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When fans tuned in to wish The Love Boat a bon voyage on May 24, 1986, they got what they expected. After three made-for-TV movies and nine seasons, the final episode of The Love Boat didn’t deliver anything exciting or new. Instead, the finale offered tenderness and corny jokes, absurd situations and ’80s glamour, and, of course, guest stars. The series took a bow with a fittingly-odd assortment of Hollywood veterans and new names including Police Academy regular Michael Winslow, a 21-year-old Teri Hatcher and Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham on The anchor of ABC's popular Saturday-nig...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gavin MacLeod, who played a wise-cracking news writer on the classic 1970s U.S. sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Sho...

Save this story for later. Gavin MacLeod, who appeared on two massively successful television series in the 1970s and 80s, died on Saturday, as first reported by Variety. From 1970 until 1977, MacLeod played the newsroom head writer Murray Slaughter at Minneapolis television station WJM on the witty and highly influential Mary Tyler Moore Show. He quickly followed with the leading role as "Your Captain," Merrill Stubing, on The Love Boat. That ship sailed from 1977 to 1986, with five additional post-finale specials, the last one in 1990. He continued to make appearances on shows like Tha...

Gavin MacLeod, who became one of the most beloved faces on TV as a wisecracking TV news writer on ’The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and then as the amiable skipper of ’The Love Boat’, died at his home in California.

Earlier, he was the acerbic TV news writer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”