Russell Johnson, best known as the Professor on Gilligan's Island, died Thursday at the age of 89. That leaves only Dawn Wells and Tina Louise as the remaining surviving castaways from the classic TV show.
Russell Johnson, the veteran TV actor best known for playing Professor Roy Hinkley on 'Gilligan's Island,' passed away from kidney failure on Thursday. He was 89.
More than anything else, Bob Denver will always be Gilligan to us, and forever etched in the annals of classic TV. I am such a huge fan of Gilligan's Island, I wanted to take a moment to remember Bob on his birthday with five things you probably didn't know about him.
Warner Bros. has apparently looked at its DVD shelf and randomly selected '60s TV series 'Gilligan's Island' as the next property to get the big-screen modernization. The studio has chosen to polish off the property and give it a go with 'Jobs' and 'Book of Mormon' star Josh Gad, who will co-write and star in the film adaptation. And it should be a pretty easy, paint-by-numbers job since the roles
Gilligan's Island has never been off TV since ending it's three-year run on CBS in 1967. It's always on somewhere, sometime, but has not been on Grand Junction television for quite some time. Now, thanks to MeTV, the seven stranded castaways are making daily appearances in my living room.