What I remember most is that the Crew was a family and they had such a fun lifestyle, everyone was falling in love and having affairs and learning about love and life. It was fun with a capital F.
While studying short while in the University of Hawaii in some long ago, my TV watching was mainly Love Boat and Fonzy. Since I didn't meet many people except for the class, this show was my main friend. It is still so and UA-cam helps me to meet my good old friends. Love.
And he reprised the role on the show one time as a detective or something. He used the same voice. And one time during season 9 I caught him saying "missed it by that much", an obvious reference.
The Love Boat is the greatest escape on TV (still). There will never be another show like it. It was just perfect, and so much better than anything today.
7:43 My dad was on the China trip. He even got a short incidental shot. Also most of the passengers did not know that a Love Boat episode was going to be shot on the trip. It was not shot on the Pacific Princess as by that time most shows were shot on sets. It was shot on the Pearl of Scandinavia as it was a relatively small ship and the company was willing to accommodate the filming. Once a year they would go onto a real ship to shoot an episode to put some reality into the show. Actually there are a ton of great stories from that trip. And as the case maybe, the Love Boat Captain actually refused to leave his “little” cabin to film unless he got upgraded to one of the large cabins. I personally have some fond memories with regard to one of those cabins. As it was, there were a number of BIG STARS on the trip and only a few of the “larger cabins”. Personally I would not characterize the cabins as anything special by today’s standards. I have a bunch of stories about that trip that would fill a whole video. Lauren Tewes the Cruise Director Julie McCoy apparently was having some sort of substance abuse issue and caused a lot of filming problems. Lee Majors was hitting on Linda Evans and she wasn’t interested so he was in a really bad mood for the whole trip and was very rude to the passengers. It goes on and on. And yes the passengers had opportunities to be filmed by participating as extras but almost none were included. My dad just happened to be at the right place at the right time doing something interesting and got his five seconds of fame. Ted Lange the Bartender Isaac Washington considered himself very lucky to have this opportunity and enjoyed it like a real vacation.
@@Mentaculus42Me too, quite a few college-trained musicians and also one steward. I think the pay was relatively good because of the savings on room and board, but I remember at least two saying adamantly that they would never go back, having quit after various numbers of years.
Hard work no doubt but a lot of fun sailing the world and visiting places you have never been. Great if you are not prone to see sickness like me. Lol.
Your information on the Island Princess' pool is incorrect! It was not a square pool but infact identical with the same connected round pools as the Pacific Princess. It's only difference was a different statue at the center of the pool!
While there was never a formal crossover between the Love Boat and Three's Company, Every cast member of Three's Company appeared on the Love Boat at least once with most doing multiple appearances.
The Dallas Cowboy's cheerleaders did a two-part episode. I did two cruises on the Pacific Princess. Including the next to the next last cruise. It was a sweet little ship. Getting on and off was much easier than the long lines with the mega ships.
Growing up in Santa Barbara we watched The Love Boat and Fantasy Island religiously - everything stopped and we were glued to the screen. It's wonderful now in my 50s watching your UA-cam channel and just watching those shows again (without commercials) It brings back so many memories. Thanks!
I am an old man as I remember the show being on but I wasn't old enough to be interested in the show when it aired originally and i have never watched it since tbh but I remember watching the show on Saturday Nights as we ate pizza as a family and that was big time for 6 year old me.
I was in Puerto Vallarta in 1988 and saw the Pacific Princess in the harbor as we drove to our hotel. Somewhere I have a blurry picture taken with a cheap 35mm camera.
The pools on the Island Princess and Pacific Princess were identical. They both had the circular pool on the Lido Deck and the more rectangular pool on the rear Promenade Deck.
Saw the Pacific Princess once moored at the cruise terminal in Amsterdam and compared with the huge Cruise ships nowadays it's a rowboat. But great 70 series.
