The Best Episodes of The Love Boat

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   8.0/10(104 votes)

   #1 - Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?

   S10:E42/27/1987

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   7.9/10(152 votes)

   #2 - Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary

   S9:E310/12/1985

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   7.8/10(115 votes)

   #3 - The Caller/Marriage of Convenience/No Girls for Doc/Witness for the Prosecution

   S3:E285/3/1980

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   7.7/10(106 votes)

   #4 - The Dog Show: Putting on the Dog/Going to the Dogs/Women's Best Friend/Whose Dog Is It Anyway?

   S6:E253/26/1983

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   Director:Bob Sweeney

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   7.6/10(113 votes)

   #5 - Tony and Julie / Separate Beds / America's Sweetheart

   S4:E285/16/1981

   Julie (Lauren Tewes) has a run-in with a zoologist (Anthony Andrews), who turns out to be a passenger, and they butt heads. A young actress (Alison Arngrim) comes aboard and makes a fool out of Vicki (Jill Whelan). An estranged husband (William Christopher) and wife (Toni Tennille), one of whom is a neat-freak (Christopher) and the other a slob (Tennille), find themselves not only on the ship but in the same cabin

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   7.6/10(95 votes)

   #6 - Greek Cruise: The Captain and the Kid/The Dean and the Flunkee/Isaac's Aegean Affair (1)

   S6:E182/5/1983

   The crew are in Greece working a cruise where a College is having its graduation ceremony. The Principal is attracted to a teacher who rebuffs him because he won't give a student a make-up test so he can graduate. And the student and a couple of his friends are hounding the Principal to do that. A prodigy is attracted to Vicki which doesn't make the Captain happy. And the valedictorian whose education was provided by his Greek aunt whom he assumed is wealthy but upon meeting her learns she's just a woman of humble means. And when she goes on board he doesn't tell anyone he's her aunt. And Isaac meets a woman who is estranged from her husband.

   Director:Alan Rafkin

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   7.6/10(102 votes)

   #7 - China Cruise: The Pledge/East Meets West/Dear Roberta/My Two Dumplings (1)

   S7:E110/1/1983

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   Director:Robert Scheerer

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8. 

   7.6/10(89 votes)

   #8 - Ace In the Hole/Uncle Joey's Song/Father in the Cradle

   S7:E181/28/1984

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   7.5/10(151 votes)

   #9 - The Promoter/The Judges/The Family Plan/Forever Engaged/May the Best Man Win (1)

   S4:E211/1/1980

   A man organizes a ""marriage-a-thon"" cruise, with special prizes to be given to the couple found to be the most compatible. At the same time, he tries to save his own crumbling marriage. Doc tricks Gopher into taking his place as one of the judges, but comes to regret it when the two attractive female judges constantly try to make time with Gopher. The single parents of one of the engaged couples come aboard with the hopes of breaking up their kids, who they think are too young to be tying the knot. A couple tries to finally get married after ten years together--and nine broken engagements. A groom decides to dump his fiancée, but skips the cruise and leaves his best man to break the news to the bride. The best man is Marv, the young man who befriended Julie when he was best man for another wedding on the Alaska cruise. He cannot bring himself to tell the bride the truth, particularly because he also has feelings for her.

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   Writer:Seaman Jacobs

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    7.5/10(132 votes)

    #10 - The Captain's Bird/That's My Dad/Captive Audience

    S4:E1112/20/1980

    Capt. Stubing decides to get Vicki a parrot for Christmas. Unfortunately, it hasn't been trained to talk, and Gopher and Isaac's efforts to train it prove disastrous. A stowaway convinces the crew that a playboy passenger is his father. A father and son, who haven't spoken for ten years since the younger man left their singing act to go solo, resist their wives' efforts to reunite them.

    Director:Allen Baron

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11. 

    7.5/10(119 votes)

    #11 - The Expedition/Julie's Wedding/The Mongala/Julie's Replacement/The Three R's/The Professor's Wife (2)

    S5:E210/3/1981

    Vicki models the bridesmaid's gown she plans to wear for Julie's wedding, while Isaac finds a flaw in the wedding gift that he bought on the crew's behalf.

