The BEST episodes of The Love Boat season 2

Every episode of The Love Boat season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Love Boat season 2!

Passengers find romance aboard a cruise ship.

Last Updated: 11/9/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
A Good and Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover
star
8.00
10 votes

#1 - A Good and Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1979

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.

Directors: Roger Duchowny
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Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/A Home Is Not a Home
star
7.85
13 votes

#2 - Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/A Home Is Not a Home

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1979

A wallflower is secretly followed by a shy milquetoast; Stubing is charmed by a fortuneteller; two honeymooning retirees are unexpectedly joined by their overprotective children.

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Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas
star
7.75
12 votes

#3 - Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1979

A rock star falls for Julie's deaf friend; Doc's old friend competes with gambling for her husband's affection; Isaac is convinced that a couple plans to murder Capt. Stubing.

Directors: Richard Kinon
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Accidental Cruise/The Song Is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
star
7.71
17 votes

#4 - Accidental Cruise/The Song Is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1978

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.

Directors: Roger Duchowny
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The Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle
star
7.69
13 votes

#5 - The Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1978

Doc must perform a risky operation after an accident; one of the ship's laborers is recruited to replace a missing dignitary; a bitterly divorced man has it in for his ex-wife's attorney.

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Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky
star
7.65
20 votes

#6 - Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1978

Julie's parents arrive on board the Pacific Princess and announce their plans to divorce; an author of morally uplifting pamphlets and a prim censor fall in love while sharing a cabin; a young girl's tomboy image falters after she receives her first kiss.

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The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother
star
7.59
22 votes

#7 - The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1978

A man romances three women, not knowing they are traveling together; Captain Stubing's godson reconnects with his wife after a long absence; two brothers stage an injury in order to sue the ship's operators.

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The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness
star
7.59
17 votes

#8 - The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1978

A shy young man becomes a completely different person at night; a businessman who doesn't have time for his family learns a valuable lesson; a man who believes his chances of survival are better at sea than as a witness in a gangland trial receives loving sympathy from a fellow passenger.

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Tony's Family/Man of the Cloth/Her Own Two Feet
star
7.58
19 votes

#9 - Tony's Family/Man of the Cloth/Her Own Two Feet

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1978

The crew tries to hide six stowaways from Capt. Stubing; a church member disapproves of her minister's new romance; a nearly blind woman refuses to admit her problem until Doc intercedes.

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Where Is It Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal
star
7.36
25 votes

#10 - Where Is It Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1978

Captain Stubing's uncle pursues Julie; a desperate businessman uses his daughter as bait to close a deal; the neglected wife of a publisher romances a novelist.

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Heads or Tails/The Little People/Mona of the Movie
star
7.33
15 votes

#11 - Heads or Tails/The Little People/Mona of the Movie

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1978

A movie queen intimidates a businessman; two swingers make a bet on their chances with Julie; a man takes his diminutive parents on the cruise for their 25th wedding anniversary and finds romance.

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Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away
star
7.30
46 votes

#12 - Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1978

A ghost experiences jealousy as his mission to find his wife a new husband appears to be succeeding; overprotective Gopher mistakenly entrusts his kid sister to Doc to stave off the ship's wolves, not realizing that she's all grown up; a long-divorced couple is accidentally trapped in an isolated cabin.

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Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks
star
7.27
11 votes

#13 - Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1978

A beauty can't choose between Cap. Stubing and Doc; a man and his wife return to the ship with an orphaned boy; a hospital executive falls for a seemingly successful businessman.

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Third Wheel/Grandmother's Day/Second String Mom
star
7.25
12 votes

#14 - Third Wheel/Grandmother's Day/Second String Mom

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/12/1979

Gopher gives his parents a cruise, but his father is jealous of Gopher's relationship with his mother; an older couple is stunned by an unexpected pregnancy; a widower's teenage daughters reject his new wife, but then need her help.

Directors: Gordon Farr
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Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday (1)
star
7.23
30 votes

#15 - Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday (1)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1978

On a land excursion, the crew is kidnapped by an eccentric islander and must endure a hurricane.

The Decision/Poor Little Rich Girl/Love Me, Love My Dog
star
7.20
10 votes

#16 - The Decision/Poor Little Rich Girl/Love Me, Love My Dog

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1979

A terrier protects its owner from the advances of a gentleman; a waitress inherits a fortune and finds romance and a new life; Isaac laments his ill-fated love affairs.

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Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance
star
7.07
14 votes

#17 - Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1979

A father takes too much of a liking to his son's new girlfriend; a bachelor is terrified at the idea of marrying his gung-ho girlfriend; the crew gives a troubled teen a chance at rehabilitation.

Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
star
7.07
15 votes

#18 - Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1979

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.

Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday (2)
star
7.00
9 votes

#19 - Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1978

On a land excursion, the crew is kidnapped by an eccentric islander and must endure a hurricane.

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Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard
star
7.00
12 votes

#20 - Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1978

Identical twin sisters swap fiances; a separated ventriloquist team use their dummies to rebuild their relationship; a handsome widower proposes to Julie.

Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
star
7.00
12 votes

#21 - Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1979

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.

Directors: Roger Duchowny
Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (Part 2)
star
7.00
6 votes

#22 - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (Part 2)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1979

Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the ship, but her former teacher is struggling with alcoholism, a past boyfriend is with her former rival, her recently divorced friend is on the cruise thanks to an unknown admirer, one of her classmates is romanced by Doc, the football star reunites with former teammates and a draft dodger meets a wounded Vietnam veteran.

Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam
star
7.00
8 votes

#23 - Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1979

Julie is pursued by the teenage son of the head of the cruise line while trying to win over a charming older passenger; a couple has trouble starting a romance because their parents are enemies; the crew pays two men to build a wooden model of the ship, but the gift accidentally gets smashed.

Directors: Richard Kinon
Super Mom/I'll See You Again/April's Return
star
7.00
13 votes

#24 - Super Mom/I'll See You Again/April's Return

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/5/1979

April Lopez returns as a singer but wants to become a cruise director; a couple brings its rambunctious children on a second honeymoon; Capt. Stubing's navy buddy meets up with an old flame.

Directors: George Tyne
Dream Boat/Best of Friends/Aftermath
star
6.80
5 votes

#25 - Dream Boat/Best of Friends/Aftermath

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1979

The crew goes overboard to help Capt. Stubing make a good impression when he is up for a job on a prestigious ship; a woman unknowingly makes a date with a friend's fiancé; a disabled surgeon belittles Doc for practicing aboard a cruise ship until Doc makes a surprising diagnosis.