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The Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 8

Every episode of The Love Boat Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 8!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 7 - And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
    7.3/10(86 votes)

    S8:E7

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 8 - Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
    7.2/10(77 votes)

    S8:E8

    No description available

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 13 - Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    S8:E13

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 15 - Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
    7.2/10(117 votes)

    S8:E15

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 26 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)
    7.2/10(100 votes)

    S8:E26

    a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Roy Battocchio, Michael L. Grace, Mary-David Sheiner, Sheila Judis Weisberg

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  6. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 27 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)
    7.2/10(94 votes)

    S8:E27

    a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Roy Battocchio, Michael L. Grace, Mary-David Sheiner, Sheila Judis Weisberg

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  7. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 2 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
    7.1/10(95 votes)

    S8:E2

    A man who appears to be running gets the papers of one of the ship's deck hands and goes onboard. Vicki's attracted to him. But they soon discover that he is wanted by Interpol and when he explains that he paid the deck hand for his papers, and that he's a prince who just wanted to get away from his duties, she doesn't believe. Eventually he is taken away. Laterwhile out walking she sees a Royal entourage and sees that he was telling the truth. A woman runs into the man she was involved with during the War and it seems that she turned him into the Nazis. While she remembers him, he doesn't recognize her. And somehow they end spending time together and she senses that he still harbors ill feelings for the girl who turned him in. She later reveals who she is and he shuns her. Later when they run into each other again, he says that he forgives her, that she did it to save herself. She then says that she didn't do it to save herself but to save him. It seems that after she pointed him out

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 16 - Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
    7.1/10(80 votes)

    S8:E16

    Two older men, Leslie and Shelley, paired up by a confused blind dating service, chase the same woman; instead of meeting her fiance, a young woman gets a ""present"" of her fiance's friend to console her because her fiance has dumped her; Isaac chases a passenger who follows a silly, cult-like philosophy ""Being Of Self"", and in the process alienates the crew and almost gets fired.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Ted Lange, Lan O'Kun, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Jean Ford

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  9. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 17 - Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
    7.1/10(84 votes)

    S8:E17

    One of Ace's old high school girlfriends, now married to an impotent man, wants an embarrassed Ace to father her child; Gopher falls in love with an older woman, while that woman's daughter falls for Gopher; two total strangers share the honeymoon suite because they independently bought their tickets from a couple whose wedding was cancelled.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 19 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
    7.1/10(103 votes)

    S8:E19

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 22 - Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
    7.1/10(93 votes)

    S8:E22

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    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 3 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
    7.0/10(92 votes)

    S8:E3

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 6 - Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
    7.0/10(76 votes)

    S8:E6

    No description available

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

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  14. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 11 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
    7.0/10(99 votes)

    S8:E11

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 23 - Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
    7.0/10(79 votes)

    S8:E23

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 5 - Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
    6.9/10(86 votes)

    S8:E5

    No description available

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 10 - By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
    6.9/10(81 votes)

    S8:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 12 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
    6.9/10(91 votes)

    S8:E12

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 20 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
    6.9/10(94 votes)

    S8:E20

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 25 - Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
    6.9/10(77 votes)

    S8:E25

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 1 - Doc's Slump/What a Drag/The Crew's Cruise Director
    6.8/10(85 votes)

    S8:E1

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    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Casey Keller, Tony Webster, Richard Albrecht, Mike Marmer

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  22. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 4 - Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
    6.8/10(74 votes)

    S8:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 14 - Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
    6.8/10(91 votes)

    S8:E14

    A cute country girl who aspires to be a singer falls for a young country music star, but his manager knows that his star can only write songs when sad; two interior designers, former lovers, compete to redecorate the ship and eventually end up together again; one of Doc's womanizing fraternity brothers from his college days arrives on board, but with his male lover secretly in tow.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 18 - Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
    6.8/10(89 votes)

    S8:E18

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Love Boat Season 8 Episode 21 - Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
    6.8/10(79 votes)

    S8:E21

    A courier (Michael Spound) refuses to remove the briefcase handcuffed to his wrist but pursues a fellow passenger (Charlene Tilton); a woman (Florence Henderson) can't understand her daughter's (Tracy Nelson) hostility toward her stepfather (Peter Mark Richman); Ace (Ted McGinley) is temporarily sidelined with an injured foot, replaced by Kim (Michelle Johnson) and nursed to health by a female passenger (Marla Heasley).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name" is the best rated episode of "The Love Boat" season 8. It scored 7.3/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Jack Arnold and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/27/1984. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century".