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Aug 21, 2023 · Accounting for some test TV movies, nine seasons of weekly episodes, and a few more telefilms, The Love Boat shipped out from TV in 1987. However, it wasn't long before the most romantic...
I certainly agree with you The Love Boat had a very unique, and excellent formula of stories and plotlines. And the setting on the ocean liner was novel as well for the backdrop. But your opening comment was more about the innovation of the movie star guest casts.
- The Love Boat Follows The Love, American Style Anthology Formula.
- The Show Was Based on A Tell-All Book by A Real Cruise Director.
- It Was Turned Into Three TV Movies first.
- Charlie’s Angels Were Once Onboard For A Crossover.
- Only Three Actors appeared in Every Episode of The Show.
- The Show Was Filmed on Real Boats with Actual Passengers.
- Dionne Warwick Sang The Theme For The Final season.
- The Real Love Boat Became A Notorious Vessel For Drug Smugglers.
- The Pacific Princess Was Brought to A Scrap Yard in 2013.
The Love Boatwas unique for television at the time in that it was centered around multiple vignettes every week, chronicling the comedic (and romantic) misadventures of an ever-changing group of passengers and the stalwart crew of the ship. The separate storylines would all have different writers and weave in and out throughout the episode. It wasn...
There’s more reality to The Love Boat than most people would assume. The show was actually based on a book titled Love Boatsby Jeraldine Saunders, the first female to become cruise director for Princess Cruises. The 1974 book is a tell-all, revealing anecdotes from Saunders’s decade-long career (at that point) as a cruise director and the various r...
Before The Love Boat became a weekly television show, ABC tested the waters with three made-for-TV movies acting as pilots: The Love Boat (1976), The Love Boat II (1977), and The New Love Boat (1977). The Love Boat II saw the eventual TV cast appear in early versions of their famous roles, including Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, and Fred Grandy. And Th...
In addition to The Love Boat, Spelling had another project on ABC, Charlie’s Angels, which preceded Love Boat by one year in 1976. So it was only natural to meld the two series—which have as little in common as humanly possible—for a 1979 crossover. In the two-part episode “Love Boat Angels,” the Angels board the Pacific Princess in order to retrie...
During The Love Boat’s nine years on the air, plenty of the ship’s crew came and went, but three actors were onboard for the series’ entire250-episode run: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, and Ted Lange. Fred Grandy came close, starring in 246 episodes across the entire length of the show. Lange, Kopell, and MacLeod also starred in the 1990 TV movie T...
To shoot The Love Boat you need a boat, right? To make the boat come alive, the production shot on two real cruise ships: The Pacific Princess and Island Princess. Real cruises were booked and actual passengers played extras during certain scenes that required a more authentic look. For the actual people on vacation, filming was just an added bonus...
The Love Boat’s iconic theme was written by Paul Williams—who had written for The Carpenters, David Bowie, and The Muppets—and Charles Fox, the man behind the music for the Wide World of Sports and the first theme for ABC’s Monday Night Football. And for the show’s first eight seasons, The Love Boat theme was performed by Jack Jones until season ni...
The life of an out-of-work Hollywood icon can be rough, and after The Love Boat went off the air, the Pacific Princess found itself mixed up in the seedy world of narcotics. In 1998, BBC reportedthat the liner had become “a major tool for smugglers bent on trafficking drugs around the Mediterranean,” and more than 50 pounds of heroin were found abo...
When The Love Boat ended, the Pacific Princess—eventually renamed the MS Princess—was still in operation as a functioning luxury liner. In addition to its previously known drug issues, the ship’s final years were spent in a state of constant repairs and unpaid debt. After going through numerous owners and financial maladies, the MS Princesswas even...
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The Love Boat is an American romantic comedy - drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977 to May 24, 1986. In addition, three TV movies aired before the regular series premiered and four specials and a TV movie aired after the series ended.
The Love Boat: Created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes. With Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy. The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess.
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- 1977-05-05
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- 60
The romantic-sounding Love Boat promises -- and delivers -- something for everyone. Specifically, it promises a cavalcade of famous guest stars (including many film stars making rare TV ...
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Sep 17, 1976 · The Love Boat: Directed by Richard Kinon, Alan Myerson. With Don Adams, Tom Bosley, Florence Henderson, Gabe Kaplan. The adventures of the passengers and crew aboard a luxury liner on a cruise from California to Mexico.
