Bob Denver, the man who played Gilligan, first mate of the S.S. Minnow on Gilligan's Island, died Friday at the age of 70.

The CNN article above reminded me that Bob Denver had previously played Maynard G. Krebs, Dobie Gillis's beatnik best friend, on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. "Krebs, whose only desire was to play the bongos and hang out at coffee houses, would shriek every time the word 'work' was mentioned in his presence," says the CNN article. I'm starting to think they were making fun of beatniks!