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All episodes Season 4 S04E26 1981-05-02 60 min 1970s ABC

The Love Boat

The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (2)

TV Flash files “The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (2)” as hour 106 of 245 in the TV Flash guide — The Love Boat (1977–1986) on ABC, season 4, episode 26, aired 1981-05-02, 60 min.

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This leaf is S04E26: listed hour 106 of 245 in the The Love Boat guide, hour 26 of 28 in season 4. It aired 1981-05-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (1)” (S04E25). Next is “Maid for Each Other / Lost and Found / Then There Were Two” (S04E27).

The Love Boat — The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (2) (S04E26)

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On a special cruise to Acapulco for a fashion festival, designers Geoffrey Beene, Halston, Bob Mackie, and Gloria Vanderbilt play themselves. Problems of the heart are in store for a husband and wife who are owners of a model agency. Their marriage is in jeopardy when tempers flare over the use of one of the models who has captured the captain's eye. Another heartache involves a cosmetic king who is searching for a unique woman to represent his new product, and finds not just one, but two likely candidates. Cruise director Julie McCoy gets the limelight when she models in place of a model friend who has fallen in love. A couple is in frantic search of some designer clothes that they have misplaced as well as having to keep their marriage secret from the boss – the woman's father. Note: This is part 2 of two-hour episode

Viewer FAQ

Where does The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (2) sit in the The Love Boat guide?

S04E26 is listed hour 106 of 245 — hour 26 of 28 in season 4, season 4 episode 26.

When did The Love Boat S04E26 air?

The Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort (2) aired 1981-05-02 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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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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