The Finding Aid of the Gavin MacLeod Collection of Scripts 0113
Craig Taylor, Jamie Henricks, Katie Richardson, and Amber DelaCruz
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
December 2013
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu 90263-4786
kelsey.knox@pepperdine.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Title: Gavin MacLeod Collection of Scripts
Identifier/Call Number: 0113
Physical Description:
6.3 Linear Feet
(15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1970-1981
Abstract: The collection includes television scripts from
Easy Street,
The Love Boat,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the movie script
You Take the High Road, all of which Gavin MacLeod acted in. The scripts range in date from 1970 to 1981.
Physical Location: Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Gavin MacLeod Collection of Scripts, Collection no. 0113, Special Collections and University Archives,
University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials in the collection were transferred to Special Collections and University Archives by the Office of Investment Management
on June 3, 2013, and by Heidi Jaeger on December 11, 2013.
Biographical Note
Gavin MacLeod was born on February 28, 1931, as Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children. MacLeod
grew up in Pleasantville, New York, and studied acting at Ithaca College, graduating in 1952. After serving in the Air Force,
MacLeod moved to New York City and found a job at Radio City Music Hall while looking for acting work. He changed his name
while in New York City, drawing "Gavin" from a cerebral palsy victim in a TV drama, and "MacLeod" from his Ithaca drama coach,
Beatrice MacLeod. MacLeod was nominated for five Academy Awards and is known for his roles in
The Love Boat,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
McHale's Navy, and
Kelly's Heroes.
Scope and Content
The collection includes television scripts from
Easy Street,
The Love Boat,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the movie script
You Take the High Road, all of which Gavin MacLeod acted in. The scripts range in date from 1970 to 1981.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following four series: 1.
Easy Street; 2.
The Love Boat; 3.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show; and 4.
You Take the High Road. Within each series, episodes are arranged by air date unless otherwise noted.
Related Archival Materials
Other collections at Pepperdine that relate to film and television include: the Ivan Goff Collection of Television Scripts
0004, the Stanley M. Kallis Scripts 0043, the Michael D. (Micky) Moore Papers 0117, the Alan Reed Papers 0119, the Chuck Waters
Papers 0122, and the Jerry Weintraub Collection of Motion Picture and Television Program Reels 0111.
Processing Information note
The collection was arranged and described by Craig Taylor and Jamie Henricks in June, 2013. The finding aid was updated by
Katie Richardson and Amber DelaCruz in January, 2014.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Screenplays
Mary Tyler Moore show (Television program)
Love boat (Television program)
Easy street (Television program)
Television programs
Television scripts
Actors and actresses -- United States
MacLeod, Gavin
box 1
Series 1:
Easy Street
1986-1987
box 1
Season 1, Episode 8 - "Be-Bop Man"
1986 November 9
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 1
Season 1, Episode 10 - "Like the Brave Little Girl in the Phillipines"
1986 November 23
box 1
Season 1, Episode 14 - "Frames and Dames"
1987 January 11
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 1
Series 2:
The Love Boat
1981
box 1
Season 4, Episode 13 - "Isaac's Teacher," "Seal of Approval," "The Successor"
1981 January 10
box 1
Season 4, Episode 20 - "Bugged," "Eye of the Beholder," "Lady From Sunshine Gardens"
1981 February 21
box 1-15
Series 3:
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970-1977
box 1
Season 1, Episode 1 - "Love is All Around"
1970 September 19
box 1
Season 1, Episode 2 - "Today I am a Ma'am"
1970 September 26
box 1
Season 1, Episode 3 - "Bess, You Is My Daughter Now"
1970 October 3
box 1
Season 1, Episode 4 - "Divorce Isn't Everything"
1970 October 10
box 1
Season 1, Episode 5 - "Keep Your Guard Up"
1970 October 17
box 1
Season 1, Episode 6 - "Support Your Local Mother"
1970 October 24
box 1
Season 1, Episode 7 - "Toulousse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists"
1970 October 31
box 2
Season 1, Episode 9 - "Bob and Rhoda and Teddy and Mary"
1970 November 14
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 2
Season 1, Episode 10 - "Assistant Wanted, Female"
1970 November 21
box 2
Season 1, Episode 11 - "1040 or Fight"
1970 November 28
box 2
Season 1, Episode 13 - "He's All Yours"
1970 December 12
box 2
Season 1, Episode 14 - "Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid II"
1970 December 19
box 2
Season 1, Episode 16 - "Party is Such Sweet Sorrow"
1971 January 9
box 2
Season 1, Episode 17 - "Just a Lunch"
1971 January 16
box 2
Season 1, Episode 18 - "Second Story Story"
1971 January 23
box 2
Season 1, Episode 19 - "We Closed in Minneapolis"
1971 January 30
box 2
Season 1, Episode 20 - "Hi!"
