The Love Boat: Season 6

1982 · 29 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 6 of The Love Boat

The Pacific Princess continues to sail with Captain Stubing in command and a crew full of mix-ups. On one cruise, a woman secretly arranges a pregnancy as a gift for her thirtieth wedding anniversary, while her husband, newly retired, enjoys the freedom of having the kids out of the house. Julie tries to get Gopher to forget his new onshore flame and notice an old high school classmate, and the captain hides his baldness under his hat in front of an old flame. Other passengers carry broken relationships: one couple drifts apart when they meet the surrogate mother of their future child, and the ship's comedian reunites with the wife and daughter he abandoned years ago. All of it with a light-hearted tone, designed for the whole family.

29episodes

Oct 2, 1982aired

May 7, 1983latest episode

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Venetian Love Song/Down for the Count/Arrividerci, Gopher/The Arrangement (1)
Oct 2, 1982
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Tony Webster, Sidney Morse, Mike Marmer · Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, David Birney
6x02 Venetian Love Song/Down for the Count/Arrividerci, Gopher/The Arrangement (2)
Oct 2, 1982
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Tony Webster, Sidney Morse, Mike Marmer · Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, David Birney
6x03 The Anniversary Gift/Honey Bee Mine/Bewigged, Bothered and Bewildered
Oct 16, 1982
An woman secretly plans to have a child as a 30th anniversery gift for her husband, even though he is ecstatic over their new-found freedom in being retired and, especially, having their older children grown and out of the house; Julie sneakily sets Honey Bee, an old high school friend who always tried to steal her boyfriends, after Gopher (newly smitten with a girl ashore) so that she can concentrate on a handsome new officer; Captain Stubbing wears his hat everywhere in an attempt to keep an old high school flame from finding out he is bald, and she thinks he has a full head of hair because she saw him hatless when he was wearing a toupe for a shipboard costume party.
Directing: Ted Lange · Writing: Harvey Bullock, Jerry Winnick, Buddy Atkinson · Starring: Phyllis Diller, Richard Bergman, Robert Mandan, Randi Oakes
6x04 The Same Wavelength/Winning Isn't Everything/A Honeymoon for Horace
Oct 23, 1982
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Lan O'Kun, Joan Brooker, Alexandra Stoddart · Starring: David Doyle, Jack Gilford, Matthew Labyorteaux, Charles Siebert
6x05 Hyde and Seek/Command Performance/Sketchy Love
Oct 30, 1982
A young girl who's infatuated with Gopher pretends to be her older sister. An artist meets a unhappily married guy. And the ship's comic runs into the wife and daughter he left years ago.
Directing: Jerome Courtland · Writing: Ted Lange, Jean Ford, Roy Battocchio · Starring: Eve Plumb, Kim Richards, Dana Andrews, Janet Blair
6x06 The Groupies/The Audition/Doc's Nephew
Nov 6, 1982
Doc's nephew is making a move on his girlfriend. A psychiatrist, who is on vacation is followed by four of his patients. An actor pursues the writer of a soap opera, who rejected for a role on her show.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Sidney Morse, Mike Marmer, Jesse Dizon · Starring: Susan Lucci, Willie Aames, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon
6x07 The Spoonmaker Diamond/Julie's Tycoon/The Role Model/Papa Doc (1)
Nov 13, 1982
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Casey Keller, Catherine Clinch, Richard Albrecht · Starring: Jan Smithers, Polly Bergen, Mike Connors, Nancy Dussault
6x08 The Spoonmaker Diamond/Julie's Tycoon/The Role Model/Papa Doc (2)
Nov 13, 1982
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Casey Keller, Catherine Clinch, Richard Albrecht · Starring: Jan Smithers, Polly Bergen, Mike Connors, Nancy Dussault
6x09 Too Many Dads/Love Will Find a Way/The Best of Friends
Nov 20, 1982
On this Thanksgiving cruise, a father and his adopted son try to evade the boys biological father by escaping to Mexico; an older couple plan to travel with their daughter and her fiance who, unknown to them, is crippled; the smooth operation of the ship suffers as one by one the entire crew, after trading a bevy of insults, ends up not speaking with one another.
