6.7/1067 votes#1 - The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1080 votes#2 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1984
A man who appears to be running gets the papers of one of the ship's deck hands and goes onboard. Vicki's attracted to him. But they soon discover that he is wanted by Interpol and when he explains that he paid the deck hand for his papers, and that he's a prince who just wanted to get away from his duties, she doesn't believe. Eventually he is taken away. Laterwhile out walking she sees a Royal entourage and sees that he was telling the truth. A woman runs into the man she was involved with during the War and it seems that she turned him into the Nazis. While she remembers him, he doesn't recognize her. And somehow they end spending time together and she senses that he still harbors ill feelings for the girl who turned him in. She later reveals who she is and he shuns her. Later when they run into each other again, he says that he forgives her, that she did it to save herself. She then says that she didn't do it to save herself but to save him. It seems that after she pointed him out
Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: N/A
7.1/1074 votes#3 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1984
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Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1058 votes
#4 - Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1071 votes#5 - Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1984
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Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
6.7/1059 votes#6 - Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1984
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Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
- 7.1/1069 votes
#7 - And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1984
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Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1060 votes
#8 - Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1984
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Director: Ted Lange
Writer: N/A
6.4/1068 votes#9 - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1984
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Director: Ted Lange
Writer: N/A
6.7/1068 votes#10 - By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1984
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Director: N/A
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6.7/1084 votes#11 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1080 votes#12 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1082 votes#13 - Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1072 votes#14 - Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1984
A cute country girl who aspires to be a singer falls for a young country music star, but his manager knows that his star can only write songs when sad; two interior designers, former lovers, compete to redecorate the ship and eventually end up together again; one of Doc's womanizing fraternity brothers from his college days arrives on board, but with his male lover secretly in tow.
Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1093 votes
#15 - Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/1984
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1063 votes#16 - Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1985
Two older men, Leslie and Shelley, paired up by a confused blind dating service, chase the same woman; instead of meeting her fiance, a young woman gets a ""present"" of her fiance's friend to console her because her fiance has dumped her; Isaac chases a passenger who follows a silly, cult-like philosophy ""Being Of Self"", and in the process alienates the crew and almost gets fired.
Director: Richard Kinon
Writer: Howard Albrecht, Jean Ford, Ted Lange, Lan O'Kun, Sol Weinstein
6.8/1066 votes#17 - Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1985
One of Ace's old high school girlfriends, now married to an impotent man, wants an embarrassed Ace to father her child; Gopher falls in love with an older woman, while that woman's daughter falls for Gopher; two total strangers share the honeymoon suite because they independently bought their tickets from a couple whose wedding was cancelled.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1075 votes#18 - Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1985
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1085 votes
#19 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1985
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Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1078 votes
#20 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1985
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Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: N/A
6.6/1063 votes#21 - Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1985
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1072 votes#22 - Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1985
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Director: Ted Lange
Writer: N/A
6.8/1063 votes#23 - Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1985
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Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: N/A
6.5/1054 votes#24 - Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1985
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Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: N/A
6.5/1058 votes#25 - Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1985
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 8
Every episode of The Love Boat Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 8!
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",...
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Network:ABC
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump" is the best rated episode of "The Love Boat" season 8. It scored 6.7/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/22/1984. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)".