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All episodes Season 4 S04E17 1981-01-31 60 min 1970s ABC

The Love Boat

Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife

TV Flash files “Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife” as hour 97 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 4, episode 17, aired 1981-01-31, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S04E17: listed hour 97 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 17 of 28 in season 4. It aired 1981-01-31 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Gopher's Bride / Love with a Married Man / Not Tonight, Jack!” (S04E16). Next is “Aquaphobiac / Humpty Dumpty / The Starmaker” (S04E18).

The Love Boat — Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife (S04E17)

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"Mind My Wife," in which Doc finds he has his hands full when he agrees to show his best friend's amorous wife a good time; "The $10,000 Lover" which deals with a man who stands to lose $10,000 when his friend, who only needs one more romantic conquest to break the world's record, falls m love, and "Lose One, Win One" in which a woman, joined by her fiance, meets someone who may ruin her wedding plans.

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Where does Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S04E17 is listed hour 97 of 245 — hour 17 of 28 in season 4, season 4 episode 17.

When did The Love Boat S04E17 air?

Lose One, Win One / The $10,000 Lover / Mind My Wife aired 1981-01-31 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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