Product Description Each week, passengers looking for romance board the beautiful Pacific Princess cruise ship as it sails to tropical and exotic lands. Captain Stubing, Julie, Gopher, Doc and Isaac help them to get the most out of their trips and do their best to help them fall in love. .com The Love Boat is still "exciting and new" in these 12 star-studded episodes that completed its maiden season. The essence of comfort television, this decade-defining anthology series set aboard the Pacific Princess offered viewers a grand and glamorous escape as week after week Capt. Stubing, the Bligh with a heart of gold (Gavin McLeod), cute and capable cruise director Julie (Lauren Tewes), Yeoman-Purser "Gopher" (Fred Grandy), lecherous Adam "Doc" Bricker (Bernie Kopell), and bartender Isaac (Ted Lange) became entangled in their passengers' romantic crises. Each episode deftly interweaves stories ranging from silly (Gopher smuggles a monkey onboard) to sweet (two inexperienced newlyweds fail to, um, connect) to the serious (an older man feels he must give up his much younger lover). Unlike envelope-pushing shows of the day like Saturday Night Live and Soap, The Love Boat did not make waves. Nudge-nudge and wink-wink jokes aside, viewers could sit back, relax, and bask in the certainty that in most episodes true love would win out by the time the ship docked, with rocky marriages saved, rutted relationships rekindled, and new romances launched. Of course, what keeps us booking return passage on The Love Boat is the eclectic roster of guest stars, familiar hands from movies and television. It's always a joy to see Jim Backus at his blustery best, Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie crack wise, and Georgia Engel (McLeod's The Mary Tyler Moore Show costar) be charming and childlike. It's also fun to see stars cast against type, like Get Smart's Don Adams as a nightclub entertainer, Hee-Haw babe and former Playboy Playmate Barbie Benton as a French-speaking golddigger, and Sgt. Bilko's Phil Silvers as lonely man who gets a new lease on life. It's more fun still to spot future stars like Shelley Long (Cheers), taking her bookworm persona for a spin around the deck before breaking through on Cheers. This four-disc set somewhat makes amends to collectors for splitting the season by including The New Love Boat, the feature-length pilot that launched the series and christened the iconic crew. --Donald Liebenson
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Set sail on one of the Original 70's shows.
For the better part of a decade, the whole world got a weekly dose of Americas version of 'free love' adrift in international waters. That may sound like a sarcastic joke to today's much more cynical generation but I assure you of my sincerity. It is hard for anyone under 25 to imagine but there was a time the actual word "Sex" was considered shamefull and the very idea of a promiscuous liberated female character was as shockingly fresh as Lady Gaga often tries to be. LONG before the Internet brought us dating sites and anyone actually took sexual harrasment seriously. There were about two mainstream ways for like minded singles to 'hook-up'. Vacations or bars. This show combined drinking and touring into an hour long satire that not only made ratings history, but also answered the then popular riddle... "When a married couple finally runs out of things to talk about, is a divorce really more practical than spending a fortune to go to Mexico and suffer a week of infidelity temptation." In conclusion. This show is not for everyone...anymore. I would say Baby Boomers and some Gen. X-ers. The modern day audience is either going to be too jaded or simply find the hairstyles and fasion wrecks mildly novel. Happily, i'm 40 and enjoy laughing at well writting scripts as well as bell bottoms, mutant afros and tomboys with girl next door looks and charm. If you can relate start collecting the seasons today! There are alot of them and all worth the money.
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Wonderful Nostalgia!
I was a child of the '70's and remember Saturday nights in front of the TV watching "The Love Boat" & "Fantasy Island" after that. I'm just finishing up Season 1 of Love Boat and immensely enjoying this trip back to my childhood and the wonderfully happy and much gentler 1970's decade of television.Since the entire series isn't yet available, I want to savor these viewings and make it last so I only watch 1 episode each Saturday evening just like when I was a kid. I know that sounds hokey, but it's fun and almost makes it feel like the late '70's again. And hopefully by the time I reach the last available season that's out, more will have been released to buy. 5 stars for the first season. Even the worst episode of the bunch is still good!!
J**S
A delightful diversion that will show you many sides of love and how people deal with it in their lives
My public library had the other three volumes from the first two seasons, but this one was lost, so I bought it, watched it, and now will donate it so that 19 counties of people in SC can enjoy it, too.This particular volume contains the PILOT and the second half of season one, so we get to see how the captain happened to become the captain of the Pacific Princess, hear him tell the crew to never allow him to hear them call the ship "The Love Boat", then in the next episode, hear him call it that himself.Each weekly episode usually contains three story lines, one more romantic, one more comedic, and one focused on a particular member of the crew. The stories are delightful, and fun to hear, watch and enjoy.I look forward to when we can get more seasons of The Love Boat.I highly recommend this TV series.John
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Welcome Aboard, It's Love!
The only regret I have of this DVD is the fact that Paramount is cheapening out by releasing them as volumes, instead of seasons to try to make it appear less expensive. It's 1977 all over again and after 31 years I still get sucked into this program! The cavalcade of Hollywood has-beens from the past make up the passenger manifest in this second volume! We have Michelle Lee who wound up living on this program along with Desi Arnez Jr. Is it cheesy? Yes! But who cares! I would also watch this show as a kid every Saturday night and it always felt like I was going along with them. In fact, I would even get a little down when the final night of the cruise segment was on because that meant the episode was coming to an end. This is Television at its best! You can't go wrong with this one!
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I can't believe how much we're enjoying these shows............
My girlfriend and I both grew up as kids watching the Love Boat and have been pleasantly surprised how much we're both enjoying watching the original episodes again after so many years, they're clearly born of their time and are goofy as heck, but they're also incredibly entertaining and often very funny. The sexual innuendo was lost on me as a little kid, but it is very much apparent watching the show as an adult why so many people tuned in all those years ago, it's been a blast watching season 1 and the first half of 2, these have got to be selling well enough to keep the sets coming I hope, we're both looking forward to more and those TV movies and any outtakes in future releases would be very much appreciated. Take a chance, you might be surprised how much fun memories these bring back!!!
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