1971 February 6
box 2
Season 1, Episode 21 - "The Boss Isn't Coming to Dinner"
1971 February 13
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 2
Season 1, Episode 22 - "A Friend in Deed"
1971 February 20
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 3
Season 1, Episode 23 - "Smokey the Bear Wants You"
1971 February 27
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 3
Season 1, Episode 24 - "The 45-Year-Old Man"
1971 March 6
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 3
Season 2, Episode 2 - "I Am Curious Cooper"
1971 September 25
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 3
Season 2, Episode 5 - "A Girl's Best Mother is Not Her Friend"
1971 October 16
box 3
Season 2, Episode 6 - "Cover Boy"
1971 October 30
box 3
Season 2, Episode 7 - "Didn't You Used to Be... Wait... Don't Tell Me"
1971 October 30
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 3
Season 2, Episode 8 - "Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary"
1971 November 6
box 3
Season 2, Episode 9 - "And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter"
1971 November 13
box 3
Season 2, Episode 10 - "Don't Break the Chain"
1971 November 20
box 3
Season 2, Episode 11 - "The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch"
1971 November 27
box 3
Season 2, Episode 12 - "...Is a Friend in Need"
1971 December 4
box 3
Season 2, Episode 13 - "The Square-Shaped Room"
1971 December 11
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 4
Season 2, Episode 14 - "Ted Over Heels"
1971 December 18
box 4
Season 2, Episode 15 - "The Five-Minute Dress"
1972 January 1
box 4
Season 2, Episode 16 - "Feeb"
1972 January 8
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 4
Season 2, Episode 17 - "The Slaughter Affair"
1972 January 15
box 4
Season 2, Episode 18 - "Baby Sit-Com"
1972 January 22
box 4
Season 2, Episode 19 - "More Than Neighbors"
1972 January 29
box 4
Season 2, Episode 20 - "The Care and Feeding of Parents"
1972 February 12
box 4
Season 2, Episode 21 - "Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda"
1972 February 12
box 4
Season 2, Episode 23 - "Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda"
1972 February 26
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 4
Season 2, Episode 24 - "His Two Right Arms"
1972 March 4
box 4
Unaired - "The Locked Door"
(written) 1972 May 9
box 4
Season 3, Episode 1 - "The Good-Time News"
1972 September 16
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 5
Season 3, Episode 2 - "What Is Mary Richards Really Like?"
1972 September 23
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 5
Season 3, Episode 3 - "Who's in Charge Here?"
1972 September 30
box 5
Season 3, Episode 4 - "Daughter of the Bride" (Possibly "Enter Rhoda's Parents") (written) 1972 June 23
(aired) 1972 October 7
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 5
Season 3, Episode 5 - "It's Whether You Win or Lose"
1972 October 14
box 5
Season 3, Episode 7 - "Just Around the Corner"
1972 October 28
box 5
Season 3, Episode 8 - "But Seriously, Folks"
1972 November 4
box 5
Season 3, Episode 9 - "Farmer Ted and the News"
1972 November 25
box 5
Season 3, Episode 10 - "Have I Found the Guy for You"
1972 November 25
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 5
Season 3, Episode 11 - "You've Got a Friend"
1972 November 25
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 5
Season 3, Episode 12 - "It Was Fascination, I Know"
1972 December 2
box 5
Season 3, Episode 13 - "Operation: Lou"
1972 December 9
box 5
Season 3, Episode 14 - "Rhoda Morgenstern: Minneapolis to New York"
1972 December 16
box 5
Season 3, Episode 15 - "The Courtship of Mary's Father's Daughter"
1972 December 23
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 16 - "Lou's Place"
1973 January 6
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 17 - "My Brother's Keeper"
1973 January 13
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 18 - "The Georgette Story"
1973 January 20
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 19 - "Romeo and Mary"
1973 January 27
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 20 - "What Do You Say When the Boss Says 'I Love You'?"
