Happy Birthday: Ted Lange

Ted Lange

Born: January 5, 1948 in Oakland, California, USA

[When asked if all The Love Boat (1977) cast members, esp. Gavin MacLeod, who were there at the 2010 TV Land Awards]: Well, Gavin MacLeod [Captain Stubing] had a back operation – he hurt himself, hurt a couple of his discs – so he wasn’t able to be there. We really missed him, because, you know, he’s the anchor of the show as the captain. So I called him up and talked to him to see how he was doing, and he was a little weak, but he was recuperating well. But everybody else was there, and they all brought their kids. Fred Grandy [Gopher] brought his daughter, I brought my son…it was a lot of fun.

[When he responded if he had any on- and off-screen chemistry with Gavin MacLeod, who played “Capt. Merrill Stubing”, and Bernie Kopell, who played “Dr. Adam Brinker”, respectively]: Absolutely, because when you meet Gavin, he’s the nicest guy, he is the greatest guy. And some celebrities you meet, they are very temperamental, emotional, and all these other things, Gavin was like a joy. And Gavin and Bernie [we called those guys ‘The Old Farts’], Fred Grandy and I [can’t tell you what we called us], we’re the young [and it’s the letter that starts with an ‘S’ and meets feces]. Well, that’s what they called us, and they were the old farts. Anyway, the great thing about that is, they were old timers, because they’ve been around, once or twice, and they gave us a handbook to run the show by.

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