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In watching the MeTV reruns, I've noticed how often Captain Stubing prays.  The Christmas episode with Mickey Rooney, he prays what would be considered a very religious prayer over dinner.  He also prayed on the deserted island when he and the crew were being held captive by John Astin.

 

I knew Gavin MacLeod was a Christian, so I thought that was very neat that he would be able to put some of himself into Stubing.  But I've learned that his conversion was very late into "The Love Boat"'s run.

 

Interesting that the writers would give that material to the captain 1) when he showed no other outward signs of religiosity and 2) without knowing that their actor would someday embrace it.

 

 

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I still love this stupid show! I find it oddly comforting, as I was a lil one during its original run, and it takes me back when I see the crew, the fashion, the hokey jokes...

I feel the same way! I've been catching some eps on Pop and it just brings me back to childhood. Today they showed the first one with Ace, and Julie and Vicki are both crushing on him. He even has a scene just wearing a towel, just so everyone was totally clear that he was the new hot character. Haha. Also, a very young David Faustino was in that one.

I get a kick out of the guest stars. One I saw today had Didi Conn (Frenchy!) paired with Grant Goodeve, the hot oldest brother on Eight Is Enough. Late 70's pop culture overload!!

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I caught one of the final seasons and hate the new opening credits with the glowing neon-lighting waves. This was a two-parter set in Greece and one of the stories was about Rhoda falling in love with Grant Snow (pre Melrose Place) b/c her husband was too busy with his archeology work. I found it odd how they seemed to be going for the softcore p0rn beefcake angle, with lingering shots of him sunbathing in a speedo, etc. I hzve no recollection of him before Melrose Place, so I have no clue why they were doing that.

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Heh. CBS has some neat clips up now (because I guess they own the rights now rather than ABC).

For example, I actually think Suzanne Somers does an interesting acting job here (she's only the focus for the beginning of the clip though). She's actually pretty good at that Jersey Girl type accent (something I don't think I've ever heard her do anywhere else).

And here's a HECK of an interesting Captain's Table:

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That's an accent? Suzanne sounds like an L.A. chick along with that gum-smacking.

 

I try to catch the older episodes, but it seems when I do, the later episodes are always on (1983 episodes for example). Is there a certain schedule or rotation?

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I wish they would show the original pilot movies. I don't think most of the cast was in them but I think I remember Dick Van Patten as one of the captains. I'm not sure if his name was Captain Stubbing though. 

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33 minutes ago, ByaNose said:

I wish they would show the original pilot movies. I don't think most of the cast was in them but I think I remember Dick Van Patten as one of the captains. I'm not sure if his name was Captain Stubbing though. 

DVP was the Doctor, not the Captain in that 1976 version (although not the same Doctor as from the series--this one was apparently Dr. O'Neil). 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074820/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Isaac and Gopher actually appear to be the only intact characters from that very first movie to the eventual series... although they of course weren't played by the same actors as in the series. Every other crew member not only changed actors, but also character names as well.

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They seem to have had a bigger number of crew characters too. Aside from the Captain, The Doctor, The Cruise Director, The Purser, you also had The Lounge Performers and The Steward also in the credits, and The First Officer and The Ship's Photographer (I guess they brought that one back eventually with Ace) as named characters but not in the main credits.

Wait. Here's a find. The original credits from the 1976 version: Notice by the way it's the Sun Princess and not The Pacific Princess.  

And that guest cast (the passengers)?  While all of those folks would be back one by one in other roles during during the actual series, having that many big TV names all at once for this movie showed the producers were very serious about it. In 1976 those were all major TV stars, not second fiddles. 

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11 hours ago, Kromm said:

They seem to have had a bigger number of crew characters too. Aside from the Captain, The Doctor, The Cruise Director, The Purser, you also had The Lounge Performers and The Steward also in the credits, and The First Officer and The Ship's Photographer (I guess they brought that one back eventually with Ace) as named characters but not in the main credits.

Wait. Here's a find. The original credits from the 1976 version: Notice by the way it's the Sun Princess and not The Pacific Princess.  

And that guest cast (the passengers)?  While all of those folks would be back one by one in other roles during during the actual series, having that many big TV names all at once for this movie showed the producers were very serious about it. In 1976 those were all major TV stars, not second fiddles. 

 

Wow! This IS a find. I haven't seen this since it first aired. I'm 52 and remember watching this in 1976.

