The Love Boat: Season 8

1984 · 27 episodes

What Season 8 of The Love Boat

The Pacific Princess sails the seas with passengers on board under the command of Captain Merrill Stubing, played by Gavin MacLeod. He is joined by Dr. Adam Bricker, waiter Isaac Washington and cruise director Julie McCoy. Each episode brings new guests, played by guest actors, with romantic, comedic or dramatic storylines. Vicki is drawn to a man who seems to be on the run and turns out to be wanted by Interpol. A pair of decorators, former lovers, compete to redecorate the ship. Isaac chases a passenger who follows a strange philosophy, and Gopher falls for an older woman. In the Caribbean, a former British soldier must keep the group Menudo under control.

27episodes

Sep 22, 1984premiered

May 4, 1985latest episode

Season 8 Episodes

8x01 Doc's Slump/What a Drag/The Crew's Cruise Director
Sep 22, 1984
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writers: Casey Keller, Tony Webster, Richard Albrecht · Starring: Patty Duke, Bert Convy, Lydia Cornell, Engelbert Humperdinck
8x02 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
Directed by: Robert Scheerer
8x03 Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
Sep 29, 1984
Directed by: Robert Scheerer
8x04 Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
Oct 6, 1984
Starring: Dick Butkus, Jennifer Holmes, Doris Roberts, Barbara Parkins
8x05 Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
Oct 13, 1984
Directing: Don Weis · Starring: Jayne Meadows, Bill Macy, Juliet Mills, Barbara Parkins
8x06 Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
Oct 20, 1984
Directing: Bruce Bilson · Writing: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell · Starring: Charles Frank, Jayne Meadows, Bill Macy, Juliet Mills
8x07 And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
Oct 27, 1984
Directing: Jack Arnold
8x08 Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
Nov 3, 1984
Directing: Ted Lange · Starring: Cisse Cameron
8x09 The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
Nov 10, 1984
Directing: Ted Lange · Starring: Patrick Macnee, Delta Burke, William Christopher, Abby Dalton
8x10 By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Nov 17, 1984
Starring: Jan Smithers
8x11 My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
Nov 24, 1984
8x12 My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
Nov 24, 1984
Starring: Colleen Dewhurst, Vera Miles, Donald O'Connor, Lilli Palmer
8x13 Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
Dec 1, 1984
Starring: Vera Miles, Donald O'Connor, Claude Akins, Terry Moore
8x14 Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
Dec 8, 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.
Directing: Jerome Courtland
8x15 Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
Dec 15, 1984
Starring: Avery Schreiber
8x16 Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
Jan 5, 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.
Directing: Richard Kinon · Writing: Ted Lange, Lan O'Kun, Howard Albrecht · Starring: Conrad Bain, Bruce Penhall, Janet Leigh
8x17 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.
Starring: Dick Butkus, Jennifer Holmes, Doris Roberts, Richard Gilliland
8x18 Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
Jan 26, 1985
Starring: Katherine Moffat, David Hedison, Shelley Fabares, Robert Fuller
8x19 Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
Feb 2, 1985
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Starring: John Davidson, Jack Klugman, Telly Savalas
8x20 Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
Feb 2, 1985
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Starring: John Davidson, Jack Klugman, Telly Savalas
8x21 Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
Feb 9, 1985
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).
Starring: Michael Spound, Peter Mark Richman, Florence Henderson
8x22 Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
Feb 16, 1985
Directing: Ted Lange
8x23 Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
Feb 23, 1985
Directed by: Robert Scheerer
8x24 Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
Mar 23, 1985
Directing: Jerome Courtland
8x25 Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
Mar 30, 1985
8x26 Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)
May 4, 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.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writers: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Roy Battocchio · Starring: Elizabeth Ashley, Anne Baxter, Stewart Granger, Michelle Johnson
8x27 Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2) Season Finale
May 4, 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.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Writers: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Roy Battocchio · Starring: Elizabeth Ashley, Anne Baxter, Stewart Granger, Michelle Johnson