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Art Baer, Ray Jessel, Joel Kimmel · Starring: Wendy Schaal, Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Jim Knaub
6x10 The Man in the Iron Shorts/The Victims/Heavens to Betsy
Nov 27, 1982
Directed by Jerome Courtland · Written by Harvey Bullock, Sidney Morse, Harvey Bullock · Starring Sharon Gabet, Laurence Lau, Denise Miller, Taylor Miller
6x11 The Tomorrow Lady/Father, Dear Father/Still Life
Dec 4, 1982
Directed by Richard A. Wells · Written by Harvey Bullock, Harvey Bullock, Larry Markes · Starring Kim Darby, Howard Duff, Sheila Frazier, Greer Garson
6x12 Baby Talk/My Friend, The Executrix/Programmed for Love
Dec 11, 1982
A previously happy couple suddenly find themselves a world apart when they meet the surrogate mother of their child-to-be. Meanwhile, Julie's zany and extravagant Aunt Sylvia (Carol Channing) is forced to start watching her pennies after her friend Betsy (Betty White) breaks the news that Sylvia is now broke. Plus, a lovely woman competes with a super-smart robot when she wants to romance a handsome passenger.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Tony Webster, Donald Ross, Haskell Barkin · Starring: Betty White, Carol Channing, Grant Goodeve, Donna Pescow
6x13 A Christmas Presence
Dec 18, 1982
Directed by Richard Kinon · Written by Micheline Swift, David Swift · Starring Keenan Wynn, Henry Gibson, Maureen McCormick, Donny Osmond
6x14 Paroled to Love/First Impressions/Love Finds Florence Nightingale
Jan 8, 1983
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Tony Webster · Starring: Carole Cook, Richard Kline, Vicki Lawrence, Marilyn Michaels
6x15 The Captain's Replacement/Sly as a Fox/Here Comes the Bride - Maybe
Jan 15, 1983
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Tony Webster, Buddy Atkinson, F. Michael Johnson · Starring: Jenilee Harrison, Frank Bonner, Shelley Fabares, Arte Johnson
6x16 Doc's Big Case/Senior Sinners/A Booming Romance
Jan 22, 1983
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock, Barry Blitzer, Roy Kammerman · Starring: Theresa Merritt, Tori Spelling, James Noble, Telma Hopkins
6x17 Gopher's Daisy/Our Son The Lawyer/Salvaged Romance
Jan 29, 1983
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Kevin Hartigan, Jerry Winnick, Mike Marmer · Starring: Adam Arkin, James Coco, Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts
6x18 Isaac's Aegean Affair/The Captain and the Kid/Poor Rich Man/The Dean and the Flunkee (1)
Feb 5, 1983
The crew are in Greece working a cruise where a College is having its graduation ceremony. The Principal is attracted to a teacher who rebuffs him because he won't give a student a make-up test so he can graduate. And the student and a couple of his friends are hounding the Principal to do that. A prodigy is attracted to Vicki which doesn't make the Captain happy. And the valedictorian whose education was provided by his Greek aunt whom he assumed is wealthy but upon meeting her learns she's just a woman of humble means. And when she goes on board he doesn't tell anyone he's her aunt. And Isaac meets a woman who is estranged from her husband.
Directed by Alan Rafkin · Written by Seaman Jacobs, Christopher Vane, Fred S. Fox · Starring Eddie Albert, Shirley Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Titos Vandis
6x19 Isaac's Aegean Affair/The Captain and the Kid/Poor Rich Man/The Dean and the Flunkee (2)
Feb 5, 1983
Conclusion. Capt. Stubing's daughter falls in love. A beloved crew member decides to leave the ship.
Directed by Alan Rafkin · Written by Seaman Jacobs, Christopher Vane, Fred S. Fox · Starring Eddie Albert, Shirley Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Titos Vandis
6x20 The Zinging Valentine/The Very Temporary Secretary/Final Score
Feb 12, 1983
On this Valentine's Day cruise, a singing valentine "pussycat" falls for a stuck-up guy who has just been dumped by his girlfriend; the owner of a secretarial agency plays secretary to a writer taking a working vacation, even though he is far better at romancing her than he is at taking dictation and typing up her notes; a womanizing pro football player falls for a snooty, straight-laced college English professor.