It ended after they jumped the shark about ten times... crappy new theme in the last season, new intro, Captain Stubing strangely stopped doing his dismissive little salutes, the absence of Julie, who really was one of the best characters, need I mention the terrible Mermaids??? I have a roommate that I've been working through the entire series with for a couple of years as they come on meTV and other channels. We are on season 9 now. We call it The Lust Boat after the Mad Magazine spoof that I remembered and loved so much from my childhood. We just saw the worst episode ever where Captain Stubing (who seems weak and less serious this season, almost like he's losing his self-confidence) proposes to Marion Ross, who was on the show at least ten times as multiple different characters!!! That sound effect comedian guy was as obnoxious as ever, like a black version of Robin Williams, and the Gatlin Brothers with the stowaway chick... yeah, of COURSE they had to write a terrible song about her that made her realize she needed to go back home to her parents when the ship got back to port. And Doc still chasing every babe that was 30 years younger than he was... AS IF!! Yeah, that got old after a while. And Ace, the ship's photographer, always kind of a goofy and useless role, taking on the position of Assistant Yeoman Purser, just so they could make jokes about having him sit there and do nothing. And need I say trying to marry off Captain Stubing... the tragic Lonely Man of the Sea. They were really trying to kill it with that, obviously, but then it's possible they had already decided to end the show by that point. TONS of things went wrong in the last season especially. We actually agreed at the end of this marriage proposal episode that it was the worst one ever, and that even takes into account those terrible double-bangers where they'd go to other countries and talk endlessly about the sites you needed to go see with the old stock footage. At least now they only take a couple of hours. Back in the day it took TWO WEEKS to get past those! It just got old. And they re-used so many guest stars in different roles each time, and the relationships the crew got into that you knew were never going to last because, of course, it was an anthology show that really didn't pay attention to its history from episode to episode, aside from a couple flings of Julie with a guy from Alaska and a guy from Australia, of course. In the end, they never lasted, obviously. This is weekly television!! It seemed so fake when one of the cast would get serious about someone, because you KNEW it would never last. Then they act all broken-hearted and devastated. Well DUH!!! Just wait till the next cruise and find your next victim. SHEESH!!! We actually invented a drinking game to go along with all the little stuff you see all the time in the show, like the blond dude with a moustache who was always an extra as a crew member walking by in the background in dining and dancing scenes. We posited that he must have been Tewes' husband, because he stopped appearing when she was gone, after YEARS of being there!!! That was a drink... "BLOND DUDE!!! DRINK!!!" The empty or not empty end chair at the Captain's table. They would show the back of the head of some unidentified person if it was occupied. We always wondered who got to sit there and why. TAKE A DRINK! Empty chair??? TAKE A DRINK!!!! Captain Stubing with his TERRIBLE salute that was never properly delivered... TAKE A DRINK!!! But we have noticed that in seasons 8 and 9, he has only saluted maybe a total of 5 times, whereas previously he'd salute at least 10 times per show!!! What happened???? Did Gavin's old military buddies give him hell for his bad salutes??? Something must have happened. He just stopped saluting! Another drink for instruments heard in the dance music that aren't represented by players on the stage. So when they hit the dance floor, look at the band. If you hear a sax, but there's no sax player... TAKE A DRINK!! It happens ALL THE TIME!!! Missing instruments that you can hear. Never mind that they had entire string sections not represented on that stage sometimes when disco was all the rage. Or even worse... instruments that were there, but you DIDN'T hear them. So you'd see a guy acting like he was playing a sax, but you didn't hear a sax!!! And the guy on the keys (organ or piano) who looked like Captain Nemo with his beard for several seasons. It's always great fun to watch the band actually PRETEND to play. They just sort of sway around and sometimes they don't even move their hands! They don't show them much in season 9, or even 8 for that matter. Little paper martini glasses that started appearing on the bar tables in later seasons! See one, take a drink! There are MANY more drinking opportunities if you are a regular watcher!!! If you play the Lust Boat Drinking Game, you will not be disappointed! There are all kind of hilarious little details that you can pay attention to that occur throughout the shows run. Oh yeah... a classic... the old film shots they recycled again and again, like when someone was shooting skeet. ALWAYS the same old film of an exploding skeet!!! TAKE A DRINK! Or the view of the back of the ship with the same chick in a green bathing suit just left of center near the rail. That shot was used on almost every episode for several seasons. TAKE A DRINK! They quit using that shot around season 8, I think. But they still show the men scrubbing the big windows and several other shots that were used again and again. And what the hell is that thing they are loading on the ship in the original intro??? It's either a Model T or a Japanese Zero, but it sure as hell doesn't look like anything they need to have on a cruise ship! We like the shots where they put Gavin outside next to some rail with binoculars and a handheld radio acting like he's marshalling the stevedores. CLASSIC! They had a few of those they recycled many times. TAKE A DRINK!!! It seems like one day before the show got started, they went and grabbed a bunch of b-roll of the ship and employees doing various tasks and they used those same shots for YEARS. How about the fake baby blue-painted back wall behind a fake shiprail that was supposed to look like a sky, but was obviously NOT the sky because it was always one uniform and too-light color episode in and episode out!!!! TAKE A DRINK!! And all those scenes they shot leaning against a rail with a reverse projection of the ocean and maybe a moon as a background. Take a drink. And what about that ancient film shot out the main bridge windows. It wasn't even as sharp as the rest of the footage!!!! Take a drink. Anyway, we love the show enough to keep watching it, but season 8 was grueling and 9 is even worse. Sorry, but Dionne Warwick was a TERRIBLE choice to sing the theme song! There was NOTHING WRONG with the original theme song. I bet Jack Jones was PISSED when they did that!! Did they REALLY think that would save the ratings??? And the Mermaids with their terrible 80's haircuts and bad dance routines! Did the Lust Boat really need Fly Girls??? And speaking of hair!!!! Vicky... come on!!! She looked like David Bowie for a few seasons, around the time Julie had the Ronald McDonald hair that did her no favors. So after watching all seasons of this show, whenever we see two guest stars thrown together for a short time on a cruise, our motto has become... "I LOVE YOU!!!! LET'S GET MARRIED!!!!" Seriously... did anyone REALLY believe you could fall in love within a couple of hours on a cruise and decide to get married??? I'm sure it has actually happened. My roomie and I concocted a concept for a new series. We aren't even interested in the Lust Boat reboots. Those ALWAYS suck and don't give you the nostalgia of watching the original, now 40+ years old!!! Our series would show all the people who ran off and got married, and how much they came to hate each other, and all the broken marriages and criminal children and murders and life sentences in jail that probably evolved from those poorly-thought-out unions. Of course it would still be a dramedy!!!! Real Life Can Be Funny, right?? There's a great idea for a spinoff! But most surprisingly... after force-feeding ourselves a decade of Lust Boat over a couple of years... it seems almost ridiculous when we get into any kind of argument ourselves. We have become programmed to solve any issues we may have by just laughing them off for being as silly as they are... just like on the Lust Boat. All problems are solved in under an hour! It's almost magical!!! Who knew there could be positive benefits to watching this show????? WHO KNEW???? :-) Sorry for typing a book here, but I needed to do it sooner or later! I just got started and kept going. I hope you found something to appreciate here. I'll have to go add this as a review in IMDB or something! :-) Peace and love, people!!!