    Director:Roger Duchowny

    Writers:Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Tony Webster, Casey Keller, Ben Joelson, Jill Baer, Donald Ross, Richard Albrecht

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    Director:Roger Duchowny

    Writers:Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Tony Webster, Casey Keller, Ben Joelson, Jill Baer, Donald Ross, Richard Albrecht
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    7.5/10(121 votes)

    #12 - Chef's Special/Beginning Anew/Kleinschmidt

    S5:E611/7/1981

    Chef Claude is jealous of new rival Edie Franklin in the galley. Longtime friends Jennifer and Stan reunite. Bumbling PI Kleinschmidt is assigned to protect client Gertrude's jewels.

    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Henry Colman, R.S. Allen, Len Janson

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    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Henry Colman, R.S. Allen, Len Janson
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    7.5/10(133 votes)

    #13 - Farnsworth's Fling/Gopher Farnsworth Smith/Three in a Bed/Merrill, Melanie & Melanesia/I Remember Helen (1)

    S5:E811/21/1981

    The crew is in Australia to work on one of the cruise line's ships based there. And a wealthy man named Farnsworth (Lloyd Bridges) has decided to invite his whole family for a reunion, but in actuality he wants to see who, among them he should keep in his will.

    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Ray Jessel, Fred S. Fox

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    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Ray Jessel, Fred S. Fox
14. 

    7.5/10(110 votes)

    #14 - Farnsworth's Fling/Gopher Farnsworth Smith/Three in a Bed/Merrill, Melanie & Melanesia/I Remember Helen (2)

    S5:E911/21/1981

    After having spent time with his family, William Farnsworth (Lloyd Bridges) has finally decided who will be kept in his will.

    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Ray Jessel, Fred S. Fox

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    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Ray Jessel, Fred S. Fox
15. 

    7.5/10(106 votes)

    #15 - Radioactive Isaac/Gladys and Agnes/Love, Honor and Obey

    S5:E1011/28/1981

    Tony and Rose Vitelli plan to renew wedding vows. Sisters Agnes and Gladys travel together and Agnes bonds with passenger Henry. A tooth filling and rival passenger Brandon interfere with Isaac's romance with Patty.

    Director:Robert Scheerer

    Writers:Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid, Sidney Morse, Arnold Kane

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    Director:Robert Scheerer

    Writers:Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid, Sidney Morse, Arnold Kane
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    7.5/10(101 votes)

    #16 - The Audition/The Groupies/Doc's Nephew

    S6:E611/6/1982

    Doc's nephew is making a move on his girlfriend. A psychiatrist, who is on vacation is followed by four of his patients. An actor pursues the writer of a soap opera, who rejected for a role on her show.

    Director:Don Weis

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    7.5/10(84 votes)

    #17 - China Cruise: The Pledge/East Meets West/Dear Roberta/My Two Dumplings (2)

    S7:E210/1/1983

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    Director:Robert Scheerer

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    7.5/10(107 votes)

    #18 - Hong Kong Cruise: Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tales of a City (1)

    S7:E192/4/1984

    A U.S. Presidential-hopeful Senator falls for a businesswoman who intends on opening a large casino in Hong Kong, as his aide tries to derail the affair for P.R. reasons; a woman who simply can't stop shopping bets her husband $25,000 that she can go the entire cruise without buying anything; Julie and Vicki double date, though Vicki secretly falls for Julie's date; an retired spy finds love in the form of a woman secretly hired to keep him safe from revenge-seeking former adversaries; Gopher and Isaac, trenchcoats and all, tail the former spy through Hong Kong and see all sorts of potentially evil stalkers.

    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Fred Grandy, Eugene David, Ted Lange

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    Writers:Fred Grandy, Eugene David, Ted Lange
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    7.4/10(299 votes)

    #19 - Oh, Dale!/The Main Event/A Tasteful Affair

    S1:E210/1/1977

    A man must pose as a woman to gain passage on the ship so that he can pursue an ex-girlfriend. A bickering married couple gets trapped in the elevator. A detective falls for a married woman whose husband has hired him to trail her.

