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Wed 16
A Distant Trumpet — Russell Johnson
Young Lt. Hazard is assigned to a fort on the border of Arizona and Mexico where he must deal with the undisciplined troops. He falls for his commanding officer's wife and gets caught up in a massive battle.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Wed 16, 6:00 am -
Sat 19
Gilligan's Island: Meet the Meteor — Russell Johnson
In the Season 2 finale, Rays from a grounded meteor age trees 50 years in seven days, causing Gilligan to dream about that aging's impact on the castaways.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sat 19, 3:00 pm -
Sat 19
Gilligan's Island: Gilligan vs. Gilligan — Russell Johnson
Bob Denver has a dual role as Gilligan and his look-alike, a spy whose government thinks the castaways are on a secret mission.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sat 19, 3:30 pm -
Sat 19
Gilligan's Island: Pass the Vegetables, Please — Russell Johnson
Radioactive seeds yield vegetables that give the castaways unusual powers. For example, spinach-eating Gilligan can lift tree trunks; and Mary Ann, who ate carrots, can see small things 20 miles away.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sat 19, 4:00 pm -
Sat 19
Gilligan's Island: The Producer — Russell Johnson
Phil Silvers is a flamboyant film producer and plane-crash survivor who lends the castaways his ears for their musical version of "Hamlet". It ain't Shakespeare, but it does get the attention of the impresario, who soon swipes all the singing parts for himself.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sat 19, 4:30 pm -
Sun 20
Gilligan's Island: Voodoo Something to Me — Russell Johnson
When supplies disappear, the Skipper is sure the island is hexed. Especially when he thinks that Gilligan has been changed into a chimp.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sun 20, 2:00 pm -
Sun 20
Gilligan's Island: Goodnight Sweet Skipper — Russell Johnson
Hypnotised to recall Navy training, the Skipper tries to turn a radio into a transmitter---with help from the castaways posing as old shipmates.
Air Time & Details for Russell Johnson, Sun 20, 2:30 pm
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Biography
About Russell Johnson
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Having served as a bombardier in World War II, Russell Johnson used the GI Bill to finance his studies at the Actor's Lab. Between performing assignments, Johnson supported himself by driving a cab and working the assembly line at a ballpoint pen factory. His first movie break (indeed, his first movie) was in director Paul Henreid's For Men Only (1952), an exposé of barbaric college-fraternity initiation ceremonies; Johnson was suitably loathsome as the sadistic frat leader who is exposed as a snivelling coward in the climax.
The balance of the 1950s found Johnson appearing in several fondly remembered science fiction efforts like It Came From Outer Space (1953), This Island Earth (1955), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1956) and The Space Children (1958). He carried over this relationship with the Unreal into his classic performance as an anguished time-traveller desperately attempting to prevent Lincoln's assassination in the 1961 Twilight Zone installment Back There. In 1964, Russell Johnson took his first steps into TV sitcom immortality when he assumed the role of "The Professor" (aka Roy Hinkley) in Gilligan's Island, a role that he'd continued to essay on and off for the next two decades in Gilligan cartoons and TV-movie spin-offs.
Johnson worked in television through the 1980s and early '90s before retiring from acting; he died in 2014 at age 89.