She is adorned in a famous gigantic diamond which, of course, entices dim-witted bumbling crooks (Harold Gould, Karen Valentine, Larry Storch, John Schuck), in a delightful caper reminiscent of old Hollywood. Gopher's college friend tries to please both his boss and the boss' daughter, not knowing they are father and daughter. Guest Stars: Edward Andrews as Seniors Group Leader, Harry, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Kitty Pickrel, Scott Baio as Graham D. Pickrel II, Pamela Bellwood as Judy Watson, Charles Frank as Jim Wright, Seniors' Chaperone, Kristy McNichol as Kelly Rixie, Richard Mulligan as Ron Larsen, Robert Reed as Barney Mason, and Loretta Swit as Terry Larsen. A man (John Ritter) poses as a woman because the only available cabin he could share was already occupied by another woman (Tovah Feldshuh). Note: Pat Klous (credited as Patricia Klous), who later played cruise director Judy McCoy in seasons 8 and 9, played an unrelated role in this episode. Spain cruise: The grandson (Lorenzo Lamas) of a famous matador (Cesar Romero) wants to write rather than become a bullfighter; A woman (Sada Thompson), who spent 20 years in prison, hopes to be reunited with her daughter (Melissa Sue Anderson); A passenger (Adrian Zmed) is seeing both Judy and Vicki without their knowledge; Isaac helps a pregnant unmarried stowaway (Olivia Brown). The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based (also titled The Love Boat) was itself based on the nonfiction book The Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director for a passenger cruise-ship line. Notes: This is a 90-minute episode. Eve Springer (Vera Miles) is on board with her two daughters, Eleanor (Jaime Lyn Bauer) and Patty (Dana Plato). Note: Nanci L. Hammond as Jane Love Boat Mermaid (credited as Nanci Hammond, instead of Nanci Lynn Hammond as previous episodes). Guest Stars: Clive Revill as Slade Collins, Marion Ross as Emily Heywood / Emily Stubing, Rene Taylor as Monica Douglas and Michael Winslow as Spencer Wilson. This takes place during a charity cruise involving The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. A Hollywood couple argue about a film he wants to produce, unaware that thieves are planning to rob them of a precious diamond in their possession. Other Guests: Melendy Britt as Georgina and Sandra Deel as Dolores Strickland. Guest Stars: Susan Blakely as Nicole Phillips, Jack Coleman as Scott Barrett, Mel Ferrer as Jack Powers, Audrey Landers as Brenda Adams-Rosenberg, Judy Landers as Edie Adams-Rosenberg, Harry Morgan as Charly Fields, Ken Olandt as Don Phillips, Alexis Smith as Justina Downey, Craig Stevens as Viktor Lukas, and Lisa Whelchel as Kelly Barrett. Grandy appeared in every episode throughout the run of the series but did not appear in the last of the TV movies, as he was campaigning for the first of his four consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Pacific Princess competes with another ship while cruising to Alaska; Captain Stubing enters a dog-sled race against the other ship's captain, who is angry that his son is working for Stubing; a man and woman spend the entire cruise in their cabin to get acquainted; a newly separated couple find they cannot handle being apart; a scientist obsesses over his love potion and neglects his girlfriend. It struck a deal with the actor to serve as a "creative advisor," per a Wall Street Journal report. His first romantic screen kiss was with guest star Diahann Carroll, and it took a while before she and the crew caught on to the fact that he was asking for retakes just so he could kiss her again. [11] Both vessels' scrappings were controversial, but the previous owners justified it by saying that they were getting too old to continue operating. http://www.ultimate70s.com/seventies_history/19781117/television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Love_Boat_episodes&oldid=1142546638, Lists of American drama television series episodes, Short description is different from Wikidata, Episode lists with unformatted story or teleplay credits, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Richard Kinon (Mona Lisa Speaks; Till Death Do Its Part), Carl Kleinschmitt (Mona Lisa Speaks; Till Death Do Its Part), Dawn Aldredge & Marion C. Freeman (Here's Looking at You, Love), "Captain & the Lady / Centerfold / One If by Land", "A Tasteful Affair / Oh, Dale! A ship's steward (Bob Crane) is reunited with his long lost daughter (Dori Brenner). They have two children. This wedding cruise takes place up the Alaska and British Columbia coastline: Other guest stars: Robert Lussier, Stephanie Steele, and Julia Duffy. A stuffy executive loosens up and falls in love with his secretary; a songwriter rekindles a wife's love for her husband; Captain Stubing takes charge of the orphaned child of his former love; a stern Russian cruise director