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“Love, exciting and new!”
That classic opening line from the theme song for “The Love Boat.”
greeted viewers each Saturday night during the late 1970s and ’80s who watched “The Love Boat.”
“It was a great experience doing it,” he toldCBCin 2017.
“I did a couple other shows that were not great experiences,” he added.
“The general population loved our show.”
“Most people play up the villainy and manipulation between Iago and Othello,” he said.
“But that’s just a part of it.”
and “This is on the house.”
Lange called his agent to tell him to pass, because he didn’t want to do it.
“He said, ‘Ted, have you ever been to Acapulco?
It’s 10 grand for three scenes.
And you don’t have to do a lot of work.
Besides, this is not going to sell.’
Famous last words,” he added.
All told, Lange has racked up directing credits on more than 20 TV shows.
Writing plays, he explained, came about out of necessity.
“Sometimes you just can’t get the gig,” he said.
“So rather than to not act and not participate artistically I started directing.
Then out of the stories that I was directing there were stories that I wanted to tell.
I accidentally became a playwright.”
In fact, after graduating from college, he joined a Shakespearean theater company.
According to Lange, it’s not accurate to say that he abandoned theater for television.
Between takes, they’d bonded over their shared appreciation of Shakespeare.
It was Redgrave who pointed him in the direction of the academy.
“She even wrote a letter of recommendation!”
Since then, he’s appeared in numerous theatrical productions of Shakespeare’s plays.
“I get offers all the time, but I’m not getting on those damn boats again.”
That drink was, naturally, dubbed the Isaac, and it’s pretty easy to make.
Fill a highball glass with ice, and let it sit.
Give it a good shake, and strain into the ice-filled glass.
These include “Let Freedom Ring: Based on a True Story … a blend of historical fact and made-up fiction about what caused the crack in the Liberty Bell.
“Then I take a dramatic stand from the basic information,” he added.
“you’re able to’t just go with one book.
One book might have a certain bias in it.
Lange and his ex-wife share two grown sons, Ted IV and Turner Wallace Lange.
“My oldest I call T-Bone.
“They are really great guys.
I love them madly.
I want them to meet a person on their own ground and their own values.
I want them to be straight up stand-up guys.
That is what I take a stab at pass on to them.”
As a father, the most important trait he ever wanted his sons to possess was integrity.
“We are both theater people.
We started a production company recently with three other artists called Five for the Show.
Our goal is to bring quality theater projects to the general public.”
Once they hit the stage together, however, it proved to be just like old times.
“We’re rockin' and rollin',” Lange gushed “It’s still there.
I trust him, he trusts me.
It’s magic.”
Lange went on to direct Grandy in a one-man show, “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry.”
