{
  "id": 9000111,
  "title": "Gilligan's Island Actor Jim Backus Starred In Another Popular Sitcom Nobody Remembers Today",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/gilligans-island-actor-jim-backus-starred-in-another-popular-sitcom",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-21T20:12:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TVLine",
    "slug": "tvline",
    "url": "https://www.tvline.com/2262041/gilligans-island-jim-backus-star-sitcom-i-married-joan/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Long before Thurston Howell III washed up on Gilligan's Island, Jim Backus appeared in a now-forgotten - yet strangely familiar - NBC sitcom.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}