gets a new image, to Doc's delight. Part 1 of 2. The promoter of the marriage cruise is trying to reconcile with his wife, but when he makes a crooked deal with one of the couples, he is in danger of losing his wife to Captain Stubing. [24], The American version is hosted by married actors Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn. An overweight diet doctor hires a fitness instructor to promote her nutrition program; a man tells his significant other that he wants to see other women; Doc runs into an ex (Stephanie Beacham) while he is on his honeymoon. Jim and Dianne reconsider their relationship. Love is in the air with a wedding on board. / Seoul Mates (aka Foreign Exchange)", "Another Time, Another Place / Doctor Who / Gopher's Engagement", Henry Colman (Another Time, Another Place), "Hey, Jealous Lover / Tres Amigos / Dumb Luck", "Celebration / Captain Papa / Honeymoon Pressure", "Vicki's First Love / High Cost of Loving / Accident Prone", "The Invisible Maniac / September Song / Peekaboo", Harvey Bullock (The Invisible Maniac; Peekaboo), "No Girls for Doc / Marriage of Convenience / The Caller / Witness for the Prosecution", "Sergeant Bull / Friends and Lovers / Miss Mother", "The Family Plan / The Promoter / May the Best Man Win / Forever Engaged / The Judges", Ben Joelson & Art Baer (The Promoter; May the Best Man Win), "The Major's Wife / The Oilman Cometh / Target Gopher / Strange Honeymoon", "The Mallory Quest / Julie, the Vamp / The Offer", Stephen Kandel & Harvey Bullock (The Mallory Quest), "The Horse Lover / Secretary to the Stars / Julie's Decision / Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse / The Village People Ride Again", "The Baby Alarm / Tell Her She's Great / Matchmaker, Matchmaker Times Two", Isaac gets the crew to bolster his stagestruck aunt's (, "She Stole His Heart / Return of the Captain's Brother / Swag and Mag", "Boomerang / Captain's Triangle / Out of This World", "That's My Dad / The Captain's Bird / Captive Audience", Ben Joelson & Art Baer (The Captain's Bird), "Doc's Dismissal / The Frugal Pair / The Girl Next Door", "Isaac's Secret / Seal of Approval / The Curse of the Dumbrowskis", "From Here to Maternity / Jealousy / The Trigamist", Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs (From Here to Maternity), "First Voyage, Last Voyage / April the Ninny / The Loan Arranger", "Gopher's Bride / Love with a Married Man / Not Tonight, Jack! / Crew Confessions", Isaac has trouble on the high seas when the Love Boat crew discovers he has included some racy tales about them in his new novel. Guest Stars: Jimmy Baio as Norman, James Coco as Marion Atkins, the Author, Norman Fell as Bill McCoy, Betty Garrett as Martha McCoy, Melissa Gilbert as Rosemary 'Rocky' Simpson, Dody Goodman as Patricia Seldon, Ellen Travolta as Norman's Mother, and Edward Winter as Rod Simpson. She made friends with the cast, she got to dance with Ginger Rogers, and became pen pals with Ethel Merman. Gopher hires a woman (Mandy Perryment) as a masseuse but doesn't have time to tell Merrill, who falls for her. Onset, he was traveling, getting to know colleagues who would become lifelong friends, and locking lips with one of his favorite movie stars. A television star (Ron Ely) whom Vicki adores comes on board with his girlfriend-agent (Erin Gray) but has to deal with an overbearing passenger (William Boyett). Gopher's widowed mother (Ethel Merman) tries to hide her grief from her son; a comic (Johnny Yune) falls for a reporter (Momo Yashima) doing a story on him; a waiter (Nicholas Hammond) pretends to be a banker to win over a jet-setter (Hayley Mills). Mark James. One passenger has a narrow escape from a car crash. The Love Boat theme song was sung by Jack Jones (except for the last season, where a cover version by Dionne Warwick was used). The "Boat" pulled into port for the last time after nine seasons, but MacLeod continued to embrace his character, making many public appearances in costume. A womanizer (Demond Wilson) has his friend (Jimmie Walker) take the responsibility when his girlfriend (Telma Hopkins) finds a letter from another woman in his jacket. He used to joke that he got away with murder: as his character, the lecherous Doc, he could tell every attractive woman on the ship to take her clothes off, legitimately. Once the two get together it's a contest of digs, and a surprise happening between the two. When a fraternity has the turnover of one of their relics from one chapter to another, the chapter receiving the relic feels the chapter currently in possession of it is not worthy to be part of the fraternity, so the recipient chapter leader (Tim Ryan) tries to make it appear that they violated several of the fraternity's laws so that they would be thrown out. Ted Lange's Life after Playing Bartender on 'The Love Boat' Including Being a Dad to 2 Sons. A millionaire