Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Gilligan dead at 70
Having grown up watching hours and hours of Gilligan's Island (to my father's great lament) this news of Bob Denver's death made an impression on me that is way out of proper proportion. The article attempts to explain why this is news at all.
My first reaction is that this blurb hardly does justice to the deep cultural imprint of the show. The Minnow, radioactive vegetable seeds and musical Hamlet: to millions of Americans these will elicit immediate recognition.
My second reaction: Poor Daniel Defoe!
"Gilligan's Island" lasted on CBS from 1964 to 1967, and it was revived in later seasons with three high-rated TV movies. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travelers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat was wrecked in a storm.
My first reaction is that this blurb hardly does justice to the deep cultural imprint of the show. The Minnow, radioactive vegetable seeds and musical Hamlet: to millions of Americans these will elicit immediate recognition.
My second reaction: Poor Daniel Defoe!
2 Comments:
By 
Cardinalpark, at
Tue Sep 06, 05:13:00 PM:
i keep thinking, who's next? Don Adams?
By Counter Trey, at
Tue Sep 06, 07:01:00 PM:
The Little Buddy is gone forever. RIP.