1973 February 3
box 6
Season 3, Episode 21 - "Murray Faces Life"
1973 February 10
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 22 - "Remembrance of Things Past "
1973 February 17
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 23 - "Put on a Happy Face"
1973 February 24
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 6
Season 3, Episode 24 - "Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady"
1973 March 3
box 6
Season 4, Episode 1 - "The Lars Affair"
1973 September 15
box 7
Season 4, Episode 2 - "Angels in the Snow"
1973 September 22
box 7
Season 4, Episode 3 - "Rhoda's Sister Gets Married"
1973 September 29
box 7
Season 4, Episode 4 - "The Lou and Edie Story"
1973 October 6
box 7
Season 4, Episode 5 - "Hi There, Sports Fans"
1973 October 13
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 7
Season 4, Episode 6 - "Father's Day"
1973 October 20
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 7
Season 4, Episode 7 - "Son of "But Seriously, Folks""
1973 October 27
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 7
Season 4, Episode 8 - "Lou's First Date"
1973 November 3
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 7
Season 4, Episode 9 - "Love Blooms at Hemples"
1973 November 10
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 8
Season 4, Episode 10 - "The Dinner Party"
1973 November 17
box 8
Season 4, Episode 12 - "We Want Baxter"
1973 December 1
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 8
Season 4, Episode 13 - "I Gave at the Office"
1973 December 8
box 8
Season 4, Episode 14 - "Almost a Nun's Story"
1973 December 15
box 8
Season 4, Episode 17 - "Cottage for Sale"
1974 January 12
box 8
Season 4, Episode 18 - "The Co-Producers"
1974 January 19
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 8
Season 4, Episode 19 - "Best of Enemies" (Possible Alternate Title "Best of Friends")
1974 January 26
box 8
Season 4, Episode 21 - "Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite"
1974 February 9
box 8
Season 4, Episode 22 - "Lou's Second Date"
1974 February 16
box 8
Season 4, Episode 23 - "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer"
1974 February 23
box 9
Unaired - "The Win a Date With Ted Baxter Story"
(revised) 1974 April 15
box 9
Unaired - "Freedom of the Press"
(written) 1974 July 15
box 9
Unaired - "The United States Vs. Mary Richards"
(filmed) 1974 August 9
box 9
Season 5, Episode 2 - "Not Just Another Pretty Face"
1974 September 21
box 9
Season 5, Episode 3 - "You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate"
1974 September 28
box 9
Season 5, Episode 4 - "Lou and That Woman"
1974 October 5
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 9
Season 5, Episode 5 - "The Outsider"
1974 October 12
box 9
Season 5, Episode 6 - "I Love a Piano"
1974 October 19
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 9
Season 5, Episode 7 - "The New Sue Ann"
1974 October 26
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 9
Season 5, Episode 8 - "Menage-a-Phyllis"
1974 November 2
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 10
Season 5, Episode 9 - "Not a Christmas Story"
1974 November 9
box 10
Season 5, Episode 10 - "What Are Friends For?"