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Gotta be Andy Warhol. Bonus because the plot involved Marion Ross, now a respectable upper-middle-class housewife, trying to hide her past as a Factory Girl from her husband.

Also loved the ep involving Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Carol Channing and Della Reese. I can only imagine what that set must have been like. It culminates with Ethel belting out "What I Did for Love" - "Kiss todaaaay goodbyyyyyeeeee."

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Around June last year, MeTV seemed to get the rights to the second set of episodes. They're finishing up Season 9, so they may show some of the movies, either after the series ended or before it began.

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I would like to see the the two "pilots" that aired before the series. I think in one of them Dick Van Pattan was the Captain and in another Quinn Reddiker (from Days of our Lives) was the other. I don't think they are even on YouTube to view.

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Ugh. Lauren Tewes' acting was cringeworthy. I do remember laughing my ass off with a friend (we must have been 12 or so when this episode aired) at Lauren's attempt at conveying shock/disbelief in the episode where she dated and almost married a British guy. He found out he was terminally ill right before the wedding, so left Julie at the altar rather than telling her. He gave Doc a letter to have Julie read on the plane ride home (?) and, as she read it (with the British actor's voice-over explaining to Julie that he had only a month to live) in Lauren's attempt to look horrified/disbelieving, her eyes were somehow two different sizes, her mouth contorted into this weird shape....hard to convey here, but it was ridiculously over-the-top and just cracked us up. 

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Saw an episode today with a model who wouldn't eat for fear of gaining weight and losing a job. When the doc diagnosed anorexia, declaring she was underweight at 92 pounds, my husband looked at me and said "Karen Carpenter". Before he said that, I didn't make the connection. I didn't check the air date, but I'm sure it was an awareness statement.

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I remember that Laureen Tewes was the STAR of Love Boat. She was super cute and everybody loved Julie McCoy. Little girls and some boys wanted to be a cruise director. When she went from her pageboy haircut to her curly hair people went crazy. It’s sort of like the Rachel cut before Rachel was even alive. LOL!!!! It was never the same after she left. It’s too bad that drugs destroyed her and her career. Yup! I thought Julie McCoy was the bomb. 

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It is funny in retrospect that Doc was the stud & got all the ladies. It’s not like Bernie Koppel was ugly but now I look at the reruns & think tv can make you believe anything. Especially, when you are a kid and told this every Saturday night. LOL!!!

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On 6/29/2014 at 11:46 AM, Kiddvideo said:

I didn't realize it back in the day, but Doc's a bit of a perv.

As Julie said in one of my favorite Love Boat episodes: Doc's "a known lecher."

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I recently saw the episode "Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?" which serves as the series finale for the show and it was a lot better than I expected.  It had too much Ace and not enough Julie or Doc, but it was a neat little mystery that involved all the key guests on the cruise.  You can tell it's a special episode because there are a buttload of notable cameo appearances from celebrities, many of whom played passengers in the past.  There are also a bunch of winks at the audience like Tom Bosley competing against Marion Ross in a bunch of shipboard games and bringing up Milwaukee and Emily saying she'd lived there for 11 years but had never seen him.

It would have been better if Fred Grandy was still on the show because Ace was acting so much like Gopher that it would have worked better with the genuine article.  And it's just wrong seeing Isaac get pulled into doing stupid stuff with Ace and not his best bud.

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The show was petering out with the last couple of movies. It's kind of sad that they had to write Ace as a Gopher character. You would think they'd run out of plots and might want to do something a little different.

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This show was fun...but I'm not sure I like it so much when it deals with serious issues.  It's hard watching Tom Bradford from "Eight is Enough" be an abusive spouse to Blanche Devereaux.  Or Chrissy Snow's dad making passes at Mrs. Brady's daughter.

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 MeTV showed a season 8 two-part episode this week where the crew takes a river cruise on the Nile. One of the plots had Valerie "Rhoda" Harper as a school teacher travelling with her estranged husband.  They bump into one of her old students (now a ripped 25 year played by Grant Show).   Since the husband would rather work than enjoy the vacation, she spends the cruise hanging out with Grant's character, who is totally wanting play Mrs. Robinson with her.  At one point, she's laying out on the sun deck next to her husband with Grant across the aisle.  In a speedo.   Oiling himself.  Seductively.  And totally eye-fucking her.   You expect that in typical Love Boat fashion, the younger man's interest will lead the husband to realize he's been neglecting his wife and they'll be off on a second honeymoon.   Nope.  Or maybe he catches them kissing and after he rages out and calms down, then the second honeymoon.  Nope.   Instead he catches them in bed...and they ain't just eye-fucking.   Heart to heart talk, both wrong, let's start over and go on a second honeymoon, right?  Nope.   Grant asks her to leave her husband and explore Egypt with him....and she does!   She dumps her husband (and 21 year old son back home) a vanishes into antiquity with her hot piece of ass.  Dark!  And awkward.   Like, how do you think you can go back home.  The ex is going to totally trash her and she really can't deny anything he says.   Definitely a little more risque for a Love Boat plot.  

