Oh, I picked just one of their performances. There are more.
Count me as another who can’t remember any specific episodes of either show, but I can remember a popular joke from the time.
Q: What is Tattoo’s preferred M&M type?
A: The plain! The plain!
I’m not sure about haunting, but every now and then I remember a Fantasy Island episode where Roarke said something like, “What did he see, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river?” I always thought it had to be a quote from a poem or a play of some sort, but I’ve never been able to find the source. If there is one, that is, since it might have been written for the show, and that’s even assuming I remember the line correctly.
I remember the "oh were so rich " hart to hart that desperately wanted to be the thin man of the 80s after FI (hallmark movies and mysteries actually airs it )
I recall one LB episode where a woman was trying to get all the Playboys on board because an old picture of her was being published and she didn’t want her husband to find out. She got all of them except the one that Doc bought and refused to give up. Then he compared her to her pictorial.
It sounds like you either misremember, or he misquoted, the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browing.
That’s it!
I probably did misremember. I only saw the episode once, after all. Thank you so much!
I was forbidden to watch either show, along with “Three’s Company” and “Newhart.”
It was very sad because I LOVED THEM SO. I think I only wanted to watch them because it wasn’t allowed.
There was that episode of Fantasy Island where Hervé Villechaize points and shouts, ‘De plane! De plane!’
Love Boat had some pretty famous 40’s movie stars appearing as the main casts parents. One of my favourite episodes was the one where they all appeared in the same episode.
Strangely even though I watched Fantasy Island all the time I can’t remember the plot of a single episode.
I remember hearing at the time how unrealistic The Love Boat was. No one would mistake it for a documentary, of course, but it portrayed most of the cruise passengers as being in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, with the occasional golden-age Hollywood star as somebody’s parent. I think the reality was that most cruise passengers (at that time, anyway) were older retirees.
With that in mind, I’m curious what Saunders’ book was like, and whether it bore any similarity to the show.
Born in 72.
Never really watched Love Boat ( though I can sing the whole damn song), but did watch Fantasy Island with the family. I remember a few specific episodes:
- Deaf woman given hearing for episode. Learns to dance. At the end, her hearing is gone again, but she has learned to feel the vibration of the music and thus can still dance.
- Woman gains ability to become invisible. I don’t remember much plot except that her clothes were visible and she had to take them off. As she does so, she hands them to Mr. Roarke. The implication is that he and only he can still see her. That was pretty kinky stuff for 9 year old me.
- Guy whose dad died in WWII is sent back in time and gets to know dad before the big mission. He tries to stop it and save dad’s life but can’t.
- Evil Roarke type episodes with a guy that looks like James Woods or maybe even was James Woods playing bad guy in black tuxedo the opposite of Roarke’s white one.
- Roarke grows his hair long, goes insane, steals a starship and spends better part of 2 part episode harassing William Shatner.
I caught a FI re-run a couple of years ago and was startled at how badly the studio footage stood out from the location footage. Ah, the 80’s.
That was the one with Charo and Barbi Benton, right? 
It seemed to me like those two were always on that show, so I looked it up. Benton was on 6 episodes, as four different characters, plus playing herself once. She was also on 8 episodes of FI, as eight different characters.
Charo was on LB ten times (though playing the same character on nine of them), and on 3 episodes of FI (different characters each time).
Was the ship on the Love Boat considered large at the time? When I see it now, it looks so tiny compared to modern cruise ships.
You can catch reruns of LB, FI and other similar shows like Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, etc. on MeTV. In addition to being a cable channel, MeTV is often broadcast over the air. If you hook up an antenna to your TV, you may be able to find that channel in your area. A lot of old reruns are available on over the air channels, like Miami Vice, Rockford Files, Columbo, McMillian and Wife, etc etc etc.
I remember one Fantasy Island episode where a couple came to the island. The man had been there a hundred years before, and had a “Picture of Dorian Grey” style painting hanging on the wall. He wanted to sacrifice his girlfriend to the great god Pan, in order to get another hundred years of youth. (Is this the episode Morgyn was remembering?) The woman took a dim view of the idea, the man tried to force her, and Roarke took a branding iron to the portrait, breaking the spell and letting the guy die of old age in a few seconds.
I could have sworn David Hedison played the man, but the Wikipedia pages and imdb pages don’t seem to list any such episode with Hedison in it.
If you look up “The Picture of Dorian Gray” on imdb, it says it was referenced in an FI episode that David Hedison starred in.
Referring to them as “LB” and “FI” really annoys me for some reason.
Anyways, I think I watched every episode of them both, some more than once as they repeated a lot. Even the later years of Ace the Photographer and whatnot.
My main issue still lies in not understanding why they made nerdy Doc Bricker a ladies man.
You recognize Teri Hatcher, of course.
Good lord, what was wrong with Newhart?
Charo was on a lot. I think I remember one of the Barbi Benton FIs. I’m pretty sure it involved her being scantily clad. Didn’t Judy Landers appear a lot on Love Boat also? Someone else really only known for her looks.