweights, like Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, and the Honeymooners, among others.  That is really good company, in my opinion.  It sure beats the new crap that TV has on now!!

                              OkieMan

P.S.  I am an old movie buff, and Classic TV fan!!  I have even got to meet a few of the stars of days gone by.  That will have to wait for some later post.

... in response to Goodbye Gilligan, posted by OkieMan on Sep 6, 2005

Oh, is Little Buddy dead? Actualy, I liked his Maynard G. Crebbs character better.

... in response to Re:  Goodbye Gilligan, posted by Michael B on Sep 6, 2005

Michael,  It is  noteworthy that many of Bob's co-stars on that show are also part of the dearly departed.  Jim Backus, who played Thurston Howell III, and Natalie Schaffer, who was Lovie, his wife.  But, the one I miss is Alan Hale Jr., who was the Skipper.  As goofy as that show was, it did develop a loyal fan base.  Besides, I had many fantasies of chasing Mary Ann and Ginger around that island!! ha  The only thing that topped that was a bad case of the hots for Barbara Eden in that Genie outfit!!

                          OkieMan