It was the first show to not show a complete story line in order. It flitted from character to character. That was unique back in the day, so much so that someone sold a storybook featuring that technique. Julie left because of her cocaine habit.
I actually sent for information back in the late 70’s on seeing how I could get a job on a cruise ship. Specifically being a DJ. As I was a one at a local night spot! I still think it would have been cool to do that!!
It almost makes me want to cry, because it reminds me of much happier times in my life! Funny times, you had to go to the market and/or the liquor store for a TV guide.
Lol, will look out for that one. Was him and Doc as jackasses that Vincent Price's character turned them into. So funny seeing the one of Doc in his big glasses. Do you remember episode with Gopher and Isaac taking a race horse round the deck for exercise last Capt Stubings cabin, think it was well before Vicky joined the show. Don't remember seeing her in that episode, all the Capt could hear was clip clop, clip clop of the hooves. Me and my late husband were crying with laughter, we love watching them and Doc.
In Miami there is a highway that drives right past all the big cruise ships leaving for the ocean you feel like you are driving next to a ship, because they are moving in a canal I drove my daughter and her husband to their cruise ship in Miami harbor.
I just seen the 1st episode of the love boat. I'm 37. I just love cruises so I wanted to see what the show was about. I'm hooked. Thanks for this video.
On the Fridays when I went to my grand parents, it was Tj hooker, Love boat, Fantasy island. Maybe make one of those videos of the nightly line ups per channel?
Why do you people always have to say "It officially ended because of this, I don't get it shows are canceled because of low ratings, or they have just run their course
Because some shows died after they "jumped the shark" and it can be traced to that point. Happy Days is one example (where "jump the shark" originated). Sometimes one really stupid episode is enough to tank the ratings thereafter as long-time fans just walk away.
Loved The Love Boat!!! But what a sad ending to her life. Kind of like the ship I used to sail on, Norwegians "Norway". Beautiful vintage ocean liner, at one time the largest cruise ship in the world, over 1,000 ft. but she too ended up in a scrap yard after an explosion in the boiler room. :( I'll always have happy memories watching the Love Boat with my mom.
Technically it was never the “largest” passenger ship but the “longest” as the original Queen Mary was physically “larger”, though getting even more technical, the Queen Mary was never converted to a “cruise ship” so from that perspective it was the largest cruise ship at the time it was converted. One time I saw both the Queen Mary and the SS France (renamed Norway) at the same time in England. Exciting for a little kid to see the two largest ocean liners at the same time. By today’s standards not a big cruise ship but certainly one of the most beautiful, fast as the France and could take a serious storm that modern cruise ships literally run away from.
I have my DVR set to record Love Boat everyday. Sure wish they would show the series in order i.e. Season 1 Episode 1. Just watched last show when Capt Stubing got married. I assume that was the last episode.??? Was it?
Hard to keep track when they show them out of sequence. Hated it when it said story to be continued and then was'nt. And where did those Mermaids come from? No disrespect but they got on my wick, prancing around a far-reaching to I've no idea what, no songs I had ever heard of. I juggernaut but and read until they go off. Used to have popular singers on like Donny Osmond, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, then heading the end we had to make do with those females. Haven't seen Next Wave yet, every time I think it will be shown they show old episode that I had watched few hours earlier?
Man what they did to the ship at the end was unbelievable, unfortunate and unacceptable 😮 I watched this show religiously as a kid, it was my happy space😊
I remember The Love Boat very well and I have only seen first few crossover specials. Those being the ones with Charlie's Angels and Fantasy Island are best recalled. I know that ALF appears on the spin-off series, but I would have liked it if he were on the original The Love Boat instead.
I wasn't a fan either. No idea who they were, what they were screeching on stage, used mute button when they came on and look away. May have been put on as eye candy for men, but my lot weren't in the least bit interested. No one knew anything they sang. Even my hubby said they were no good and he listened to proper music like Motown and The Carpenters, plus all 60s music same as me. The boys listened to their own thing and walked out of the room when they came on, said they were boring.
Lol. He was harmless enough and had a good heart. He, Gopher and Isaac were my favourites. All very funny. Fred Grandy who played Gopher is doing very well for himself nowadays so I believe, is he a senator or something like that? We don't have them in UK Govt, just 🔔ends that THINK they are politicians and know if all. They know zero.
I dunno about favourite guest stars but I remember the Mexican boyband Menudo showing up one episode and uh... not doing a lot? I guess there was a problem with what to do with a boy band who dont sing in English and all that:) Their plot line seemed to be "they're here.... and yeah"
What's with the icon deception? Why is it led to believe that it's going to be some kind of sexual scandal 🤔? Thanks for your list of facts, but stop using masquerading thumbnails for click bait.
