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The Love Boat

The Folks from Home / The Captain's Cup / Legal Eagle

TV Flash files “The Folks from Home / The Captain's Cup / Legal Eagle” as hour 37 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 2, episode 12, aired 1978-12-02, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 37 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 12 of 27 in season 2. It aired 1978-12-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Heads or Tails / The Little People / Mona of the Movies” (S02E11). Next is “El Kid / The Last Hundred Bucks / Isosceles Triangle” (S02E13).

The Love Boat — The Folks from Home / The Captain's Cup / Legal Eagle (S02E12)

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In "Folks From Home," written by series stars Fred Grandy and Bernie Kopell, Doc is fearful of the outcome when he is forced to operate, with ship-to-shore aid, following an accident. When the dignitary scheduled to present a trophy to Capt. Stubing fails to board ship, the frantic public relations representative grooms a love-smitten member of the ship's work gang to take the dignitary's place at the presentation ceremony in "The Captain's Cup," written by Ben Joelson and Art Baer; and a stunning blonde who has heard of Doc's prowess with girls chooses Gopher instead. In "Legal Eagle," written by Gordon Farr, Ben Joelson and Art Baer from a story by Sidney Reznick and Larry Markes, a divorced man, who feels he was taken to the cleaners in divorce court, is initially enraged when he meets his wife's attorney socially.

Viewer FAQ

Where does The Folks from Home / The Captain's Cup / Legal Eagle sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S02E12 is listed hour 37 of 245 — hour 12 of 27 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.

When did The Love Boat S02E12 air?

The Folks from Home / The Captain's Cup / Legal Eagle aired 1978-12-02 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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Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality · Show package

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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