Ted Baxter
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Sep 30, 2026
JoshHOST
So Mary asks what's going on? Why does it need to be ironed all of a sudden so quickly? Why can't it wait till she come back? And Ted is doing something in the morning that he wants to make sure he looks all nice and fancy for.
JoshHOST
Our guest star, Betty Baruchuk, walks in and asks for Mary and makes sure that Mary is the one that is an associate producer of the 6 o'clock news starring Ted Baxter.
JoshHOST
And she's apparently going to be a guest star on the news tomorrow night.
JoshHOST
So she wanted to just check in with Mary, make sure that she's got everything.
Rita BlackHOST
Maybe some of you younger folks bought in syndication a couple of times.
Rita BlackHOST
And I don't know if you remember the newscaster Ted Baxter.
Rita BlackHOST
He was a silverhead, silver haired, smooth talking, a bit of a dumb blonde, but very handsome, played by Ted Knight, I believe.
Rita BlackHOST
Brilliant, brilliant comedian.
John SiuntresHOST
Yes.
John SiuntresHOST
Yep, Ted Baxter.
VeronicaPANELIST
Are you serious?
John SiuntresHOST
Because before Mary Tyler Moore, in the 60s, they had all these Justice League cartoons, and he was the narrator.
Wayne HovisUNKNOWN
here.
Wayne HovisUNKNOWN
Ted Baxter.
Wayne HovisUNKNOWN
Ted Baxter did the news.
Wayne HovisUNKNOWN
All right, great,
Bob YarbroughHOST
great.
Bob YarbroughHOST
So Ted Baxter comes in.
Bob YarbroughHOST
Good evening.
Bob YarbroughHOST
Welcome.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Which is, uh, it's set at a golf club.
Tony JohnsonHOST
It's not really a- [laughs] about golf, but, I mean, when you've got a movie with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield and, and, uh, of course, uh, uh, Ted Knight, the guy that played Ted Baxter in the Mary Tyler Moore Show, that was a hell of a good one.
Tony JohnsonHOST
The Bodyguard as well.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Uh, Kevin Costner's...
Douglas RushkoffHOST
Baxter?
Kurt AndersenGUEST
Exactly, Ted Baxter.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
But the question I wanted to ask you is what do you see – do you see our role as writers having changed? I feel like we're all – all writers are more political now, but that's partly because the atmosphere is more political.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
Do you see us as having – has your understanding of what a writer is for changed? kind of changed.
Pete MundoHOST
And, you know, Rush would goof on him.
Pete MundoHOST
He said he called him Ted Baxter.
Pete MundoHOST
which goes back to the Mary Tyler Moore show, which doesn't mean anything to me, but, you know, John got a kick out of that yesterday.
Pete MundoHOST
We were laughing about that one off the air, so that was good.
Bill O'ReillySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was on the same wavelength as me as far as vision of the country.
Bill O'ReillySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We had a pleasant conversation.
Bill O'ReillySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But you remember he called me Ted Baxter, which I liked, by the way.
Bill O'ReillySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ted Baxter was a character in the Mary Tyler Moore TV sitcom show.
Pete MundoHOST
Mm-hmm.
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
But you'll remember, he called me Ted Baxter, which I liked, by the way.
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
[laughs] I, I...
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
Ted Baxter was a character in the Mary Tyler Moore, uh, TV c- sitcom show.
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
And, uh, he would call me that on the air, you know.
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
I don't know what his ultimate goal was.
Bill O'ReillyGUEST
Just made me more famous.
Pete MundoHOST
Yeah.