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Lan O'Kun, Art Baer, Ben Joelson · Starring: Don Adams, John Amos, Fannie Flagg, Don Most
6x21 The Captain's Crush/Out of My Hair/Off-Course Romance
Feb 19, 1983
Directing: Ted Lange · Writing: Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Ben Joelson · Starring: Delta Burke, Joan Collins, Ron Ely, Richard Gilliland
6x22 Abby's Maiden Voyage/He Ain't Heavy/I Like to Be in America
Feb 26, 1983
A desperate 23-year old virgin wants to spend the night with a handsome fellow she meets on board, but in the end decides she will hold off until the time is right; a bratty adopted teenager finds out that the assistant bartender that he has been harassing is actually his long lost older brother; the entire crew chips in to help April get ready to take her U.S. citizenship test despite her severe test anxiety.
Directing: Jerome Courtland · Writing: Ted Lange, Jean Ford, Casey Keller · Starring: Barbara Billingsley, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Charo, Constance Forslund
6x23 Discount Romance/Vicki's Dilemma/Loser, and Still Champ
Mar 5, 1983
Directing: Jack Arnold · Writing: Lan O'Kun, Henry Colman, Roy Battocchio · Starring: Victor J. Rogers, June Allyson, Red Buttons, Elinor Donahue
6x24 So Help Me Hanna/C.P.R.,I.O.U./The Maid Cleans Up
Mar 12, 1983
Directing: Kim Friedman · Writing: Mike Marmer, Hudson Hickman, Alexander Marrant · Starring: Milton Berle, Caren Kaye, Steven Keats, Judy Landers
6x25 The Dog Show: Putting on the Dog/Going to the Dogs/Women's Best Friend/Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
Mar 26, 1983
Directing: Bob Sweeney
6x26 The Professor Has Class/When the Magic Disappears/We, the Jury
Apr 2, 1983
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Tony Webster, Mike Marmer, Danny Kallis · Starring: Bettye Ackerman, Mary-Margaret Humes, Sam Jaffe, Anne Meara
6x27 Hits and Missus/Return of Annabelle/Just Plain Folks Medicine/Caught in the Act/The Real Thing/Do Not Disturb/Lulu and Kenny (1)
Apr 30, 1983
A country star travelling with her "adopted" children has to choose between the kids and her boyfriend; a popular songwriter secretly writes better songs for his former lover than for his wife, both performers; Doc deals with a country folk doctor who insists on practicing medicine on board, while at the same time chasing her beautiful daughter; a married woman's affair haunts her as she claims an expensive broach is only costume jewelry; Gopher tries his best to get his picture taken with a privacy-seeking female country music star; two overweight performers who love food come to love each other.
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Art Baer, Casey Keller, Ben Joelson · Starring: Florence Henderson, Misty Rowe, Jessica Walter, Pat Buttram
6x28 Hits and Missus/Return of Annabelle/Just Plain Folks Medicine/Caught in the Act/The Real Thing/Do Not Disturb/Lulu and Kenny (2)
Apr 30, 1983
A country star travelling with her "adopted" children has to choose between the kids and her boyfriend; a popular songwriter secretly writes better songs for his former lover than for his wife, both performers; Doc deals with a country folk doctor who insists on practicing medicine on board, while at the same time chasing her beautiful daughter; a married woman's affair haunts her as she claims an expensive broach is only costume jewelry; Gopher tries his best to get his picture taken with a privacy-seeking female country music star; two overweight performers who love food come to love each other.
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Art Baer, Casey Keller, Ben Joelson · Starring: Florence Henderson, Misty Rowe, Jessica Walter, Pat Buttram
6x29 Fountain of Youth/Bad Luck Cabin/Uncle Daddy Season Finale
May 7, 1983
An aging man meets up with an unbelievably youthful contemporary who's concocted an elixir of youth; a fatherless boy thinks Isaac would be a great dad.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writing: Christopher Vane, Ray Jessel, Jill Baer · Starring: Lynda Goodfriend, Ted McGinley, David Naughton, Tracy Reed