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Russell Johnson was encouraged to abandon Gilligan's Island by his Hollywood peers, who said that the show would be a ''bomb''
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Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson shared ''a mutual fondness," and spent time together offstage
Russell Johnson on his feelings towards Tina Louise
Russell Johnson from Gilligan's Island wasn't ''psychologically equipped'' for Hollywood

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