I hated having to watch Love Boat. Back in the day when there were only about 3 or 4 channels I fought with my sister about having to watch it every Saturday night. In my house there was only really one TV that we battled over frequently. Even being the older brother I lost most of the time. Thank God I liked reading so I had an alternative. Now when I happen to run into an old Love Boat rerun I just remember those old days. Funny I don't even remember what I wanted to watch instead.
During the 70s and 80s, I was basically a kid, a teen and a very young man when the Loveboat use to come on TV. I just remembered a fun show with beautiful and funny cast. I think remembering watching it before or after T J Hooker. William Shatner's second great hit as an LAPD Sargeant, recognizing places in Hollywood in scenes and realizing most of it was shot in Burbank! For reasons, The Love Boat reminds me of "T J Hooker " 😀
I'm sorry the Pacific Princess got scraped... Wouldn't it be great if all the cast and guest stars could've been made into wax figures from each episode. Well I can wish!
It was the first show to not show a complete story line in order. It flitted from character to character. That was unique back in the day, so much so that someone sold a storybook featuring that technique. Julie left because of her cocaine habit.
My dad was on the China trip which I believe was the end of Julie’s participation on Love Boat. It was obvious to everyone that she was out of control which caused filming problems on that trip.
Dude... what's with the goofy Fraggle Rock voice??? I have a buddy who does this joke about a wide-mouthed frog who suddenly talks all narrow when a predator appears that only eats wide-mouthed frogs. You sound like the wide-mouthed frog!!! Use your real talking voice, man! You can do it!!! No offense intended... it's just so many people use goofy voices on these videos thinking they're some kind of great voiceover artist or something. JUST BE YOU, MAN!!!!
Dionne Warwick scammed charities. the song 'That's what friends are for " raised lot of money charities never saw. Dionne couldn't answer interviewers question of where is the money.
My sister took our mom and me!!! It was nice but short!!!☹️ However,... humans...🤦♀️🤦♂️. More exactly, stupid greedy, selfish, bullying, fascist,...and/or oppressing ... always ruining things for everyone else... WE WERE LUCKY WERE GONE BEFORE THE PEOPLE HAD “DEMONSTRATIONS” IN/AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AREA!!!😵. (On another “trip”, my brother and I made it back the day before 9/11/2001!!!!!!😬😬😬)
On the China trip Lee Majors was hitting on Linda Evans in real life and she was not interested, so he never got laid and was very rude to the rest of the passengers. My dad was on that trip and everyone on the ship knew the Six Million Dollar Man didn’t get laid and it was a big joke.
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The crazy antics of the crew.
What I remember most is that the Crew was a family and they had such a fun lifestyle, everyone was falling in love and having affairs and learning about love and life. It was fun with a capital F.
Gopher and Isaac were both very goofy but funny.
As a kid, we felt like watching The Love Boat was our first “adult” series.
Watched it every Saturday night along with Fantasy Island and always with pizza and beer!
While studying short while in the University of Hawaii in some long ago, my TV watching was mainly Love Boat and Fonzy. Since I didn't meet many people except for the class, this show was my main friend. It is still so and UA-cam helps me to meet my good old friends. Love.
I loved The Love Boat! Really made me want to take a cruise! I loved how all the food always looked so good.
People don't believe me when I tell them that Adam, Your Ship's Doctor, was played by the same guy who played Seigfried in Get Smart.
That's right he play seigfried I remember well Rob from Australia
And he reprised the role on the show one time as a detective or something. He used the same voice. And one time during season 9 I caught him saying "missed it by that much", an obvious reference.
He was also on ""that girl"". Show
Then those people don’t know the Internet 😂
The Love Boat is the greatest escape on TV (still). There will never be another show like it. It was just perfect, and so much better than anything today.
7:43 My dad was on the China trip. He even got a short incidental shot. Also most of the passengers did not know that a Love Boat episode was going to be shot on the trip. It was not shot on the Pacific Princess as by that time most shows were shot on sets. It was shot on the Pearl of Scandinavia as it was a relatively small ship and the company was willing to accommodate the filming. Once a year they would go onto a real ship to shoot an episode to put some reality into the show. Actually there are a ton of great stories from that trip. And as the case maybe, the Love Boat Captain actually refused to leave his “little” cabin to film unless he got upgraded to one of the large cabins. I personally have some fond memories with regard to one of those cabins. As it was, there were a number of BIG STARS on the trip and only a few of the “larger cabins”. Personally I would not characterize the cabins as anything special by today’s standards. I have a bunch of stories about that trip that would fill a whole video. Lauren Tewes the Cruise Director Julie McCoy apparently was having some sort of substance abuse issue and caused a lot of filming problems. Lee Majors was hitting on Linda Evans and she wasn’t interested so he was in a really bad mood for the whole trip and was very rude to the passengers. It goes on and on. And yes the passengers had opportunities to be filmed by participating as extras but almost none were included. My dad just happened to be at the right place at the right time doing something interesting and got his five seconds of fame. Ted Lange the Bartender Isaac Washington considered himself very lucky to have this opportunity and enjoyed it like a real vacation.
As a young guy watching this show always made me want to get a job on a cruise ship. Even now at 51 I would still like to try working on a ship.
I know some people who “worked” on cruise ships and it is not that glamorous.
@@Mentaculus42Me too, quite a few college-trained musicians and also one steward. I think the pay was relatively good because of the savings on room and board, but I remember at least two saying adamantly that they would never go back, having quit after various numbers of years.
