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The Love Boat Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
Sat, Sep 22, 198490 mins
The crew is working a special Alaskan cruise, wherein all the passengers are women who are vying for a date with Engelbert Humperdinck. The Captain (Gavin MacLeod) informs the crew that Julie (Lauren Tewes) got married and has left. So they get a new cruise director (Diane Ladd), who's a real terror. Julie's sister, Judy (Pat Klous) who just got divorced, goes on the cruise. Two men (Bert Convy and Arte Johnson), one of whom is the husband of the woman (Patty Duke) who organized the ladies' cruise, follows her because he fears that he is inadequate for her, so they pose as women; Doc's (Bernie Kopell) romance with Emily (Michelle Phillips) crumbles.
Episode 2
Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat: Part 1
Sat, Sep 29, 198460 mins
Part 1 of 2. While on a cruise in the Netherlands, Vicki (Jill Whelan) hooks up with a new crew member (Patrick Cassidy), who is being sought by Interpol. A man (Pat Harrington Jr.) who is with his wife (Eileen Brennan), discovers his mistress (Teri Copley) is also on the ship. The Captain (Gavin MacLeod) is taken with a woman (Elke Sommer) who, for some reason, tries to keep him at bay. And a woman (Cloris Leachman) meets a former lover (George Kennedy), who thinks she betrayed him but who doesn't remember her when they meet.
Episode 3
Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat: Part 2
Sat, Sep 29, 198460 mins
By rcs0411@yahoo.com: Conclusion. While on a cruise in the Netherlands, Vicki (Jill Whelan) hooks up with a new crew member (Patrick Cassidy), who is being sought by Interpol. A man (Pat Harrington Jr.) who is with his wife (Eileen Brennan), discovers his mistress (Teri Copley) is also on the ship. The Captain (Gavin MacLeod) is taken with a woman (Elke Sommer) who, for some reason, tries to keep him at bay. And a woman (Cloris Leachman) meets her former lover (George Kennedy), who thinks she betrayed him but who doesn't remember her when they meet.
Episode 4
Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call Me a Doctor
Sat, Oct 6, 198460 mins
Ace (Ted McGinley) tries to impassion an old girlfriend (Jennifer Holmes) by boxing the heavyweight champion (Dick Butkus); a father (James Noble) refuses to believe his son (Dick Billingsley) may be dyslexic, which the son's tutor (Jeannie Wilson) believes he may be; an overbearing mother (Doris Roberts) tells lies about her daughter (Tovah Feldshuh) to a fellow passenger (Louis Giambalvo).
Episode 5
Only the Good Die Young/Honey Beats the Odds/The Light of Another Day
Sat, Oct 13, 198460 mins
An undercover FBI agent (Jack Riley) butters up a bookie (James Sloyan)'s girlfriend (Stephanie Faracy) in order to get the scoop on his operation; a charming boy (Emmanuel Lewis) goes on a rampage of bad behavior, believing that good people die young; a blind passenger (Barbara Parkins) has a reunion with a passenger (John Bennett Perry), with whom she went to college and had a crush.
Episode 6
Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
Sat, Oct 20, 198460 mins
A dead man (Bill Macy) must perform a totally selfless act to get into heaven, with an angel (Fritz Weaver) watching; Gopher (Fred Grandy) is leery of a girl (Dianne Kay), who rejected his marriage proposal years ago; a soap fan (Jayne Meadows) confuses a villainous character with the actor (Charles Frank) who plays him, when he and her daughter (Susan Blanchard) get together.
Episode 7
And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
Sat, Oct 27, 198460 mins
On her 18th birthday, Vicky (Jill Whelan) is allowed to drink champagne and she has too much of it; she then learns of her father's (Gavin MacLeod) history of alcoholism. A passenger named Arthur (Richard Kline) tries to renew a relationship with his former fiancée (Morgan Brittany), by pretending to have amnesia. Using information provided by a private detective (Alex Rocco), a woman (Joan Van Ark) tracks down her college boyfriend (Robert Reed).