    Directors:Stuart Margolin, Alan Rafkin, Richard Kinon

    Writers:Carl Kleinschmitt, Art Baer, Rick Callahan, Ben Joelson

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    Directors:Stuart Margolin, Alan Rafkin, Richard Kinon

    Writers:Carl Kleinschmitt, Art Baer, Rick Callahan, Ben Joelson
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    7.4/10(150 votes)

    #20 - Super Mom/I'll See You Again/April's Return

    S2:E265/5/1979

    One-time stowaway April Lopez returns to the ship as a popular singer. However, she grows tired of the hassles of fame and decides that she would like to become a cruise director. Julie tries to show her the ropes, but April ends up creating havoc wherever she goes. A couple brings its four rambunctious children along on its second honeymoon. The woman repeatedly ignores her husband to tend to the children's needs, and April inadvertently creates further problems with their marriage. A buddy of Capt. Stubing's from his military days comes aboard, and is shocked to see the former USO star with whom he once had a romance. Due to a misunderstanding, each believes the other is to blame for cutting off their affair.

    Director:George Tyne

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    7.4/10(123 votes)

    #21 - Never Say Goodbye/A New Woman/Trial Romance

    S3:E911/3/1979

    Capt. Stubing receives a letter from his daughter, Vicki. When he tries to call her, he learns that she has run away from her aunt and uncle's home. She shows up on the ship and reveals that she has read her mother's diary, and now knows that the captain is her father. She wants to stay with him, but he feels that it is best that he return her. Vicki's aunt reveals that she is getting a divorce and wants to send her children away for a while so that they won't be affected by the proceedings. Capt. Stubing and Vicki are thrilled by the chance to live together on the ship. Julie plays matchmaker for two shy, old-fashioned people who are unaccustomed to the workings of modern romance. A man is annoyed by the presence of the woman who deadlocked the jury for the attempted murder trial on which they both served, leading to a mistrial. They constantly argue about the case.

    Director:Gordon Farr

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    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #22 - Not So Fast, Gopher/Haven't We Met Before?/Seoul Mates

    S3:E222/9/1980

    Gopher invites his widowed mother onto the ship in the hopes of cheering her up, but is hurt by her seemingly cheerful attitude, which he interprets as an insult to his father. A group of buddies takes a cruise. One of the men meets a woman who is a regular customer at the restaurant where he works. He lies about his identity because he thinks she would be put off by the fact that he is a waiter. A comic's romance with the reporter who is writing a feature about him appears doomed after she takes offense to his act.

    Director:Gordon Farr

    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Gordon Farr, Fred S. Fox

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    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Gordon Farr, Fred S. Fox
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    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #23 - Celebration/Captain Papa/Honeymoon Pressure

    S3:E253/29/1980

    A man spends beyond his means while trying to lavish his recently hospitalized wife with gifts. Capt. Stubing and Vicki face an interview with a child services worker, who will decide whether the captain can have full custody of his daughter. A newlywed couple has trouble consummating its relationship because the presence of the bride's bodyguards (her family is ""connected"") makes the groom nervous.

    Director:Richard Kinon

    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Sylvia Necht

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    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Sylvia Necht
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    7.4/10(107 votes)

    #24 - The Lady from Laramie/Vicki Swings/Phantom Bride

    S5:E711/14/1981

    Earthy Libby Crawford comes between socialite Miss Singleton and her escort Fedalio. Vicki meets Todd Andrews, who is traveling alone. Psychic researchers Julian and Kate Garfield search for a ghost.

    Director:Jack Arnold

    Writers:Paul Haggis, Seaman Jacobs, Michael Maurer

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    Director:Jack Arnold

    Writers:Paul Haggis, Seaman Jacobs, Michael Maurer
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    7.4/10(142 votes)

    #25 - I Don't Play Anymore/Gopher's Roommate/Crazy for You

    S5:E151/23/1982

    Concert pianist Paul retired due to arthritis, but fans pester him to play. Gopher is shocked to find out where he met Rachel. David feigned insanity to get a pension and psych Lisa must prove he's faking.

    Director:Bob Sweeney

    Writer:Unknown

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