Hard work no doubt but a lot of fun sailing the world and visiting places you have never been. Great if you are not prone to see sickness like me. Lol.
Sea* what is wrong with this dumb spell checker, is it illiterate or something? I checked my post before sending it. 😡😡
I watched every Saturday !!!!!!
Loved this show as a kid in the 70's & 80's thumbs up #47
Your information on the Island Princess' pool is incorrect! It was not a square pool but infact identical with the same connected round pools as the Pacific Princess. It's only difference was a different statue at the center of the pool!
Loved the theme tune for the show👍
I remember watching it every time it come on. I still watch it on METV.
Used to watch this show with my family... Brings back so many memories... Now my parents passed away and kid sister got married...
While there was never a formal crossover between the Love Boat and Three's Company, Every cast member of Three's Company appeared on the Love Boat at least once with most doing multiple appearances.
The Dallas Cowboy's cheerleaders did a two-part episode. I did two cruises on the Pacific Princess. Including the next to the next last cruise. It was a sweet little ship. Getting on and off was much easier than the long lines with the mega ships.
Growing up in Santa Barbara we watched The Love Boat and Fantasy Island religiously - everything stopped and we were glued to the screen. It's wonderful now in my 50s watching your UA-cam channel and just watching those shows again (without commercials) It brings back so many memories. Thanks!
I still watch it. That's too bad about the end, but what a run.
I watch it on Planet Pluto, but they go only to the first 2 seasons.
I watch it on ""decades TV"". Daily. Good clean show !! 😊👍😉
I am an old man as I remember the show being on but I wasn't old enough to be interested in the show when it aired originally and i have never watched it since tbh but I remember watching the show on Saturday Nights as we ate pizza as a family and that was big time for 6 year old me.
Recently started to watch again. What a great show. What a great era.!
I was in Puerto Vallarta in 1988 and saw the Pacific Princess in the harbor as we drove to our hotel. Somewhere I have a blurry picture taken with a cheap 35mm camera.
The pools on the Island Princess and Pacific Princess were identical. They both had the circular pool on the Lido Deck and the more rectangular pool on the rear Promenade Deck.
Saw the Pacific Princess once moored at the cruise terminal in Amsterdam and compared with the huge Cruise ships nowadays it's a rowboat.
But great 70 series.
Ships today are floating cities.
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Floating barges with a slightly pointy end. Literally, can’t take much of a storm.
Never knew these facts! Thanks for sharing!
In all these "...Officially Ended After This Happen" videos it is never mentioned why it ended
"The Love Boat" ended after ratings dropped.
It ended after they jumped the shark about ten times... crappy new theme in the last season, new intro, Captain Stubing strangely stopped doing his dismissive little salutes, the absence of Julie, who really was one of the best characters, need I mention the terrible Mermaids???
I have a roommate that I've been working through the entire series with for a couple of years as they come on meTV and other channels. We are on season 9 now. We call it The Lust Boat after the Mad Magazine spoof that I remembered and loved so much from my childhood. We just saw the worst episode ever where Captain Stubing (who seems weak and less serious this season, almost like he's losing his self-confidence) proposes to Marion Ross, who was on the show at least ten times as multiple different characters!!! That sound effect comedian guy was as obnoxious as ever, like a black version of Robin Williams, and the Gatlin Brothers with the stowaway chick... yeah, of COURSE they had to write a terrible song about her that made her realize she needed to go back home to her parents when the ship got back to port.
And Doc still chasing every babe that was 30 years younger than he was... AS IF!! Yeah, that got old after a while. And Ace, the ship's photographer, always kind of a goofy and useless role, taking on the position of Assistant Yeoman Purser, just so they could make jokes about having him sit there and do nothing. And need I say trying to marry off Captain Stubing... the tragic Lonely Man of the Sea. They were really trying to kill it with that, obviously, but then it's possible they had already decided to end the show by that point.
TONS of things went wrong in the last season especially. We actually agreed at the end of this marriage proposal episode that it was the worst one ever, and that even takes into account those terrible double-bangers where they'd go to other countries and talk endlessly about the sites you needed to go see with the old stock footage. At least now they only take a couple of hours. Back in the day it took TWO WEEKS to get past those! It just got old. And they re-used so many guest stars in different roles each time, and the relationships the crew got into that you knew were never going to last because, of course, it was an anthology show that really didn't pay attention to its history from episode to episode, aside from a couple flings of Julie with a guy from Alaska and a guy from Australia, of course. In the end, they never lasted, obviously. This is weekly television!! It seemed so fake when one of the cast would get serious about someone, because you KNEW it would never last. Then they act all broken-hearted and devastated. Well DUH!!! Just wait till the next cruise and find your next victim. SHEESH!!!
We actually invented a drinking game to go along with all the little stuff you see all the time in the show, like the blond dude with a moustache who was always an extra as a crew member walking by in the background in dining and dancing scenes. We posited that he must have been Tewes' husband, because he stopped appearing when she was gone, after YEARS of being there!!! That was a drink... "BLOND DUDE!!! DRINK!!!" The empty or not empty end chair at the Captain's table. They would show the back of the head of some unidentified person if it was occupied. We always wondered who got to sit there and why. TAKE A DRINK! Empty chair??? TAKE A DRINK!!!!
