The BEST episodes directed by Roger Duchowny
#1 - Rent a Romeo/Matchmaker, Matchmaker/Y' Gotta Have Heart
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 20
Doc's plans for a rendezvous are spoiled when the woman's recently dumped (and extremely depressed) sister tags along on the cruise. Doc tries to get some privacy by having a playboy romance the sister. Vicki helps a young boy's efforts to reunite his divorced parents. A woman tries to keep her husband on a short leash, as he has recently undergone heart surgery and she fears he will drop dead at any moment.
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#2 - A Good and Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 21
A vacationing chauffeur and his wealthy employer fall in love; Gopher fantasizes that he is various flamboyant heroes; a separated couple vies for their son's affection; Reggie Jackson can't convince anyone that he really is the famous slugger.
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#3 - Dumb Luck/Tres Amigos/Hey, Jealous Lover
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 24
Julie worries that her brilliant nuclear physicist friend will never find a man because her intelligence intimidates suitors. She encourages her to act dumb to attract a man's attention. Vicki befriends a wealthy young passenger. While exploring the ship, they discover a stowaway, a young boy who wants to visit his mother in Mexico. A jealous husband terrifies the crew as he constantly threatens the guys, who he suspects are coming on to his wife.
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#4 - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (1)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 1
The ship voyages to Alaska for the wedding of a wealthy heir and the granddaughter of a fiercely independent oil man.
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#5 - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (2)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 2
The engaged couple gets married despite numerous obstacles, and Julie encounters heartbreak upon surprising an ex-lover.
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#6 - Accidental Cruise/The Song Is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 8
An executive and his secretary are mistakenly assigned the honeymoon suite; a songwriter's music renews a woman's love for her husband; Captain Stubing meets his daughter by a former girlfriend; Julie helps give a Russian commissar a sexy new image.
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#7 - The Family Plan/The Promoter/May the Best Man Win/Forever Engaged/The Judges (1)
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 2
The promoter of a marriage cruise is trying to reconcile with his own wife. Doc tricks Gopher into being a contestant judge but then discovers the other two judges are attractive women who vie for Gopher's attention. Another couple has a reputation for being perpetually engaged. Julie's old friend Mark is supposed to be the best man in the mass wedding, but the groom runs off with an ex-girlfriend. A groom's father and bride's mother attempt to talk their children out of marrying, only to fall in love themselves.
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#8 - Keith and Lauriebelle
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 19
Laurie wants to go skiing, but is committed to babysit. Her efforts to con Danny or Keith into working in her place are futile. Keith also has a problem. He met a new girl at school, Karen, and invited her to a party, only to learn that she is bringing an escort. Danny suggests that Keith get another date to make Karen jealous. He tries every number in his phone book to no avail. As a last resort, Keith makes a deal with Laurie – if she'll pose as his date, he'll babysit. Danny complicates matters by telling Karen that Keith's date is a beautiful southern belle, Lauriebelle Culpepper. At the party all is going well when """"Lauriebelle"""" slips and calls Shirley """"Mom,"""" bringing Shirley into the charade as """"Mother Culpepper."""" Keith is sure he has been successful when Karen dances with him and invites him to her house – until he learns that the invitation is to her engagement party!
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#9 - Kinfolk/Sis and the Slicker/Moonlight and Moonshine/Too Close for Comfort/The Affair (1)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 18
A singer worries that his hillbilly relatives will embarrass him and ruin his chance of catching a record producer's eye. The producer becomes attracted to the singer's sister, who begins to doubt her commitment to her fiancé from back home. An author pictures the family as potential characters for her next book. She poses as a mountain woman to get the grandfather to open up to her. Doc, Isaac and Gopher room with Capt. Stubing after their cabins are flooded. They proceed to drive him crazy, and won't let him get any sleep. Two couples take the cruise together. One of the women tries to convince her friend that their spouses are having an affair.
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#10 - Critical Success/The Love Lamp Is Lit/Take My Boyfriend, Please/Rent a Family/The Man in Her Life (1)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 10
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders come on board as part of a charity fundraiser for an Acapulco orphanage. One of the cheerleaders enlists the help of her friends to dodge the advances of a persistent suito. A cheerleader's mother mistakenly fears that her daughter is trying to steal her boyfriend. A man, who has been lying to his boss about having a family, hires a group of actors to pose as his mother, wife and son for the company's "family cruise." A divorcing couple plots to steal a valuable gem, which is hidden in a lamp that keeps getting passed between crew members. A famous dancer/actress who is helping with the charity event repeatedly declines Capt. Stubing's request that she take part in the performance.
