Bob Denver was one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. Cared deeply about people.

@georgeshelton6281

3 ай бұрын

I plan on creating the Gilligan's Planet comic book series. Since I've added one extra for the Gilligan's Planet storyline. That's Teresa Dortch, who's the added character.

Born in 1965 . Come home from school. Get a bowl of cereal and go down in the basement and watch "Gilligan's Island " ! Those were fun days !

@skinni_the_P00hBear

3 жыл бұрын

Born in 2000. As teenagers, we would watch this on weekends after breakfast, along with I Love Lucy, Laverne and Shirley, Saved by the Bell. Afternoons for my siblings and me were Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids. This would've been considered a "grown up show" for us when we were kids lol

Thumbs up for Bob Denver Gilligan 👍

I was born in 1999, but I love watching shows from before I was even born like Gilligan's Island.

@myles_bennett77

2 жыл бұрын

You have great taste then! I wish they still made them like this.

@michaelfavre6896

2 жыл бұрын

@@myles_bennett77 yeah I wish they did also. There's still some good shows around though.

What a sweet guy Bob Denver was.

I'm a child of the 60's, and I grew up watching both Dobie Gillis and Gilligans Island. Watching those shows were some of my best happy times as a kid. Rest easy, Bob. And thank you.

I love Bob Denver. He seems so spry and intelligent and articulate, here. And never snide or cynical.

He didn’t accidentally “swallow a radio.” His filling got loose and it started receiving radio signals. 😊

I'm glad he enjoyed that cuz we all loved it!!! He gave us a great gift.

Some of these videos make this 52 yo man tear up like a little kid.

@rjp801

3 жыл бұрын

you are not a man PRINCESS

@myles_bennett77

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Many after school memories. It wasn’t till years later that I realized this show had been made 20 years before I discovered it.

Bob was a sweetheart and so kind to others. He played goofball rolls on TV but he was very intelligent man. He left the world way too soon.

@SpongeBobNumber1Fan2003

24 күн бұрын

Yes He Definitely Was Such A Sweet Sharp Man

People LOVED Gilligan (and Bob Denver)!

Rest in peace Bob Denver. You were a sensational actor and we will always miss you along with the four other late members of the cast who are, Alan Hale, Jim Bakus, Natalie Schafer and Russell Johnson.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

@Donna Green I was thinking the same thing. My Mom's birthday is May 25th.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

Well... Ginger's the only one left on the island now. She finally gets to be the center of attention that she always wanted to be. She'll go crazy on that island all by herself - probably get too much plastic surgery from that mad scientist from the other island a short distance away.

@motnosniv

Жыл бұрын

Dawn Wells also passed Dec. 30, 2020. So sad, she had no man, no children, no house & no money.

Gilligan was not stupid, the youngest male and stuck on a deserted Island with two babes. He intentionally screwed up every chance of rescue. This Letterman show,38 years ago, where in Hell did my life go?

@watutman

3 жыл бұрын

@wavygr lol right? For her age she is a babe.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

@@watutman Yeah...she was 44 in 1982. My girlfriend is 41 and she's still holding her own. Holding MINE too... !

@elisolomon8741

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you, Greg. Where did the years go? I watched both Dobie Gillis and Gilligan as a child in the 60's. I'm now soon to welcome my first grandchild. Where did all that time go?

@glennwirth7334

Жыл бұрын

🤪

I modeled my life after Gilligan!This show is priceless, Bob and the others deserved more!

I miss Bob Denver. He was the most normal, normal looking, nicest guy in show business.

This is excellent quality and editing. Thank you so much for sharing this. I absolutely love Dobie Gillis!

He always seemed like a genuinely good guy.

What a great guy!

I totally loved Gilligan. I always told my family (at age five) I would marry him. Forty (and something) years later I am married but it isn't to Gilligan. I see similarities (husband disagrees totally).

I can watch Gilligan's island episodes they never get old there so fun to watch.Bod Denver made that show he was so popular.Mary Ann was my girlfriend in my dreams.I still watch it today.I have it on DVD

@michelmurphy7152

3 жыл бұрын

So do I! Still makes me laugh 😆

@chiefscheider

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Watched it in reruns after school in the 70s and can still pop in the occasional episode now. The whole cast was fantastic, but the chemistry between Alan Hale and Bob D was perfect.

