Season 8

The Love Boat

Season 8

Sep 22, 1984 27 episodes

Episodes

The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump

Episode 1

The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump

Sep 22, 1984
Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)

Episode 2

Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)

Sep 29, 1984

A man who appears to be running gets the papers of one of the ship's deck hands and goes onboard. Vicki's attracted to him. But they soon discover that he is wanted by Interpol and when he explains that he paid the deck hand for his papers, and that he's a prince who just wanted to get away from his duties, she doesn't believe. Eventually he is taken away. Laterwhile out walking she sees a Royal entourage and sees that he was telling the truth. A woman runs into the man she was involved with during the War and it seems that she turned him into the Nazis. While she remembers him, he doesn't recognize her. And somehow they end spending time together and she senses that he still harbors ill feelings for the girl who turned him in. She later reveals who she is and he shuns her. Later when they run into each other again, he says that he forgives her, that she did it to save herself. She then says that she didn't do it to save herself but to save him. It seems that after she pointed him out

Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)

Episode 3

Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)

Sep 29, 1984
Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor

Episode 4

Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor

Oct 06, 1984
Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day

Episode 5

Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day

Oct 13, 1984
Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart

Episode 6

Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart

Oct 20, 1984
And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name

Episode 7

And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name

Oct 27, 1984
Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century

Episode 8

Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century

Nov 03, 1984
The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master

Episode 9

The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master

Nov 10, 1984
By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even

Episode 10

By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even

Nov 17, 1984
My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)

Episode 11

My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)

Nov 24, 1984
My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)

Episode 12

My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)

Nov 24, 1984
Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted

Episode 13

Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted

Dec 01, 1984
Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever

Episode 14

Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever

Dec 08, 1984

A cute country girl who aspires to be a singer falls for a young country music star, but his manager knows that his star can only write songs when sad; two interior designers, former lovers, compete to redecorate the ship and eventually end up together again; one of Doc's womanizing fraternity brothers from his college days arrives on board, but with his male lover secretly in tow.

Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol

Episode 15

Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol

Dec 15, 1984
Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS

Episode 16

Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS

Jan 05, 1985

Two older men, Leslie and Shelley, paired up by a confused blind dating service, chase the same woman; instead of meeting her fiance, a young woman gets a ""present"" of her fiance's friend to console her because her fiance has dumped her; Isaac chases a passenger who follows a silly, cult-like philosophy ""Being Of Self"", and in the process alienates the crew and almost gets fired.

Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple

Episode 17

Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple

Jan 12, 1985

One of Ace's old high school girlfriends, now married to an impotent man, wants an embarrassed Ace to father her child; Gopher falls in love with an older woman, while that woman's daughter falls for Gopher; two total strangers share the honeymoon suite because they independently bought their tickets from a couple whose wedding was cancelled.

Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor

Episode 18

Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor

Jan 26, 1985
Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)

Episode 19

Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)

Feb 02, 1985
Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)

Episode 20

Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)

Feb 02, 1985
Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier

Episode 21

Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier

Feb 09, 1985
Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose

Episode 22

Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose

Feb 16, 1985
Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment

Episode 23

Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment

Feb 23, 1985
Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa

Episode 24

Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa

Mar 23, 1985
Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine

Episode 25

Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine

Mar 30, 1985
Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)

Episode 26

Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)

May 04, 1985

a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.

Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)

Episode 27

Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)

May 04, 1985

a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.