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#11 - Not Now, I'm Dying/Eleanor's Return/Too Young to Love
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 13
A man tries to avoid a wedding by faking a terminal illness. Capt. Stubing hopes for another chance at love with his recently divorced ex-flame. Gopher must keep an eye on two teenagers posing as newlyweds.
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#12 - Sergeant Bull/Friends and Lovers/Miss Mother
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 1
Four men who served together in Korea hold their reunion on the ship. Gopher convinces Julie to pose as his girlfriend to impress his abrasive fraternity brother. A single mother-to-be finds romance with a fellow passenger, but fears that he won't react well to the news of her pregnancy.
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That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 14
Ann wants film rights to a novel, but the author will not sell. He changes his mind when he sees Ann, and how much she resembles his late wife. His new wife tells Ann that her husband can't write anymore and Ann turns down the movie out of respect for him.
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#14 - Kinfolk/Sis and the Slicker/Moonlight and Moonshine/Too Close for Comfort/The Affair (2)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 19
Danny blames his family when Steve fails to show for his performance, leading to a rift with his father and grandfather. Kitty considers leaving her family to marry Steve. The captain lays down the law to his annoying houseguests, who end up at each other's throats. Dave finds out about Frank and Cynthia's affair, which leaves the future of both marriages in doubt.
#15 - Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 16
Gopher quits his job to manage a new hotel; a wealthy eccentric widow books a five-year passage and begins meddling in the crew members' lives; a magician tries to avoid his assistant by sending his brother to perform in his place.
#16 - Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 15
Doc's ex-wife hires an actor to play her fiancé; a philandering marriage counselor's wife seeks solace from Capt. Stubing; a woman pretends to be her own sister for a reunion with a former sweetheart.
#17 - Critical Success/The Love Lamp Is Lit/Take My Boyfriend, Please/Rent a Family/The Man in Her Life (2)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 11
A jealous Stacy comes to regret pushing Mark away. Wendy and Bill try to stop her mother from leaving after she misinterprets their purchase of wedding rings. Paul tries to keep his boss from learning about his girlfriend; and Lisa from learning about his "family." The Haymans have second thoughts about the diamond heist--and their break-up--after meeting the kids from the orphanage. Stella stings Elliot when she offers her harsh opinion about his play.
#18 - Tale of Two Hamsters
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 9
Danny, Chris & Tracy start a hamster raising business. It turns out that hamsters really multiply. When they were going on the road, they can't find no one to take care of all the hamsters. So they take them with them. The hotel doesn't allow those pets, so they have to drive around the block to keep them warm. Shirley tells Danny that he has to dispose the hamsters, so he has an idea. Danny makes a deal with a department store manager to give out free hamsters with a purchase of The Partridge Family's newest album.
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#19 - Miss Partridge, Teacher
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 18
Laurie Partridge is appointed student-teacher of Miss Halstead's 7th grade English class, which includes her brother, Danny. Danny takes an apple to school for his new teacher, but after experiencing Laurie's strictness, he eats it himself. Laurie is concerned when Miss Halstead informs her that unless Danny does better, he'll have to repeat the class in summer school – and the Partridges are scheduled for a summer tour. But, in Laurie's harsh judgment, Danny's grades do not improve, despite the fact that he submits a piece of work that actually had been written by Ernest Hemingway at a time when Hemingway was a high school student.
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That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 22
Ann gets a modeling assignment at Belmont Race Track and when Don's friends realize there's a horse running named for her, they see it as a "sign" and send her with the money to place a bet for them. She loses the ticket at the wrong time!
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#21 - Danny Drops Out
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 15
Danny announces his decision to drop out of school. He tells Shirley that he's bored at school and, since he knows how to read and write, he can now pursue his chosen profession – song writing. Shirley consults the school psychologist and learns that such feelings are common in children Danny's age. The psychologist advises Shirley to let Danny believe he's dropped out; after a while he'll realize how much he misses and needs school. Shirley reluctantly agrees; Danny can stay home and write his songs. The very first day Danny spends at home alone he is bored. He finds the song writing is not so easy and he misses his friends. He's beginning to get discouraged when he meets millionaire hotel owner Claude Tubble and discovers that Tubble never got beyond sixth grade. Now Danny's all enthused again and wants to become a millionaire. Shirley feels Danny's gone far enough and gives him an ultimatum – he must either return to school or get a job. Danny soon learns that there are no budding e
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That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 24
On their way to the Women's Liberation meeting, which Donald reluctantly agrees to visit, Ann and Donald become trapped in a stuck elevator. While they await to be rescued, they look back on their favorite moments together.
#23 - The Family Plan/The Promoter/May the Best Man Win/Forever Engaged/The Judges (2)
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 3
Vicki 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; Mary considers calling it quits with Tom. Emily accuses Marv of treachery after her fiancé suddenly reappears in Curacao and denies that he planned to leave her.