Captain Stubing with his TERRIBLE salute that was never properly delivered... TAKE A DRINK!!! But we have noticed that in seasons 8 and 9, he has only saluted maybe a total of 5 times, whereas previously he'd salute at least 10 times per show!!! What happened???? Did Gavin's old military buddies give him hell for his bad salutes??? Something must have happened. He just stopped saluting!
Another drink for instruments heard in the dance music that aren't represented by players on the stage. So when they hit the dance floor, look at the band. If you hear a sax, but there's no sax player... TAKE A DRINK!! It happens ALL THE TIME!!! Missing instruments that you can hear. Never mind that they had entire string sections not represented on that stage sometimes when disco was all the rage. Or even worse... instruments that were there, but you DIDN'T hear them. So you'd see a guy acting like he was playing a sax, but you didn't hear a sax!!! And the guy on the keys (organ or piano) who looked like Captain Nemo with his beard for several seasons. It's always great fun to watch the band actually PRETEND to play. They just sort of sway around and sometimes they don't even move their hands! They don't show them much in season 9, or even 8 for that matter.
Little paper martini glasses that started appearing on the bar tables in later seasons! See one, take a drink! There are MANY more drinking opportunities if you are a regular watcher!!! If you play the Lust Boat Drinking Game, you will not be disappointed! There are all kind of hilarious little details that you can pay attention to that occur throughout the shows run. Oh yeah... a classic... the old film shots they recycled again and again, like when someone was shooting skeet. ALWAYS the same old film of an exploding skeet!!! TAKE A DRINK! Or the view of the back of the ship with the same chick in a green bathing suit just left of center near the rail. That shot was used on almost every episode for several seasons. TAKE A DRINK! They quit using that shot around season 8, I think. But they still show the men scrubbing the big windows and several other shots that were used again and again. And what the hell is that thing they are loading on the ship in the original intro??? It's either a Model T or a Japanese Zero, but it sure as hell doesn't look like anything they need to have on a cruise ship!
We like the shots where they put Gavin outside next to some rail with binoculars and a handheld radio acting like he's marshalling the stevedores. CLASSIC! They had a few of those they recycled many times. TAKE A DRINK!!! It seems like one day before the show got started, they went and grabbed a bunch of b-roll of the ship and employees doing various tasks and they used those same shots for YEARS.
How about the fake baby blue-painted back wall behind a fake shiprail that was supposed to look like a sky, but was obviously NOT the sky because it was always one uniform and too-light color episode in and episode out!!!! TAKE A DRINK!! And all those scenes they shot leaning against a rail with a reverse projection of the ocean and maybe a moon as a background. Take a drink. And what about that ancient film shot out the main bridge windows. It wasn't even as sharp as the rest of the footage!!!! Take a drink.
Anyway, we love the show enough to keep watching it, but season 8 was grueling and 9 is even worse. Sorry, but Dionne Warwick was a TERRIBLE choice to sing the theme song! There was NOTHING WRONG with the original theme song. I bet Jack Jones was PISSED when they did that!! Did they REALLY think that would save the ratings??? And the Mermaids with their terrible 80's haircuts and bad dance routines! Did the Lust Boat really need Fly Girls??? And speaking of hair!!!! Vicky... come on!!! She looked like David Bowie for a few seasons, around the time Julie had the Ronald McDonald hair that did her no favors.
So after watching all seasons of this show, whenever we see two guest stars thrown together for a short time on a cruise, our motto has become... "I LOVE YOU!!!! LET'S GET MARRIED!!!!" Seriously... did anyone REALLY believe you could fall in love within a couple of hours on a cruise and decide to get married??? I'm sure it has actually happened. My roomie and I concocted a concept for a new series. We aren't even interested in the Lust Boat reboots. Those ALWAYS suck and don't give you the nostalgia of watching the original, now 40+ years old!!! Our series would show all the people who ran off and got married, and how much they came to hate each other, and all the broken marriages and criminal children and murders and life sentences in jail that probably evolved from those poorly-thought-out unions. Of course it would still be a dramedy!!!! Real Life Can Be Funny, right?? There's a great idea for a spinoff!
But most surprisingly... after force-feeding ourselves a decade of Lust Boat over a couple of years... it seems almost ridiculous when we get into any kind of argument ourselves. We have become programmed to solve any issues we may have by just laughing them off for being as silly as they are... just like on the Lust Boat. All problems are solved in under an hour! It's almost magical!!! Who knew there could be positive benefits to watching this show????? WHO KNEW???? :-)
Sorry for typing a book here, but I needed to do it sooner or later! I just got started and kept going. I hope you found something to appreciate here. I'll have to go add this as a review in IMDB or something! :-)
Peace and love, people!!!
@@markclowe Perhaps, but in the video they never say. I think it just ran out of steam
It was the first show to not show a complete story line in order. It flitted from character to character. That was unique back in the day, so much so that someone sold a storybook featuring that technique. Julie left because of her cocaine habit.
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Soon were filmed on real ships with real local real footage. The China trip was on a real ship, so were some others.
I love them all...watched as a kid and now as an adult.
I actually sent for information back in the late 70’s on seeing how I could get a job on a cruise ship. Specifically being a DJ. As I was a one at a local night spot! I still think it would have been cool to do that!!
It almost makes me want to cry, because it reminds me of much happier times in my life!
Funny times, you had to go to the market and/or the liquor store for a TV guide.
