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The Love Boat

The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (1)

TV Flash files “The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (1)” as hour 85 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 4, episode 5, aired 1980-11-15, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S04E05: listed hour 85 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 5 of 28 in season 4. It aired 1980-11-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Target Gopher / The Major's Wife / Strange Honeymoon / The Oilman Cometh” (S04E04). Next is “The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (2)” (S04E06).

The Love Boat — The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (1) (S04E05)

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Famed author Brian Mallory gives three people free tickets to a Caribbean cruise. He then presents each of them--and Gopher--with gold coins. He explains that they are among the last people to have spent time with his nephew; and offers them $100,000 if they can track down the young man, who is believed to be on one of the islands the ship will be visiting. One of the passengers taking part in the quest is about to donate a kidney to his brother. A young woman follows him around and seems to take a special interest in everything he does. Mallory's wife finally grows tired of his aloof and cruel behavior toward her. She leaves him, and seeks comfort with Doc. An old friend asks Capt. Stubing to leave the ship to help him run his business. A jealous woman accuses Julie of trying to steal her fianc&#233, a man who was a casual acquaintance of Julie's in college.

Viewer FAQ

Where does The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (1) sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S04E05 is listed hour 85 of 245 — hour 5 of 28 in season 4, season 4 episode 5.

When did The Love Boat S04E05 air?

The Mallory Quest / The Offer / Julie, the Vamp (1) aired 1980-11-15 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.

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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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