The Love Boat: Season 9

1985 · 25 episodes

What Season 9 of The Love Boat

The Pacific Princess sails the seas with new passengers on board, and Captain Merrill Stubing leads a crew made up of Dr. Adam Bricker, waiter Isaac Washington and cruise director Julie McCoy. Each story combines humor centered on the staff, romance and some drama. Three college students are mistaken for prostitutes, and fitness guru Andy faints while training for a triathlon. In the Vista Fjord, a journalist who considers bullfighting immoral falls in love with a young man destined to become a matador, and Isaac meets a woman who deceives everyone. Several couples try to reconcile before the voyage ends.

25episodes

Sep 28, 1985premiered

May 24, 1986latest episode

2 hrtotal runtime

Season 9 Episodes

9x01 A Day In Port
Sep 28, 1985
Starring: Conrad Bain
9x02 Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
Oct 5, 1985
Directed by: Robert Scheerer · Starring: Charlotte Rae, Franklin Cover
9x03 Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
Oct 12, 1985
Starring: Milton Berle, Tom Bosley, Andy Griffith, Cloris Leachman
9x04 The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (1)
Nov 2, 1985
Directed by: Richard Kinon · Writing credits: Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Ben Joelson · Starring: Harry Morgan, Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens
9x05 The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)
Nov 2, 1985
Directed by: Richard Kinon · Writing credits: Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Ben Joelson · Starring: Harry Morgan, Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens
9x06 Forties Fantasy
Nov 16, 1985
Starring: Stephanie Mills
9x07 Good Time Girls/The Iron Man/Soap Star
Nov 23, 1985 · 60 min
Three college girls are mistaken for prostitutes; fitness guru Andy suffers fainting spells during triathlon training; Aunt Sylvia's friend Betsy auditions for a new part on their soap opera with Sylvia's lecherous co-star Roger.
Directing: Kim Friedman · Writing: William Bickley · Starring: Ava Cadell, Carrell Myers
9x08 Trouble in Paradise/No More Mister Nice Guy/The Mermaid and the Cop
Nov 30, 1985
Starring: Teri Hatcher
9x09 Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue
Dec 7, 1985
9x10 The Father of the Bride/The Best Man/Members of the Wedding
Jan 11, 1986
Directed by: Robert Scheerer · Writing credits: Paula A. Roth, Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson · Starring: Debbie Bartlett, Tori Brenno, Nanci L. Hammond, Teri Hatcher
9x11 Dare Devil/ Picture Me as a Spy/ Sleeper
Jan 18, 1986
Ace's cabin has been searched and he suspects a spy team work. Doc's new patient is sleepwalking. A woman is scared by her boyfriend's risky stunts.
Directing: Kim Friedman · Writing: David Ketchum, Anthony DiMarco, Kerry Cox · Starring: Herb Edelman
9x12 Hippies and Yuppies/ Frat Wars/ Return of the Lambdas
Jan 25, 1986
9x13 Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion
Feb 1, 1986
Directed by: Jerome Courtland · Starring: Ellen Bry, Jennifer Holmes, Ben Murphy, Tim Rossovich
9x14 Egyptian Cruise (1)
Feb 8, 1986
Merrill and his friend Helen share memories. Producer Mike wants starlet Deborah to play Cleopatra. Carrie eyes the gold ankh which Adam was given at a bazaar. Busy Greg may lose his teacher wife Laurel to ex-pupil Christopher.
Directed by: Robert Scheerer · Starring: Jean Stapleton, John Astin, Joseph Campanella, Chad Everett
9x15 Egyptian Cruise (2)
Feb 8, 1986
Directed by: Robert Scheerer · Starring: Jean Stapleton, John Astin, Joseph Campanella, Chad Everett
9x16 Hello Emily/ The Tour Guide/ The Winning Number
Feb 15, 1986
9x17 The Second Time Around/ Hello, Spencer/ Runaway, Go Home
Feb 22, 1986
Directing: Ted Lange · Starring: Marion Ross
9x18 The Art Lover/ Couples/ Made for Each Other
Mar 1, 1986
Directing: Ted Lange
9x19 Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around
Mar 8, 1986
Starring: Nancy Dussault, Donald O'Connor
9x20 Gothic Romance/Whatever Happened to Crazy Joe Flash?
Mar 15, 1986 · 60 min
Directed by: Ted Lange · Writing credits: David Chambers, Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
9x21 The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction
Mar 22, 1986
The crew frantically take care of last minute business when a famous newspaper psychic arrives and predicts that the world will end during the cruise; while on his way to wed in Mexico, a young tycoon with amnesia who disappeared a few years earlier falls in love with his wife from his previous life; a woman whose husband is deceased is courted by a former boyfriend, only to find out that her husband's will called for the liason.
9x22 Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (1)
May 3, 1986
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson
9x23 Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)
May 3, 1986
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
Directing: Robert Scheerer · Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson
9x24 My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak
May 17, 1986
Vicki becomes jealous of Captain Stubbing's bride-to-be (the sequel to this episode is ""Happily Ever After...""); the new Assistant Cruise Director-Entertainer finds out that he has to share his cabin with a gruff cook instead of with the girlfriend that he brought along; a pro football has-been tries to romance the team's new owner, a woman, with a mind to get her to keep him on the next season's roster.
Directed by: Robert Scheerer
9x25 Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mr Smith Goes to Minikulu Season Finale
May 24, 1986
Captain Stubbing prepares for his shipboard wedding and then gets married (this episode continues the storyline initiated in "My Stepmother, Myself"); as Gopher vacillates about his plans to leave, Ace is continually nominated and unnominated for Gopher's job; Gopher's bids farewell to his job and Loveboat friends when he accepts a job managing a South Pacific resort, Minikulu.
Directed by: Richard Kinon · Writing credits: Paula A. Roth, Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen · Starring: Marion Ross, Clive Revill, Renée Taylor, Michael Winslow