Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 - May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for portraying Merrill Stubing, the ship's captain, on ABC's The Love Boat. Mrs. Warner (Ruth Gordon) is determined to marry off her granddaughter Shirley (Patty Duke). Sandy Beal (Jo Anne Worley) is a secretary secretly in love with her boss Victor Marshall (Soupy Sales). Other Guests: Melendy Britt as Georgina and Sandra Deel as Dolores Strickland. ", Len Janson and Chuck Menville (Gopher's Bride), "Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife", Sid Morse (Lose One, Win One; Mind My Wife), A woman (Dorian Lopinto) traveling with her fianc (, "Aquaphobic / Humpty Dumpty / The Starmaker", R.S. 'The Love Boat' Cast: Where Are They Now? A man and a woman (Vic Tayback and Jo Ann Pflug) who were on the same deadlocked jury meet again. A young man claims that he is Doc's son; an ad executive collaborates on a campaign with the daughter of his latest client; a professional escort of an older woman falls for another younger woman. ", The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Love_Boat&oldid=1141817952, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 23:52. Another couple has a reputation of being perpetually engaged. Gopher finds some money and fantasizes how he'll spend it; a folk singer meets an old friend who's now a politician and traveling with a female companion; a woman traveling with her father meets a veterinarian. Professor Roscoe Weber (Sam Jaffe), a 91-year-old Nobel Prize winner for psychology, doesn't realize that his adoring former pupil, Professor Helen Burton (Bettye Ackerman), has been hired by his university to replace him. Other Guests: David Landsberg as Morton, Vincent Baggetta as Frank Vallone the plumber (credited as Vince Baggetta), Joanna Kerns as Beth Luckner, and Susan Heldfond as Toby Chapman. A quarreling couple (Sherman Hemsley, LaWanda Page) is trapped in an elevator. Kopell already had a very successful career going long before the show premiered in 1977. Note: Deney Terrio is better known as the choreographer and dance coach for John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever. For the fictional video game character, see, Last edited on 26 February 2023, at 23:52, "9 surprising facts about the 'Love Boat', "Picks and Pans Review: The Love Boat: a Valentine Voyage", "Famed 'Love Boat' makes final voyage to scrapyard", "Cruise ship tour: Last look at the original 'Love Boat', "Tears On The Tagus and More (Heart)Breaking News", "Ahoy Singles! A woman dating a man who was once obese now has to deal with a romantic rival. A cruise-director trainee (Jo Ann Harris) is after Julie's job. Julie learns her recently divorced friend Wendy is on the cruise because unknown admirer has sent her the cruise ticket. What are the cast of The Love Boat doing in 2019? - eCelebrityFacts Two teens (Kristy McNichol, Scott Baio) fall in love. A woman in charge of the presentation of the Captain's Cup convinces an engineer to pose as the executive in charge so as not to disappoint Captain Stubing; Doc begins spending all of his time with an older couple from his hometown; a recently divorced man is paired up with his ex's divorce attorney. A magician's assistant is upset when he sends his brother to replace him in the act. Sat 29 May 2021 20.30 EDT. The pinnacle of the voyage is the beautiful mass wedding. She brings along a friend, Jessica (Linda Evans), who has a knack of getting wealthy men to marry her for the purpose of getting him to marry her so that she could get what Marcia thinks she deserves. Guest Stars: Pamela Franklin as Gail Smith, Eva Gabor as Beverly Blanchard, Al Molinaro as Chef Antonio Borga, Leslie Nielsen as Russ Blanchard, and Robert Urich as Jeff Smith (credited as Bob Urich). Each season has been released in two-volume sets. [1][2] Saunders was also partly inspired by the German cruise ship MV Aurora. With and without her disguise, she finds herself being pursued by a father (Geoffrey Scott) and his son (Clark Brandon), respectively. Gavin MacLeod, 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Love Boat' Actor, Dies at 90 A double wedding is in store for identical twins; A separated couple argue through their ventriloquist act; Julie settles an argument between two adolescent girls, to the pleasure of their father, and the girls then decide to fix up him and Julie. A detective traveling with his secretary investigates the case of a vanished passenger; an engaged couple is harassed by his jilted fiance. Gavin MacLeod ( / mklad /) (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 - May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC 's The Love Boat. The glitterati that graced The Love Boats decks as guest stars ran the gamut. In 1981, P&O Cruises' line Sea Princess (now MSVeronica) was also used for the special two-hour episode "Julie's Wedding", set in and around Australia. Polly Bergen Actress | Cry . Stubing runs into an old friend (Rue McClanahan), who is now married to volatile salesman (Dick Van Patten); Alan Price (Alan Thicke) wants