The BEST episodes of The Love Boat
Every episode of The Love Boat ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Love Boat!
Passengers find romance aboard a cruise ship.
#1 - Hong Kong Cruise: Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tales of a City (2)
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1984
A U.S. Presidential-hopeful Senator falls for a businesswoman who intends on opening a large casino in Hong Kong, as his aide tries to derail the affair for P.R. reasons; a woman who simply can't stop shopping bets her husband $25,000 that she can go the entire cruise without buying anything; Julie and Vicki double date, though Vicki secretly falls for Julie's date; an retired spy finds love in the form of a woman secretly hired to keep him safe from revenge-seeking former adversaries; Gopher and Isaac, trenchcoats and all, tail the former spy through Hong Kong and see all sorts of potentially evil stalkers.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Side By Side/Rub Me Tender/Fish Out Of Water
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1984
A boy who thinks his grandmother (Glynis Johns) is terminally ill will do anything to ensure her happiness; a man (Ed Begley Jr.) who's uncomfortable around women falls in love with a mermaid (Mary Crosby).
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - A Rose Is Not a Rose/ Novelties/ Too Rich and Too Thin
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/17/1984
A man (Rich Little) impersonating a female singer gets double trouble when a passenger falls for the singer and Julie falls for him; a novelty salesman (Don Adams) has difficulty separating business from pleasure.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
Season 8 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1985
Ace has a bittersweet reunion with a free-spirited young woman in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, a married couple tries their hardest to quit smoking. Plus, a father and daughter disguise their real relationship in an attempt to get another woman's attention.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak
Season 9 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/1986
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.
#6 - Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)
Season 9 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1986
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.
#7 - Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around
Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1986
A passenger gives one last show with his performing orangutan before the ape retires, while Capt. Stubing helps a passenger overcome a gambling addiction. Then, Doc works with a radio talk-show psychologist to help her overcome her own personal problems.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1985
In "The Racer's Edge," written by Christopher Vane and Jill Baer, a championship racer (Coleman) on his honeymoon with his wife (Ms. Whelchel) goes against her wishes to help his former coach (Morgan) by competing in a bicycle race. Unfortunately, this decision could mean the end of the couple's short marriage. Romance abounds as a woman (Ms. Smith) beset by sudden financial difficulty meets a former flame (Ferrer), a gambler who once left her. However, an adversary (Stevens) may come between the reunited lovers, in "The Villa," written by Michael Grace. Handsome ship's photographer Ace (McGinley) has an interesting time with two American women (Audrey Landers and Judy Landers) who are out to snag wealthy husbands, creating some confusion in "All For One," written by Mike Marmer.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1985
A passenger does all she can to stop Andy Warhol (guest starring as himself) from telling her husband she was in one of his films. Meanwhile, a married couple (Cloris Leachman and Andy Griffith) scour the boat in search of a rare stamp, and Ace leads the charge on pay raises for the crew.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1985
Vicki is thrilled when The Temptations board the ship and tries to convince their manager to let them perform for the passengers. Also, a custody battle on board becomes a matter of kidnapping, and a loan shark tells an overdue customer he'll forgive the debt in exchange for a date with the man's wife.
#11 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)
Season 8 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/4/1985
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)
Season 8 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/4/1985
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1984
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1984
In "My Mother, My Chaperone" written by Hai Ackerman, a famous writer (Ms.Palmer) voices displeasure over her daughter (Ms. Alicia) having an affair with a married man (Stevens). In "The Death and Life of Sir Albert Demerest," written by Lan O'Kun, a son (Barton) suddenly learns from his mother (Ms.Dewhurst) that his father (Howard) is a famous actor who drinks too much. In "The Present", written by Howard Albrecnt and Soi Weinstein, a married couple (Ms. Swit and Holahan) learns more about their love when a sexy blonde (Ms. Oxenberg) is on hand for the husband's birthday. In "Welcome Aboard", written by Art Baer and Sol Veinstein, the cruise director (Ms. Klous) discovers that her vindictive ex-husband (Singer) is aboard.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1984
Captain Stubing's neighbor joins the cruise to tell her friend she's dying, only to fall for a man with questions about the afterlife. Then, a woman from Gopher's past hopes he'll propose marriage, while an overprotective mother is concerned when an actor who plays a TV villain develops a crush on her daughter.
#16 - The Zinging Valentine/The Very Temporary Secretary/Final Score
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1983
A girl delivers a singing valentine to a rude man whom she falls for; a secretarial agency owner plays assistant, and then lover, to a writer; a womanizing former pro football star finds love with a straight-laced English professor.
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#17 - Rent a Romeo/Matchmaker, Matchmaker/Y' Gotta Have Heart
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1980
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.
#18 - Gopher's Bride/Love With a Married Man/Not Tonight, Jack!
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1981
Isaac and Doc's joke backfires when the girl they have been writing love letters to under Gopher's name shows up; A couple drift apart over work habits; A woman refuses to share quarters with her boyfriend.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - The Man in the Iron Shorts/The Victims/Heavens to Betsy
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1982
Gopher is trapped in a suit of armor while trying to romance a young lady; the daughter of a woman whose husband was killed by a drunk driver falls for the son of the man responsible; an eligible minister draws the romantic attention of two of his congregation.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1984
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - So Help Me Hanna/The Maid Cleans Up/C.P.R. I.O.U
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1983
Hannah clashes with Jarvis over his son Kent's future. Maid Didi is in love with her boss Greg, whose girlfriend Meredith mistreats them. Gopher persuades Merrill to offer CPR. Retired plumber Fenley argues with son Dwayne over business.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Going to the Dogs/Putting on the Dog/Women's Best Friend/Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1983
A woman thinks that a dog belonging to another passenger is the dog she lost some time ago. Isaac's Aunt Tanya enters her pet and is pampering him so much that her husband is feeling neglected. Gopher and Isaac get a dog and enter him in the contest but they have trouble training him. And the mail clerk from the dog food company is sent by the dog food company president to deliver some contest information to Captain Stubing.
#23 - The Professor Has Class/When the Magic Disappears/We, the Jury
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1983
Noble-winning professor Roscoe's ex-pupil Helen was hired to replace him. Magician Stellini thinks his daughter's suitor Joe wants to steal his secrets. The crew simulates a small claims court for landlady Minnie and former tenant Harlan.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Aunt Emma I Love You/First Romance/Hoopla
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1984
The Harlem Globetrotters sail to Mexico but must compete against the crew's basketball team. Meanwhile, a man (Sid Caesar) gets angry with his wife when she insists on hanging a portrait of her deceased aunt in their honeymoon suite. Plus, a son takes his father's place on the cruise, only to fall in love with his dad's secretary.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Ace In the Hole/Uncle Joey's Song/Father in the Cradle
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1984
Captain Stubing hires a handsome new photographer who draws the attention of two sisters who were visiting Doc and Gopher. Then, a young man is shocked to meet his mother's (Lee Meriwether) new boyfriend, who is the same age as him. Finally, Isaac helps a children's performer make a little boy feel better following the death of his father.
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