Aaron Spelling
Director
The Love Boat (1977)
Season 8
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
S8E1 - The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
None
Sept. 22, 1984, midnight
S8E2 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
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
Sept. 29, 1984, midnight
S8E3 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
None
Sept. 29, 1984, midnight
S8E4 - Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
None
Oct. 6, 1984, midnight
S8E5 - Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
None
Oct. 13, 1984, midnight
S8E6 - Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
None
Oct. 20, 1984, midnight
S8E7 - And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
None
Oct. 27, 1984, midnight
S8E8 - Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
None
Nov. 3, 1984, midnight
S8E9 - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
None
Nov. 10, 1984, midnight
S8E10 - By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
None
Nov. 17, 1984, midnight
S8E11 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
None
Nov. 24, 1984, midnight
S8E12 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
None
Nov. 24, 1984, midnight
S8E13 - Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
None
Dec. 1, 1984, midnight
S8E14 - Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
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.
Dec. 8, 1984, midnight
S8E15 - Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
None
Dec. 15, 1984, midnight
S8E16 - Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
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.
Jan. 5, 1985, midnight
S8E17 - Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
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.
Jan. 12, 1985, midnight
S8E18 - Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
None
Jan. 26, 1985, midnight
S8E19 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
None
Feb. 2, 1985, midnight
S8E20 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
None
Feb. 2, 1985, midnight
S8E21 - Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
None
Feb. 9, 1985, midnight
S8E22 - Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
None
Feb. 16, 1985, midnight
S8E23 - Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
None
Feb. 23, 1985, midnight
S8E24 - Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
None
March 23, 1985, midnight
S8E25 - Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
None
March 30, 1985, midnight
S8E26 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)
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.
May 4, 1985, midnight
S8E27 - Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)
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.
May 4, 1985, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 57 min.
Season Runtime: 14307 min.
Released: Sept. 24, 1977
Last Air Date: Feb. 27, 1987, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G
Common sense age: 13+
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