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The Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 2

Every episode of The Love Boat Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 2!

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

Genres:DramaComedy
Network:ABC

Season 2 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Love Boat" season 2 is "Marooned (1)", rated 6.7/10 from 147 user votes. It was directed by Paul Stanley and written by Lee Aronsohn, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Michael Norell. "Marooned (1)" aired on 9/16/1978 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Marooned (2)".

  • Marooned (1)
    6.7/10 147 votes

    #1 - Marooned (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1978

    No description available

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: Lee Aronsohn, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Michael Norell

  • Marooned (2)
    6.7/10 129 votes

    #2 - Marooned (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1978

    No description available

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: Lee Aronsohn, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Michael Norell

  • Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky
    7.1/10 144 votes

    #3 - Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1978

    Julie's parents arrive on board the Pacific Princess and announce their plans to divorce; an author of morally uplifting pamphlets and a prim censor fall in love while sharing a cabin; a young girl's tomboy image falters after she receives her first kiss.

    Director: Allen Baron, Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Rob Dames, Bob Fraser, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel

  • The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother
    6.8/10 140 votes

    #4 - The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1978

    A man makes a move on three women; not knowing that they are travelling companions. Captain Stubbing's god son is taking a cruise with his wife, whom he married two years ago but his military duty kept him away. And two brothers who stage false injuries, so that they can sue the insurance company, have targeted the cruise line.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Bruce Howard, Cynthia Santillo

  • Where is it Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal
    6.2/10 111 votes

    #5 - Where is it Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1978

    Captain Stubing's Uncle Cyrus uses every trick in his devious mind to get Julie alone, until her ""Aunt Phoebe"" intervenes; a desperate businessman uses his daughter as bait to close a deal; the neglected wife of a publisher romances a novelist, hoping it will give him the inspiration for the final chapter of his book.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Lan O'Kun, Barry Blitzer, James F. Henry

  • The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness
    7.0/10 136 votes

    #6 - The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1978

    A shy young man becomes a completely different person at night; a businessman who doesn't have time for his family learns a valuable lesson; a man who believes his chances of survival are better at sea than as a witness in a gangland trial receives loving sympathy from a fellow passenger.

    Director: Allen Baron, Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Fred Grandy, Arnold Grossman, Bernie Kopell

  • Ship of Ghouls
    7.1/10 160 votes

    #7 - Ship of Ghouls

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1978

    A magician keeps his engagement secret in order to dazzle female audiences, while his neglected fiancee turns to Captain Stubing for comfort; Doc and Gopher pursue a model who is afraid to face people after a recent accident; a boy with a habit of lying can't get anyone to help during a real time of need.

    Director: Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Mickey Rose

  • Accidental Cruise/The Song is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
    7.0/10 126 votes

    #8 - Accidental Cruise/The Song is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1978

    An executive and his secretary are mistakenly assigned the honeymoon suite; a songwriter's music renews a woman's love for her husband; Captain Stubing meets his daughter by a former girlfriend; Julie helps give a Russian commissar a sexy new image.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lee Aronsohn

  • Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away
    7.1/10 139 votes

    #9 - Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1978

    A ghost experiences jealousy as his mission to find his wife a new husband appears to be succeeding; overprotective Gopher mistakenly entrusts his kid sister to Doc to stave off the ship's wolves, not realizing that she's all grown up; a long-divorced couple is accidentally trapped in an isolated cabin.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Loraine Despres

  • Tony's Family/The Minister and the Stripper/Her Own Two Feet
    7.1/10 129 votes

    #10 - Tony's Family/The Minister and the Stripper/Her Own Two Feet

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1978

    Crew members make a valiant effort to keep six stowaways a secret from Capt. Stubing; a church member disapproves of her minister's new romance; a nearly-blind woman refuses to admit her problem until Doc intercedes.

    Director: Richard Kinon

    Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel, Fred S. Fox, Henry Colman

  • Heads or Tails/The Little People/Mona of the Movie
    7.2/10 132 votes

    #11 - Heads or Tails/The Little People/Mona of the Movie

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1978

    No description available

    Director: Buddy Tyne

    Writer: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel, Barry Blitzer

  • Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle
    7.0/10 126 votes

    #12 - Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1978

    Doc must perform a risky operation after an accident; one of the ship's laborers is recruited to replace a missing dignitary; a bitterly divorced man has it in for his ex-wife's attorney.

