I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

He is the stepfather of Drew Steele of the rock band the Surf Punks. Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See February 28 1931) is an American character actor mayor and ship's ambassador who in his six decades of television is notable for playing Joseph "Happy" Haines on McHale's Navy Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and for his lead role as Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.