The Professor Won't Be Down For Breakfast

[Bruzilla]

Just got a message from Dawn Wells that Russell Johnson, The Professor from Gilligans Island, just passed away late this morning.

His abilities to keep a battery-powered radio running without batteries for years will be missed.

 

[Budnicks]

RIP Russell, I loved Gilligans Island as a kid

 

[5.7 hemi]

Ohh Mary Ann, Ohh Ginger!!!! Whoops, got off track. I sure did like that show, he will be missed!

 

[70rr-brian]

That guy could power a Hemi with a coconut... RIP

 

[satellite66]

RIP. One of my all time favorite shows. I have every episode on dvd.

 

[RickBright]

As a kid I really wanted to be marooned somewhere, anywhere with Mary-Ann

 

[Richard Cranium]

Gilligan's been dead for nearly nine years now. Time marches on. RIP Professor.

 

[Bruzilla]

As a kid I really wanted to be marooned somewhere, anywhere with Mary-Ann

Dawn's one of the nicest and most personable people I know. Poor gal is in a bad state. Johnson and his wife Connie were amongst her best friends so Mary-Ann is in a bad way today.

Johnson went straight from high school into USAAC air cadet training. He became a bombardier and flew 40+ missions during WWII. He ended up getting shot down on a mission over the Pacific and messed up his legs. Quite a guy.

 

[Cranky]

I liked that show too.....may he rest in peace.

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis and Bob played the beatnik as Maynard?

 

[Meep-Meep]

I liked that show as well. RIP professor.

 

[Budnicks]

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis and Bob played the beatnik as Maynard?

I remember it vaguely, seen a few late night reruns too, he was a far-out groovy happenin' beatnik type dude... goateed teen & wasn't he messing with bongo drums allot ??, drove a 28-30 Ford Jalopy what would be a Rat Rod today...

 

[Moparsmitty]

I liked that show too.....may he rest in peace.

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis and Bob played the beatnik as Maynard?

I remember Bob Denver playing Maynard G Krebs on Dobie Gillis fairly well. Maynard was a kind of harmless beatnik type who was scared to death of any kind of work. Boy, do I feel old that I can remember that. Black & white ancient history.
Too bad about the professor. RIP Mr. Johnson

 

[Cranky]

I remember Bob Denver playing Maynard G Krebs on Dobie Gillis fairly well. Maynard was a kind of harmless beatnik type who was scared to death of any kind of work. Boy, do I feel old that I can remember that. Black & white ancient history.
Too bad about the professor. RIP Mr. Johnson

LOL! I was pretty young when that show was on but remember it well. It's kinda funny that some of today's kids are that way but they're not beatniks....or maybe they are?

 

[bobtile]

NO!!! Please say it ain't so. Now I feel old.

 

[Sonny Black]

Sonny says, wasn't the professor Nailing Maryann?
and the skipper doing Ginger???:eusa_think:

:fishin::director::icon_weed::suning:

 

[satellite66]

Russell was also in two classic sci-fi movies: It Came from Outer Space and This Island Earth (though he was killed off early in this one).

Dave Madden aka Reuben Kincaid on the Partridge Family also died today.

 

[Photon440]

R.I.P. I have Russel's autobiography, he tells some good tails of Gilligan's Island and other jobs. He and Dawn did a lot of charity work together.

 

[2059]

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! his passing forces dealing with mortality.... he was/is always "The Professor"...

 

[Duda]

How sad as all the tv shoe icons are slowly passing on. RIP professor.

 

[WileE]

Dawn's one of the nicest and most personable people I know. Poor gal is in a bad state. Johnson and his wife Connie were amongst her best friends so Mary-Ann is in a bad way today.

Johnson went straight from high school into USAAC air cadet training. He became a bombardier and flew 40+ missions during WWII. He ended up getting shot down on a mission over the Pacific and messed up his legs. Quite a guy.

RIP not only to a good actor, but a GREAT American.