The Love Boat (1977)

Season 6

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

IMDb 966

6.3

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Aaron Spelling
Director

Gavin MacLeod
Merril Stubing

Lauren Tewes
Julie McCoy

Fred Grandy
Gopher Smith

Ted Lange
Isaac Washington

Ted McGinley
Ashley Covington Evans

Bernie Kopell
Adam Bricker

Jill Whelan
Vicki Stubing

Pat Klous
Dorothy, Judy McCoy, Laurie Blake

2.0

S6E1 - Italian Cruise: Venetian Love Song/Arrangement/Arrividerci, Gopher/Gigolo (1)

None

Oct. 2, 1982, midnight

S6E2 - Italian Cruise: Venetian Love Song/Arrangement/Arrividerci, Gopher/Gigolo (2)

None

Oct. 2, 1982, midnight

S6E3 - The Anniversary Gift/Honey Bee Mine/Bewigged Bothered & Bewilderedd

An woman secretly plans to have a child as a 30th anniversery gift for her husband, even though he is ecstatic over their new-found freedom in being retired and, especially, having their older children grown and out of the house; Julie sneakily sets Honey Bee, an old high school friend who always tried to steal her boyfriends, after Gopher (newly smitten with a girl ashore) so that she can concentrate on a handsome new officer; Captain Stubbing wears his hat everywhere in an attempt to keep an old high school flame from finding out he is bald, and she thinks he has a full head of hair because she saw him hatless when he was wearing a toupe for a shipboard costume party.

Oct. 16, 1982, midnight

S6E4 - Same Wavelength, The/Winning Isn't Everything/A Honeymoon for Horace

None

Oct. 23, 1982, midnight

S6E5 - Command Performance/Hyde and Seek/Sketchy Love

A young girl who's infatuated with Gopher pretends to be her older sister. An artist meets a unhappily married guy. And the ship's comic runs into the wife and daughter he left years ago.

Oct. 30, 1982, midnight

9.0

S6E6 - The Audition/The Groupies/Doc's Nephew

Doc's nephew is making a move on his girlfriend. A psychiatrist, who is on vacation is followed by four of his patients. An actor pursues the writer of a soap opera, who rejected for a role on her show.

Nov. 6, 1982, midnight

S6E7 - Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie's Tycoon (1)

None

Nov. 13, 1982, midnight

S6E8 - Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie's Tycoon (2)

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Nov. 13, 1982, midnight

S6E9 - Thanksgiving Cruise: Too Many Dads/Love Will Find a Way/The Best of Friends

On this Thanksgiving cruise, a father and his adopted son try to evade the boys biological father by escaping to Mexico; an older couple plan to travel with their daughter and her fiance who, unknown to them, is crippled; the smooth operation of the ship suffers as one by one the entire crew, after trading a bevy of insults, ends up not speaking with one another.

Nov. 20, 1982, midnight

10.0

S6E10 - The Victims/Heavens To Betsy/The Man In The White Shorts

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Nov. 27, 1982, midnight

S6E11 - Tomorrow Lady, The/Father, Dear Father/Still Life

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Dec. 4, 1982, midnight

S6E12 - My Friend, The Executrix/Programmed for Love/Baby Talk

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Dec. 11, 1982, midnight

S6E13 - A Christmas Presence

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Dec. 18, 1982, midnight

S6E14 - First Impressions/Love Finds Florence Nightingale/Paroled to Love

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Jan. 8, 1983, midnight

S6E15 - Captain's Replacement, The/Sly as A Fox/Here Comes The Bride...Maybe

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Jan. 15, 1983, midnight

S6E16 - Doc's Big Case/A Booming Romance/The Senior Sinners

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Jan. 22, 1983, midnight

S6E17 - Salvaged Romance/Our Son The Lawyer/Gopher's Daisy

None

Jan. 29, 1983, midnight

S6E18 - Greek Cruise: The Captain and the Kid/The Dean and the Flunkee/Isaac's Aegean Affair (1)

The crew are in Greece working a cruise where a College is having its graduation ceremony. The Principal is attracted to a teacher who rebuffs him because he won't give a student a make-up test so he can graduate. And the student and a couple of his friends are hounding the Principal to do that. A prodigy is attracted to Vicki which doesn't make the Captain happy. And the valedictorian whose education was provided by his Greek aunt whom he assumed is wealthy but upon meeting her learns she's just a woman of humble means. And when she goes on board he doesn't tell anyone he's her aunt. And Isaac meets a woman who is estranged from her husband.

Feb. 5, 1983, midnight

S6E19 - Greek Cruise: The Captain and the Kid/The Dean and the Flunkee/Isaac's Aegean Affair (2)

Conclusion. Capt. Stubing's daughter falls in love. A beloved crew member decides to leave the ship.

Feb. 5, 1983, midnight

S6E20 - The Zinging Valentine/The Very Temporary Secretary/Final Score

On this Valentine's Day cruise, a singing valentine ""pussycat"" falls for a stuck-up guy who has just been dumped by his girlfriend; the owner of a secretarial agency plays secretary to a writer taking a working vacation, even though he is far better at romancing her than he is at taking dictation and typing up her notes; a womanizing pro football player falls for a snooty, straight-laced college English professor.

Feb. 12, 1983, midnight

S6E21 - The Captain's Crush/Off-Course Romance/Out of My Hair

None

Feb. 19, 1983, midnight

S6E22 - Abby's Maiden Voyage / He Ain't Heavy / I Like to Be in America

A desperate 23-year old virgin wants to spend the night with a handsome fellow she meets on board, but in the end decides she will hold off until the time is right; a bratty adopted teenager finds out that the assistant bartender that he has been harassing is actually his long lost older brother; the entire crew chips in to help April get ready to take her U.S. citizenship test despite her severe test anxiety.

Feb. 26, 1983, midnight

S6E23 - Vicki's Dilemma/Discount Romance/ Loser & still Champ

None

March 5, 1983, midnight

S6E24 - So Help Me Hanna/The Maid Cleans Up/C.P.R.,I.O.U

None

March 12, 1983, midnight

S6E25 - The Dog Show: Putting on the Dog/Going to the Dogs/Women's Best Friend/Whose Dog Is It Anyway?

None

March 26, 1983, midnight

S6E26 - The Professor Has Class/When The Magic Disappears/We The Jury

None

April 2, 1983, midnight

S6E27 - Country Music Jamboree: Hits & Missus/Return of Annabelle/Just Plain Folks Medicine/Caught in the Act (1)

A country star travelling with her ""adopted"" children has to choose between the kids and her boyfriend; a popular songwriter secretly writes better songs for his former lover than for his wife, both performers; Doc deals with a country folk doctor who insists on practicing medicine on board, while at the same time chasing her beautiful daughter; a married woman's affair haunts her as she claims an expensive broach is only costume jewelry; Gopher tries his best to get his picture taken with a privacy- seeking female country music star; two overweight performers who love food come to love each other.

April 30, 1983, midnight