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The Love Boat

The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 1

TV Flash files “The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 1” as hour 15 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 1, episode 15, aired 1978-01-21, 60 min.

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This leaf is S01E15: listed hour 15 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 15 of 25 in season 1. It aired 1978-01-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Isaac's Double Standard / Chimpanzeeshines / One More Time” (S01E14). Next is “The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 2” (S01E16).

The Love Boat — The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 1 (S01E15)

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Millionaire superstars Roz and Bill (Michele Lee and Fernando Lamas) have remarried and are celebrating their newest honeymoon aboard the Pacific Princess in "Hollywood Royalty," scripted by Ray Jessel. Of course Roz has brought along her $1 million diamond, which a group of thieves (John Schuck, Harold Gould, Larry Storch and Karen Valentine) intend to steal in "The Caper," written by Gordon and Lynne Farr, and Ben Joelson. and Art Baer. In "The Eyes of Love," Jenny Lang (Stephanie Zimbalist) and Steve Hollis (Desi Arnaz Jr.) meet for the first time since they were students at a school for blind children. Now, as young adults, the two fall in love, but Steve does not tell the unsighted Jenny he now can see. Tony Webster wrote the script. Juliet Mills and Dan Rowan play Barbara and Alan Danver, who become friendly with Cathy Randall (Adrienne Barbeau), in "Masquerade." Barbara and Cathy discover they have much in common as Alan nearly flips out because Cathy is his mistress and Barbara suspects nothing. Louis Pelletier and Marcia Muldoon wrote the script. Highlight sequence of the episode, which was directed by Allen Baron, has the entire regular and guest cast in costume at a masquerade ball.

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Where does The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 1 sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S01E15 is listed hour 15 of 245 — hour 15 of 25 in season 1, season 1 episode 15.

When did The Love Boat S01E15 air?

The Caper / The Eyes of Love / Hollywood Royalty / Masquerade Part 1 aired 1978-01-21 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Do I watch in order?

No. It is a multi-story guest-star anthology with a regular crew. Sample any cruise; Stubing's ship is the constant.

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Gavin MacLeod's Captain Stubing hosts three guest-star storylines a week while Julie, Doc, Gopher, and Isaac keep the Pacific Princess meddling. Aaron Spelling cruise-ship anthology as comfort franchise: formula as feature, theme as furniture. Bon voyage, subtlety — the cameo sport still photographs.

The first image is white: uniforms, rails, Pacific soft-focus, and Gavin MacLeod's Captain Merrill Stubing hosting three guest-star storylines before the dessert cart. ABC's The Love Boat (1977–1986) turned cruise vacation into Aaron Spelling's floating hit factory — nine seasons, 245 episodes, formula as feature. Lauren Tewes's Julie McCoy, Ted Lange's Isaac, Bernie Kopell's Doc, and Fred Grandy's Gopher never age out of meddling. Jeraldine Saunders' nonfiction about cruise life inspired the premise; Wilford…

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