DID THE CAPTAIN EVER CALL MRS. MUIR BY HER GIVEN NAME?
Once. The Captain finally referred to Mrs. Muir as Carolyn at the end of the last-run episode of the series, “Wedding Day?????” This occurred at a particularly moving moment right after Carolyn’s parents had renewed their wedding vows. The Captain, noting that the problem of how Carolyn would extricate herself from a trip to the altar with Claymore had been solved, said: “You may now consider your engagement to Claymore permanently broken.” To which Carolyn replied, “Oh, I do, Captain.” The Captain then, in a moment of weakness, said: “I do, Carolyn.” Upon receiving a questioning look from Carolyn, he explained: “I just wanted to hear how the words sounded spoken on an occasion like this!” Double sigh!
