We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

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.