Anyone remember the episode where Gopher taught a parrot to say "Captain Stubing's a jerk." 😅
Lol, will look out for that one. Was him and Doc as jackasses that Vincent Price's character turned them into. So funny seeing the one of Doc in his big glasses. Do you remember episode with Gopher and Isaac taking a race horse round the deck for exercise last Capt Stubings cabin, think it was well before Vicky joined the show. Don't remember seeing her in that episode, all the Capt could hear was clip clop, clip clop of the hooves. Me and my late husband were crying with laughter, we love watching them and Doc.
past* the Capt's cabin, not last.
If there's too many stars to mention that were my favorite but I don't remember no movies before the series
I grew up watching the TV show the Love boat
Omg George Jefferson was stepping out with Aunt Esther🛳️ I'm looking for that episode after this video
My mother in the last show cbs no credit in the crowd!
You don’t have to market your posts as misleading clickbait.
In Miami there is a highway that drives right past all the big cruise ships leaving for the ocean you feel like you are driving next to a ship, because they are moving in a canal I drove my daughter and her husband to their cruise ship in Miami harbor.
I just seen the 1st episode of the love boat. I'm 37. I just love cruises so I wanted to see what the show was about. I'm hooked. Thanks for this video.
On the Fridays when I went to my grand parents, it was Tj hooker, Love boat, Fantasy island. Maybe make one of those videos of the nightly line ups per channel?
Why do you people always have to say "It officially ended because of this, I don't get it shows are canceled because of low ratings, or they have just run their course
Because some shows died after they "jumped the shark" and it can be traced to that point. Happy Days is one example (where "jump the shark" originated). Sometimes one really stupid episode is enough to tank the ratings thereafter as long-time fans just walk away.
Gene Hackman was on episode when Love Boat capsized on New Years Eve.
This was cool, saw some behind the scenes pics and publicity pics that I've never seen before.
I like watching the the love boat ! It’s a good show !
Lots of schmaltz and nostalgia, with great actors from a bygone era. Still love to see episodes occasionally on Pluto TV. Welcome aboard...
Love it still watching and 50 y.old wat a show 🥂🥂🥂☘️🇮🇪❤️💯
I remember the love boat, it was exciting and new...
I don't remember the next wave.
Loved The Love Boat!!! But what a sad ending to her life. Kind of like the ship I used to sail on, Norwegians "Norway". Beautiful vintage ocean liner, at one time the largest cruise ship in the world, over 1,000 ft. but she too ended up in a scrap yard after an explosion in the boiler room. :( I'll always have happy memories watching the Love Boat with my mom.
Technically it was never the “largest” passenger ship but the “longest” as the original Queen Mary was physically “larger”, though getting even more technical, the Queen Mary was never converted to a “cruise ship” so from that perspective it was the largest cruise ship at the time it was converted. One time I saw both the Queen Mary and the SS France (renamed Norway) at the same time in England. Exciting for a little kid to see the two largest ocean liners at the same time. By today’s standards not a big cruise ship but certainly one of the most beautiful, fast as the France and could take a serious storm that modern cruise ships literally run away from.
Always thought The Love boat looks so big on TV we pulled up to it down there in Florida and it's about the size of a cruiser.
I have my DVR set to record Love Boat everyday. Sure wish they would show the series in order i.e. Season 1 Episode 1. Just watched last show when Capt Stubing got married. I assume that was the last episode.??? Was it?
Hard to keep track when they show them out of sequence. Hated it when it said story to be continued and then was'nt. And where did those Mermaids come from? No disrespect but they got on my wick, prancing around a far-reaching to I've no idea what, no songs I had ever heard of. I juggernaut but and read until they go off. Used to have popular singers on like Donny Osmond, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, then heading the end we had to make do with those females. Haven't seen Next Wave yet, every time I think it will be shown they show old episode that I had watched few hours earlier?
You didn't mention that Susan Hayward won yhe Oscar for best actress for I want to live.
😢to see this loved the show
I forgot the Love Boat Movies Good Video 😎
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12 million dollar episode??? In the 80's???
Wow!!!
That's funny playing the song over the ship's horns.
Loved that show as a kid
Man what they did to the ship at the end was unbelievable, unfortunate and unacceptable 😮 I watched this show religiously as a kid, it was my happy space😊
I remember The Love Boat very well and I have only seen first few crossover specials. Those being the ones with Charlie's Angels and Fantasy Island are best recalled. I know that ALF appears on the spin-off series, but I would have liked it if he were on the original The Love Boat instead.
The show was never the same after Julie left
It was a great series for watching your Dreams....good lord why did they let the Princess end up that way....sad way for th he shop to doe..😰😡
I agree with you about the ship, so 😔 sad
Charo was one of my favorites.
Tragically it was struck by torpedo by unknown sub
Love boate film One episode in Lisbon in the 80's 😁!
Bobby Sherman
My favorite guest celebrity was Tania Tucker
Today's Love Boat,all the men would be in bikinis
I always will remember the episode with John Holmes.
Are you talking about the porn star? From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Whaaat???
Who is he? Many I hadn't a clue who they were?
I would like to think seniors have better taste now.
Like Columbia, I watched for the guest stars
Entire group of images of PACIFIC PRINCESS at the scrapyard are my copyright and are being used without permission or compensation.
