One *Love Boat *episode had Sonny Bono play a reluctant Alice Cooper expy named Deacon Dark. Say what you want, but with better production, this would probably be better than 80% of the 1970s hard rock.
Thanks to the magic of YouTube, I just watched this episode. It’s not the one where Roarke quotes Barrett-Browning.
My father said it was “nothing but sex.”
Yeah, I have no idea either.
Um, I only watched Love Boat as a drinking game as an undergrad, and I don’t remember too much except little snippets…:rolleyes:
Yeah, yeah, that’s the one I remember!
Best Love Boat? Was when they drove into a storm and the bartender, I think his name was Isaac emptied the pool out and got promoted. I don’t know why the rest of the crew was MIA.
Best Fantasy Island? Hands down when Mr Roark fought the devil.
Eight appearances, as six different characters, plus playing herself in the same episode in which Barbi Benton played herself. 
Judy’s lookalike sister Audrey was on four episodes of Love Boat.
There was one episode I recently caught on MeTv. I was flipping through and had to stop. I didn’t remember seeing Nazis on the Love Boat. They were in Amsterdam for this episode. George Kennedy was an OSS officer captured behind the lines. Chloris Leachman betrayed him to the Nazis and he was tortured. When they meet up again we see in flashbacks she actually saved his life because everyone he was with was murdered by Nazis. They lived happily ever after. Also Captain Stubbing falls in love with Elke Summer but rejects her when he finds out she is a madam.
Pretty dark for a Love Boat.
I saw that one recently too - Vicki also fell for a fugitive who was really a prince.
Because he was nerdy and that he was a Ladies Man was the joke? That’s the way I recall it.
And plus, women go for Doctors, no matter what they look like. Trust me, this I know.
They looked as much alike as sisters often do, but no more than that.
Ah yes, the Landers siblings were the hot sisters that people thought were the worst example of working minimal talent on the Ho Stroll until those people with the K surname came along and showed us that there are indeed several rungs below what we thought was the bottom.
I was a pre-teen to teen when these shows first aired.
I loved the theme song for The Love Boat, especially the Jack Jones version. I would try to catch the opening every week. Then I’d wait to see who were the guest stars that week. If there was a cutie like Morgan Brittany or Loni Anderson, I’d stay tuned for the whole episode. If not, I’d change it to Airwolf or the Saturday Night Movie on CBS.
As for Fantasy Island, I always wondered how awesome “Hawaii” was as the “Hawaiian Girls” came running out of the cottage and Mr. Rourke and Tattoo followed. Years later we took a school trip to the Arboretum about 15 minutes from home. And there is the exact cottage from TV. Little did I know back then.
Wait. They didn’t film in Hawaii?
One of the sisters had at least some talent; whichever one was in Chorus Line the movie.
Audrey. And, of course, her big number in that film was “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three.” 
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It was a passenger, the wife of the Doctor’s old mentor. The mentor was a surgeon who had lost a hand in an car accident (his wife was driving). He was torturing her and she was taking pills (Valium?) to cope with it.
I do remember that one. The mentor was terribly disappointed in Doc for not making more challenging career choices. Then Doc was able to spot the wife’s drug addiction which had gone unnoticed by the mentor. That WAS a good episode.
They’d gone on an outing ashore and gotten detained by a hermit (John Astin - oh, man, I need to re-watch this), leaving a second-line crew behind. The replacement captain (played by Dick Martin, I see) had no idea what he was doing, sitting still and waiting for the regular crew to return instead of getting out to sea and outrunning the storm (as Captain Stubing said he would, in what was actually a pretty fair piece of acting for MacLeod). I’m not sure if Issac (who was actually on vacation at the time) actually got a promotion, but he did earn a set of epaulettes from Stubing as a sign of respect. The IMDB recap can be found here.
I heard somewhere that that number had a different title in early runs of the show, but the producers watched the audience during a performance and they weren’t reacting. Of course, everyone had looked through their programs and seen the title, which gave away the surprise of the song.