The Love Boat — Season 8
You Say You Can't Score on Shore? On This Cruise... You Can't Lose!
About this season
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Episodes (27)
1. Doc's Slump/What a Drag/The Crew's Cruise Director
Aired 22 September 1984
2. Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (1)
Aired 29 September 1984
A man who appears to be running gets the papers of one of the ship's deck hands and goes onboard. Vicki's attracted to him. But they soon discover that he is wanted by Interpol and when he explains that he paid the deck hand for his papers, and that he's a prince who just wanted to get away from his duties, she doesn't believe. Eventually he is taken away. Laterwhile out walking she sees a Royal entourage and sees that he was telling the truth. A woman runs into the man she was involved with during the War and it seems that she turned him into the Nazis. While she remembers him, he doesn't recognize her. And somehow they end spending time together and she senses that he still harbors ill feelings for the girl who turned him in. She later reveals who she is and he shuns her. Later when they run into each other again, he says that he forgives her, that she did it to save herself. She then says that she didn't do it to save herself but to save him. It seems that after she pointed him out
3. Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat (2)
Aired 29 September 1984
4. Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call me a Doctor
Aired 6 October 1984
5. Only The Good Die Young/ Honey Beats The Odds/Light Of Another Day
Aired 13 October 1984
6. Soap Gets in Your Eyes/A Match Made in Heaven/Tugs of the Heart
Aired 20 October 1984
7. And One to Grow On/Seems Like Old Times/I'll Never Forget What's Her Name
Aired 27 October 1984
8. Aerobic April/The Wager/Story of the Century
Aired 3 November 1984
9. The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master
Aired 10 November 1984
10. By Hook or By Crook/Revenge With the Proper Stranger/Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Aired 17 November 1984
11. My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (1)
Aired 24 November 1984
12. My Mother, My Chaperone/The Present/The Death and Life of Sir Alfred Demerest (2)
Aired 24 November 1984
13. Paying the Piper/Baby Sister/Help Wanted
Aired 1 December 1984
14. Country Blues/A Matter of Taste/Frat Brothers Forever
Aired 8 December 1984
A cute country girl who aspires to be a singer falls for a young country music star, but his manager knows that his star can only write songs when sad; two interior designers, former lovers, compete to redecorate the ship and eventually end up together again; one of Doc's womanizing fraternity brothers from his college days arrives on board, but with his male lover secretly in tow.
15. Santa, Santa, Santa/Another Dog Gone Christmas/Noel's Christmas Carol
Aired 15 December 1984
16. Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS
Aired 5 January 1985
Two older men, Leslie and Shelley, paired up by a confused blind dating service, chase the same woman; instead of meeting her fiance, a young woman gets a ""present"" of her fiance's friend to console her because her fiance has dumped her; Isaac chases a passenger who follows a silly, cult-like philosophy ""Being Of Self"", and in the process alienates the crew and almost gets fired.
17. Ace Takes the Test/The Counterfeit Couple/The Odd Triple
Aired 12 January 1985
One of Ace's old high school girlfriends, now married to an impotent man, wants an embarrassed Ace to father her child; Gopher falls in love with an older woman, while that woman's daughter falls for Gopher; two total strangers share the honeymoon suite because they independently bought their tickets from a couple whose wedding was cancelled.
18. Love on the Line/Don't Call Me Gopher/Her Honor the Mayor
Aired 26 January 1985
19. Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (1)
Aired 2 February 1985
20. Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm (2)
Aired 2 February 1985
21. Ace Takes a Holiday/The Runaway/The Courier
Aired 9 February 1985
A courier (Michael Spound) refuses to remove the briefcase handcuffed to his wrist but pursues a fellow passenger (Charlene Tilton); a woman (Florence Henderson) can't understand her daughter's (Tracy Nelson) hostility toward her stepfather (Peter Mark Richman); Ace (Ted McGinley) is temporarily sidelined with an injured foot, replaced by Kim (Michelle Johnson) and nursed to health by a female passenger (Marla Heasley).
22. Getting Started/Daughter's Dilemma/The Captain Wears Pantyhose
Aired 16 February 1985
23. Vicki's Gentleman Caller/Partners to the End/The Perfect Arrangment
Aired 23 February 1985
24. Judy Hits a Low Note/Love Times Two/The Problem With Papa
Aired 23 March 1985
25. Charmed, I'm Sure/Ashes to Ashes/No Dad of Mine
Aired 30 March 1985
26. Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (1)
Aired 4 May 1985
a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.
27. Caribbean Cruise: Call Me Grandma/A Gentleman of Discretion/The Perfect Divorce/Letting Go (2)
Aired 4 May 1985
a very proper and stiff British ex-military officer is put in charge of the fun-loving and energy-filled Menudo group; a young couple is confouded because Doc seems very much in love with his visiting ex-wife, a fact Doc attributes to the fact that he is divorced; Vicki falls for a young man who is continually coddled by his mother, who seems not to want to let him grow up.