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The Love Boat

The Captain's Bird / That's My Dad / Captive Audience

TV Flash files “The Captain's Bird / That's My Dad / Captive Audience” as hour 91 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 4, episode 11, aired 1980-12-20, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S04E11: listed hour 91 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 11 of 28 in season 4. It aired 1980-12-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Captain's Triangle / Boomerang / Out of This World” (S04E10). Next is “A Frugal Pair / Doc's Dismissal / The Girl Next Door” (S04E12).

The Love Boat — The Captain's Bird / That's My Dad / Captive Audience (S04E11)

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Capt. Stubing decides to get Vicki a parrot for Christmas. Unfortunately, it hasn't been trained to talk, and Gopher and Isaac's efforts to train it prove disastrous. A stowaway convinces the crew that a playboy passenger is his father. A father and son, who haven't spoken for ten years since the younger man left their singing act to go solo, resist their wives' efforts to reunite them.

Viewer FAQ

Where does The Captain's Bird / That's My Dad / Captive Audience sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S04E11 is listed hour 91 of 245 — hour 11 of 28 in season 4, season 4 episode 11.

When did The Love Boat S04E11 air?

The Captain's Bird / That's My Dad / Captive Audience aired 1980-12-20 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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