The BEST episodes of The Love Boat season 8

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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

#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.

#21 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1984

#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 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)

Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1985

In "Girl of the Midnight Sun", written by Ray Jessel and Cynthia Thompson, an American (Ms. Norris) pretends to be Swedish in order to become a spokeswoman for an American executive (Davidson). In " There'll Be Some Changes Made" written by Donald Ross, a woman (Ms. York) discovers women's clothes in the closet of an American (Klugman), and believes his recent Stockholm surgery was a sex change operation. In "Too Many Isaacs," written by Mike Marmer from a story by Sid Morse, a scientist (Savalas) uses a beautiful woman (Ms. Jackson) to involve Isaac (Lange) in a scheme in which a look-alike robot steals an expensive racehorse. In "Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm," written by Richard Goldman, Gopher (Grandy) gets ready to leave the ship for the good life when he falls in love with a wealthy socialite (Ms. Barnes).