Aaron Spelling
Director
The Love Boat (1977)
Season 2
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Released Sept. 24, 1977
Episode 57 min
13+
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Production Companies: Aaron Spelling Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Marooned (1)
None
Sept. 16, 1978, midnight
S2E2 - Marooned (2)
None
Sept. 16, 1978, midnight
S2E3 - Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky
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.
Sept. 23, 1978, midnight
S2E4 - The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother
A man makes a move on three women; not knowing that they are travelling companions. Captain Stubbing's god son is taking a cruise with his wife, whom he married two years ago but his military duty kept him away. And two brothers who stage false injuries, so that they can sue the insurance company, have targeted the cruise line.
Sept. 30, 1978, midnight
S2E5 - Where is it Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal
Captain Stubing's Uncle Cyrus uses every trick in his devious mind to get Julie alone, until her ""Aunt Phoebe"" intervenes; a desperate businessman uses his daughter as bait to close a deal; the neglected wife of a publisher romances a novelist, hoping it will give him the inspiration for the final chapter of his book.
Oct. 14, 1978, midnight
S2E6 - The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness
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.
Oct. 21, 1978, midnight
4.0
S2E7 - Ship of Ghouls
A magician keeps his engagement secret in order to dazzle female audiences, while his neglected fiancee turns to Captain Stubing for comfort; Doc and Gopher pursue a model who is afraid to face people after a recent accident; a boy with a habit of lying can't get anyone to help during a real time of need.
Oct. 28, 1978, midnight
S2E8 - Accidental Cruise/The Song is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
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.
Nov. 4, 1978, midnight
S2E9 - Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away
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.
Nov. 11, 1978, midnight
S2E10 - Tony's Family/The Minister and the Stripper/Her Own Two Feet
Crew members make a valiant effort to keep six stowaways a secret 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.
Nov. 18, 1978, midnight
S2E11 - Heads or Tails/The Little People/Mona of the Movie
None
Nov. 25, 1978, midnight
S2E12 - Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle
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.
Dec. 2, 1978, midnight
S2E13 - Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks
A beauty can't choose between Captain 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.
Dec. 9, 1978, midnight
S2E14 - Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard
Identical twin sisters decide to swap fiances; a separated ventriloquist team use their dummies to rebuild their relationship; a handsome widower proposes to Julie, who has fallen in love with him and his teenage children.
Dec. 16, 1978, midnight
S2E15 - Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
Doc's ex-wife hires an actor, who takes his role a bit too seriously, as her fiance; a philandering marriage counselor's wife seeks solace from Captain Stubing; a woman pretends to be her own sister for a reunion with a long-ago sweetheart.
Jan. 13, 1979, midnight
S2E16 - Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
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.
Jan. 20, 1979, midnight
S2E17 - Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance
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.
Jan. 27, 1979, midnight
S2E18 - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (1)
Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.
Feb. 3, 1979, midnight
S2E19 - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (2)
Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.
Feb. 3, 1979, midnight
S2E20 - Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath
Crew members learn that Captain Stubing is under consideration to take over a prestigious cruise ship and go overboard to help their captain make an outstanding impression; a woman unknowingly makes a date with a friend's fiance; a disabled surgeon belittles Doc for practicing aboard a cruise ship until Doc makes a surprising diagnosis. GUEST STARS: Hans Conried, Ben Murphy, Donna Pescow, Carol Lynley, Richard Anderson, Diana Muldaur
Feb. 10, 1979, midnight
S2E21 - A Good & Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover
None
Feb. 17, 1979, midnight
S2E22 - The Decision/Poor Little Rich Girl/Love Me, Love My Dog
None
Feb. 24, 1979, midnight
S2E23 - Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/A Home is Not a Home
None
March 3, 1979, midnight
S2E24 - Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam
Julie ends up in the middle of an unusual love triangle when the visiting 13-year-old son of the head of the cruise line develops a crush on her at the same time that she is trying to win over a charming older passenger. Two longtime acquaintances find their attempt at building a romance complicated by their parents' antagonistic relationship: her father is publisher of the newspaper where he works; and his mother is leading the efforts to unionize the workers. In honor of Capt. Stubing's fifth anniversary at the helm, the crew pays two men to build a wooden model of the ship. The builders are left scrambling to undo the damage after the present accidentally gets smashed.
March 10, 1979, midnight
10.0
S2E25 - Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas
A singer tries to persuade his manager to let him abandon the shock tactics that made him famous and let his music speak for itself. He becomes even more determined to establish some credibility after he falls for a deaf friend of Julie's. Doc finds himself caught in the middle when an old friend grows tired of her inattentive husband's tendency to put gambling ahead of their relationship. Isaac becomes convinced that a couple plans to murder Capt. Stubing. Everyone initially believes that he is just too caught up in the murder mystery that he has been reading, but the captain and Gopher soon begin to share his suspicions.
March 17, 1979, midnight
S2E26 - Super Mom/I'll See You Again/April's Return
One-time stowaway April Lopez returns to the ship as a popular singer. However, she grows tired of the hassles of fame and decides that she would like to become a cruise director. Julie tries to show her the ropes, but April ends up creating havoc wherever she goes. A couple brings its four rambunctious children along on its second honeymoon. The woman repeatedly ignores her husband to tend to the children's needs, and April inadvertently creates further problems with their marriage. A buddy of Capt. Stubing's from his military days comes aboard, and is shocked to see the former USO star with whom he once had a romance. Due to a misunderstanding, each believes the other is to blame for cutting off their affair.
May 5, 1979, midnight
6.0
S2E27 - Third Wheel/Grandmother's Day/Second String Mom
Gopher gives his parents a cruise as a Mother's Day present. Gopher's father grows jealous of the close relationship between mother and son. An older couple, who has finally seen its youngest child move out of the house, is stunned by an unexpected pregnancy. A widower's teenage daughters repeatedly reject his new wife, but must rely on her help when they get into a jam in Mexico.
May 12, 1979, midnight
ABC
57 min/ep
14307 min
Sept. 24, 1977
Feb. 27, 1987, midnight
Ended
TV-G
13+
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