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On 3/28/2018 at 9:19 AM, Maverick said:

Definitely a little more risque for a Love Boat plot.  

I'm suprised they did this, because

On 8/25/2016 at 5:40 PM, Browncoat said:

It was must-see TV in my house (along with Fantasy Island), and when I went to college, we turned it into a drinking game.

And that's the way it was with most families I grew up with.  The whole family watched theLove Boat, and it was fun and light.  Then once the kids are put to bed,the adults watched Fanatasy Island for the darker, more serious issues.

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On 7/23/2018 at 6:15 PM, TheLastKidPicked said:

I'm suprised they did this, because

And that's the way it was with most families I grew up with.  The whole family watched theLove Boat, and it was fun and light.  Then once the kids are put to bed,the adults watched Fanatasy Island for the darker, more serious issues.

Fantasy Island was more dark, but that got toned down over the last few seasons. Love Boat wasn't always flowers and candy. People had terminal illnesses, A rape survivor took the cruise. Racism and alcoholism was addressed even if it was usually resolved.

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On 7/24/2018 at 3:37 PM, ketose said:

A rape survivor took the cruise.

And yet an episode that was on about two weeks ago featured a funny story about Gopher being held prisoner and raped in a passenger's cabin for the whole cruise but it was okay because he was into it by the end.

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On 8/22/2018 at 3:36 PM, Starscream said:

And yet an episode that was on about two weeks ago featured a funny story about Gopher being held prisoner and raped in a passenger's cabin for the whole cruise but it was okay because he was into it by the end.

He wasn't actually raped, mostly tied to a chair.

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Vera from Alice was the holding Gopher prisoner, and we were not very happy with that one either.  I do wonder if that would have aired today.  Beth Howland played someone who is on leave from the Army I think.  She was posted for a year to a year and a half.  I remember her asking Julie if there were plenty of young available men on board.   

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Ketose:  He wasn't actually raped, mostly tied to a chair.

Ketose is right.  Every time she went to undress, someone would knock on the door.  I appeared that it was a day or two before the rest of the crew decided to look for him.  

 

We are first time watchers of the Love Boat.  I was thrilled to see that they interrupted the schedule to air the one with Charlotte Ray.  It was funny seeing her in the bed, and with her hair down.   

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I'm watching right now on MeTV, and Robert Reed and Florence Henderson are on.  Their stories don't intersect at all, but their characters saw each other at the buffet, and each just sort of looked at the other with a "you look vaguely familiar" expression on their faces.  It cracked me up, but I love meta stiff like that.

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5 hours ago, Browncoat said:

I'm watching right now on MeTV, and Robert Reed and Florence Henderson are on.  Their stories don't intersect at all, but their characters saw each other at the buffet, and each just sort of looked at the other with a "you look vaguely familiar" expression on their faces.  It cracked me up, but I love meta stiff like that.

That's a common occurrence on the show. Two actors from the same show will be in the episode, but different stories. I wonder if it had to do with filming schedules.

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Today's episode on MeTV was one of those 'did someone lace the brownies on the midnight chocolate buffet" episodes.

 This was a season 9 episode, with the Dionne Warwick theme and Mermaids so that's never a good start.   The cast included Andy Griffith, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman and...Andy Warhol.  Andy was a locksmith just released from prison after being duped into committing a robbery.  He was married to Cloris and they were tearing up the ship trying to find a rare stamp.  Milton Berle was an auditor plaguing Gopher, who was being hounded by rich boy Ace to be paid the same as the last ship's photographer---even though Ace barely had an experience.   Andy Warhol meanwhile was looking for someone to paint, and choose Marion "Mrs. C" Ross.   Even though it was season 9, she's not playing the Emily character who would fall for Stubbing just a few episodes later.   Instead here she was in a Warhol movie in her youth and is afraid her conservative midwest husband will hate her if he finds out.   Her husband was played by Tom Bosley which was just strange.   The best was was they had a son named Chuck.   