to ensure that his ex-wife Sheila (Michelle Phillips) marries her new fiance Lou (Fred Willard) to escape paying alimony; Aunt Sylvia (Carol Channing) and her friend Betsy (Betty White) try to persuade a famous publisher (Cesar Romero) print Betsy's memoirs. Gopher has second thoughts about an offer to manage an island resort, when Isaac leaves the project. Other ships used were: SSStella Solaris (for a Mediterranean Sea cruise), MSPearl of Scandinavia (for a Chinese cruise), Royal Viking Sky (for European cruises, now MVBoudicca) and Royal Princess (now MV Artemis) and Sun Princess (for Caribbean Sea cruises). Guest Stars: Deborah Adair as Deborah Grant, John Astin as Michael Sawyer, Joseph Campanella as Nabil El Masri, Chad Everett as Wayne Richmond, Valerie Harper as Laurel Peters, Catherine Oxenberg as Carrie Barton, John Putch as Jason Matthews, Grant Show as Christopher Stuart, James Sloyan as Greg Peters and Jean Stapleton as Helen Branigan. There were three pilot movies, followed by 245 regular episodes over nine seasons, followed by five specials. Isaac's favorite singer, Roxy Blue (Diahann Carroll), becomes his lover. Doc's girlfriend (Michelle Phillips) joins him, as does his nephew (Willie Aames). [36], This article is about the television series. 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. Julie is wooed by a man (Frankie Avalon) who runs a computer-dating service and offers his computer matchmaking for the Valentine's Day cruise. For the final season, the compass was replaced by a crescent wave and the long shots of the ship were replaced by a montage of the various locations traveled to on the series. The cruise begins in the US Virgin Islands and ends in Los Angeles. A senior-citizens' guide (Charles Frank) is kept busy by his group and interfering with his romance with Julie. From 1995-2000, he served as the President and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. He was 90. A singer (Donny Osmond) is ashamed of his family, who arouse the curiosity of a novelist; two passengers (Robert Guillaume, Pam Grier) cheat on their mates; Captain Stubing invites the crew into his suite when their quarters are flooded. There were also the ones who were big at the time, but forgotten by those who werent around in the 70s: The Hudson Brothers, Bobby Sherman, Bert Convy, Charlene Tilton, and Quinn Cummings. During that time, it usually ranked among the top 20, and sometimes even the top 10. One passenger has a narrow escape from a car crash. Gavin MacLeod, who played Captain Stubing in The Love Boat, dies aged Based . They even co-wrote a book about it: Back On Course: The Remarkable Story of a Divorce that Ended in Remarriage. Salesforce is reportedly paying Matthew McConaughey $10 million per year. A blind passenger (Barbara Parkins) reunites with a passenger (John Bennett Perry), with whom she went to college and had a crush on. While his acting resume was somewhat limited, his academic history was anything but: he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and had good connections too: at Phillips Exeter Academy he was roommates with David Eisenhower (grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower) and then was best man at Davids wedding to Julie Nixon in 1968. He continues to do TV appearances and guest spots, most recently appeared on Raising Hope with Cloris Leachman, who also had been on The Love Boat back in the day. A man and his bride-to-be share the honeymoon with his best man. The Love Boat (TV Series 1977-1987) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb MacLeod, Kopell and Lange are the only cast members to appear in every episode of the TV series as well as the last three made-for-TV movies. Mark James. Doc's ex-wife (Tina Louise) arrives with a new fianc (Lyle Waggoner). Others: John Hugh McKnight as Passenger (uncredited), and Paul Van as Maitre D' (uncredited). Marion Ross and Tom Bosley played husband and wife on the hit ABC show Happy Days. Bernie continued making guest appearances in various TV shows after Love Boat ended. A psychic (Eva Gabor) makes a very scary prediction. [3] The TV movie was followed by two more (titled The Love Boat II and The New Love Boat), all of which aired before the series began in September 1977.[4]. Things went from bad to worse, and a few years before The Love Boat finished its run, she was replaced after too many no-shows. On a Japanese junket, a teacher impersonates a geisha to stay near the Captain; lottery winners carry their rags-to-riches routine to comic heights; a girl and her mother fall in love with two strangers. Isaac's shady uncle (Demond Wilson) is shadowed by a government agent (Robert Ginty). The "star of the show", the cruise ship itself, after being renamed MSPacific and being sold then owned by another cruise line in Spain, the now-world famous Pacific Princess was scrapped in Aliaa, Turkey in 2013 after no further buyer could be found. In 1987, the episode with segment titles "Hidden Treasure", "Picture from the Past", and "Ace's Salary" (Season 9, Episode 3) was ranked No. Doc's new patient is sleepwalking.