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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of TV {{Pilot Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an Creator/AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.
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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of TV {{Pilot Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an Creator/AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC|US}} from 1977 to 1986.
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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of [[MadeForTVMovie Made-for-TV Movie]]s followed, and then it finally became an Creator/AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.
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Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director, wrote about her experiences in a book called ''The Love Boats''. A trilogy of [[MadeForTVMovie Made-for-TV Movie]]s TV {{Pilot Movie}}s followed, and then it finally became an Creator/AaronSpelling-produced series airing on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1977 to 1986.
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* Fanservice: The poolside scenes in pretty much every episode, allowing Hollywood's most beautiful to dress down into swimsuits.
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* Fanservice: {{Fanservice}}: The poolside scenes in pretty much every episode, allowing Hollywood's most beautiful to dress down into swimsuits.
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* IntimateLotionApplication: In "The Identical Problem", two twin sisters get into the boat pretending they're one person so they can only pay for one ticket. One of them flirts with Doc while she's sunbathing on the deck by asking him to rub lotion on her legs and back. He gladly accepts, but first goes to the bar to get them both drinks, but by the time he's back, [[TwinSwitch the twins have switched]], so when he suddenly starts rubbing lotion on her back, she thinks he's being a creep and slaps him, leaving him confused.
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Now, even if you never watched the show, you've probably heard [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo the theme song]], one of the most well-known TV themes ''ever'', and a favorite for [[LoungeLizard fictional lounge acts]]. This was sung by Jack Jones and written by Music/PaulWilliams. Yes, the man who wrote [[Film/TheMuppetMovie "The Rainbow Connection"]] also wrote this. Creator/ErnieAnderson provided the voiceover.
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Now, even if you never watched the show, you've probably heard [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo the theme song]], one of the most well-known TV themes ''ever'', and a favorite for [[LoungeLizard fictional lounge acts]]. This was sung by Jack Jones (and, in later seasons, Music/DionneWarwick) and written by Music/PaulWilliams. Yes, the man who wrote [[Film/TheMuppetMovie "The Rainbow Connection"]] also wrote this. Creator/ErnieAnderson provided the voiceover.
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* HospitalHottie: Dawn Delaney, a friend of Dr. Bricker's, fills this role in "The Nubile Nurse".
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* TheTeetotaler: Captain Stubing.
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The show was an hour long comedy, with several intertwining plots about the guests and the crew. As the title implied, people were falling in love all over the place. And, of course, went further than that.
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The show was an hour long comedy, comedy with some drama in-between, with several intertwining plots about the guests and the crew. As the title implied, people were falling in love all over the place. And, of course, went further than that.
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* SheepInSheepsClothing: The eventual winner in the beauty pageant held aboard the ship in season 2. She seems nice at first but then entices the emcee into a compromising position, but it turns out she only did that so he’d let her friend and competitor who was unfairly disqualified back into the contest.
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* SheepInSheepsClothing: The eventual winner in the beauty pageant held aboard the ship in season 2. She seems nice at first but then engages in cultural appropriation during a talent show and entices the emcee into a compromising position, but it turns out she only did that the later action so he’d he'd let her friend and competitor who was unfairly disqualified back into the contest.
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* PictorialLetterSubstitution: The original logo for ''The Love Boat'' had the second "O" replaced by a ring buoy (made more obvious by the [[https://fontmeme.com/the-love-boat-font/ stencil font]] used for the rest of the letters).
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* OpenRelationshipFailure: In the "The 'Now' Marriage" segment of Season 2, Episode 15, Dr. Todd Gardiner has written a best-selling book by that title which encourages married people to engage in open relationships. Upon boarding, he tells the crew he and his wife Eleanor intend to pursue other partners during the cruise. He meets a swinging single lady and spends all his time dancing, dining, and sleeping with her. Meanwhile, Eleanor remains unattached and becomes more and more miserable by the day. When she finally opens up and reveals her true feelings of jealousy and neglect, the two reconcile and decide to remain monogamous after all.
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* Fanservice: The poolside scenes in pretty much every episode, allowing Hollywood's most beautiful to dress down into swimsuits.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Ahead of his own wedding to Emily, Stubing is a bundle of nerves and actively avoiding her. The anxiety of the big change has gotten him nervous about how she'd react to parts of his past that he's not proud of, such as how he never married Vicki's mother, is a recovering alcoholic, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking snores]]. While reassuring him, Emily says Vicki told her about the first one and that she figured out the others herself.
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* ThanksgivingEpisode: In "Tony's Family," the titular engineer's vacation gets cancelled at the last minute, so the crew helps him smuggle his large family onto the ship for a Thanksgiving cruise.
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** In "Tony's Family," the titular engineer's vacation gets cancelled at the last minute, so the crew helps him smuggle his large family onto the ship for a Thanksgivingcruise.cruise.
** A Season 6 episode had a Thanksgiving cruise and all the drama to go along with it. "Too Many Dads" puts a child in-between his birth father and stepfather. "Love Will Find a Way" has a man disapproving of his daughter's paraplegic fiancé. "The Best of Friends" sees various crew members feuding for trivial reasons, much to Stubing's continued irritation. The guests sorting out their issues during the big dinner prompt the crew to take stock of their own behavior and apologize.
** In "Tony's Family," the titular engineer's vacation gets cancelled at the last minute, so the crew helps him smuggle his large family onto the ship for a Thanksgiving
** A Season 6 episode had a Thanksgiving cruise and all the drama to go along with it. "Too Many Dads" puts a child in-between his birth father and stepfather. "Love Will Find a Way" has a man disapproving of his daughter's paraplegic fiancé. "The Best of Friends" sees various crew members feuding for trivial reasons, much to Stubing's continued irritation. The guests sorting out their issues during the big dinner prompt the crew to take stock of their own behavior and apologize.