A nice, intelligent guy.

He was a truly great comedic character actor. RIP. hilariously silly.

What a wonderful man!

I remember when Dave was still doing stand up one of his jokes went something like "You ever hear on those radio talk shows where a caller starts out sounding intelligent but then turns out to be a nut? Like they'll say, 'Yeah, I think the government spends way too much money on defense and other things like that... Yet they won't lift a finger to get those poor people off of Gilligan's Island!'"

That was great! Thanks for posting Don!

Bravo ⚘ Bob Denver. Loved all performances.

Bob Denver seemed incredibly down to earth, at least here!!

@finster1968

3 жыл бұрын

He probably was. People who knew him said he was pretty unassuming and a bit of a recluse.

@televisionarchivestudios1130

3 жыл бұрын

He was when I met him. Shy actually. I met him in Maine of all places. He said he had a home in the area but wanted it to stay private.

@Newton14alan

2 жыл бұрын

@@televisionarchivestudios1130 -- He actually moved to West Virginia (no joke), although I have no idea why. He had no family connections there. Perhaps he wanted it to stay private (LOL). He was also busted, twice, for marijuana. One time, he was busted for receiving it in the mail. He initially claimed that Dawn Wells mailed it to him. He later told authorities that it must've been from a crazy fan...but I bet it was Dawn. I had no idea these people were so cool!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY BOB DENVER

Dave in the 80's and 90's was the best. I remember smoking some weed one night and Dave looked into the camera and said something all the pot smokers watching and it cracked me up.

Gilligan's Island was a great show.

Inolvidable, La Isla de Guilligan. Una de mis series favoritas de TV en mi infancia. Adoro a todos esos actores....Gracias por estos videos. UN MILLÓN DE GRACIAS!!!!!!!

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

Translation: Timeless, Gilligan's Island. One of my particular favorites of my childhood. Loved ALL the actors...Thank you for this video. A MILLION THANKS !!!!

@wfemp_4730

2 жыл бұрын

Nepamirštama Giligano sala. Vienas iš mano vaikystės mėgstamiausių. Patiko VISI aktoriai...Ačiū už šį video. MILIJONAS AČIŪ!!!!

@rebeccagutierrez1960

2 жыл бұрын

No era una pelicula. Era una serie de comedia semanal.

@Peterdom393

2 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccagutierrez1960 Gracias, amor...!😉 Corrijo de inmediato.👍

I recently saw an old episode of Dobie Gillis, and for a fake beatnik Maynard G. Krebs had a lot of intelligent things to say. The show holds up very well.

Bob Denver created the Top-5 All-Time TV character Maynard G. Krebs. The G stood for Walter.

❤ I was born 1961 and I was older I started to watch Bewitched Gilligan's Island Gunsmoke

@jess4metoo

Ай бұрын

Gilligan’s Island was actually cancelled because of Gunsmoke. That said, I pass on GS.

Such a cool guy

Maynard was the Kramer of the Ike era.

@Tmanaz480

2 жыл бұрын

Kramer+Fonzie

I was born in 1956 and I grew up with Maynard G. Krebs and Gilligan.

What a nice guy he was!

I have heard Bob Denver mention several times where he wished he made a better deal through the reruns he was truly bitter about that and I don't blame him cuz everyone of those cast members should have been rich the way those reruns carried on , they got screwed

Amazing video of bob denver👍🏾

Great guy and loved him as the beatnik in Dobie Gillis.

@zuazhar1630

Жыл бұрын

TheChitown5 I had a crush on Maynard G Krebs, when I was a kid. I started listening to jazz and even wore a ripped up sweatshirt, and jeans. I even dirtied up my white Keds sneakers for the full effect. I read Kerouac and William S Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. I knew Maynard didn’t do drugs, so I didn’t, as well. He was my role model and I “werked” hard in school studying all intellectuals in literature, art, and music. I became open to be living and kind to all people, no matter their cultural differences. Maynard may have been a fictional character, but I deeply loved and respected him and his friendship with “straight -laced Dobie Gillis. The show had so many characters from different social and cultural strata, that it was educational as well as entertaining.

bob seemed like a super nice guy

Pleasant fellow.

