The Love Boat — Season 9
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 (25)
1. A Day In Port
Aired 28 September 1985
2. Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
Aired 5 October 1985
3. Hidden Treasure/Picture from the Past/Ace's Salary
Aired 12 October 1985
4. German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (1)
Aired 2 November 1985
5. German Cruise: The Villa/The Racer's Edge/Love or Money/The Accident (2)
Aired 2 November 1985
6. Forties Fantasy
Aired 16 November 1985
7. Good Time Girls/The Iron Man/Soap Star
Aired 23 November 1985 • 60 min
Three college girls are mistaken for prostitutes; fitness guru Andy suffers fainting spells during triathlon training; Aunt Sylvia's friend Betsy auditions for a new part on their soap opera with Sylvia's lecherous co-star Roger.
8. Trouble in Paradise/No More Mister Nice Guy/The Mermaid and the Cop
Aired 30 November 1985
9. Roommates/Heartbreaker/Out of the Blue
Aired 7 December 1985
10. The Father of the Bride/The Best Man/Members of the Wedding
Aired 11 January 1986
11. Dare Devil/ Picture Me as a Spy/ Sleeper
Aired 18 January 1986
Ace's cabin has been searched and he suspects a spy team work. Doc's new patient is sleepwalking. A woman is scared by her boyfriend's risky stunts.
12. Hippies and Yuppies/ Frat Wars/ Return of the Lambdas
Aired 25 January 1986
13. Miss Mom/ Who's the Champ/ Gopher's Delusion
Aired 1 February 1986
14. Egyptian Cruise (1)
Aired 8 February 1986
15. Egyptian Cruise (2)
Aired 8 February 1986
16. Hello Emily/ The Tour Guide/ The Winning Number
Aired 15 February 1986
17. The Second Time Around/ Hello, Spencer/ Runaway, Go Home
Aired 22 February 1986
18. The Art Lover/ Couples/ Made for Each Other
Aired 1 March 1986
19. Second Banana/The Prodigy/What Goes Around
Aired 8 March 1986
20. Gothic Romance/Whatever Happened to Crazy Joe Flash?
Aired 15 March 1986 • 60 min
21. The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction
Aired 22 March 1986
The crew frantically take care of last minute business when a famous newspaper psychic arrives and predicts that the world will end during the cruise; while on his way to wed in Mexico, a young tycoon with amnesia who disappeared a few years earlier falls in love with his wife from his previous life; a woman whose husband is deceased is courted by a former boyfriend, only to find out that her husband's will called for the liason.
22. Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (1)
Aired 3 May 1986
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
23. Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labors Found/Marry Me, Marry Me (2)
Aired 3 May 1986
In this episode set aboard the Vista Fjord, a woman reporter who thinks bullfighting is immoral falls in love with a young man destined to be a matador because of his obligation to the family patriarch, Portugal's greatest matador; Isaac meets and falls in love with a wacky woman who is conning everyone, including him, but her real problem is that she has run away from her boyfriend and is pregnant; a young womanizer cleverly pursues both Vicki and Judy and, as it turns out, many other women on the ship; an older woman, just out of prison for murdering her husband, reunites with her daughter, incognito at first.
24. My Stepmother, Myself/ Almost Roommates/ Cornerback Sneak
Aired 17 May 1986
Vicki becomes jealous of Captain Stubbing's bride-to-be (the sequel to this episode is ""Happily Ever After...""); the new Assistant Cruise Director-Entertainer finds out that he has to share his cabin with a gruff cook instead of with the girlfriend that he brought along; a pro football has-been tries to romance the team's new owner, a woman, with a mind to get her to keep him on the next season's roster.
25. Happily Ever After/Have I Got a Job for You/Mr Smith Goes to Minikulu
Aired 24 May 1986
Captain Stubbing prepares for his shipboard wedding and then gets married (this episode continues the storyline initiated in "My Stepmother, Myself"); as Gopher vacillates about his plans to leave, Ace is continually nominated and unnominated for Gopher's job; Gopher's bids farewell to his job and Loveboat friends when he accepts a job managing a South Pacific resort, Minikulu.