Episode 8
Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
Sat, Nov 3, 198460 mins
April Lopez (Charo) comes aboard as the ship's new aerobics instructor; rich brothers (Ben Murphy and Charles Siebert) bet $1 million that they will not fall in love on the cruise; a reporter (Ralph Bellamy) pursues a woman (Dorothy McGuire) to get a story, that she is aviator Amelia Earhart.
Episode 9
The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
Sat, Nov 10, 198460 mins
Judy's (Pat Klous) friend (Deborah Adair) can't trust men after a rape and subsequent divorce, until she meets a fellow passenger (Brodie Greer); a woman (Julia Duffy) wants her jewel-thief uncle (Patrick Macnee) to retire, but is after a passenger's (Abby Dalton) diamond necklace; a fellow (William Christopher), engaged to one of Doc's (Bernie Kopell) ex-wives, studies Doc's every move, as inspiration to be a perfect husband.
Episode 10
By Hook or by Crook/Revenge with the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Sat, Nov 17, 198460 mins
Depressed on what would have been her wedding anniversary, Judy (Pat Klous) falls for soft-spoken Mike Morell (Patrick Wayne), which worries Gopher (Fred Grandy), who harbors a gut feeling that Morell is not to be trusted. Doc's (Bernie Kopell) first patient Missy (Heidi Bohay) plans to have an affair and even the score with her loving husband Jack (William R. Moses), who had an accidental affair a few months earlier. But she chooses Lester Erwin (Ken Kercheval), a loser who fancies himself a ladies' man. Consumer advocate Marvin Cooperman (Ray Buktenica) keeps taking his work home with him and balks when his wife Carol (Jan Smithers) considers taking a job with her former sorority sister Ellen Brown (Devon Ericson), a baked goods manufacturer who makes his favorite brownies.
Episode 11
My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Albert Demerest/Welcome Aboard: Part 1
Sat, Nov 24, 198460 mins
Part 1 of 2. In London and Paris, a novelist (Lilli Palmer) keeps a tight rein on her daughter (Ana Alicia), who is attracted to a fellow passenger (Morgan Stevens); Judy's (Pat Klous) ex-husband (Marc Singer) tries to win her back; a woman (Loretta Swit) pays an English tart (Catherine Oxenberg) to test her husband's (Dennis Holahan) fidelity; a woman (Colleen Dewhurst) and her son (Peter Barton) are reunited with her actor husband (Trevor Howard).
Episode 12
My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Albert Demerest/Welcome Aboard: Part 2
Sat, Nov 24, 198460 mins
Conclusion. In London and Paris, a novelist (Lilli Palmer) keeps a tight rein on her daughter (Ana Alicia), who is attracted to a fellow passenger (Morgan Stevens); Judy's (Pat Klous) ex-husband (Marc Singer) tries to win her back; a woman (Loretta Swit) pays an English tart (Catherine Oxenberg) to test her husband's (Dennis Holahan) fidelity; a woman (Colleen Dewhurst) and her son (Peter Barton) are reunited with her actor husband (Trevor Howard).
Episode 13
Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
Sat, Dec 1, 198460 mins
After twenty-three years of marriage, Cheryl Enicker (Rue McClanahan) wants to live comfortably, rather than continue to be a penny pincher, due to her husband Howard's (Donald O'Connor) being so frugal and cheap, but Howard doesn't like the changes that are in store for their marriage. Eve Springer (Vera Miles) is on board with her two daughters, Eleanor (Jaime Lyn Bauer) and Patty (Dana Plato). Eleanor doesn't like fast romances because she got burned in one, years ago, and claims it ruined her life. So she is now overprotecting her younger sister Patty and trying to throw cold water on Patty's shipboard fling with Peter Barkan (Christopher Knight). Merrill's (Gavin MacLeod) friend's niece, Kim Carlisle (Michelle Johnson), is an energetic intern rotating through the different jobs on the ship, but she is failing in all of them.
