Ted Baxter

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Ted Baxter is a vain, bumbling, and egotistical TV news anchor who serves as a major comic figure on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
sitcom character
television character
appearsIn The Mary Tyler Moore Show
appearsInGenre workplace comedy
broadcastFormatOfSeries half-hour sitcom
characterTrait bumbling
cowardly
egotistical
incompetent
pompous
self-absorbed
status-conscious
vain
comicArchetype buffoonish anchorman
countryOfOriginOfSeries United States of America
surface form: United States
createdFor The Mary Tyler Moore Show
employerInFiction WJM-TV news department
firstAppearanceSeries The Mary Tyler Moore Show
surface form: The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season 1
gender male
genre situation comedy
hairStyle silver hair
inspiredCharacterType stereotypical vain news anchor
jobTitleInSeries anchorman at WJM-TV
knownFor booming announcer voice
mangled news reports
on-air blunders
languageOfSeries English
medium television
narrativeFunction comic relief
networkOfSeries CBS
occupation TV news anchor
newsreader
portrayedBy Ted Knight
relationship colleague of Lou Grant
colleague of Mary Richards
colleague of Murray Slaughter
friend of Georgette Franklin
roleInSeries major comic figure
seriesDebutYear 1970
seriesEndYear 1977
settingCity Minneapolis
spouse Georgette Franklin Baxter
worksAt WJM-TV

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Ted Knight characterRole Ted Baxter
Murray Slaughter hasColleague Ted Baxter
Rhoda Morgenstern hasFriend Ted Baxter