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pscot

(21,024 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2014, 12:06 PM Jan 2014

The Professor has died

Russell Johnson, an actor who made a living by mostly playing villains in Westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naive island castaways on the hit sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Thursday at his home on Bainbridge Island. He was 89

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022685124_russelljohnsonobitxml.html

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The man who could McGyver anything except a boat. Scuba Jan 2014 #1

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1. The man who could McGyver anything except a boat.

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Fri Jan 17, 2014, 12:09 PM

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