Episode 14
Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
Sat, Dec 8, 198460 mins
Country music singer and songwriter Billy Boy Bodine (Matt McCoy) cruises with his manager Cappy (Claude Akins), who tries to come between Billy and adoring admirer Arlene Cort (Leah Ayres), because Billy writes his best music when he's depressed. Shipboard neighbors Simon Ashford (Farley Granger) and Valerie Frasier (Terry Moore) are interior designers engaged in cutthroat competition to win the contract to redecorate the ship, and will stop at nothing to sabotage each other. Doc (Bernie Kopell) enjoys a visit from his fraternity brother Buzz McLaine (Roy Thinnes), who travels with his cousin Jim Dolan (Michael McGrady). But things are not what they seem.
Episode 15
Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
Sat, Dec 15, 198460 mins
On a Christmas cruise, three men (Avery Schreiber, Ray Walston and Scatman Crothers) are scheduled to play one jolly St. Nick; Vicki (Jill Whelan) gives her dog (Tundra the Wonder Dog) to a lonely comic (Howard Morris), who uses the dog as part of his act; Carol Kelsey (Kim Lankford) ask Ace (Ted McGinley) to pose as her fiancé, to fool her mother (Anne Francis) , but then Ace's friend Noel Kane (Shea Farrell) complicates things by falling for Carol.
Episode 16
Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
Sat, Jan 5, 198560 mins
Two men, named Shelley and Leslie (Vic Tayback and Conrad Bain), are on the cruise to meet their matches which were chosen by a computer dating service. But they discover that they were matched with each other. They both meet a woman (Janet Leigh) and both pursue her. Isaac (Ted Lange) pretends to accept a woman's (Berlinda Tolbert) self-help philosophy. A woman (Irlene Mandrell), who was suppose to go on the cruise with her boyfriend, discovers that he's not coming and that he sent another guy (Bruce Penhall) to keep her company. He tells her that her boyfriend is with her best friend. She later learns that he hasn't been completely honest with her.
Episode 17
Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
Sat, Jan 12, 198560 mins
"Ace Takes the Test": a couple (Teresa Ganzel and Christopher Mayer) wants Ace (Ted McGinley) to father their child; "The Odd Triple": a woman (Mary Ann Mobley) competes with her daughter (Crystal Bernard) for Gopher's (Fred Grandy) company; "The Counterfeit Couple": two strangers (Erin Moran and Richard Gilliland) pose as newlyweds after a mixup puts them in the honeymoon suite.
Episode 18
Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor, the Mayor
Sat, Jan 26, 198560 mins
Corporate bigwig workaholic John Stockton (Cesar Romero) meets charming but slightly evasive Marcy Banes (Jane Wyatt) on the cruise, without realizing that she is the switchboard operator in his office building. Big-time advertising agency executive Janet Thompson (Katherine Moffat) takes the cruise and meets her friend Gopher (Fred Grandy), who adamantly insists that people call him Burl, but winds up alienating all his friends on the crew, in the process. Newly-elected Mayor Frances Hardy (Shelley Fabares) is on the cruise with her campaign manager Barry Singer (David Hedison), but falls for Phil Haines (Robert Fuller), the city council president whom she beat for the elected office.
Episode 19
Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1
Sat, Feb 2, 198560 mins
Part 1 of 2. A Scandinavian cruise on the Royal Viking Sky begins in London and travels through Oslo and Stockholm. Grant Cooper (John Davidson) is the VP of Promotions for the Midnight Sun suntan lotion and is seeking a native Scandinavian female to be the company spokesperson from dozens of applicants. Greta Lund (Christopher Norris) impersonates a native Scandinavian in hopes of winning. Lonely Mel Davis (Jack Klugman) thinks women don't like him because of his large nose, so he plans to get cosmetic surgery in Stockholm. But he meets Kay Webber (Susannah York) along the way and she falls in love with him but thinks he's planning a different kind of surgery. Scientist Dr. Fabian Cain (Telly Savalas) creates a robot duplicate of Isaac (Ted Lange) and plans to use him for nefarious purposes, with help from aspiring actress Delia Parks (Janet Jackson), who may or may not be in love with Isaac. Wealthy Swedish actress Helga Bjorsson (Priscilla Barnes) captivates Gopher (Fred Grandy).