1974 November 16
box 10
Season 5, Episode 11 - "A Boy's Best Friend"
1974 November 23
box 10
Season 5, Episode 12 - "A Son for Murray"
1974 November 30
box 10
Season 5, Episode 13 - "Neighbors"
1974 December 7
box 10
Season 5, Episode 14 - "A Girl Like Mary"
1974 December 14
box 10
Season 5, Episode 15 - "An Affair to Forget"
1974 December 21
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 10
Season 5, Episode 16 - "Mary Richards: Producer"
1975 January 4
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 10
Season 5, Episode 18 - "Phyllis Whips Inflation"
1975 January 18
box 10
Season 5, Episode 19 - "The Shame of the Cities"
1975 January 25
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 11
Season 5, Episode 21 - "You Try to Be a Nice Guy"
1975 February 21
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 11
Season 5, Episode 22 - "You Can't Lose 'em All"
1975 February 15
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 11
Season 5, Episode 23 - "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School"
1975 February 22
box 11
Season 5, Episode 24 - "Anybody Who Hates Kids and Dogs"
1975 March 8
box 11
Season 6, Episode 1 - "Edie Gets Married"
1975 September 13
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 11
Season 6, Episode 3 - "Mary's Father"
1975 September 27
box 11
Season 6, Episode 4 - "Murray in Love"
1975 October 4
box 11
Season 6, Episode 5 - "Ted's Moment of Glory"
1975 October 11
box 11
Season 6, Episode 6 - "Mary's Aunt"
1975 October 18
box 11
Season 6, Episode 7 - "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
1975 October 25
box 11
Season 6, Episode 8 - "Mary's Delinquent"
1975 November 1
box 11
Season 6, Episode 9 - "Ted's Wedding"
1975 November 8
box 12
Season 6, Episode 10 - "Lou Douses an Old Flame"
1975 November 15
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 12
Season 6, Episode 12 - "Ted's Tax Refund"
box 12
Season 6, Episode 14 - "One Boyfriend Too Many"
1975 December 13
box 12
Season 6, Episode 16 - "Not With My Wife, I Don't"
1976 January 3
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 12
Season 6, Episode 17 - "The Seminar"
1976 January 10
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 12
Season 6, Episode 18 - "Once I Had a Secret Love..."
1976 January 17
box 12
Season 6, Episode 19 - "Menage-a-Lou"
1976 January 24
box 12
Season 6, Episode 20 - "Murray Takes a Stand"
1976 January 31
box 12
Season 6, Episode 21 - "Mary's Aunt Returns"
1976 February 7
box 12
Season 6, Episode 24 - "Ted and the Kid"
1976 March 6
box 12
Season 7, Episode 1 - "Mary Midwife"
1976 September 25
box 13
Season 7, Episode 4 - "What's Wrong with Swimming?"
1976 November 16
box 13
Season 7, Episode 5 - "Ted's Change of Heart"
1976 October 23
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 13
Season 7, Episode 6 - "One Producer Too Many"
1976 October 30
box 13
Season 7, Episode 7 - "My Son, the Genius"
1976 November 6
box 13
Season 7, Episode 8 - "Mary Gets a Lawyer"
1976 November 13
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 13
Season 7, Episode 9 - "Lou Proposes"
1976 November 20
box 13
Season 7, Episode 10 - "Murray Can't Lose"
1976 November 27
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 13
Season 7, Episode 11 - "Mary's Insomnia"
1976 December 4
Physical Description: (3 copies)
box 13
Season 7, Episode 12- "Ted's Temptation"
1976 December 11
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 13 - "Look at Us, We're Walking"
1976 December 25
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 14 - "The Critic"
1977 January 8
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 15 - "Lou's Army Reunion"
1977 January 15
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 16 - "The Ted and Georgette Show"
1977 January 22
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 17 - "Sue Ann Gets the Ax"
1977 January 29
box 14
Season 7, Episode 18 - "Hail the Conquering Gordy"
1977 February 05
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 14
Season 7, Episode 19 - "Mary and the Sexagenarian"
1977 February 12
box 14
Season 7, Episode 20 - "Murray Ghosts for Ted"
1977 February 19
box 14
Season 7, Episode 21 - "Mary's Three Husbands"
1977 February 26
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 15
Season 7, Episode 23 - "Lou Dates Mary"
1977 March 19
Physical Description: (2 copies)
box 15
Season 7, Episode 24 - "The Last Show"
1977 March 19
box 15
Unaired - "Ode to M"
undated
box 15
Series 4:
You Take the High Road
Undated