A little known fact about Gilligan's Island, there was actually a mall on the far end of the island that they never mentioned in the show, it had clothing stores and all the luxuries of a big city mall.

Apparently Dawn Wells ("Mary Ann") did have it worked into her contract to receive residuals from Gilligan's Island--her boyfriend at the time who also her agent demanded this----but apparently it wasn't for perpetuity

I watched dobie gillis when it was on - I remember dobie saying in one episode that maynard never tells a lie

It just occurred to me that Denver was better known for his role on Dobie Gillis than Dwayne Hickman was.

I always feel that way about actors. A film day is a job. It'd be like going up to some guy and asking them to remember 20 years ago when they went to work, Tell me all about it!"...dude, I can barely remember last week.

What a gracious guy

Bob Denver what a guy 👍👍

@myles_bennett77

2 жыл бұрын

I wish there were more like him.

Producers wife loved Gun Smoke... It is why It got cancelled.

@zuazhar1630

Жыл бұрын

Hawk Davison … with the wholesome “prostitute and ‘madame’ Miss Kitty! That’s just wonderful for children to watch!

Little Buddy!

I love Bob Denver but seeing Siskel and Ebert play along with the gag about them getting married was amazing (even if Gene looked a bit more restrained about it).

Seems like a very likable guy.

When I was too young to know why my relatives were so weird, my high school age brother would randomly say, "work!?!!"

Too bad he was not compensated properly when the show hit re runs and got popular.

@TheKitchenerLeslie

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be an anti-semite.

@joylynch5204

2 жыл бұрын

Kitchener Leslie ?

Fun Fact for everyone that didn't know Willie was Gilligan's first name they just called him by his last name

@wfemp_4730

2 жыл бұрын

Well, technically it was never mentioned on the show.

@myles_bennett77

2 жыл бұрын

@@wfemp_4730 Right. From what I remember, Denver himself asked Sherwood Schwartz about this. If anyone would know it would be him.

It was an executive's wife who demanded the show be taken off the air, so "Gunsmoke" could have a place on the schedule.

. He always seemed to be a good guest, but he REALLY seems to be having a good time with Dave during his first (1982) visit !! .

This is 2024 now. I was born in 1957. Whatever the hell age that makes me. I still make a point of watching every Sunday afternoon . Anybody figured out how old I am yet ? Ballpark

@dongiller

2 ай бұрын

Calculators R Us.

Bob was dying his hair here. He lived in Maine at one point and was completely gray in the 1970's

@Camop-iz9kt

3 жыл бұрын

He wore toupees most of his adult life.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say it looks more like a wig, and a bad one at that.

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES

3 жыл бұрын

@@MC-yy2bx It's not a wig He just dyed his hair

Excellent !

Dawn Wells was the cutest one of the bunch!

Awesome

If comicon existed back in the day

The Minnow Would Be Lost. Skipper ! Hey Little Buddy !! The Coolest Beatnik Of All Time Maynard G. Krebs. Mr. Bob Denver.

No recording of Dobie Gillis. I grew up with Gilligan.

aaaaaaand thanks to this i just spent an 1/2 hour reading about why Gilligan's Island was canceled...

@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427

4 жыл бұрын

Cbs tried to blame it on the expansion of Gunsmoke, but I believe that cbs was always looking for an excuse to can the show that they just HATED!!!

@randyrudd5594

3 жыл бұрын

lol.

Interesting that he did not mention Dusty's Trail.

@staceyharper7827

3 жыл бұрын

Dusty's trail was a huge flop.

Dewayne Hickman was in another TV show. He was a grade school teacher. All I remember was a little first grade kid ran down the hall of school crying about something. Dewayne stopped him, asked what was wrong. Then Dewayne said some things to encourage the little guy, he stopped crying and felt better. Does anyone remember that?

Funny, he doesn’t look stoned.😆

@docamosroxie8686

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't Mary Ann sell it to him?

