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Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman “Happy” Haines on...

Gavin MacLeod of 'Love Boat' and 'Mary Tyler Moore' fame dead at 90 Variety © Provided by NBC News LOS ANGELES — Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman "Happy" Haines on "McHale's Navy," Murray on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on "The Love Boat," has died. He was 90. MacLeod's nephew, Mark See, confirmed his death to Variety. MacLeod played a relatively minor character on ABC hit "McHale's Navy," starring Ernest Borgnine, but as newswriter Murray Slaughter, he was certainly one of the stars of "The Mary Tyl...

In Special Guest Star, Gwen Ihnat takes a look at a standout turn by a performer in a TV series, noting what effect the appearance had on the actor, the series, and the TV landscape overall.  Advertisement “The Dinner Party,” season four, episode 10 (1973) The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a landmark television series. It established the template for the workplace sitcom and featured a single woman whose life revolved around her friends—not a man or her family—fitting right into the women’s lib movement of the early ’70s. But if it had a single flaw, it was that its protagonist was...

Submitting... Among her achievements, Leachman won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Last Picture Show (1971), a Golden Globe for Phyllis (1975-77) and was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011. Actresses (L-R) Cloris Leachman, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, and Georgia Engel on stage at the Screen Actor Guild Awards in 2007. (Pic: Getty Images) She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, notably as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein (1974), and as Grandma Ida in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Co...

It was my travel highlight of 2020, and, surprise, it was a cruise Little did I know, but a voyage on “The Love Boat” would be my last big travel hurrah for a long, long time. By Christopher Muther Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 12:19 p.m. Email to a Friend The Regal Princess anchored off the Cayman Islands in February 2020.Christopher Muther/Globe Staff CARIBBEAN SEA – Jill Whelan was having a hot flash, and the timing couldn’t have been worse. Whelan, the actress best known for playing sweet little Vicki Stubing on “The Love Boat,” was just a few minutes...