The BEST episodes written by Tony Webster
#1 - Not So Fast, Gopher/Haven't We Met Before?/Seoul Mates
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 22
Gopher invites his widowed mother onto the ship in the hopes of cheering her up, but is hurt by her seemingly cheerful attitude, which he interprets as an insult to his father. A group of buddies takes a cruise. One of the men meets a woman who is a regular customer at the restaurant where he works. He lies about his identity because he thinks she would be put off by the fact that he is a waiter. A comic's romance with the reporter who is writing a feature about him appears doomed after she takes offense to his act.
#2 - Bilko and the Beast
The Phil Silvers Show - Season 1 - Episode 28
When a new drill sergeant known as "The Beast" takes over at Fort Baxter Bilko and the platoon come up with a scheme to get rid of him
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#3 - The Spider Serenade/Next Door Wife/The Harder They Fall
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 15
Gopher finds romance with a recently separated passenger--until her estranged husband suddenly shows up and announces his intention of winning her back. A woman tries to pry her soon-to-be-ex-husband away from his girlfriend by coming on the cruise and rooming in the cabin next to theirs. Two distinguished passengers, who squared off in a boxing match decades earlier, renew their rivalry. They schedule a fight on the ship to settle the score once and for all.
#4 - 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.
#5 - April's Love/Happy Ending/We Three
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 17
April returns to the ship with her fiancé, a former used car salesman turned manager whom she has known only a few weeks. The crew is certain that the man is scamming her. A couple comes aboard the ship to finish a script before filing for divorce. A man is shocked to run into the daughter he gave up for adoption and her adoptive mother. He agonizes over whether to tell her the truth about her parentage.
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#6 - Never Say Goodbye/A New Woman/Trial Romance
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 9
Capt. Stubing receives a letter from his daughter, Vicki. When he tries to call her, he learns that she has run away from her aunt and uncle's home. She shows up on the ship and reveals that she has read her mother's diary, and now knows that the captain is her father. She wants to stay with him, but he feels that it is best that he return her. Vicki's aunt reveals that she is getting a divorce and wants to send her children away for a while so that they won't be affected by the proceedings. Capt. Stubing and Vicki are thrilled by the chance to live together on the ship. Julie plays matchmaker for two shy, old-fashioned people who are unaccustomed to the workings of modern romance. A man is annoyed by the presence of the woman who deadlocked the jury for the attempted murder trial on which they both served, leading to a mistrial. They constantly argue about the case.
#7 - The Big Scandal
The Phil Silvers Show - Season 2 - Episode 32
Bilko tries to hypnotize Ritzik, but it's Doberman who falls under the influence and he tells the Colonel's wife that he loves her
#8 - 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.
#9 - How High Is Up?
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 1 - Episode 20
The men of the 53rd fret over a new inspector's rigid adherence to height and weight limits.
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#10 - A Man Is Not an Ox
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 3
Toody and Muldoon become ill at the same time with identical symptoms.
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The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 12
A woman tries to get her husband's attention by claiming that Doc made a pass at her during an examination. A couple takes a cruise to celebrate their 40th anniversary but considers breaking up after the husband learns that his wife secretly invested money in the stock market for years. A man sneaks on the cruise because he doesn't believe the man traveling with his girlfriend is her brother.
#12 - Change Your Partners
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 1 - Episode 4
Toody and Muldoon have been partners for nine years but are separated and miss each other.
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#13 - 142 Tickets on the Aisle
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 13
When the men of the 53rd purchase a large group of tickets for an off-Broadway show, rumors fly that the play is obscene.
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#14 - 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.
#15 - The Sacrifice
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 1 - Episode 16
Toody tries to make a sacrifice so that Muldoon can be promoted.
#16 - Hail to the Chief
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 1
Muldoon is overcome with nerves at the prospect of transporting the president.
#17 - Remember St. Petersburg
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 7
Mistakenly believing that Schnauser is an exiled Russian count, a band of phony spiritualists try to cash in.
#18 - Gypsy Curse
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 1 - Episode 9
When Toody goes undercover to expose a dishonest gypsy, he believes that her curse is real.
#19 - The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 28
Sylvia Schnauser acts a decoy to rid the city of dishonest con artists posing as book publishers.
#20 - Stop Thief
Car 54, Where Are You? - Season 2 - Episode 14
After overhearing Capt. Block rehearsing a play, Toody and Muldoon mistakenly believe that he is a kleptomaniac.
#21 - Help, Murder/Isaac the Groupie/Mr. Popularity
The Love Boat - Season 1 - Episode 5
A woman gets the wrong idea from her husband's secretive behavior and fears that he is plotting to murder her. Isaac begins a whirlwind romance with an internationally known singer. A couple suspects that a painfully boring passenger is actually a wanted jewel thief.
#22 - The Baby Alarm/Tell Her She's Great/Matchmaker, Matchmaker Times Two
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 8
An unwed mother's infant son has an unusual way of showing his disapproval to men who try to romance her. Isaac gets the crew to bolster his stagestruck aunt's ego, which turns her into an outrageous prima donna and upsets his uncle. Two sets of parents go overboard trying to spark a romance between their respective children.
#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.