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The Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 9

Every episode of The Love Boat Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 9!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 3 - Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
    7.9/10(159 votes)

    S9:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 25 - Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mr Smith Goes to Minikulu
    7.4/10(87 votes)

    S9:E25

    Captain Stubbing prepares for his shipboard wedding and then gets married (this episode continues the storyline initiated in "My Stepmother, Myself"); as Gopher vacillates about his plans to leave, Ace is continually nominated and unnominated for Gopher's job; Gopher's bids farewell to his job and Loveboat friends when he accepts a job managing a South Pacific resort, Minikulu.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Paula A. Roth, Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen

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  3. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 8 - Trouble in Paradise/No More Mister Nice Guy/The Mermaid and the Cop
    7.2/10(88 votes)

    S9:E8

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 22 - Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (1)
    7.2/10(87 votes)

    S9:E22

    In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 14 - Egyptian Cruise (1)
    7.0/10(98 votes)

    S9:E14

    Merrill and his friend Helen share memories. Producer Mike wants starlet Deborah to play Cleopatra. Carrie eyes the gold ankh which Adam was given at a bazaar. Busy Greg may lose his teacher wife Laurel to ex-pupil Christopher.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 4 - The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (1)
    6.9/10(90 votes)

    S9:E4

    No description available

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Jill Baer, Michael L. Grace, Mike Marmer

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  7. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 10 - The Father of the Bride/The Best Man/Members of the Wedding
    6.9/10(83 votes)

    S9:E10

    No description available

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Paula A. Roth, Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson, John B. Collins

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  8. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 11 - Dare Devil/ Picture Me as a Spy/ Sleeper
    6.9/10(91 votes)

    S9:E11

    Ace's cabin has been searched and he suspects a spy team work. Doc's new patient is sleepwalking. A woman is scared by her boyfriend's risky stunts.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writers:David Ketchum, Anthony DiMarco, Kerry Cox, Joe Glauberg

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  9. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 15 - Egyptian Cruise (2)
    6.9/10(90 votes)

    S9:E15

    No description available

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 5 - The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)
    6.8/10(80 votes)

    S9:E5

    No description available

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Jill Baer, Michael L. Grace, Mike Marmer

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  11. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 9 - Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue
    6.8/10(65 votes)

    S9:E9

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 18 - The Art Lover/ Couples/ Made for Each Other
    6.8/10(71 votes)

    S9:E18

    No description available

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 23 - Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)
    6.8/10(89 votes)

    S9:E23

    In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 2 - Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
    6.7/10(79 votes)

    S9:E2

    No description available

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 7 - Good Time Girls/The Iron Man/Soap Star
    6.7/10(90 votes)

    S9:E7

    Three college girls are mistaken for prostitutes; fitness guru Andy suffers fainting spells during triathlon training; Aunt Sylvia's friend Betsy auditions for a new part on their soap opera with Sylvia's lecherous co-star Roger.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:William Bickley

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  16. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 20 - Gothic Romance/Whatever Happened to Crazy Joe Flash?
    6.7/10(71 votes)

    S9:E20

    No description available

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:David Chambers

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  17. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 6 - Forties Fantasy
    6.6/10(71 votes)

    S9:E6

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 21 - The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction
    6.6/10(67 votes)

    S9:E21

    The crew frantically take care of last minute business when a famous newspaper psychic arrives and predicts that the world will end during the cruise; while on his way to wed in Mexico, a young tycoon with amnesia who disappeared a few years earlier falls in love with his wife from his previous life; a woman whose husband is deceased is courted by a former boyfriend, only to find out that her husband's will called for the liason.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 24 - My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak
    6.5/10(80 votes)

    S9:E24

    Vicki becomes jealous of Captain Stubbing's bride-to-be (the sequel to this episode is ""Happily Ever After...""); the new Assistant Cruise Director-Entertainer finds out that he has to share his cabin with a gruff cook instead of with the girlfriend that he brought along; a pro football has-been tries to romance the team's new owner, a woman, with a mind to get her to keep him on the next season's roster.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 1 - A Day In Port
    6.4/10(90 votes)

    S9:E1

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 16 - Hello Emily/ The Tour Guide/ The Winning Number
    6.4/10(75 votes)

    S9:E16

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 19 - Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around
    6.4/10(70 votes)

    S9:E19

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 17 - The Second Time Around/ Hello, Spencer/ Runaway, Go Home
    6.3/10(72 votes)

    S9:E17

    No description available

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 12 - Hippies and Yuppies/ Frat Wars/ Return of the Lambdas
    6.0/10(80 votes)

    S9:E12

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 13 - Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion
    5.2/10(244 votes)

    S9:E13

    No description available

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary" is the best rated episode of "The Love Boat" season 9. It scored 7.9/10 based on 159 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/12/1985. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mr Smith Goes to Minikulu".