It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

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.