The Love Boat

A couple secretly plans divorce; a betrothed girl falls in love; smitten Gopher is kidnapped; a divorcee meets a count.

A couple secretly plans divorce; a betrothed girl falls in love; smitten Gopher is kidnapped; a divorcee meets a count.

Stubing meets an old school chum at the ship's costume party; a couple disagree about their future and Julie plays a trick on her beautiful friend.

Psychic Tess entertains passengers and meets Mike, who's separated from his wife. Merrill's friend Jack brags of his son Chip's accomplishments, but Chip has a secret.

A mother and daughter are shocked to see the girl's long lost father entertaining on board. When the truth is revealed, the girl must come to terms with the situation.

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.

A priceless diamond is stolen in Turkey; the crew sets sail on the Aegean Sea; an eccentric married couple insists they know a fellow passenger; a woman is in love with a reporter who wrote nasty things about her mother; Doc contemplates marrying an unwed pregnant woman; a man entices his ex-wife aboard with promises of a lavish photo shoot; Julie runs into an old pen pal who has hit it big in Greece.

Julie's old friend and new love interest pops the question; the secret association between two passengers is revealed; the photographer who tricked his ex-wife to come aboard rekindles the old flame; Vicki contemplates a modeling career; the famous diamond ends up in the ocean.

A father and his adopted son try to evade the boy's biological father; an older couple comes to terms with their future son-in-law's disability; the crew members argue and end up not speaking with each other.

Gopher is trapped in a suit of armor while trying to romance a young lady; the daughter of a woman whose husband was killed by a drunk driver falls for the man responsible; an eligible minister draws the romantic attention of two of his congregation.

A man meets a woman with clairvoyant powers; a single man borrows a friend's daughter to score points with a single mother; Isaac is scared that he is going deaf.

Julie's aunt is shadowed by the executrix of a fortune she inherited; a man's obsession with his robot blinds him to love; a woman is jealous over her husband's relationship with a surrogate mother they had hired.

An angel visits the ship to bring a troubled Mexican orphan to his new parents. Mickey Rooney plays a mystical Christmas presence among a motley group of passengers that includes two nuns (played by Teresa Wright and Mickey's wife Jan) and a passel of orphans; two con artists (Keenan Wynn, Henry Gibson) with an illicit horde of gold; a couple (Donny Osmond, Maureen McCormick) whose marriage is jeopardized by her career; and a critically ill boy (Alejandro Garay) who needs emergency surgery by Doc (Bernie Kopell). 

Two women impersonate celebrities after a booking mixup; a man confesses his guilt to the lawyer who defended him; an actress finds love with a man who doesn't think much of her business.

A scheming captain is out for Capt. Stubing's job; two bumbling men compete for a woman's foxhound and her affection; a working-class girl must hide her status from her wealthy fiancé and his family.

Doc feels inadequate when a successful doctor friend is aboard; the children of an unmarried older couple object to their cohabitation; a computer expert finds love with a friend.

A feuding couple try to get their lawyer son to handle their divorce; a woman is reluctant to date after having a mastectomy; a college girl hides in Gopher's cabin as part of a sorority initiation.

On a Greek cruise, a college senior tries to persuade his dean to let him graduate; Isaac falls in love and quits his job before having his heart broken; the captain is upset when Vicki talks marriage with her boyfriend.

On a Greek cruise, a college senior tries to persuade his dean to let him graduate; Isaac falls in love and quits his job before having his heart broken; the captain is upset when Vicki talks marriage with her boyfriend.

A girl delivers a singing valentine to a rude man whom she falls for; a secretarial agency owner plays assistant, and then lover, to a writer; a womanizing former pro football star finds love with a straight-laced English professor.

The captain rekindles an old flame with a glamorous celebrity; a woman must decide between her wealthy fiancé and a passionate lover; two men compete for one woman.

A judge is summoned to help a woman who is leaving the U.S. because she is afraid to take the citizenship test; A new steward locks horns with the son of a wealthy family; a young lady has problems meeting a man.

A passenger gives Vicki some pills that he says are supplements; Gopher's uncle courts the woman in charge of the ship's gift shop as he undercuts her sales; a man feels inadequate because his girlfriend bests him in all his favorite activities.

When a female passenger is intent on giving unsolicited advice, she ends up irritating Doc and a number of fellow passengers. Meanwhile, a man finds himself in an uncomfortable position when he tries to navigate his maid's romantic advances under the watchful eye of his girlfriend. Finally, Gopher saves a retiree's life.

A dog food company holds a contest on the ship to find the dog that will appear on its containers; a mail clerk is mistaken for the company's president, who is missing; a woman thinks another passenger's dog is the one she lost long ago.

A Nobel laureate (Sam Jaffe) delights in a chance meeting with a former student (Bettye Ackerman); a magician fears a competitor (Barry Van Dyke) might do a vanishing act with his daughter (Mary-Margaret Humes). 

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.

As the Pacific Princess plays host to a Country Music Jamboree cruise, the marriage of a famous singer (Jessica Walter) and her songwriter husband (Mel Tillis) may've hit its last chord. Meanwhile, the crew forms a country jug band, and Dottie West, who plays herself, boards the ship for a relaxing ride but that's hardly the case when she runs into Gopher.

An aging man meets up with an unbelievably youthful contemporary who's concocted an elixir of youth; a fatherless boy (Shavar Ross) thinks Isaac would be a great dad.