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All episodes Season 3 S03E01 1979-09-15 60 min 1970s ABC

The Love Boat

Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1)

TV Flash files “Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1)” as a desk essential hour — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 3, episode 1, aired 1979-09-15, 60 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 53 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1979-09-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Third Wheel / Grandmother's Day / Second String Mom” (S02E27). Next is “Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (2)” (S03E02).

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1)”. Alaska Wedding Cruise is destination as event television. Three storylines still the cargo; the Pacific Princess treating a ceremony title like a port of call, subtlety overboard.

The Love Boat — Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1) (S03E01)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

The ship voyages to Alaska for the wedding of a wealthy heir and the granddaughter of a fiercely independent oil man. The Love Boat transports a wedding party to the site of the ceremony –Alaska. En route: 1. The groom's estranged parents (Ray Milland and Eleanor Parker) are reunited. 2. Their son (Mark Harmon) is wooed by a lifelong friend much to the chagrin of his  intended (Lisa Herman). 3. The bride's widowed father (Lorne Greene) falls for another member of the wedding party (Audrey Lindley). 4. Julie contemplates marriage to a former lover (Tony Roberts) living in Alaska.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1) sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S03E01 is listed hour 53 of 245 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.

When did The Love Boat S03E01 air?

Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug / Peter & Alicia / Julie / Buddy & Portia (1) aired 1979-09-15 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.

In the series

Why this series still plays

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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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