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The Love Boat : Season 4
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Air date: 25 Oct '80 - 25 episodesThe Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977, until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain. It was part of ABC's popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that show ended in 1984. The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based was itself based on the nonfiction book The Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director. Two more TV movies would follow before the series began its run. The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced several successful series for ABC from the 1960s into the 1980s. In 1997, the episode with segment titles "Hidden Treasure", "Picture from the Past", and "Ace's Salary" was ranked No. 82 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The Love Boat ran for 10 seasons, including specials.
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List of Episodes (25)
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1. Friends and Lovers/Sergeant Bull/Miss Mother
25 Oct '80Gopher convinces Julie to pose as his girlfriend to impress his abrasive fraternity brother. Complications arise when the two longtime friends begin falling for each other. Four men who served together in Korea hold their reunion on the ship. The other men ask a widowed cabin stewardess to woo their gung-ho buddy as a distraction, as he won't talk about anything but the army. A single mother-to-be finds romance with a fellow passenger, but fears that he won't react well to the news of her pr
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2. The Promoter/The Judges/The Family Plan/Forever Engaged/May the Best Man Win (1)
01 Nov '80A 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 t
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3. The Promoter/The Judges/The Family Plan/Forever Engaged/May the Best Man Win (2)
01 Nov '80Vicki tries to play matchmaker for Capt. Stubing and Emily, whose husband still plans on winning her back. Gopher lands in a Curacao jail after Doc sends him on a wild goose chase so that he can get cozy with the marriage-a-thon judges. Carl and Mary Ann decide that they were wrong to interfere with their kids' wedding plans; but their new romance drives a wedge between the couple. Mary considers calling it quits with Tom, who is physically unable to say the words ""I do"" because of his subc
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4. Target Gopher/The Major's Wife/Strange Honeymoon/The Oilman Cometh
08 Nov '80
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5. The Mallory Quest/The Offer/Julie, the Vamp (1)
15 Nov '80Famed author Brian Mallory gives three people free tickets to a Caribbean cruise. He then presents each of them--and Gopher--with gold coins. He explains that they are among the last people to have spent time with his nephew; and offers them $100,000 if they can track down the young man, who is believed to be on one of the islands the ship will be visiting. One of the passengers taking part in the quest is about to donate a kidney to his brother. A young woman follows him around and seems to
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6. The Mallory Quest/The Offer/Julie, the Vamp (2)
15 Nov '80As the search for Mallory's nephew continues, a mysterious man begins following Gopher, Marvin, Peter and Marcia and trying to thwart their efforts. Peter grows suspicious, and forces Mallory to come clean about his real reasons for wanting to track down his nephew. A suddenly repentant Mallory tries to make amends with his wife. Peter and his brother's fiancée grow attracted to each other. Capt. Stubing considers taking the job offer so that he can set aside more money for Vicki's colle
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7. Secretary to the Stars/Julie's Decision/The Horse Lover/Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse
22 Nov '80
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8. Tell Her She's Great/Matchmaker, Matchmaker Times Two/The Baby Alarm
29 Nov '80Isaac forces his friends to lie to his aunt about the quality of her performance in a local play, but his plan soon backfires. Two young people grow tired of their parents' constant attempts to push them together. A single mother hopes to find romance aboard the ship. She uses her son as a judge of character--she doesn't trust anyone who causes the baby to cry.
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9. She Stole His Heart/Return of the Captain's Brother/Swag and Mag
06 Dec '80A kleptomaniac seeks the help of a psychiatrist to deal with her problem. He tries to distance himself from her when they begin falling for each other. Capt. Stubing's brother Marshall returns to the ship to get married. He has second thoughts when his fiancée reveals that she is broke, and is tempted by a past fling. A television star comes aboard the ship to accept a hero award on behalf of his character, a tough detective. A loudmouth begins harassing him, causing him to look bad in
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10. Captain's Triangle/Boomerang/Out of This World
13 Dec '80The captain's ex-girlfriend comes aboard the ship and constantly makes passes at him because she feels neglected by her husband. A model pretends to be married to keep away annoying suitors. A man is convinced that a fellow passenger is an alien who turns into a plant every night.
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11. The Captain's Bird/That's My Dad/Captive Audience
20 Dec '80Capt. 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.
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12. The Frugal Pair/Doc's Dismissal/The Girl Next Door
03 Jan '81A couple takes a cruise to celebrate its 40th anniversary, but considers breaking up after the husband learns that his wife secretly invested money in the stock market for years. They are now wealthy, but he is furious because he could have retired much sooner. A woman tries to get her husband's attention by claiming that Doc made a pass at her during an examination. A man sneaks on the cruise because he doesn't believe the man travelling with his girlfriend is her brother. He convinces the
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13. Isaac's Teacher/Seal of Approval/The Successor
10 Jan '81
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14. From Here to Maternity/Jealousy/The Trigamist
17 Jan '81
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15. April the Ninny/The Loan Arranger/First Voyage, Last Voyage
17 Jan '81
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16. Gopher's Bride/Workaholic/On Second Thought
24 Jan '81
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17. Lose One, Win One/For the Record/Mind My Wife
31 Jan '81
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18. Isaac and the Mermaids/Humpty, Dumpty/Aquaphobic
07 Feb '81
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19. Return of the Ninny/Touchdown Twins/Split Personality
14 Feb '81
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20. Lady from Sunshine Gardens/Eye of the Beholder/Bugged
21 Feb '81
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21. Black Sheep/Hometown Doc/Clothes Make the Girl
28 Feb '81
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22. I Love You Too, Smith/Mamma and Me/Sally's Paradise
07 Mar '81
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23. Two for Julie/Aunt Hilly/The Duel
14 Mar '81
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24. Vicki and the Gambler/Love with a Skinny Stranger/That Old Gang of Mine
11 Apr '81
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25. Maid for Each Other/Lost and Found/Then There Were Two
09 May '81
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