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Sat 14
Gilligan's Island: Two on a Raft — Bob Denver
In the series opener, Gilligan and the Skipper set sail on a raft to find help, and have a harrowing time at sea. Sharks destroy the craft, and, unbeknownst to the hapless duo, they wash ashore on the same island, where the other castaways mistake them for savage tribesmen.
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Sat 14
Gilligan's Island: Home Sweet Hut — Bob Denver
Anticipating a hurricane, the castaways lodge in a communal hut. Bad idea. It's not long before they get on one another's nerves.
Air Time & Details for Bob Denver, Sat 14, 3:30 pm -
Sat 14
Gilligan's Island: Voodoo Something to Me — Bob Denver
When supplies disappear, the Skipper is sure the island is hexed. Especially when he thinks that Gilligan has been changed into a chimp.
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Sat 14
Gilligan's Island: Goodnight Sweet Skipper — Bob Denver
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 Bob Denver, Sat 14, 4:30 pm -
Sun 15
Gilligan's Island: Water, Water Everywhere — Bob Denver
A drought plagues the island, leaving the castaways in dire need of fresh water. So what does Gilligan do? Befriend a frog.
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Sun 15
Gilligan's Island: So Sorry, My Island Now — Bob Denver
Unaware that WWII has ended, a Japanese sailor lands on the isle in a one-man sub and starts taking prisoners.
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Sun 15
The New Adventures of Gilligan: The Loners — Bob Denver
The Howells charge everyone, whenever the borrow something.
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Tue 17
The Andy Griffith Show: Divorce, Mountain Style — Bob Denver
In an appearance post-"Dobie Gillis" and pre-"Gilligan's Island" (the series started six months later), Bob Denver plays Charlene's husband---the one she's leaving for Andy, just as soon as she gets her mountain-style divorce. Briscoe Darling: Denver Pyle. Charlene: Margaret Ann Peterson. Floyd: Howard McNear.
Air Time & Details for Bob Denver, Tue 17, 8:30 pm -
Fri 20
Dusty's Trail — Bob Denver
Dusty's Trail is an American Western/comedy series that aired in syndication from September 1973 to March 1974 starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker. The series is a western-themed reworking of Gilligan's Island.The series, set in the latter 19th century, is about a small, diverse cluster of lost travelers, who become separated from their wagon train.
Air Time & Details for Bob Denver, Fri 20, 12:00 am
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Biography
About Bob Denver
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Before becoming a comic actor, Bob Denver had previously worked as an athletic coach and history and math teacher at Corpus Christi Children's School of Pacific Palisades, CA. The puckish Denver first gained popularity when, at age 24, he played half-baked hipster Maynard G. Krebs on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Before the first season was over, after completing only four episodes, "Maynard" would leave Dobie Gillis when he was drafted into the Army. This contingency was written into the Gillis series by having Maynard answer Uncle Sam's call to arms, and then by having Maynard return to the show after Denver was classified 4-F due to a neck injury. When Dobie Gillis was canceled in 1963, Denver let it be known that he was available for non-beatnik parts, only to be immediately cast as a young bongo-playing bohemian in the theatrical feature Take Her, She's Mine.
The following year, Denver was finally able to shake the Maynard image when Jerry Van Dyke turned down the opportunity to play the lead in the simplistic sitcom Gilligan's Island. Denver stepped into the role of eternally bumbling castaway Gilligan, making it firmly and uniquely his own for the next three years.
Denver's first post-Gilligan's Island project was the unsuccessful Phyllis Diller film vehicle Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968). In 1968, he was back to the weekly sitcom fold as cabdriver Rufus Butterworth, best pal and business partner of restaurateur Bert Gamus (Herb Edelman), on The Good Guys.
This show ended after two seasons, whereupon Denver scored a personal and professional triumph as Woody Allen's replacement in the long-running Broadway comedy Play It Again, Sam. With Gilligan's Island attaining cult status in the early '70s, it was only natural that Denver cash in on the phenomenon, first as star of the Gilligan-like syndicated sitcom Dusty's Trail (1974), then as cohort to Chuck McCann on another "castaway comedy," the 1975 Saturday-morning kiddie show Far out Space Nuts. He also provided the voice to his animated likeness on a brace of cartoon series, The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974-1976) and Gilligan's Planet (1980), and reprised Gilligan in the flesh in a trio of made-for-TV features based on the original series.
He also revived Maynard G. Krebs, older but no wiser, in a pair of abortive Dobie Gillis revival pilots.