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Bob Denver was upset that costars, Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann Summers, and Russell Johnson, who played Professor Roy Hinkley, were not named in the credits. Instead, they were listed as ‘the rest.’ Denver insisted they be named. Speaking of Gilligan, Jerry Van Dyke was offered the part and turned it down. Later he said, “But that’s the joke: I turned it down and took My Mother the Car. But, again, it was really good, because I’d [have] been forever known as Gilligan. So that worked out, too.”
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