Fact:. U could take a cruise ,,while they were filming the show! Dog gone,. I missed the boat 😭!?
The vast majority were filmed on a stage.
I loved the show,but I hated it when they got the Mermaids
Ditto
I wasn't a fan either. No idea who they were, what they were screeching on stage, used mute button when they came on and look away. May have been put on as eye candy for men, but my lot weren't in the least bit interested. No one knew anything they sang. Even my hubby said they were no good and he listened to proper music like Motown and The Carpenters, plus all 60s music same as me. The boys listened to their own thing and walked out of the room when they came on, said they were boring.
I remember Doc was a total perv!
Gopher was a perv, too. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Lol. He was harmless enough and had a good heart. He, Gopher and Isaac were my favourites. All very funny. Fred Grandy who played Gopher is doing very well for himself nowadays so I believe, is he a senator or something like that? We don't have them in UK Govt, just 🔔ends that THINK they are politicians and know if all. They know zero.
hahahaha....we used to call it the "Gash Boat" ....haha
I dunno about favourite guest stars but I remember the Mexican boyband Menudo showing up one episode and uh... not doing a lot? I guess there was a problem with what to do with a boy band who dont sing in English and all that:) Their plot line seemed to be "they're here.... and yeah"
It's a SHIP!
What's with the icon deception? Why is it led to believe that it's going to be some kind of sexual scandal 🤔? Thanks for your list of facts, but stop using masquerading thumbnails for click bait.
I hated having to watch Love Boat. Back in the day when there were only about 3 or 4 channels I fought with my sister about having to watch it every Saturday night. In my house there was only really one TV that we battled over frequently. Even being the older brother I lost most of the time. Thank God I liked reading so I had an alternative. Now when I happen to run into an old Love Boat rerun I just remember those old days. Funny I don't even remember what I wanted to watch instead.
During the 70s and 80s, I was basically a kid, a teen and a very young man when the Loveboat use to come on TV.
I just remembered a fun show with beautiful and funny cast.
I think remembering watching it before or after T J Hooker.
William Shatner's second great hit as an LAPD Sargeant, recognizing places in Hollywood in scenes and realizing most of it was shot in Burbank!
For reasons, The Love Boat reminds me of "T J Hooker " 😀
Never was interested in it after saw the first couple of episodes. Thought it was cancelled when the ship hit an iceberg. 😆
No your confusing it from another show.
The love boat went out on a 3 hour tour, a 3 hour tour.
10:16 minutes and no Julie? Damnnnn.
You should be ashamed -- Photoshopping Tewes and MacLeod in this disgusting fashion.
I was thinking that too. Doubt they would have been happy about it either?
It was adult TV for me as a kid I found it boring. I think it aired after Fantasy Island. Now I watched that show it was more action
It came on BEFORE Fantasy Island. Ricardo Montalbán and cast had what was considered a little more mature content and aired at 10pm.
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I'm sorry the Pacific Princess got scraped... Wouldn't it be great if all the cast and guest stars could've been made into wax figures from each episode. Well I can wish!
Why, almost every ship gets scrapped with the exception of the Queen Mary.
It was the first show to not show a complete story line in order. It flitted from character to character. That was unique back in the day, so much so that someone sold a storybook featuring that technique. Julie left because of her cocaine habit.
My dad was on the China trip which I believe was the end of Julie’s participation on Love Boat. It was obvious to everyone that she was out of control which caused filming problems on that trip.
It was sad. :(
It was, really liked Julie. Nice young lady.
Huge crush on Julie , hated her replacement
Social engineering was going on back then too.
To be honest, I came across parodies of this from time to time and just wanted to know what they were making fun of. Now I now. Yeah, well, so what.
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Well I'm a gay woman and they just didn't do the lgbtq back then when I was a kid so I watched it but it offered no gay content so I was disappointed.
Ship got scrapped
loveds gopher
Dude... what's with the goofy Fraggle Rock voice??? I have a buddy who does this joke about a wide-mouthed frog who suddenly talks all narrow when a predator appears that only eats wide-mouthed frogs. You sound like the wide-mouthed frog!!! Use your real talking voice, man! You can do it!!! No offense intended... it's just so many people use goofy voices on these videos thinking they're some kind of great voiceover artist or something. JUST BE YOU, MAN!!!!
I like Gene Barry
I remember a rumor that they were thinking about sinking it on the last one
Dionne Warwick scammed charities. the song 'That's what friends are for " raised lot of money charities never saw. Dionne couldn't answer interviewers question of where is the money.
I never heard about this, when did it happen? I remember the song very well.
My sister took our mom and me!!! It was nice but short!!!☹️ However,... humans...🤦♀️🤦♂️. More exactly, stupid greedy, selfish, bullying, fascist,...and/or oppressing ... always ruining things for everyone else... WE WERE LUCKY WERE GONE BEFORE THE PEOPLE HAD “DEMONSTRATIONS” IN/AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AREA!!!😵. (On another “trip”, my brother and I made it back the day before 9/11/2001!!!!!!😬😬😬)
Like vicky
Even a guy in a wheelchair can score with the babes on the Love Boat.
On the China trip Lee Majors was hitting on Linda Evans in real life and she was not interested, so he never got laid and was very rude to the rest of the passengers. My dad was on that trip and everyone on the ship knew the Six Million Dollar Man didn’t get laid and it was a big joke.