Gavin MacLeod’s new autobiography recounts childhood poverty and loss, alcohol abuse and a brush with suicide, but the man and the book emerge as determinedly upbeat. “Grateful” is employed ...

I’ve always dreamed she would turn out to become a ship’s captain like her father,” Whelan said of her late TV dad, Captain Merrill Stubing, played by Gavin MacLeod. Rocket Weijers/Getty ...