Question: I know I'm not crazy. Back in the '70s, Larry Storch (and, I believe, his old cohort Forrest Tucker) were in a Saturday-morning kid-oriented show that had something to do with outer space. I want to say it ran opposite Bob Denver's Far Out Space Nuts. It would have been around the time of Sid and Marty Krofft's dominance of Saturday-morning programming. Please tell me I haven't completely lost my mind.
Answer: Not in this regard you haven't, David. You're thinking of The Ghost Busters, which ran on CBS for a year beginning in September 1975. On it, Storch and Tucker, best known for their F Troop days together, played a couple of ghost hunters who were teamed with a gorilla named Tracy. It was a live-action show, but spawned an animated version in the late
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Bob Denver, whose portrayal of the pratfall- and blunder-prone titular first mate on Gilligan's Island made him an iconic television figure, died Tuesday from complications of cancer treatment. He was 70. Prior to being shipwrecked with the Skipper and Professor et al., Denver gave beatniks a prime-time face as Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. "It's a sad, sad day," sighs Denver's Island costar Tina Louise. (Ginger). "His boyish charm worked for both children and adults. He will be so missed."
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Bob Denver, whose portrayal of the pratfall- and blunder-prone titular first mate on Gilligan's Island made him an iconic television figure, has passed away, his agent reported on Tuesday. The actor was 70, and had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year. Prior to getting shipwrecked with the Skipper and Professor et al, Denver gave beatniks a primetime face with his role of Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
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Ahoy, mates! Just sit right back and you'll hear the tale of Party Boy's fateful trip. Picture it: Gilligan's Island wrapped its three-season run back in 1967. Nearly 40 years later, the sitcom's surviving cast members — Bob Denver, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells — turned up at FantaSea Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, Calif., to celebrate the Season 1 DVD release. The party offered up a heavy dose of TV nostalgia, and an amusing glimpse of what life's like for stars of yesteryear...
As I say, Gilligan, the Professor and Maryanne were all there. Too bad Ginger was a no-show. Series creator Sherwood Schwartz joked that Tina Louise — who played the castaway-cum-movie star — is still bitter because
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