Shark Bytes

Reading these posts it seems like everyone watched The Love Boat with their grandparents, as did I (on a B&W TV, no less, but maybe I would otherwise be blind from the "fashions" featured). I would love to watch it today while puffing on a mary-juana cigarette. P.S. Poor Lauren Tewes became a complete cokehead and was subsequently fired. In some of the episodes just before she was canned you'll notice the sparkly eyes and not-quite-there expression. Did she and McKenzie Phillips have the same dealer?

When I was just a little kid in '78 and '79, I used to watch this with my grandma and grandpa in their den and it was the highlight of their primetime-TV enjoyment. I would like to find out if it airs at all on cable now, because back then I was too young to relate to most of the conversations.
I was just amazed by this big glamorous ship, and figured you had to be fabulously wealthy or A-list to get on it at all. Now I'd like to watch it so I could laugh about Charo, cheesy plots, and Seventies cruise apparel.

Will you ,for the love of humanity,stop picking on Vicki???? If anything, she , along with the gorgeous Lauren Tewes, added years to a show that really wasn't any good. BTW, check Vicki out in that '84-'85 uniform! That sight was the only reason to endure this show!

LOVE THIS SHOW FOR ITS FROTHY, MINDLESS ESCAPISM,BUT GOT CHEATED ON THE DVD SET, 1/2 OF A SEASON FOR $30, WHAT A GREEDY RIP-OFF

Carmen said: "I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was

1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid"

Carmen, don't forget that it also taught us that, in order to be a TRUE success, a cruise ship should also have:

7) A guest list comprised of washed-up actors
8) The same situations occurring on every cruise
9) A crew of employees constantly on the make
10) Extras paid union scale wages to sit around the pool in bikinis (okay, I admit THAT one does help!)

I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was

1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid

The Love Boat was the type of show that could only have been hatched in the seventies. Where else could you get then-current day TV stars and an endless parade of has-beens working together??

Cheesy comedy and ridiculously overdone musical sequences = prime time gold. At least back then, anyways.

A few years ago, TV Land reran a Christmas episode where Jack Jones (singer of the show's theme song) played a singer on the cruise. He launched into a relentlessly cheery rendition of "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland" than sent me into utter hysterics! I laughed for ten minutes straight. It was just so over-the-top with this big, smiling doofus singing so happily. You have to see it to understand.

Yes, I must admit, I watched it too. And it got worse when ABC began airing daily repeats Monday-Friday in the afternoons. I would watch those during the summer, as if seeing them once wasn't enough.

Anyone know anywhere that may have posted up the Deacon Dark scene from the Love Boat? I'd love to see it again, but its not on youtube.

So BAD it's Good!

jumped the first time the ship left the dock

Aaron Spelling greedy money grubbing wife led him to do anything and everything for a buck. Including trying to revive flagging ratings by nonsensically bringing Vickie (literally) on board. That brat showing up caused the jump, not Sonny Bono. Sonny as a punk rocker? Priceless.

charo was great on the loveboat!! she rocked! to me the show jumped the shark when they did the fashion show with all the designers and when they did the braodway show with carol channing.. very lame very lame-- the two hour shows all sucked and the one year when it was loveboat angels and they crossed over the loveboat with charlies angels know that show was bad with a capital "b"

Sorry, Ted, but this show was over WAY before your noxious presence made itself known.

The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders?
Ralph Malph in a liplock with Lucy Ewing?
Kristy (McNichol) loves Chachi?
Halston?
The Village People?

and,for the love of all that is holy...

JAYE P. MORGAN????

Love Boat was a DAY ONE jumper.

Greatest variety show ever!You could do anything with it like silly puddy.Why it's not still on is beyond me.Perhaps the greatest show ever on TV if you reeeealllly know what I mean in terms of concept.

You got THAT right, Bill Irvin!