 The theme of the cruise was celebrating the Pacific Princesses' 200th sailing.   Which, what?   The show had been on over 8 years so if they were doing one week sailings (which they weren't) then that would be over 400 sailings.   I thought it was meant to be a meta reference to the 200th episode, but nope.  It was episode 222.  

 Off course the Mermaids had to have a number (The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"), so yeah whatever.  But the weird thing is, during the casino scenes the Mermaids were the croupiers and dealers.  I guess the line decided scantily clad women would make the male passengers drop some coin.

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59 minutes ago, Maverick said:

Today's episode on MeTV was one of those 'did someone lace the brownies on the midnight chocolate buffet" episodes.

 This was a season 9 episode, with the Dionne Warwick theme and Mermaids so that's never a good start.   The cast included Andy Griffith, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman and...Andy Warhol.  Andy was a locksmith just released from prison after being duped into committing a robbery.  He was married to Cloris and they were tearing up the ship trying to find a rare stamp.  Milton Berle was an auditor plaguing Gopher, who was being hounded by rich boy Ace to be paid the same as the last ship's photographer---even though Ace barely had an experience.   Andy Warhol meanwhile was looking for someone to paint, and choose Marion "Mrs. C" Ross.   Even though it was season 9, she's not playing the Emily character who would fall for Stubbing just a few episodes later.   Instead here she was in a Warhol movie in her youth and is afraid her conservative midwest husband will hate her if he finds out.   Her husband was played by Tom Bosley which was just strange.   The best was was they had a son named Chuck.   

 The theme of the cruise was celebrating the Pacific Princesses' 200th sailing.   Which, what?   The show had been on over 8 years so if they were doing one week sailings (which they weren't) then that would be over 400 sailings.   I thought it was meant to be a meta reference to the 200th episode, but nope.  It was episode 222.  

 Off course the Mermaids had to have a number (The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"), so yeah whatever.  But the weird thing is, during the casino scenes the Mermaids were the croupiers and dealers.  I guess the line decided scantily clad women would make the male passengers drop some coin.

If you look, the Mermaids were in the casino a few times. If you're going to hire a bunch of dancers (for the cruise and the TV show) you might as well use them. Of course, the Mermaids were dumped before the season was over.

Just for the hell of it, I checked and the episode was 224th in order (including the pilot movie). If you subtract the 24 two-parters (which are listed as 2 episodes) you actually do end up with the 200th "voyage." At least, the 200th separate cruise we've seen.

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On 3/17/2019 at 5:37 PM, Browncoat said:

I'm watching right now on MeTV, and Robert Reed and Florence Henderson are on.  Their stories don't intersect at all, but their characters saw each other at the buffet, and each just sort of looked at the other with a "you look vaguely familiar" expression on their faces.  It cracked me up, but I love meta stiff like that.

I laughed so hard.  They had the same look on their face in the Japan vs Greece Christmas episode.  

On 4/14/2019 at 10:13 PM, Maverick said:

Her husband was played by Tom Bosley which was just strange.   The best was was they had a son named Chuck.   

 Off course the Mermaids had to have a number (The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"), so yeah whatever.  But the weird thing is, during the casino scenes the Mermaids were the croupiers and dealers.  I guess the line decided scantily clad women would make the male passengers drop some coin.

My husband wondered if Chuck was still in the attic.  I have seen the Mermaids credited during the into, but this is the first time we saw them sing, and not that well.  My guess is when they lean over to deal the cards, all fall out to entice more bids.

I guess all is right with the world when you destroy everything in the cabins including pillows and bedding for personal gain.  I did not really like the story line, but I loved Cloris and Andy.  Shame Ted, Tom, and Marion did not have a few lines together.  A slight HD reunion.

Every time Tom said "Mary", I kept hearing "Marion".  I always loved the way Howard said her name.  Only he can turn a three syllable word into four.  Hard to believe Marion is 90 years old.  She was on the Today Show yesterday, and has a new bio book out.  Speaking of Happy Days, now that would be a Lifetime behind the scene movie I would kill to see made.  

I wish MeTV would show these in order.  I saw the original here and there through the very first run, and I am having a hard time trying to keep up.  I knew Julie was fired, but never saw the shows with the new girl, and I knew Vicki was on the show, but never saw how she came about to live with the gang.  She and I were around the same age.  