Episode 20
Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2
Sat, Feb 2, 198560 mins
Conclusion: As the Scandinavian cruise continues, Grant (John Davidson) and Ace (Ted McGinley) go to Greta's (Christopher Norris) parents' home for a photo shoot with her. Kay (Susannah York) expresses concern to Doc (Bernie Kopell) about Mel's (Jack Klugman) operation. Dr. Fabian Cain (Telly Savalas) tries out Isaac's (Ted Lange) robot double in public, while the real Isaac goes on a romantic boat ride with Delia Parks (Janet Jackson). Gopher (Fred Grandy) leaves the cruise line to work with Helga (Priscilla Barnes).
Episode 21
Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/Courier
Sat, Feb 9, 198560 mins
A courier (Michael Spound) refuses to remove the briefcase handcuffed to his wrist but pursues a fellow passenger (Charlene Tilton); a woman (Florence Henderson) can't understand her daughter's (Tracy Nelson) hostility toward her stepfather (Peter Mark Richman); Ace (Ted McGinley) is temporarily sidelined with an injured foot, replaced by Kim (Michelle Johnson) and nursed to health by a female passenger (Marla Heasley).
Episode 22
Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
Sat, Feb 16, 198560 mins
The Captain fails a woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) testing for a captaincy; a boy (James A. Osmond) is convinced that his father's surprise birthday present is a prostitute (Karen Kopins); a woman (Tracy Reed) has a dislike for her father's (Bernie Hamilton) on-board romance (Esther Rolle).
Episode 23
Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangement
Sat, Feb 23, 198560 mins
Marc Silverton (James MacArthur) charms Vicki (Jill Whelan) and Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod) is none too happy about the difference in their ages. Business partners Lou Tangle (James Coco) and Stan Garner (David Doyle) had borrowed money from loan sharks to meet their company's payroll and now plan to have Lou fake his death to collect the insurance money to pay back the loan sharks. But fellow passenger Harriet Wolters (Ruta Lee) seems attracted to Lou and might complicate their plans. Bicoastal television personalities Jennifer Kearn (Cristina Raines) and Tom Whitlaw (Richard Hatch) have been married for six months but have spent little time together, until this cruise.
Episode 24
Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem with Papa
Sat, Mar 23, 198560 mins
Without an audition, a producer (James Houghton) hires Judy (Pat Klous) to sing in a cruise-line commercial; a husband (Barry Van Dyke) is drawn to his wife's (Judy Landers) best friend (Ellen Bry); a woman (Jessica Walter) fears her father (John McIntire) is senile.
Episode 25
Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
Sat, Mar 30, 198560 mins
Ace (Ted McGinley) is reunited with an old college girlfriend (Morgan Brittany), who was accident-prone, but is now in a wheelchair; a couple (Jimmy Walker and Telma Hopkins) take advantage of the cruise to try to quit smoking; a father and daughter (John Beck and Cathy Silvers) pretend not to be related, in order for the father to impress a fellow passenger (Kimberly Ross).
Episode 26
Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go: Part 1
Sat, May 4, 198560 mins
Part 1 of 2. An British ex-military officer (Stewart Granger), escorting the singing sensation group, Menudo, is tired of a woman (Lana Turner), who lies; while a young couple (Jared Martin and Hayley Mills) is bewildered because Doc Bricker (Bernie Kopell) seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife (Elizabeth Ashley), which Doc attributes is why they divorced; Vicki (Jill Whelan) falls for a young man (Timothy Patrick Murphy), who is continually pampered by his mother (Anne Baxter), who refuses to see him as anything other than a child; an employer (Andrew Stevens) is being set up for a sex-discrimination lawsuit by a woman (Linda Purl), who is disguised as a man.
Episode 27
Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go: Part 2
Sat, May 4, 198560 mins
Conclusion. The "proper" English chaperone (Stewart Granger) of pop group Menudo is put off by a woman's (Lana Turner) lies; a woman (Anne Baxter) overprotects her mentally disabled son (Timothy Patrick Murphy), who proposes to Vicki; an employer (Andrew Stevens) is baited for a sex-discrimination suit by a female job seeker (Linda Purl) posing as a man; a married couple (Jared Martin and Hayley Mills) are reconsidering their relationship, after watching how happy Doc (Bernie Kopell) and his ex-wife (Elizabeth Ashley) are after their divorce.