He-was-a-good-actor

and an actor, not just a star, he was still acting. But who would leave and island occupied by Dawn Wells and Tina Louise?

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

With his knowledge of tropical herbs and flowers you just KNOW the professor cooked up some serious recreational shit and took Maryann AND Ginger off to some remote cave every once in a while for a " private party ." and they LOVED it.

There’s some PA freaking out about the guy in the audience heckling LOLOL

This might be a hard compilation to make...but remember how Dave would sometimes say, "I have a theory about Madonna...would you like to hear it?"

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Not only hard but pointless as well. :)

@GeneBurnett

5 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller No man, it was hilarious. He'd look very seriously at the guest and say, "I have a theory about Madonna...would you like to hear it?" They'd say yes and he'd reply with withering sarcasm, "She likes to shock us." I remember him doing it at least a few times. Cracked me up every time. ;~)

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Gene Burnett I just don’t see the point in showing every time he said it.

@GeneBurnett

5 жыл бұрын

@@dongiller I hear ya. Running gag with no variety. ;~)

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Gene Burnett Precisely. If there were some variation, or a payoff, then maybe.

I watched it....3 years I think

"And when people come up to me and say little buddy and hit me with their hat...I don't like that..that's not funny!"-Bob Denver/the Simpsons Homer-"after the show I'm going to get Gilligan's autograph...then I'm gonna womp him with my hat!"

So close to a Siskel/Ebert appearance! I hope a compilation might be coming soon...

@dongiller

5 жыл бұрын

Not soon, but it’ll happen.

@dansoto1332

5 жыл бұрын

I second that! I have a friend who keeps wanting to show me one of their appearances that's now sadly not available - could it be comedy gold???

I bet few actors ( along with rest of cast ) are so loved and honestly well received by public as are Gilligan and rest. No offence intended in saying rest

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

I think Dawn Wells ( Maryann ) was more loved overall. Tina Louise is just a delusional hag. Have you seen her overboard plastic surgery and use of Botox ? Man did she fall into a box of grenades.

@myles_bennett77

2 жыл бұрын

@@MC-yy2bx Absolutely. And on top of all that she was the one cast member who resented her association with the show.

Emperor Palpatine is in the audience. You can hear him at 4:30.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

" Do IT ! " - Cuts off Count DooKoo's head with two light sabers.

Bring back Scamps

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

your comment in the midst of all these expected, usual others was a show stopper. Hah !

Gilligan was canceled by CBS head William Paley for two reasons. 1)GUNSMOKE was mistakenly left off the 1967 season so Paley needed to make room for it. 2)William Paley also HATED the show. He hated The Beverly Hillbillies too. He thought they embarrassed the network. He didn;t "get" Gilligan's Island.

Coconut landing in my head 👀

Work!

The best people & times gone , only thing left are conmen & BS artists !

Don't wanna say Bob smoked a lot of weed, but Bob Marley called him in 1979 and told him for Jah's sake to take it easy on the ganja.

Seems a shy unassuming man sadly missed as they all are only one still with us from Gilligan's island we need this silly humour during these times we are in now

But Yet No Shout Out To Far Out Space Nuts ?

Stewart Gilligan griffin abides

Willy Gilligan, Jonas Grumby professor Roy Hinckley, luvy was always just luvy Howell.

@chiefscheider

2 жыл бұрын

The name Willy was never mentioned on the show. Sherwood Schwartz once said that if he had given him a first name, it would've been Willy. But not once was it revealed in the 98 episodes or the pilot.

Was he related to John Denver? They looked similar.

@dongiller

4 жыл бұрын

No relation.

@randyrudd5594

3 жыл бұрын

John Denver’s given birth name was Henry John Deutchendorf. From OK/KS.

@cheapbastard990

3 жыл бұрын

@@randyrudd5594 I didn't know that! But that makes my question pointless. :) But they do look pretty similar. Thanks for the clarification!

