• Air date: 28 Sep '85 25 episodes
      The 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.
  • List of Episodes (25)
    • 1. A Day In Port

      28 Sep '85
    • 2. Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations

      05 Oct '85
    • 3. Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary

      12 Oct '85
    • 4. German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (1)

      02 Nov '85
    • 5. German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)

      02 Nov '85
    • 6. Forties Fantasy

      16 Nov '85
    • 7. Good Time Girls/The Iron Man/Soap Star

      23 Nov '85
    • 8. Trouble in Paradise/No More Mister Nice Guy/The Mermaid and the Cop

      30 Nov '85
    • 9. Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue

      07 Dec '85
    • 10. Father of the Bride/The Best Man/Members of the Wedding

      11 Jan '86
    • 11. Dare Devil/ Picture Me as a Spy/ Sleeper

      18 Jan '86
    • 12. Hippies and Yuppies/ Frat Wars/ Return of the Lambdas

      25 Jan '86
    • 13. Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion

      01 Feb '86
    • 14. Egyptian Cruise (1)

      08 Feb '86
    • 15. Egyptian Cruise (2)

      08 Feb '86
    • 16. Hello Emily/ The Tour Guide/ The Winning Number

      15 Feb '86
    • 17. The Second Time Around/ Hello, Spencer/ Runaway, Go Home

      22 Feb '86
    • 18. The Art Lover/ Couples/ Made for Each Other

      01 Mar '86
    • 19. Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around

      08 Mar '86
    • 20. Gothic Romance/Whatever Happened to Jumpin' Jack Flash?

      15 Mar '86
    • 21. The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction

      22 Mar '86
      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.
    • 22. Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (1)

      03 May '86
      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
    • 23. Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)

      03 May '86
      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
    • 24. My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak

      17 May '86
      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.
    • 25. Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mrs. Smith Goes to Minikulu

      24 May '86
      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 farwell to his job and Loveboat friends when he accepts a job managing a South Pacific resort, Minikulu.