And the Rest in Peace

(Whoop whoop for Joe Wright)

Or

Professor Emeritus 

Or

Three Hour Tour to Hades

(Props to Nathan)

Or

His Coffin Will Be Made of Coconut Shells Tied Together with Dried Seaweed

(Accolades for Terry)
Russell Johnson, who as Professor Roy Hinkley made a lie detector, a battery recharger, a telescope, a Geiger counter, jet-pack fuel, a bamboo xylophone, nitroglycerine, soap, shark repellent, a sewing machine, lead radiation suits and make-up, a helium balloon, a washing machine, water pump, telegraph, roulette wheel and pool table, but couldn’t fix a 4-foot hole in a damn boat, has died of kidney failure at the age of 89. The extended 3-hour tour wasn’t Johnson’s first crash in the Pacific, having been shot down over the Philippines during World War II, and having appeared in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki. Johnson adopted his professorial persona early in 1950s sci-fi in such classics as It Came from Outer Space, This Island Earth, Attack of the Crab Monsters, and The Space Children, plus in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, having gone “Back There” in time to try to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and inadvertently temporarily staying an "Execution." In the infamous dream season, Johnson also played Sheriff Wyatt Mansfield on Dallas.