@TRJ2241987

3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty rare for a musician to go by their real name. There really aren't that many. Elvis.......John Lennon.....Billy Joel.....Bruce Springsteen.....Elton John.....that's about all of em lol

@cheapbastard990

3 жыл бұрын

@@TRJ2241987 I suppose it's like actors. Some have names already used, perhaps? Tim Conway couldn't use his real name "Tom Conway" because that name was already used by another actor. Does the same happen in the music industry?

Dressed down.

Oh dear, did he die recently too?

@brewer921

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, in 2005.

@Synthpoptroubadour

4 жыл бұрын

if 15 years ago is recently, yes

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

They're ALL dead, now, except for Ginger ( Tina Louise ) and nobody gives a rat's ass about her.

Why does Bob look so old in 1982? This is only ten or twelve years after Gilligan's Island went off the air and yet he's already looking like oldmansville with the wrinkles and the cardigan and the dyed hair.

@Piggy-Oink-Oink

Жыл бұрын

He looked "old" soon after Gilligan went off the air. Guess he wasn;t lucky and once youth is gone it doesn;t come back

Little buddy.

haha tossing donuts to the cops in the water. dave is so wacky.

😂i.loved.gilligan.as.a.teenager.never.met.him.but Met.his.wife.in.mt.airy.me.and.her.have.somethong.in.common

Paid off in 2 years? Man he got screwed on syndication, that Sherwood Schwartz was a real snake. He screwed the Brady Bunch cast and they all sued him and I think they actually won.

@mem1701movies

3 жыл бұрын

I think Dawn Wells was the only one that got paid forever because she had an agent husband.

@wpl8275

3 жыл бұрын

"before 1973, a standard contract only included residuals for the first 10 runs of reruns." So for the Brady Bunch that lasted until 1979. (5 years after the show ended) Gilligans Island ended in 1965. No one knew back then how profitable or long running syndication would be. In fact in the 70's the most syndicated shows were game shows. "In 1971, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed the Prime Time Access Rule and Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, which prevented networks from programming one particular hour of prime time programming on its television stations each night and required the networks to spin off their syndication arms as independent companies. Although the intent of the rule was to encourage local stations to produce their own programs for this time slot, budgetary limits instead prompted stations to buy syndicated programs to fill the slot. This, coupled with an increase in UHF independent stations, caused a boom in the syndication market. In the 1970s, first-run syndication continued to be an odd mix: cheaply produced, but not always poor quality, "filler" programming. These included the dance-music show Soul Train, and 20th Century Fox's That's Hollywood, a television variation on the popular That's Entertainment! theatrically released collections of film clips from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library. Game shows thrived in syndication during the decade. Nightly versions of What's My Line?, Truth or Consequences, Beat the Clock and To Tell the Truth premiered in the late 1960s and found loyal audiences for many years. Several daytime network games began producing once-a-week nighttime versions for broadcast in the early evening hours, usually with bigger prizes and often featuring different hosts"

@randyrudd5594

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he was. They’re all ‘bottom line’ individuals..... or maybe more aptly -‘bottom feeders.’ Not artists by any stretch.... just businessmen. Then and now.

@chiefscheider

2 жыл бұрын

@@mem1701movies That's a myth. She said in an interview in 2014 with the Vancouver Sun that she got the same rerun deal as the others.

The reason Gilligan's Island got cancelled: Gunsmoke got cancelled. It was the favorite show of the head of ABC. So he cancelled Gilligan and brought back Gunsmoke. Bob diplomatically referred to it as a "scheduling problem". He's an endearing guy. Watch the (Archive American Television) extended interview with Sheila Kuehl, the gal who played Zelda Gilroy. She talks about a tour by car she and Bob did. There was a segregated hospital. Which pissed them both off. So after entertaining the whites they went to the black section and entertained people there. They DRANK A LOT! Once Shiela kept getting sick and Bob took care of her pulling the car over for her to puke. Shiela came out as a lesbian on national television on (?). Bob called her live on air and congratulated her. He knew all along and kept her secret all those years. She could have lost her career. Dick Sergeant came out and she asked him for advise about coming out. Well that's too much info anyone should know.

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

Gunsmoke and Gilligan's Island were both on CBS.

@chiefscheider

2 жыл бұрын

@@MC-yy2bx That's right, the Canadian Broadcast Satellite 👍