is after a mysterious woman who turned out to be his wife. A loan shark sends a man to collect an outstanding debt from a passenger. In preparation for a steeplechase race in Mexico, one of the racers (Allen Ludden) spends more time with his horse than with his wife (Betty White), who finds comfort in the man's business partner (David Doyle). The cruise begins in the US Virgin Islands and ends in Los Angeles. Ace and the crew campaign for a salary raise. Another couple, who had moved to Canada for him to avoid the Vietnam War draft and recently returned under amnesty, meet another classmate who is in a wheelchair due to wounds received in the war. A man feels that he and his wife are experiencing the three stages of love. See immediately below for the next episode. The crew goes to Italy: The ship cruises to Rome, Capri and Venice. On the Nile: Stubing meets a widow; Two agents want Doc's souvenir; A couple faces facts; A reporter upsets an actress. Gopher finds some money and fantasizes how he'll spend it; a folk singer meets an old friend who's now a politician and traveling with a female companion; a woman traveling with her father meets a veterinarian. The Captain might reconsider his marriage to Emily (Marion Ross). A henpecked man (Roddy McDowall) feels he's being pressured, by his girlfriend (Tammy Grimes), into marriage, against his will. There were also the ones who were big at the time, but forgotten by those who werent around in the 70s: The Hudson Brothers, Bobby Sherman, Bert Convy, Charlene Tilton, and Quinn Cummings. A retired actress (Claire Trevor) seeks help from her son-in-law (James Houghton) in effecting a reconciliation with her daughter (Morgan Brittany); a widowed passenger (Arlene Dahl) has a shipboard romance with the ship's engineer (Vic Tayback); two newlyweds (Delta Burke and Lou Richards) cause havoc as the husband is convinced the world is coming to an end. A reporter (Vicki Lawrence) falls for a disgraced congressman (Dick Van Patten). "The Love Boat," which aired from 1977 until 1986, was based on the romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship Pacific Princess. See All Credits. Actor MacLeod, 'Love Boat' Captain, Dies at 90 May 29, 2021 7:46 PM Associated Press FILE - Actor Gavin MacLeod participates in a panel discussion during the 2018 Television Critics. Professor Roscoe Weber (Sam Jaffe), a 91-year-old Nobel Prize winner for psychology, doesn't realize that his adoring former pupil, Professor Helen Burton (Bettye Ackerman), has been hired by his university to replace him. / No More Alimony / Authoress! Other Guests: Sam Scarber as Bubba Powell. @envious.kennels. New roommates Vicki and Judy have to deal with their opposite habits. When her occasional acting jobs werent enough to support herself and her son, she went to work behind the scenes. Gopher's parents visit but the father feels like a third wheel; a couple with five already grown children find out they will have a new addition to the family; two sisters are less than friendly to their new stepmother. Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington as an eternally bickering married couple, and Audra Lindley and Phil Silvers as respectively, an outspoken middle-aged lady and a woebegone widower. As the quest for Mallory's nephew (Gregg Robblee) continues, the people involved become suspicious and eventually make Mallory confess his real motives. A group of aging crooks meet to plan one last heist (Jack Gilford played a similar character in the 1967 film Who's Minding the Mint?, for which R.S. Others: John Hugh McKnight as Passenger (uncredited), and Paul Van as Maitre D' (uncredited). Kopell already had a very successful career going long before the show premiered in 1977. The song is. A woman whom Stubing likes (Barbara Rush) comes on board but before he could make a move she hooks up with another man (Jon Cypher). The Village People (as themselves) also have a horse in the race. Mrs. Warner (Ruth Gordon) is determined to marry off her granddaughter Shirley (Patty Duke). [9] The Pacific Princess' twin sister vessel Island Princess was also used for the show, especially if the show's schedule conflicted with Pacific Princess's cruises or her dry dock. Gopher loses his job because the promoter becomes jealous when the cheerleader that he is interested in likes Gopher and not him. A blind passenger (Barbara Parkins) reunites with a passenger (John Bennett Perry), with whom she went to college and had a crush on. In the Virgin Islands, a wine-tasting competition is held, and Julie's aunt helps her friend scheme to snag the contest's wealthy sponsor; a judge starts a shipboard fling without getting to know his new partner well; a married couple who gets divorced every year for tax purposes takes the cruise; Vicki pines over a pro football player. It was his religious conviction that led