Gavin MacLeod credited as playing...
Murray Slaughter
- Ted Baxter: I always like to think that our little newsroom was one big happy family. In my innocence, little did I suspect we'd be harboring a backstabber in our very bosom. I'm going to reveal the name of that person. The backstabber is...
- Murray Slaughter: Isn't this were the lights go off and Ted is found dead on the floor?
- [Ted has been avoiding repaying Murrary]
- Murray Slaughter: Ted, do you have that fifty cents I loaned you last week?
- Ted Baxter: Sure, Murray.
- [Looks in his wallet]
- Ted Baxter: Darn, do you have change for a $500?
- Murray Slaughter: Sure, Ted
- [pulls a money bag from under his desk]
- Ted Baxter: [stunned] Quarters?
- Murray Slaughter: [smiling gleefully] Nickels!
- Lou Grant: Put it on an idiot card for Ted.
- Ted Baxter: Cue cards, Lou. I don't know why everyone insists on calling cue cards idiot cards.
- Murray Slaughter: We just have trouble thinking of you as a cue.
- Sue Ann Nivens: I've gotten involved in the most wonderful business. I'd like to give you all my new business card
- [passes out cards]
- Murray Slaughter: [reading] "Sue Ann Nivens; Insurance Sales". Great, Sue Ann; let me give you my card.
- [writes on the back and hands it to Sue Ann]
- Sue Ann Nivens: [reading] "Murray Slaughter; Not Interested".
- Ted Baxter: I did a report on unemployment. It's at an all-time high. Or was it low?
- Murray Slaughter: HIGH, Ted.
- Ted Baxter: Hi, Murr!
- Ted Baxter: Say, Murray, I just read this item I think we should use. It's about a man who went on TV to make a plea to send Turkeys to convicts.
- Murray Slaughter: For pets or for dinner?
- Ted Baxter: I don't know! I think it was in "Ar-Kansas."
- Murray Slaughter: Yeah, I think they're doing the same thing in Arkansas too.
- Ted Baxter: How do you like that! It's spreading from state to state!