After Gilligans Island, Dawn Wells Starred In A Slasher Movie Based On A True Story
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- Dawn Wells played Helen Reed, a victim of a serial killer in "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" The movie is loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders.
- In a later filmSCHOOLarchive interview, Wells explained how, after "Gilligan's Island," she returned to stage productions, which she thought would be better than "trying to play the little farm girl for the rest of my life" She also guested on the show "Kojak" as a heroin addict and played a vicious prison guard in the 1976 TV movie "Nightmare in Badham County"
Years after Gilligans Island, Dawn Wells and Bob Denver reunited for a charming Michael J. Fox movie. Prior to that, however, Mary Ann had to survive her encounter with the Phantom of Texarkana.
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