4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Known to millions as "Mary Ann," one of Gilligan's Island's seven iconic castaways, Dawn Wells is a television legend. So sit right back, and you'll hear a tale - a tale of Dawn's nostalgic past, a philosophy professor's take on the ethics of eating animals, and food facts from a precocious 9 year-old Ginger on this episode of YLM.
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0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
0:15.3 | This is your last meal. |
0:21.3 | I'm your host, Rachel Bell, and each week I chat with a celebrity about what they would choose to eat for their last meal. |
0:26.7 | Then we explore the history of that dish, the culture, and whatever else we can cram into 30 minutes. |
0:31.5 | Today on the program, Dawn Wells. |
0:34.5 | Now, you may think that you don't know who Don Wells is, but I guarantee that you do. |
0:38.8 | Chances are you know the character that she played on TV, even if you haven't seen the show. |
0:44.8 | Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a painful trip. |
0:49.4 | Don Wells played Marianne on Gilligan's Island. |
0:52.0 | I would like a world without strife, universal harmony, international goodwill, |
0:56.5 | where the spirit of brotherhood enriches all of mankind forever, thank you. |
1:00.6 | Gilligan's Island debuted on CBS in 1964, |
1:03.4 | and it wasn't long before the seven stranded castaways. |
1:06.5 | With Gilligan, a skipper two, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, |
1:18.3 | the professor and Marianne. |
1:21.1 | All became household names. |
1:22.8 | Now, this is a very special episode of Your Last Meal because I I scored not one but three big interviews. |
1:28.8 | Not only do I have Don Wells who played Marianne, but we will check in with both the professor |
1:32.2 | and Ginger later in the show. But for now, let's hear from Don. I asked her what she was up to |
1:36.8 | before becoming America's girl trapped on a deserted island next door. Well, what did I do before |
1:41.7 | Gilligan's Island? Well, I mean, I did a million things before I was cast, but you don't know it. Right. Every 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Bonanza, |
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