MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast #7 with Mary McDonnell and Guest Host Greg LaVoi


Welcome to  Episode 7 of ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?’, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell. This week’s guest host is Greg LaVoi, the costume designer and wardrobe guru at Major Crimes.

In this episode, Mary and Greg answer questions about Season 5, Episode 9, “Family Law”, discuss how wardrobe choices are made, what role the actor’s input plays in costume selection, and how the costumes are used to tell the story.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week, and you can ask your questions below, on the MajorCrimesTV Facebook page, or tweet them to us @MaryMcDonnell10 and @MajorCrimesTV using hashtag #WWSRD, and tune in next week to see if your question is answered!

MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast #6 with Mary McDonnell and Guest Host Kathe Mazur


Welcome to Episode 6 of ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?’, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell. This week’s guest host is Kathe Mazur, who plays DDA Andrea Hobbs. In this episode we dive in to episode 8 of Season 5 of Major Crimes “Off The Wagon”. Mary and Kathe discuss the episode, the relationship between their characters, and both character’s back stories. Get to know the characters and the women behind them.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week, and you can ask your questions below, on the MajorCrimesTV Facebook page, or tweet them to us @MaryMcDonnell10 and @MajorCrimesTV using hashtag #WWSRD, and tune in next week to see if your question is answered!

MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast with Mary McDonnell – #5



Welcome to episode 5 of the ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?‘, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell. This weeks episode discusses the last several episodes of Major Crimes, through episode 507 “Moral Hazard”.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week – ask your questions below, and listen next week to see if your question has been answered!


MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast with Mary McDonnell – #4 Feat. Tony Denison



Welcome to episode 4 of  the ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?‘, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell. This weeks episode discusses episode 504, “Skin Deep”, and features guest host Andy Flynn himself, Tony Denison!

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week – ask your questions below, and listen next week to see if your question has been answered!

MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast with Mary McDonnell – #3


Welcome to episode 3 of ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?‘, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week – ask your questions below, and listen next week to see if your question has been answered!

MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast with Mary McDonnell – #2


Welcome to episode 2 of ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?‘, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week – ask your questions below, or tweet them to us @MaryMcDonnell10 and @MajorCrimesTV using hashtag #WWSRD, and listen next week to see if your question has been answered!

Podcast Transcript

What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast #1 – Transcript

Chelsea: It started with ‘What Would Laura Roslin Do?’ And now we’re asking “What Would Sharon Raydor Do?”. Welcome to the all-new “What Would Sharon Raydor Do?” Podcast, where we’re looking to get an in-depth view of Sharon Raydor from the woman who knows her best. I am here with Mary McDonnell who plays Sharon Raydor on TNT’s Major Crimes and we are looking into her character and analyzing a little bit of this week’s episode that you hopefully saw last night. And that episode is episode 1 of season 5 called “Present Tense” and… Hi Mary! How are you?

Mary McDonnell: I’m well Chelsea! Chelsea is a veteran member of Team BAM. So quite often when Team BAM is tweeting, now you’ll have a voice associated with some of those tweets.

C: Awesome! Well let’s go ahead and dive in! I feel like a lot of us have questions about Raydor’s backstory and everything else, so we’re just going to go ahead and get started! As we start season 5 of Major Crimes we’ve seen so much change between Sharon Raydor who took over Major Crimes in season 1, and the Sharon Raydor who runs the division now. How has Sharon changed from your perspective? Continue reading

MCTV Presents: What Would Sharon Raydor Do? Podcast with Mary McDonnell – #1


Welcome to ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?‘, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell.

We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week – ask your questions below, or tweet them to us @MaryMcDonnell10 and @MajorCrimesTV using hashtag #WWSRD, and listen next week to see if your question has been answered!

Podcast transcript