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The Love Boat was an American comedy/drama television series set on luxury passenger cruise ship S.S. Pacific Princess, which aired on the ABC television network from May 5, 1977 until May 24, 1986; plus, four three-hour long specials aired in 1986, 1987, and 1990. The series revolves around the ship's captain Merrill Stubing and a handful of its crew, with several passengers—played by various guest star actors for each episode—having romantic and humorous adventures. It was part of ABC's popular Saturday-night lineup of the time, which also included Fantasy Island until that series ended two years earlier in 1984.

Original Release

05/05/1977 on ABC

US Release

05/05/1977

Cast

Name

Character

Gavin MacLeod

Captain Merrill Stubing / Merril Stubing / Captain Merril Stubing / Marshall Stubing (as O.D. Warbux) / Milo Stubing (as Sonny Wilde) / Marshall Stubing

Bernie Kopell

Doctor Adam Bricker / Adam Bricker / Kurt Kleinschmidt / Dr. Adam Bricker

Ted Lange

Isaac Washington / Bartender Isaac Washington

Fred Grandy

Gopher Smith / Ship's Purser 'Gopher' Smith / Guido

Lauren Tewes

Julie McCoy / Cruise Director Julie McCoy / Julie McCoy Chenault

Jill Whelan

Vicki Stubing

Ted McGinley

Ashley Covington Evans / Ship's Photographer Ashley 'Ace' Covington Evans / Ship's Purser Ashley 'Ace' Covington Evans / Ashley 'Ace' Covington Evans / Gary Thomas / Henry Harper

Pat Klous

Cruise Director Judy McCoy / Judy McCoy / Laurie Blake / Dorothy

The Love Boat Mermaids

Themselves

Monty O'Grady

Waiter / Passenger / Maitre D' / Maitre'd / Commuter

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
0	Episode #10.0	Saturday, 24 September 1977
1	The Shipshape Cruise	Friday, 21 November 1986
2	The Christmas Cruise: Part 1	Thursday, 25 December 1986
3	The Christmas Cruise: Part 2	Thursday, 25 December 1986
4	Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?	Friday, 27 February 1987

Directors

Richard Kinon, Roger Duchowny, Robert Scheerer, Allen Baron, Ted Lange, Jerome Courtland, Alan Rafkin, George Tyne, Kim Friedman, Jack Arnold, Bob Sweeney, Richard A. Wells, Don Weis, Stuart Margolin, James Sheldon, Howard Morris, Gordon Farr, Bruce Bilson, Lee Aronsohn, Ray Austin, Nell Cox, Earl Bellamy, Paul Stanley, Peter Baldwin, Rob Dames, Harry Mastrogeorge, Bob Claver

Writers

Wilford Lloyd Baumes, Jeraldine Saunders, Mike Marmer, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Tony Webster, Richard Albrecht, Ray Jessel, Casey Keller, Lan O'Kun, Christopher Vane, Jill Baer, Lee Aronsohn, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Sidney Morse, Harvey Bullock, Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs, R.S. Allen, Cynthia Thompson, Barry E. Blitzer, Ann Gibbs, Ken Hecht, Donald Ross, Fred Grandy, Joel Kimmel, Michael Norell, Henry Colman, Haskell Barkin, Michael L. Grace, Joan Brooker, Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson, Gordon Farr, Anthony DiMarco, Jerry Winnick, David Ketchum, Buddy Atkinson, Lloyd J. Schwartz, Carmen Finestra, Rob Dames, Ted Lange, Paula A. Roth, Bob Fraser, Tom Swale, David Abrams, Jean Ford, Nancy Eddo, Rick Shaw, Michael Warren, Richard Goldman, Bernie Kopell, Alexandra Stoddart, Fredi Towbin, William Bickley, Duane Poole, Bruce Howard, Roy Battocchio, Lou Patrick, Bob Noonoo, Jay Grossman, Sidney Reznick, Diane Pershing, Joyce Armor, Larry Markes, John B. Collins, Lloyd Turner, Judie Neer, Kevin Hartigan, Jan Gough, Sue Masters, Peter Gallay, Tom Dunsmuir, Lawrence H. Levy, Roy Kammerman, Howard Liebling, Evelyn Marienberg, Margie Peters, Lynne Farr, Robert Spears, Betty Yahr, John Walsh, Mark Fink, Barry O'Brien, Brian Pollack, Don Haberman, Barbara Allyn, Stephen Kandel, Craig Tennis, Jesse Dizon, Arnold Kane, Stephen Hattman, Sheila Judis Weisberg, Mary-David Sheiner, Terrence McDonnell, Si Rose, Laura Levine, Hudson Hickman, Alan L. Gansberg, Dave Hackel, Ruth Brooks Flippen, David Garber, John Whelpley, Martin Ragaway, Len Janson, Bruce Shelly, Louis Pelletier, Jim Carlson, Mel Shields, Wendon Swift, Eugene David, Marciia Muldoon, Robert Pekurny, Shea E. Butler, Catherine Clinch, David Swift, Hal Ackerman, Marlene Perry, Judith M. Gansberg, Joel S. Hecht, Jim Fisher, Jim Rogers, Jack Turley, Lisa A. Bannick, Jack Mendelsohn, Michael Poryes, Rick Mittleman, Arnie Kogen, Jurgen Wolff, Ed Jurist, Fred Rosenberg, Mark Evanier, Tom Sherohman, Danny Kallis, David Chambers, James Ritz, Sam Feldman, Liz Sage, Jeffrey Duteil, McLean Stevenson, Everett Greenbaum, Jim Parker, Rick Hawkins, Jerry Rannow, Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle, Brad Buckner, Barry Bleach, Jack Matcha, Gerry Kroll, Laurie Gelman, Pat Fielder, Howard Merrill, Marion Zola, Dawn Aldredge, Marion C. Freeman, Don Segall, Neil Rosen, George Tricker, Dennis Palumbo, Judy Skelton, Richard Gurman, Bernie Kahn, Lee Goldstein, Joe Glauberg, Madora Mckenzie, Alfred Monacella, Cynthia Santillo, James F. Henry, Arnold Grossman, Barbara Evans, John V. Hanrahan, Sylvia Necht, Eric Gethers, Anitra Earle, Steven Kunes, Daryl Busby, Stephanie Garman, Hollace White, Steven Pritzker, Jeffrey Davis, Julie Fleischer, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, Ronald Cass, Sandra Kay Siegel, Gary Jacobs, Joseph Goodson, Harvey Weitzman, Loraine Despres, Tom Dagenais, Joseph Neustein, S.A. Long, Ray Brenner, Sid Dorfman, Michael Maurer, Hugh Wedlock Jr., Roger Garrett, Martin Cohan, Mark Morrison, Kerry Cox, David N. Titcher, Chuck Menville, Jim Staahl, Jack Hanrahan, Carl Kleinschmitt, David Assael, Tony Blake, Alexander Marrant, F. Michael Johnson, Micheline Swift, Andy Goldberg, Kenny Wolin, Rick Callahan, Andrew Nicholls, Darrell Vickers, Gary Belkin, Mickey Rose, Roxanne J. Reaver, Edith L. Johnson, Kim Darnelle, Ellen Endo-Dizon, Eric Bernstein, Phil Foster, Natalie Schafer, Martin Donovan, Paul Haggis, Marc Sheffler, Greg Norberg, Andy Ruben, Mert Rich, Rick Lenz, Elliott Reid, Don Sherman, Bob Logan