Any year that sees both Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs head to that vast television in the sky can t be counted as very positive episode of boob tube karma. Both of characters were embodied by the late ...

Bob Denver, 70, the goofball television comedian who played beatnik Maynard G. "stands for Walter" Krebs on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" and was first mate Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island," died ...

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 ...