him to some of his favorite projects: he played the lead role in the 2008 Christian film The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, and co-hosted a show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network about marriage called Back On Course for 17 years. The Captain welcomes back a widow (Marion Ross), who has romantic plans for her new cruise. An undercover FBI agent (Jack Riley) butters up a bookie (James Sloyan)'s girlfriend (Stephanie Faracy) in order to get the scoop on his operation. The crew are in Greece working a cruise a college is having its graduation ceremony aboard: Guest stars: Leigh McCloskey, William R. Moses. Guest Stars: Carol Channing as Sylvia Bennett, Charles Frank as Andy Singer, Belinda Montgomery as Valerie Singer, Louis Nye as Roger Garrett, and Betty White as Betsy Boucher. One of Hollywood's most beloved actors sported a brand new look as he filmed scenes for his new . 3 min read. Doc's ex-wife (Tina Louise) arrives with a new fianc (Lyle Waggoner). [29] The Australian version also premiered on 5 October 2022 and aired on Wednesdays and Thursday nights on 10.[30]. The Heartbreaking Death Of Love Boat Star Gavin MacLeod. In one scene, the two bump into each other in the hallway, exchange a questioning look, do a double-take and shrug and continue on their separate ways. This truly escapist 70s television series was centered around a luxury passenger cruise ship and its crew. A matador clashes with his grandson; A released convict seeks her daughter; Isaac finds a stowaway; A man woos two women. Carol Kelsey (Kim Lankford) asks Ace to pose as her fianc and fool her mother (Anne Francis). In the end, the last couple remaining will win the series and be awarded a large cash prize as well as a cruise from Princess Cruises. While his acting resume was somewhat limited, his academic history was anything but: he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and had good connections too: at Phillips Exeter Academy he was roommates with David Eisenhower (grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower) and then was best man at Davids wedding to Julie Nixon in 1968. Other Guests: Mary Grace Canfield as Housekeeper, Britt Leach as Reverend Dickerson (credited as Rev. The Late Late Show With James Corden. One storyline usually focused on a member of the crew, a second storyline would often focus on a crew member interacting with a passenger, and the third storyline was more focused on a single passenger (or a group of passengers). A new female cook lends a hand to the busy chef, who is not too happy with the arrangement; a bumbling German detective (Bernie Kopell) watches a lady's jewels; an embittered old sea dog meets a former girlfriend. A mysterious man (Sorrell Booke) begins following them. She has been married to George Gradow since October 14, 1979. When he told MacLeod that he wouldnt be doing the TV movie sequels because he was going to run for office, MacLeod whipped out his checkbook and became the very first financial contributor to Grandys campaign. Doc pinch-hits for Merrill in showing Amanda around the Istanbul Museum but is interrupted by Joe Novak, who demands to speak to her, alone. Kay expresses concern to Doc about Mel's operation. However, once on board, she runs into the dean of American film and drama critics who has never given Miss Logan a good review. A man (, "Play by Play / Cindy / What's a Brother For? His agent told him The Love Boat script sucked but added that Spelling really wanted MacLeod for the part, and the industry-savvy actor recognized it immediately for what it was: a gold mine. From 1987-1995, Grandy was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Guest Stars: Jim Backus as Mr. Marvin Waterman, Susan Blanchard as Sarah Lambert, Paul Burke as Brian Sherwood, Patti MacLeod (wife of Gavin MacLeod) as Mrs. Corwin, Debralee Scott as Jane Cole, Laurette Spang as Melanie Taylor, Bob Seagren as Mike Andrews, and Sal Viscuso as Doug Ketchum. An IRS agent Viola (Phyllis Diller) comes on board to audit the Captain. [26][27][28], The Australian version is presented by Darren McMullen. A young man claims that he is Doc's son; an ad executive collaborates on a campaign with the daughter of his latest client; a professional escort of an older woman falls for another younger woman. Tom Niver (Raymond St. Jacques) and Faye Phillips (Theresa Merritt) are seniors living together without being married. Julie's hair turns green; two people are brought together by visions of reincarnation; a single mother's devotion to her special-needs son threatens a budding romance. Guest Stars: Marion Ross as Emily Stubing, John Byner as Arthur Burkley, Leslie Caron as Mrs. Duvall, Anthony Franciosa as David Morgan, Jennifer Caron Hall as Heather Duvall, Gina Lollobrigida as Carla Lucci, and Peter Scolari as Wellington Davis Rothmeyer.