Aaron Spelling
Director
The Love Boat (1977)
Season 9
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
S9E1 - A Day In Port
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Sept. 28, 1985, midnight
S9E2 - Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
None
Oct. 5, 1985, midnight
S9E3 - Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
None
Oct. 12, 1985, midnight
S9E4 - German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (1)
None
Nov. 2, 1985, midnight
S9E5 - German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)
None
Nov. 2, 1985, midnight
S9E6 - Forties Fantasy
None
Nov. 16, 1985, midnight
S9E7 - Good Time Girls/The Iron Man/Soap Star
Three college girls are mistaken for prostitutes; fitness guru Andy suffers fainting spells during triathlon training; Aunt Sylvia's friend Betsy auditions for a new part on their soap opera with Sylvia's lecherous co-star Roger.
Nov. 23, 1985, midnight
S9E8 - Trouble in Paradise/No More Mister Nice Guy/The Mermaid and the Cop
None
Nov. 30, 1985, midnight
S9E9 - Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue
None
Dec. 7, 1985, midnight
S9E10 - The Father of the Bride/The Best Man/Members of the Wedding
None
Jan. 11, 1986, midnight
S9E11 - Dare Devil/ Picture Me as a Spy/ Sleeper
Ace's cabin has been searched and he suspects a spy team work. Doc's new patient is sleepwalking. A woman is scared by her boyfriend's risky stunts.
Jan. 18, 1986, midnight
S9E12 - Hippies and Yuppies/ Frat Wars/ Return of the Lambdas
None
Jan. 25, 1986, midnight
S9E13 - Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion
None
Feb. 1, 1986, midnight
S9E14 - Egyptian Cruise (1)
None
Feb. 8, 1986, midnight
S9E15 - Egyptian Cruise (2)
None
Feb. 8, 1986, midnight
S9E16 - Hello Emily/ The Tour Guide/ The Winning Number
None
Feb. 15, 1986, midnight
S9E17 - The Second Time Around/ Hello, Spencer/ Runaway, Go Home
None
Feb. 22, 1986, midnight
S9E18 - The Art Lover/ Couples/ Made for Each Other
None
March 1, 1986, midnight
S9E19 - Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around
None
March 8, 1986, midnight
S9E20 - Gothic Romance/Whatever Happened to Crazy Joe Flash?
None
March 15, 1986, midnight
S9E21 - The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction
The crew frantically take care of last minute business when a famous newspaper psychic arrives and predicts that the world will end during the cruise; while on his way to wed in Mexico, a young tycoon with amnesia who disappeared a few years earlier falls in love with his wife from his previous life; a woman whose husband is deceased is courted by a former boyfriend, only to find out that her husband's will called for the liason.
March 22, 1986, midnight
S9E22 - Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (1)
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
May 3, 1986, midnight
S9E23 - Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
May 3, 1986, midnight
S9E24 - My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak
Vicki becomes jealous of Captain Stubbing's bride-to-be (the sequel to this episode is ""Happily Ever After...""); the new Assistant Cruise Director-Entertainer finds out that he has to share his cabin with a gruff cook instead of with the girlfriend that he brought along; a pro football has-been tries to romance the team's new owner, a woman, with a mind to get her to keep him on the next season's roster.
May 17, 1986, midnight
S9E25 - Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mr Smith Goes to Minikulu
Captain Stubbing prepares for his shipboard wedding and then gets married (this episode continues the storyline initiated in "My Stepmother, Myself"); as Gopher vacillates about his plans to leave, Ace is continually nominated and unnominated for Gopher's job; Gopher's bids farewell to his job and Loveboat friends when he accepts a job managing a South Pacific resort, Minikulu.
May 24, 1986, 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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