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Creator/BernieKopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Creator/TedLange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Creator/BernieKopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Creator/TedLange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes Creator/LaurenTewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Creator/BernieKopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Ted Lange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Creator/BernieKopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Ted Lange Creator/TedLange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Bernie Kopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Ted Lange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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The regular cast included Creator/GavinMacLeod as the ship's Captain Merrill Stubing, Bernie Kopell Creator/BernieKopell as the ship's doctor Adam "Doc" Bricker, Creator/FredGrandy as the ship's yeoman purser Burl "Gopher" Smith, Ted Lange as the ship's bartender Isaac Washington and Lauren Tewes as cruise director Julie [=McCoy=].
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* TheCasanova: Doc picks up a different woman practically every cruise. Subverted when a fellow (married) doctor has to stay behind due to a colleague being sick and his wife sails without him. The man tells Adam to be sure she has a good time and *she* pursues *him*. Not wanting to betray his friend, he passes the duty off to Captain Stubing, who ends up hiding from her as well after she tries to seduce him, too.
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* TheCaptain: Merrill Stubing
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* TheCaptain: Merrill StubingStubing, formerly of the U.S. Navy, commands the ''Pacific Princess'' in most of the episodes, and the ''Island Princess'' in the ones where the more exotic locales are visited.
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* TheJinx: The eponymous title of one such story, where a married couple boards the ship and a different crew member invariably suffers some kind of injury while interacting with them. Stubbing chastises this belief, saying they're blaming their own carelessness on a rather sweet and harmless couple. Then he accidentally falls off a dock after being distracted by the couple.
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* TheJinx: The eponymous title of one such story, where a married couple boards the ship and a different crew member invariably suffers some kind of injury while interacting with them. Stubbing Stubing chastises this belief, saying they're blaming their own carelessness on a rather sweet and harmless couple. Then he accidentally falls off a dock after being distracted by the couple.
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* CollectiveIdentity: One episode has twin sisters pretending to be one woman to share a ticket and get a cruise at half price.
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* CollectiveIdentity: One episode has twin sisters pretending to be one woman to share a ticket and get a cruise at half price. The only difference between them appearance-wise was that one was BlindWithoutEm and always had a pair of glasses on hand. They're never found out, despite both falling for Doc (who is confused by some of the contradictory behavior, but never really dwells on it).
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''The Real Love Boat'' had an Australian version that debuted on October 5, 2022, the exact same day as the American one. That one aired on Network 10, and was hosted by ''The Voice Australia'' co-host Darren [=McMullen=]. Paolo Arrigo portrayed the ship captain on both versions. While it was also met with poor ratings, Network 10 stuck with it throughout and aired all the episodes.
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* BallBalancingSeal: In the episode "Isaac's Teacher/Seal of Approval/The Successor", Donald O'Connor guest stars as a seal trainer. He has a seal named Shirley, who is capable of balancing a ball on its nose.
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A VERY loose re-imagining of the series, ''The Real Love Boat'', debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2022. Instead of a scripted anthology, this was a romantic reality show hosted by Rebecca Romijin and Jerry O’Connell. Contestants were paired up on the cruise ship and went through relationship-building exercises, while Ted Lange and Jill Whelan returning to join in on the fun. The show capsized very quickly, getting cancelled after just four episodes, with the remaining episodes shipping off to Creator/ParamountPlus.
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A VERY loose re-imagining of the series, ''The Real Love Boat'', debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2022. Instead of a scripted anthology, this was a romantic reality show hosted by Rebecca Romijin and Jerry O’Connell. Contestants were paired up on the cruise ship and went through relationship-building exercises, while with Ted Lange and Jill Whelan returning to join in on the fun. The show capsized very quickly, getting quickly; it was cancelled after just four episodes, episodes aired, with the remaining episodes shipping off to Creator/ParamountPlus.
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** ''The Next Wave'' was set on another boat, the ''Sun Princess'', while ''The Real Love Boat'' was filmed aboard the ''Regal Princess''.
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A {{revival}} series, ''Love Boat: The Next Wave'', aired on Creator/{{UPN}} in 1998–99.
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A {{revival}} series, ''Love Boat: The Next Wave'', aired on Creator/{{UPN}} for two seasons in 1998–99.1998–99. This one featured an all-new cast, including Robert Urich as the captain, although the second season episode "Reunion" brought many of the original characters back for one more story.
A VERY loose re-imagining of the series, ''The Real Love Boat'', debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2022. Instead of a scripted anthology, this was a romantic reality show hosted by Rebecca Romijin and Jerry O’Connell. Contestants were paired up on the cruise ship and went through relationship-building exercises, while Ted Lange and Jill Whelan returning to join in on the fun. The show capsized very quickly, getting cancelled after just four episodes, with the remaining episodes shipping off to Creator/ParamountPlus.
A VERY loose re-imagining of the series, ''The Real Love Boat'', debuted on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2022. Instead of a scripted anthology, this was a romantic reality show hosted by Rebecca Romijin and Jerry O’Connell. Contestants were paired up on the cruise ship and went through relationship-building exercises, while Ted Lange and Jill Whelan returning to join in on the fun. The show capsized very quickly, getting cancelled after just four episodes, with the remaining episodes shipping off to Creator/ParamountPlus.