    Director: Alan Rafkin

    Writer: Fred Grandy, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Bernie Kopell

  • Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks
    6.9/10 115 votes

    #13 - Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1978

    A beauty can't choose between Captain Stubing and Doc; a man and his wife return to the ship with an orphaned boy; a hospital executive falls for a seemingly successful businessman.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Mark Fink, Barry Blitzer, Ray Jessel

  • Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard
    6.9/10 132 votes

    #14 - Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1978

    Identical twin sisters decide to swap fiances; a separated ventriloquist team use their dummies to rebuild their relationship; a handsome widower proposes to Julie, who has fallen in love with him and his teenage children.

    Director: Bob Claver

    Writer: Lan O'Kun, Ray Jessel, Michael Norell

  • Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
    6.6/10 121 votes

    #15 - Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1979

    Doc's ex-wife hires an actor, who takes his role a bit too seriously, as her fiance; a philandering marriage counselor's wife seeks solace from Captain Stubing; a woman pretends to be her own sister for a reunion with a long-ago sweetheart.

    Director: Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Tony Webster

  • Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
    7.4/10 111 votes

    #16 - Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1979

    Gopher quits his job to manage a new hotel; a wealthy eccentric widow books a five-year passage and begins meddling in the crew members' lives; a magician tries to avoid his assistant by sending his brother to perform in his place.

    Director: Allen Baron, Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Lan O'Kun, Sue Masters, John Walsh, Ray Jessel, Natalie Schafer

  • Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance
    7.0/10 128 votes

    #17 - Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1979

    A father takes too much of a liking to his son's new girlfriend; a bachelor is terrified at the idea of marrying his gung-ho girlfriend; the crew gives a troubled teen a chance at rehabilitation.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Lee Aronsohn, Barbara Evans, Jerry Winnick

  • Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (1)
    7.0/10 149 votes

    #18 - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (1)

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1979

    Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (2)
    7.1/10 132 votes

    #19 - Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (2)

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1979

    Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath
    6.9/10 126 votes

    #20 - Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1979

    Crew members learn that Captain Stubing is under consideration to take over a prestigious cruise ship and go overboard to help their captain make an outstanding impression; a woman unknowingly makes a date with a friend's fiance; a disabled surgeon belittles Doc for practicing aboard a cruise ship until Doc makes a surprising diagnosis. GUEST STARS: Hans Conried, Ben Murphy, Donna Pescow, Carol Lynley, Richard Anderson, Diana Muldaur

    Director: George Tyne

    Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Bruce Howard, Fred S. Fox

  • A Good & Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover
    6.7/10 142 votes

    #21 - A Good & Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1979

    No description available

    Director: Roger Duchowny

    Writer: Rob Dames, Bob Fraser, Art Baer, Barry Blitzer, Ben Joelson, Bruce Howard

  • The Decision/Poor Little Rich Girl/Love Me, Love My Dog
    6.9/10 111 votes

    #22 - The Decision/Poor Little Rich Girl/Love Me, Love My Dog

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1979

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/A Home is Not a Home
    6.4/10 124 votes

    #23 - Funny Valentine/The Wallflower/A Home is Not a Home

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1979

    No description available

    Director: George Tyne

    Writer: Fred Grandy, Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Tom Dagenais, Bernie Kopell, John V. Hanrahan

  • Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam
    6.8/10 121 votes

    #24 - Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1979

    Julie ends up in the middle of an unusual love triangle when the visiting 13-year-old son of the head of the cruise line develops a crush on her at the same time that she is trying to win over a charming older passenger. Two longtime acquaintances find their attempt at building a romance complicated by their parents' antagonistic relationship: her father is publisher of the newspaper where he works; and his mother is leading the efforts to unionize the workers. In honor of Capt. Stubing's fifth anniversary at the helm, the crew pays two men to build a wooden model of the ship. The builders are left scrambling to undo the damage after the present accidentally gets smashed.

    Director: Richard Kinon

    Writer: N/A

  • Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas
    6.7/10 133 votes

    #25 - Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1979

    A singer tries to persuade his manager to let him abandon the shock tactics that made him famous and let his music speak for itself. He becomes even more determined to establish some credibility after he falls for a deaf friend of Julie's. Doc finds himself caught in the middle when an old friend grows tired of her inattentive husband's tendency to put gambling ahead of their relationship. Isaac becomes convinced that a couple plans to murder Capt. Stubing. Everyone initially believes that he is just too caught up in the murder mystery that he has been reading, but the captain and Gopher soon begin to share his suspicions.

    Director: Richard Kinon

    Writer: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Margie Peters, Joyce Armor, Judie Neer