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The Best Episodes of The Love Boat

Every episode of The Love Boat ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Love Boat!

Best episode
S10E4 Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?
8.1110 votes
Worst episode
S9E13 Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion
5.2245 votes
Top season
Season 10
7.4avg
Binge time
5d 6h
249 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Love Boat Season 10 Episode 4 - Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?
    8.1/10(110 votes)

    S10:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Love Boat Season 9 Episode 3 - Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
    7.9/10(160 votes)

    S9:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Love Boat Season 4 Episode 28 - Tony and Julie / Separate Beds / America's Sweetheart
    7.7/10(121 votes)

    S4:E28

    Julie (Lauren Tewes) has a run-in with a zoologist (Anthony Andrews), who turns out to be a passenger, and they butt heads. A young actress (Alison Arngrim) comes aboard and makes a fool out of Vicki (Jill Whelan). An estranged husband (William Christopher) and wife (Toni Tennille), one of whom is a neat-freak (Christopher) and the other a slob (Tennille), find themselves not only on the ship but in the same cabin

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Love Boat Season 7 Episode 19 - Hong Kong Cruise: Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tales of a City (1)
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    S7:E19

    A U.S. Presidential-hopeful Senator falls for a businesswoman who intends on opening a large casino in Hong Kong, as his aide tries to derail the affair for P.R. reasons; a woman who simply can't stop shopping bets her husband $25,000 that she can go the entire cruise without buying anything; Julie and Vicki double date, though Vicki secretly falls for Julie's date; an retired spy finds love in the form of a woman secretly hired to keep him safe from revenge-seeking former adversaries; Gopher and Isaac, trenchcoats and all, tail the former spy through Hong Kong and see all sorts of potentially evil stalkers.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Fred Grandy, Eugene David, Ted Lange

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  5. The Love Boat Season 6 Episode 25 - The Dog Show: Putting on the Dog/Going to the Dogs/Women's Best Friend/Whose Dog Is It Anyway?
    7.6/10(108 votes)

    S6:E25

    No description available

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Love Boat Season 6 Episode 18 - Isaac's Aegean Affair/The Captain and the Kid/Poor Rich Man/The Dean and the Flunkee (1)
    7.6/10(103 votes)

    S6:E18

    The crew are in Greece working a cruise where a College is having its graduation ceremony. The Principal is attracted to a teacher who rebuffs him because he won't give a student a make-up test so he can graduate. And the student and a couple of his friends are hounding the Principal to do that. A prodigy is attracted to Vicki which doesn't make the Captain happy. And the valedictorian whose education was provided by his Greek aunt whom he assumed is wealthy but upon meeting her learns she's just a woman of humble means. And when she goes on board he doesn't tell anyone he's her aunt. And Isaac meets a woman who is estranged from her husband.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Christopher Vane, Fred S. Fox, Jill Baer

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  7. The Love Boat Season 7 Episode 18 - Ace In the Hole/Uncle Joey's Song/Father in the Cradle
    7.6/10(92 votes)

    S7:E18

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Love Boat Season 4 Episode 2 - The Promoter/The Judges/The Family Plan/Forever Engaged/May the Best Man Win (1)
    7.5/10(163 votes)

    S4:E2

    A man organizes a ""marriage-a-thon"" cruise, with special prizes to be given to the couple found to be the most compatible. At the same time, he tries to save his own crumbling marriage. Doc tricks Gopher into taking his place as one of the judges, but comes to regret it when the two attractive female judges constantly try to make time with Gopher. The single parents of one of the engaged couples come aboard with the hopes of breaking up their kids, who they think are too young to be tying the knot. A couple tries to finally get married after ten years together--and nine broken engagements. A groom decides to dump his fiancée, but skips the cruise and leaves his best man to break the news to the bride. The best man is Marv, the young man who befriended Julie when he was best man for another wedding on the Alaska cruise. He cannot bring himself to tell the bride the truth, particularly because he also has feelings for her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Seaman Jacobs

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  9. The Love Boat Season 4 Episode 11 - The Captain's Bird/That's My Dad/Captive Audience
    7.5/10(138 votes)

    S4:E11

    Capt. Stubing decides to get Vicki a parrot for Christmas. Unfortunately, it hasn't been trained to talk, and Gopher and Isaac's efforts to train it prove disastrous. A stowaway convinces the crew that a playboy passenger is his father. A father and son, who haven't spoken for ten years since the younger man left their singing act to go solo, resist their wives' efforts to reunite them.

    Director:Allen Baron
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Love Boat Season 7 Episode 1 - The Pledge/East Meets West/Dear Roberta/My Two Dumplings (1)
    7.5/10(120 votes)

    S7:E1

    On a cruise to the Orient, a man with a past meets a woman with an uncertain future; Doc falls for a lady from Hong Kong who hates doctors.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Christopher Vane, Lan O'Kun, Casey Keller, Jill Baer, Richard Albrecht, Lawrence H. Levy, Robert Spears

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  11. The Love Boat Season 6 Episode 6 - The Groupies/The Audition/Doc's Nephew
    7.5/10(115 votes)

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writers:Sidney Morse, Mike Marmer, Jesse Dizon, Don Haberman

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  12. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 9 - Farnsworth's Fling/Gopher Farnsworth Smith/Three in a Bed/Merrill, Melanie & Melanesia/I Remember Helen (2)
    7.5/10(113 votes)

    S5:E9

    After having spent time with his family, William Farnsworth (Lloyd Bridges) has finally decided who will be kept in his will.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ray Jessel, Ben Joelson, Fred S. Fox

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  13. The Love Boat Season 6 Episode 24 - So Help Me Hanna/C.P.R.,I.O.U./The Maid Cleans Up
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    S6:E24

    No description available

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Hudson Hickman, Alexander Marrant, Daryl Busby, Gerry Kroll

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  14. The Love Boat Season 1 Episode 2 - Oh, Dale!/The Main Event/A Tasteful Affair
    7.4/10(317 votes)

    S1:E2

    A man must pose as a woman to gain passage on the ship so that he can pursue an ex-girlfriend. A bickering married couple gets trapped in the elevator. A detective falls for a married woman whose husband has hired him to trail her.

