This Is Your Captain Speaking

My Fantastic Voyage through Hollywood, Faith, and Life

By: Gavin MacLeod

Narrated by: Gavin MacLeod

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

The remarkable life, career, and faith journey of Gavin MacLeod, the beloved star of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

For 16 years, millions of Americans welcomed Gavin MacLeod into their living rooms every Saturday night. This veteran of stage and screen transformed himself from a seasoned character actor into the leading, lovable father figure of Captain Merrill Stubing in The Love Boat at the height of TV’s boom years.

From his humble theatrical beginnings in Upstate New York to Radio City Music Hall and on to Hollywood, Gavin MacLeod was on the fast track to success. However, a few hard life lessons - like dealing with a divorce - taught him that the key to happiness can only be found through a deep faith in God, and he feels his work for Christ is more important than any award.

The consummate storyteller, Gavin shares his fondest memories of meeting and working with countless stars, such as Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman, Ella Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Milton Berle, and Fred Astaire.

In This Is Your Captain Speaking, Gavin shares:

• Behind-the-scenes accounts from the early days of New York theatre, TV shows, and Hollywood
• Personal stories never shared before on the death of his father, struggles with depression, and his painful divorce
• How he found an enduring faith in the hostile world of entertainment, calling on God and never giving up

A nostalgic look back at the golden era of American television, This Is Your Captain Speaking will take listeners on an uplifting and inspiring journey into the life of one of TV’s most beloved actors.

Praise for This Is Your Captain Speaking:

“Gavin epitomizes the old-fashioned concept of a gentleman. He is a loving, generous, and authentic seeker of God’s truth. His life story speaks for itself.” (Kathie Lee Gifford)

©2013 Thomas Nelson (P)2013 Thomas Nelson

Absolutely Wonderful

The Title of this review says it all! Gavin we miss you! Rest in Peace!

Incredible book!!

Well written, well narrated, fascinating account of Hollywood 1960-1990, touching personal story of the Love Boat star’s first 80 years of life

Loved every minute of it

Gavin MacLeod was a wonderful man who only improved with age. I found myself binge watching the Love Boat lately and couldn’t figure out what in the world was drawing me to it (70s humor and sappy unrealistic love stories). After listening to this book, I’ve come to realize that I love Captain Stubing’s personality, wisdom, and heart. He’s what I always wanted all the men in my life to be.
Learning that MacLeod became a Christian was “icing on the cake”. He wasn’t a shallow, insincere one either. He gave Christians a good name with his humility and unconditional love for people.
I will be listening to this again. It has given me so much encouragement and insight. I feel certain that his testimony has changed my life.
A few more bonuses about the book—it is very well written, well narrated (by the author), and quite entertaining overall.

Awesome Book!

Listening to the voice of Gavin Macloud tell his story through the words of this book was incredible. His story is so interesting and inspirational.

An honest story with our favorite Captain

As we live our lives we travel roads of joy roads of sadness and hopefully a road of acceptance

Conversation with a friend

Very interesting. I enjoyed hearing about his life and career. He did a lot of good things.

Wonderful

It was beautifully told & written! Brought back a lot of childhood memories! Fantastic & inspiring to here his transformation to being a Born Again Christian. Must read for all Christians!

An amazing story by an amazing person.

This book touched me personally. Thank you Gavin for sharing your story and life experiences. Your performance is amazing. You brought back so many memories when I was a kid watching you in The Love Boat, you made me laugh and cry as you told these amazing stories. Thank you my brother in Christ, Thank you.

Uplifting Read

I was surprised how much I liked this book. It was very uplifting. I watched the Love Boat, so knew who Gavin was, but not much else. He did a good job recounting his life events with a blunt matter without being negative.
I did not realize it would end on his spiritual journey and enjoyed learning how that came about. This is a journey I am just embarking on so it really drew me in.
The only part I would say needed work was how he would pause and then come back louder. This left the narration choppy.
This book left me wanting to listen to his other one and that does not always happen.

oh my GOSh...one of my favs so far

TRULY learned so very very very very much FAR MORE THAN EXPECTED and with such depth, raw truth and Inspiration!!