Okay, I saw the Europe episode a few weeks ago, and caught that Ted's character is wealthy, Did we know this before hand, or was the bomb shell dropped on that show, does the crew now know that he is wealthy?  Did he say how he came to live on the ship?  

A girl needs to know these things Love Boat when you time jump your shows.

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@Bessiesue, I wish I could answer your questions -- I should be able to, since I watched it from beginning to end, but a lot of it in the middle was during my college years, and we watched it as a drinking game.  There is a LOT that is new to me when I watch on MeTV!

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8 hours ago, Bessiesue said:

I laughed so hard.  They had the same look on their face in the Japan vs Greece Christmas episode.  

My husband wondered if Chuck was still in the attic.  I have seen the Mermaids credited during the into, but this is the first time we saw them sing, and not that well.  My guess is when they lean over to deal the cards, all fall out to entice more bids.

I guess all is right with the world when you destroy everything in the cabins including pillows and bedding for personal gain.  I did not really like the story line, but I loved Cloris and Andy.  Shame Ted, Tom, and Marion did not have a few lines together.  A slight HD reunion.

Every time Tom said "Mary", I kept hearing "Marion".  I always loved the way Howard said her name.  Only he can turn a three syllable word into four.  Hard to believe Marion is 90 years old.  She was on the Today Show yesterday, and has a new bio book out.  Speaking of Happy Days, now that would be a Lifetime behind the scene movie I would kill to see made.  

I wish MeTV would show these in order.  I saw the original here and there through the very first run, and I am having a hard time trying to keep up.  I knew Julie was fired, but never saw the shows with the new girl, and I knew Vicki was on the show, but never saw how she came about to live with the gang.  She and I were around the same age.  

Okay, I saw the Europe episode a few weeks ago, and caught that Ted's character is wealthy, Did we know this before hand, or was the bomb shell dropped on that show, does the crew now know that he is wealthy?  Did he say how he came to live on the ship?  

A girl needs to know these things Love Boat when you time jump your shows.

Well, Lauren Tewes was fired, not Julie. Julie just married some guy out of the blue. Judy McCoy took over in Season 8.

Vicki first showed up in a Season 2 episode. She was living in Mexico when her mother died and she went to the Pacific Princess to find her father. MeTV doesn't show this episode much because it is one of the few 90 minute episodes. She came to stay in Season 3.

I think the crew found out that ACE was rich a couple episodes in. He is the ship's photographer, a job we never saw on the show before Ted McGinley came on.

Interesting side note. Of the 9 or so seasons of Love Boat, the series was split into 2 syndication packages. Love Boat 1 is Season 1-5 and Love Boat 2 is Season 6-9. Most networks had the first seasons, but others had the later episodes. I remember the newer ones more because WOR in NYC aired it when they were a superstation in the 1990's. Nickelodeon had the early episodes for a while. MeTV only picked up Seasons 6-9 in the last couple of years. The channel POP (formerly TV Guide Channel) had all 9 seasons from the start, but aired them in random order.

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MeTV appears to be airing them in random order, too.  They showed the entire first season, then a few episodes into the second they started jumping to 6th and 9th season episodes randomly inserted.

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2 hours ago, Wordsworth said:

MeTV appears to be airing them in random order, too.  They showed the entire first season, then a few episodes into the second they started jumping to 6th and 9th season episodes randomly inserted.

They might be episodes they skipped in earlier rotations. I noticed that the video quality of the MeTV episodes is vastly improved from just a few months ago. It's too bad we can't get a digital version of the series from Amazon or something.

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Playing this cheesy Match 3 type The Love Boat game on my ipad.  They totally leaned into the cheese, in fact. Gopher falls in love with the famous music star taking the ship to the Caribbean to shoot a music video and schemes to keep her away from her ex, a famous actor, and winds up instead driving her back into his arms. All happening around the edges of somehow arranging three or four in a row of ship related objects while sea related puns like "Shell Yeah!", "Fin-credible" and "Whale done" get repeated. 