    Directors:Stuart Margolin, Alan Rafkin, Richard Kinon
    Writers:Carl Kleinschmitt, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Rick Callahan

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  15. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 15 - I Don't Play Anymore/Gopher's Roommate/Crazy for You
    7.4/10(151 votes)

    S5:E15

    Concert pianist Paul retired due to arthritis, but fans pester him to play. Gopher is shocked to find out where he met Rachel. David feigned insanity to get a pension and psych Lisa must prove he's faking.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 8 - Farnsworth's Fling/Gopher Farnsworth Smith/Three in a Bed/Merrill, Melanie & Melanesia/I Remember Helen (1)
    7.4/10(136 votes)

    S5:E8

    The crew is in Australia to work on one of the cruise line's ships based there. And a wealthy man named Farnsworth (Lloyd Bridges) has decided to invite his whole family for a reunion, but in actuality he wants to see who, among them he should keep in his will.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Art Baer, Ray Jessel, Ben Joelson, Fred S. Fox

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  17. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 18 - His Girls Friday/The Girl Who Stood Still/A Wife for Wilfred
    7.4/10(123 votes)

    S5:E18

    Howard travels with secretary Doris, meets Cindy, and pushes Doris to quit so he can hire Cindy. Wilfred offers the crew $10K to find him a wife. How does Abigail tell childhood love Jim that she wears a brace due to spinal problems?

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Fred S. Fox, Marlene Perry, Mel Shields, Rick Lenz

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  18. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 2 - The Expedition/Julie's Wedding/The Mongala/Julie's Replacement/The Three R's/The Professor's Wife (2)
    7.4/10(122 votes)

    S5:E2

    Vicki models the bridesmaid's gown she plans to wear for Julie's wedding, while Isaac finds a flaw in the wedding gift that he bought on the crew's behalf.

    Director:Roger Duchowny
    Writers:Christopher Vane, Art Baer, Casey Keller, Ben Joelson, Tony Webster, Donald Ross, Jill Baer, Richard Albrecht

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  19. The Love Boat Season 3 Episode 25 - Celebration/Captain Papa/Honeymoon Pressure
    7.4/10(119 votes)

    S3:E25

    A man spends beyond his means while trying to lavish his recently hospitalized wife with gifts. Capt. Stubing and Vicki face an interview with a child services worker, who will decide whether the captain can have full custody of his daughter. A newlywed couple has trouble consummating its relationship because the presence of the bride's bodyguards (her family is ""connected"") makes the groom nervous.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Sylvia Necht

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  20. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 22 - Klondike Carnival/The Viking's Son/Separate Vacations/The Experiment/Getting to Know You (1)
    7.4/10(118 votes)

    S5:E22

    A competition pits Merrill, his rival Gunner, and their crews against each other and reignites a rivalry. Divorcing Harry and Dot take separate vacations. Dr. Skip and Megan need a guinea pig to try out an aphrodisiac.

    Director:Roger Duchowny
    Writers:Harvey Bullock, Fred Grandy, Jan Gough

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  21. The Love Boat Season 7 Episode 15 - Last Case/Looking for Mr. Wilson/Love on Strike
    7.4/10(114 votes)

    S7:E15

    Detective Manfred and his secretary Lil investigate the case of a vanished passenger; Jan and her son Rich reunite with her father COL Maddox, who wants to meet his son-in-law; Jenny protests her ex-boyfriend Don's engagement to Millie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 10 - Radioactive Isaac/Gladys and Agnes/Love, Honor and Obey
    7.4/10(110 votes)

    S5:E10

    Tony and Rose Vitelli plan to renew wedding vows. Sisters Agnes and Gladys travel together and Agnes bonds with passenger Henry. A tooth filling and rival passenger Brandon interfere with Isaac's romance with Patty.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid, Sidney Morse, Arnold Kane

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  23. The Love Boat Season 5 Episode 28 - A Dress to Remember
    7.4/10(109 votes)

    S5:E28

    One dress affects three people. Model Donna is to wear it to display her diet success. Poor flower vendor Rose's daughter Carol thinks her mom is rich. Norman dodges his ex-wife Nancy's homicidal father Tom.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writers:Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein

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  24. The Love Boat Season 7 Episode 6 - Friend Of The Family/Affair on Demand/Just Another Pretty Face
    7.4/10(107 votes)

    S7:E6

    No description available

    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Love Boat Season 6 Episode 17 - Gopher's Daisy/Our Son The Lawyer/Salvaged Romance
    7.4/10(103 votes)

    S6:E17

    No description available

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Kevin Hartigan, Jerry Winnick, Mike Marmer

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Best Episodes Summary

"Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?" is the best rated episode of The Love Boat. It scored 8.1/10 from 110 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on February 27, 1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary".

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