REMEMBER THE EPISODE WHERE THEY ALMOST GOT OFF THE ISLAND BUT GILLIGAN SCREWED UP THE PLAN: The Skipper's Little Buddy is now resting in that big hammock in the sky.
While he'll always be Gilligan or Maynard G. Krebs, this information about his first post-Gilligan sitcom, playing Rufus Butterworth in CBS's The Good Guys, is interesting. During the first season, both Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Backus were brought in to try and juice the ratings. He also starred in an ill-fated Gilligan in the Old West series called Dusty's Trail in 1973. And what Super Sugar Crisp-addled youngster in the '70s could forget the Far Out Space Nuts?
Other Denver tidbits: He was born the day after Elvis Presley; He was the one who lobbied for the Gilligan title sequence to be changed from "the movie star and the rest..." to "the movie star, the professorm and Mary Ann..."; he was married four times; and he replaced Woody Allen in the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam.
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