Future Gilligan's Island star Bob Denver first gained popularity as Maynard G Krebs on the television series The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis. From the 1950s through the early 1960s, there was the ...

Paul Farhi raised the great trivia question -- "What was Gilligan's first name?" -- in his Sept. 7 Style appreciation of Bob Denver. He did not ask or reveal what the "G" in Maynard G. Krebs stood for ...

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college. Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their ...

Max Schulman was a heckuva sweet humorist. He wrote novels and plays. He created the lovable character of Dobie Gillis. On national television from 1959-1963, Dobie struggled valiantly and harmlessly ...

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward. Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and ...