The BEST episodes of The Love Boat season 8
Every episode of The Love Boat season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Love Boat season 8!
Passengers find romance aboard a cruise ship.
#1 - Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1985
One of Ace's old high school girlfriends, now married to an impotent man, wants an embarrassed Ace to father her child; Gopher falls in love with an older woman, while that woman's daughter falls for Gopher; two total strangers share the honeymoon suite because they independently bought their tickets from a couple whose wedding was cancelled.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1984
Isaac, Gopher, and Ace face off in the ring with a boxing champ, while a tutor discovers that her student is dyslexic. Plus, a mother causes trouble for her daughter when she tries to play matchmaker.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1984
Doc's romantic plans with a woman (Delta Burke) are ruined by his ex-wife's fiance. Meanwhile, Judy's divorced friend shares a secret after meeting a potential suitor, and a niece traveling with her uncle is shocked to find out what he really does for a profession.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/1984
On a Christmas cruise, Captain Stubing discovers the crew has hired too many Santas, while a struggling comedian gets a new lease on life. Plus, Ace is enlisted as a passenger's fake fiance when she tries to impress her mother.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
Season 8 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1985
A TV producer casts Judy in a singing commercial, unaware that she can't sing. Then, a husband tries to reconcile with his wife on a cruise, but finds himself attracted to her best friend instead. Plus, a caring daughter (Jessica Walter) worries her father is becoming senile.
#9 - Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1985
When an older man gives Vicki attention, she thinks it's a sign of potential romance, but his advances aren't actually a sign of affection. Meanwhile, a bi-coastal couple learns that their relationship only works long distance. Then, a woman unintentionally comes between two business partners who are plotting an insurance scam.
#10 - Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1985
Two inexperienced friends mistake a pretty young woman for a sexy seductress, while a businessman happens to fall in love with someone whom his daughter disapproves of. Meanwhile, Captain Stubing mysteriously rejects a qualified woman who wants to be a ship's captain.
#11 - Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1985
A shy woman pursues her selfish boss (Cesar Romero), while Gopher becomes self-conscious about his name when he runs into an ex-girlfriend. Then, a female mayor gets involved with her defeated opponent, which makes her campaign manager jealous.
#12 - Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1985
Two older men, Leslie and Shelley, paired up by a confused blind dating service, chase the same woman; instead of meeting her fiance, a young woman gets a "present" of her fiance's friend to console her because her fiance has dumped her; Isaac chases a passenger who follows a silly, cult-like philosophy "Being Of Self", and in the process alienates the crew and almost gets fired.
#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.
#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.
#15 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1984
A renowned author disapproves of her daughter's affair with a married man, while a mother reveals to her son the truth about his famous father. Plus, a couple has their love tested by a blonde bombshell (Catherine Oxenberg) and the cruise director is surprised to discover her vindictive ex-husband is on board.
#16 - By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1984
Gopher and Isaac are suspicious of Judy's new love interest. Meanwhile, a consumer advocate considers a new venture when his wife thinks about working for her best friend. Plus, a married woman accompanied by her husband insists on having an affair.
#17 - Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1984
April Lopez (Charo) returns and makes it her mission to get the crew in ship shape, while two wealthy brothers make wagers which one of them can avoid falling in love with a pair of fetching females. Plus, a reporter thinks he's on the trail of a career-making scoop.
#18 - And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1984
On her 18th birthday, Vicki is surprised to learn that her father is a recovering alcoholic. Meanwhile, a widow hires a private detective to track down her college sweetheart. Plus, a man faking amnesia boards with his ex-fiancee who's trying to help him regain his memories.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1984
Isaac tries to comfort a recent widow and her young son, while a blind woman is convinced another passenger is her former idol. A mild-mannered man befriends a woman to try and get information on her traveling companions.
Watch Now:Apple TV#21 - 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.
#22 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
Season 8 - Episode 2 - 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.
#23 - The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1984
A bevy of beauties, including a stunning new cruise director (Patricia Klous), board the Pacific Princess for an all-woman voyage to Alaska. Then, two men get in touch with their feminine side to try and spy on the female festivities. Meanwhile, Doc rethinks his womanizing ways when he's forced to juggle too many stunners.
#24 - Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1984
A fed-up homemaker (Rue McClanahan) presents her unappreciative husband with a bill for services rendered, while a teen girl's infatuation with a young man leads to a revelation about her older sister. Then, Captain Stubing gives his friend's beautiful niece an internship aboard the Pacific Princess.
#25 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1985
An American woman pretends to be Swedish when she meets an executive who's searching for a company spokesperson. Meanwhile, a woman mistakenly believes a man (Jack Klugman) has undergone a sex change. Plus, an untrustworthy scientist (Terry Savalas) uses an actress (Janet Jackson) in a scheme to stage a heist. Finally, Gopher finds romance with an affluent socialite.