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On 9/14/2017 at 11:22 PM, Liamsmom617 said:

Ugh. Lauren Tewes' acting was cringeworthy. I do remember laughing my ass off with a friend (we must have been 12 or so when this episode aired) at Lauren's attempt at conveying shock/disbelief in the episode where she dated and almost married a British guy. He found out he was terminally ill right before the wedding, so left Julie at the altar rather than telling her. He gave Doc a letter to have Julie read on the plane ride home (?) and, as she read it (with the British actor's voice-over explaining to Julie that he had only a month to live) in Lauren's attempt to look horrified/disbelieving, her eyes were somehow two different sizes, her mouth contorted into this weird shape....hard to convey here, but it was ridiculously over-the-top and just cracked us up. 

I am SO glad to have found your post! I just watched the whole series on CBS All Access and I also found that this exact scene stood out terribly! I wonder if she was high while filming it, given her cocaine use around that time. Something was definitely not right and her bug eyed attempt and conveying shock was horrendous. It certainly wasn’t an acting choice you saw from her in the early years.

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I just learned about PlutoTV (which is free), and they have an entire Love Boat channel! The people were so young.

it also reminded me of a story about Ted Lange. About 20 years ago a friend worked in PR and a liquor brand was one of her clients, so they hired Ted to be the bartender at a party the liquor company was throwing for their mailing list. Apparently someone asked him if he ever got tired of being thought of as Isaac Washington, and he answered he didn’t mind because he was getting $XX and a free trip to New York. He was a big hit!

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I can't stop watching this on Pluto! I'm 50, so it really hits the right nostalgic points of my youth. Just watched Scott Baio and Kristie McNichol exchange a very chaste kiss. Same episode had Robert Reed's character telling his ex-wife they had a great sex life.  😂

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On 4/17/2019 at 12:41 AM, ketose said:

Well, Lauren Tewes was fired, not Julie. Julie just married some guy out of the blue. Judy McCoy took over in Season 8.

There are a handful of 90 min episodes which are rarely rerun because they just don’t fit the rotation. This includes the season 8 premiere which introduces Judy and writes out Julie. They said that Julie had married the brother of the guy with two teenagers, played by Tony Roberts, in a pair of episodes early in the show’s run. Tony Roberts’ character Jack wanted to marry Julie but she wasn’t ready to be a stepmom. About a year or so later, the Boat cruised to Alaska and she looked him up and said she was ready now. But he had married another woman in the interim. Later on, Dean Jones (with his hair permed to match Tony Roberts), played Jack’s brother on another cruise. This is the guy they said Julie married.

In that season 8 premiere, the crew learns Julie has married and resigned (why she can’t be married and still do her job, I don’t understand). The new cruise director is played by Diane Ladd, and she’s very unpleasant. Julie’s sister Judy is onboard (she had planned the trip before Julie got married and ditched her) and winds up with the job by the end of the episode.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Kyle said:

In that season 8 premiere, the crew learns Julie has married and resigned (why she can’t be married and still do her job, I don’t understand).

Maybe they didn't want to spend so many months apart after marriage. 

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On 4/3/2021 at 9:27 PM, QQQQ said:

I can't stop watching this on Pluto! I'm 50, so it really hits the right nostalgic points of my youth. Just watched Scott Baio and Kristie McNichol exchange a very chaste kiss. Same episode had Robert Reed's character telling his ex-wife they had a great sex life.  😂

I watched this channel for many months into COVID quarantine and have now had my fill.  I just know there are more episodes they are not showing.  We used to watch Love Boat in college and made up a drinking game where we went through a great deal of alcohol.  Good memories.  Or to be fair, no memories.

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I always thought it was funny how Vicki was born and evidently grew up in Mexico until the Captain claimed her from her maternal aunt's family- yet not only had a purely  California accent but seemed to be unable to speak much if any Spanish!  I seriously doubt Social Services would have let him not only legally claim her despite her paternity being obscured but also that her new permanent 'home' was onboard a cruise ship with her schooling barely getting a mention.  Yeah, I know, it was a drama not a documentary but still. . .

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I was never a fan of Vicky being on the show. Nothing against the actress, and as a one off storyline it would have been fine, but yeah, who on earth would approve this teenage girl living on a cruise ship with a guy she barely knows. Given that the only reason anyone seemed to go on that cruise was to hook up I don't know if it was the best place for a kid to hang out. lol

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Paramount Plus (previously CBS All Access) has all the episodes of Love Boat, including the movies and the 90 minute episodes, available for streaming.

I think Vicky was originally introduced in a 90 minute episode. Her mother had just died and she was looking for her father. That episode ended with her going back to her aunt and uncle. A season or so later, she snuck on to the ship and I guess Stubing came to an arrangement with the in-laws.

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