Despite what the critics thought of Gilligan's Island when the show made its debut in 1964 (and their comments were not kind) ...

Dawn Wells portrays Mary Ann Summers in the CBS television program 'Gilligan's Island.' (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) Wells, a Reno native, represented Nevada in the Miss America pageant in 1959 ...

Dawn Wells, who starred as “good girl” Mary Ann in popular 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19 in Los Angeles. She was 82.

Gilligan’s Island cast members, from left, Dawn Wells (as Mary Ann Summers), Bob Denver (as Gilligan) and Tina Louise (as Ginger Grant), on set of episode “Voodoo Something to Me.” Image ...

FILE - In this June 8, 2008 file photo, actress Dawn Wells arrives at the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked ...

Dreama Denver, wife of the late Bob Denver, who famously portrayed Gilligan on "Gilligan’s Island," remembers Dawn Wells, who died on Wednesday of COVID-19 related causes.

Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her ...