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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",...
Genres:DramaComedy
Network:ABC
Episodes
27
Avg. Rating
6.8
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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)".

  • The Crew's Cruise Director/What a Drag/Doc's Slump
    6.7/10(67)

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

    Season 8 Episode 1

    Aired 9/22/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
    7.1/10(80)

    #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

  • Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
    7.0/10(75)

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

    Season 8 Episode 3

    Aired 9/29/1984

    No description available

    Director: Robert Scheerer

    Writer: N/A

  • Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
    6.6/10(60)

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

    Season 8 Episode 4

    Aired 10/6/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
    6.7/10(71)

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

    Season 8 Episode 5

    Aired 10/13/1984

    No description available

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: N/A

  • Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
    6.7/10(60)

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

    Season 8 Episode 6

    Aired 10/20/1984

    No description available

    Director: Bruce Bilson

    Writer: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

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  • And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
    7.1/10(69)

    #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

    No description available

    Director: Jack Arnold

    Writer: N/A

  • Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
    6.8/10(62)

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

    Season 8 Episode 8

    Aired 11/3/1984

    No description available

    Director: Ted Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
    6.4/10(68)

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

    Season 8 Episode 9

    Aired 11/10/1984

    No description available

    Director: Ted Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
    6.7/10(68)

    #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

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
    6.7/10(84)

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

    Season 8 Episode 11

    Aired 11/24/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
    6.7/10(80)

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

    Season 8 Episode 12

    Aired 11/24/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
    7.0/10(83)

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

    Season 8 Episode 13

    Aired 12/1/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
    6.7/10(76)

    #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

  • Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
    7.0/10(102)

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

    Season 8 Episode 15

    Aired 12/15/1984

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
    6.8/10(64)

    #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

  • Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
    6.8/10(67)

    #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

  • Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
    6.6/10(76)

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

    Season 8 Episode 18

    Aired 1/26/1985

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
    7.1/10(87)

    #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

    No description available

    Director: Robert Scheerer

    Writer: N/A

  • Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
    7.0/10(80)

    #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

    No description available

    Director: Robert Scheerer

    Writer: N/A

  • Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
    6.6/10(64)

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

    Season 8 Episode 21

    Aired 2/9/1985

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
    6.8/10(73)

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

    Season 8 Episode 22

    Aired 2/16/1985

    No description available

    Director: Ted Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
    6.8/10(65)

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

    Season 8 Episode 23

    Aired 2/23/1985

    No description available

    Director: Robert Scheerer

    Writer: N/A

  • Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
    6.5/10(54)

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

    Season 8 Episode 24

    Aired 3/23/1985

    No description available

    Director: Jerome Courtland

    Writer: N/A

  • Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
    6.6/10(59)

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

    Season 8 Episode 25

    Aired 3/30/1985

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A