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All episodes Season 2 S02E03 1978-09-23 60 min 1970s ABC

The Love Boat

Rocky / Julie's Dilemma / Who's Who?

TV Flash files “Rocky / Julie's Dilemma / Who's Who?” as hour 28 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 2, episode 3, aired 1978-09-23, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E03: listed hour 28 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 3 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1978-09-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Marooned / The Search / Isaac's Holiday Part 2” (S02E02). Next is “A Different Girl / The Man Who Loved Women / Oh, My Aching Brother” (S02E04).

The Love Boat — Rocky / Julie's Dilemma / Who's Who? (S02E03)

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Julie is stunned when her parents announce in mid-cruise that they're getting a divorce: a 13-year-old tomboy meets a boy and experiences the initial joy of love, and a pair of mature prudes fall madly in love while sharing the same cabin on the ABC Television Network's "The Love Boat," SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 (9:00-10:00 p.m., EDT). Norman Fell of ABC's "Three's Company" and Betty Garrett of ABC's "Laverne & Shirley" play cruise director Julie McCoy's father and mother in "Julie's Dilemma," written by Ben Joelson and Art Baer. James Coco is cast as an author of morally uplifting pamphlets and Dody Goodman as a prim censor who fall passionately in love during deck encounters but are unaware that they are cabinmates in "Who's Who" written by Bob Fraser and Rob Dames. Melissa Gilbert plays a young teen tomboy until she shares a tentative first kiss with an equally inexperienced 13-year-old pal played by Jimmy Baio of ABC's "Soap." Marla Adams and Edward Winter are seen as his parents and Ellen Travolta as the girl's mother in "Rocky," written by Ann Gibbs and Joel Kimmel.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Rocky / Julie's Dilemma / Who's Who? sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S02E03 is listed hour 28 of 245 — hour 3 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 3.

When did The Love Boat S02E03 air?

Rocky / Julie's Dilemma / Who's Who? aired 1978-09-23 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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