# TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\
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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)
6. The Golden Girls (Betty White)

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)
6. The Golden Girls (Betty White)
7. Good Times (John Amos)

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)
6. The Golden Girls (Betty White)
7. Good Times (John Amos)
8. Raising Hope (Cloris Leachman)

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5687 "2024-08-16T03:24:35Z")

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**TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)
6. The Golden Girls (Betty White)
7. Good Times (John Amos)
8. Raising Hope (Cloris Leachman)
9. Coach (Georgia Engel)

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**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5688 "2024-08-16T09:59:17Z")

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> [@knoodler](#):
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> **TV Shows featuring actors who appeared in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_**

1. Lou Grant (Ed Asner)
2. The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod)
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show (Mary Tyler Moore)
4. Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight)
5. Rhoda (Valerie Harper)
6. The Golden Girls (Betty White)
7. Good Times (John Amos)
8. Raising Hope (Cloris Leachman)
9. Coach (Georgia Engel)
10. Hot in Cleveland (Betty White)

be right back with the next one…

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**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5689 "2024-08-16T10:03:12Z")

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland

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**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5693 "2024-08-16T15:54:09Z")

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor
6. Joan Fontaine

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Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor
6. Joan Fontaine
7. Ethel Merman

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**Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_**

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor
6. Joan Fontaine
7. Ethel Merman
8. Gene Kelly

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**Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_**

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor
6. Joan Fontaine
7. Ethel Merman
8. Gene Kelly
9. Lana Turner

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> [@knoodler](#):
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> **TV shows where the grandparent/s live with the main character/s**
> 
> 1. Frasier

Martin was Frasier’s dad, not his grandfather. How about:

1. Roseanne

In later seasons, anyway. Now back to:

**Golden or Silver Age Hollywood actors who appeared on _The Love Boat_**

1. Lillian Gish
2. Lew Ayres
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Olivia de Havilland
5. Donald O’Connor
6. Joan Fontaine
7. Ethel Merman
8. Gene Kelly
9. Lana Turner
10. Don Ameche

Pass.

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**Voice actors on a series who were better known for something else**

1. Serena Williams as a guard in _Avatar: The Last Airbender_

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> [@](#):
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> **Voice actors on a series who were better known for something else**

1. Serena Williams as a guard in _Avatar: The Last Airbender_
2. Lorenzo Music as Carlton your doorman on _Rhoda_

He became known as a voice actor based on a his work as Carlton, and even became the voice of Garfield the Cat, but prior to voicing Carlton, he’d been employed on the show _Rhoda_ as a writer, following Valerie Harper from _The Mary Tyler Moore Show._ He also wrote _The Bob Newhart Show_, _Love, American Style_, and _The Smothers Brothers_.

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