Thank you for the information! I had only recently become aware that Bob and Dreama's son Colin was autistic- I found out through listening to a radio interview between Dreama and Dawn Wells, which you can find on YouTube.
Bob gave up his acting career when Colin was born so that he and Dreama could stay at home and become Colin's full-time carers, something that Bob never really talked about, probably because he was such an intensely private man and also because as Dawn Wells has said, he was not the type to go looking for any kind of sympathy.
By all accounts Bob Denver was a terrific father to all of his children and it's wonderful that Colin is able to live independently, something that was probably made possible for him because he had/has such loving and supportive parents. Bob Denver left us, his fans, with Gilligan and Maynard G. Krebs, but it's said his greatest role in life was as a father and a family man, and for that he will never be forgotten.
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