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The Best Episodes of The Love Boat Season 8

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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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  1. Background image for The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
    6.8/10(72 votes)

    #1 - The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump

    S8:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
    7.0/10(83 votes)

    #2 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)

    S8:E2

    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

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
    7.0/10(79 votes)

    #3 - Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)

    S8:E3

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
    6.7/10(64 votes)

    #4 - Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor

    S8:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
    6.8/10(76 votes)

    #5 - Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day

    S8:E5

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    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
    6.8/10(65 votes)

    #6 - Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart

    S8:E6

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
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  7. Background image for And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
    7.2/10(74 votes)

    #7 - And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name

    S8:E7

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
  8. Background image for Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
    7.0/10(68 votes)

    #8 - Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century

    S8:E8

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    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
    6.6/10(73 votes)

    #9 - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master

    S8:E9

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    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
    6.8/10(72 votes)

    #10 - By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even

    S8:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
    6.8/10(88 votes)

    #11 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)

    S8:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
    6.8/10(82 votes)

    #12 - My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)

    S8:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
    7.1/10(89 votes)

    #13 - Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted

    S8:E13

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
    6.7/10(80 votes)

    #14 - Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever

    S8:E14

    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.

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    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
    7.0/10(106 votes)

    #15 - Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol

    S8:E15

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
    6.8/10(68 votes)

    #16 - Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS

    S8:E16

    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.

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    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writers:Ted Lange, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Jean Ford, Lan O'Kun
  17. Background image for Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
    6.8/10(72 votes)

    #17 - Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple

    S8:E17

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
    6.7/10(79 votes)

    #18 - Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor

    S8:E18

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
    7.1/10(89 votes)

    #19 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)

    S8:E19

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
    7.0/10(82 votes)

    #20 - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)

    S8:E20

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
    6.6/10(66 votes)

    #21 - Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier

    S8:E21

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
    6.8/10(76 votes)

    #22 - Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose

    S8:E22

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    Director:Ted Lange
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
    6.8/10(68 votes)

    #23 - Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment

    S8:E23

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    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
    6.5/10(59 votes)

    #24 - Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa

    S8:E24

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    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
    6.6/10(62 votes)

    #25 - Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine

    S8:E25

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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 6.8/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/1984. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)".