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I never understood why Lauren Tewes got fired for being a cokehead.

Let's see...super-skinny, extremely perky '70s actress turns out to like nose candy. Gee, how unusual. C'mon, this was common as mud in Hollywood of the late '70s and early '80s. I say there's some other reason they gave her the boot. Something sinister. Bob Woodward needs to ditch whatever pansy-ass subject he's investigating this week, and dig up the dirt on The Firing of Julie. Instant bestseller.

Hey! Danno, watch what you say. What's wrong with collecting bugs as a hobby? I did it when I was a kid...it's a great way to learn about our little friends.

I don't agree with you completely about a show like LB being 'better' for people to watch -- lowering your standards to avoid seeing anything remotely related to reality is not a healthy way of dealing with your insecurities.

As for Horatio -- well, yes, he's a wooden prop that they just keep around the backlot until they need him for a shot.

This show was pure camp. But let's be fair, the Love Boat was more suitable for a TV audience than the current fare of sick cop shows (CSI-L&O).

Better to see bland, campy characters than strange, creepy guys like Gil Grissom and Horatio Caine. At least Capt. Stubing never kept a collection of bugs in his office or tilted sideways at the camera with dark sunglasses making goofy one-liners. LOL

I always hated that the ever-cool and wonderful Murray Slaughter morphed into the boring and soulless Captain Stubing. When the show originally debuted, I almost cried when I saw what they did to my Murray. Yecchhh.

I hate to say it, because I really do despise this show with all of my soul, but the Love Boat is pretty much the sum total late-seventies experience. That's pretty sad and says a lot about us as a society.

I don't know about y'all, but I always thought Gopher was smokin' hot.

The main thing I remember about Julie was her hairstyle - it was a true tribute to the hot roller feathered style of the 70s.

Reading these posts it seems like everyone watched The Love Boat with their grandparents, as did I (on a B&W TV, no less, but maybe I would otherwise be blind from the "fashions" featured). I would love to watch it today while puffing on a mary-juana cigarette. P.S. Poor Lauren Tewes became a complete cokehead and was subsequently fired. In some of the episodes just before she was canned you'll notice the sparkly eyes and not-quite-there expression. Did she and McKenzie Phillips have the same dealer?

When I was just a little kid in '78 and '79, I used to watch this with my grandma and grandpa in their den and it was the highlight of their primetime-TV enjoyment. I would like to find out if it airs at all on cable now, because back then I was too young to relate to most of the conversations.
I was just amazed by this big glamorous ship, and figured you had to be fabulously wealthy or A-list to get on it at all. Now I'd like to watch it so I could laugh about Charo, cheesy plots, and Seventies cruise apparel.

Will you ,for the love of humanity,stop picking on Vicki???? If anything, she , along with the gorgeous Lauren Tewes, added years to a show that really wasn't any good. BTW, check Vicki out in that '84-'85 uniform! That sight was the only reason to endure this show!

LOVE THIS SHOW FOR ITS FROTHY, MINDLESS ESCAPISM,BUT GOT CHEATED ON THE DVD SET, 1/2 OF A SEASON FOR $30, WHAT A GREEDY RIP-OFF

Carmen said: "I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was

1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid"

Carmen, don't forget that it also taught us that, in order to be a TRUE success, a cruise ship should also have:

7) A guest list comprised of washed-up actors
8) The same situations occurring on every cruise
9) A crew of employees constantly on the make
10) Extras paid union scale wages to sit around the pool in bikinis (okay, I admit THAT one does help!)

I found the Love Boat to be very informative. Let's face it, before Love Boat I never really knew that all it took to run a major cruise ship was

1) a Captain
2) An assistant pursor
3) A bartender
4) A Dr.(marginal)
5) A entertainment director
6) A cute kid

The Love Boat was the type of show that could only have been hatched in the seventies. Where else could you get then-current day TV stars and an endless parade of has-beens working together??

Cheesy comedy and ridiculously overdone musical sequences = prime time gold. At least back then, anyways.

A few years ago, TV Land reran a Christmas episode where Jack Jones (singer of the show's theme song) played a singer on the cruise. He launched into a relentlessly cheery rendition of "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland" than sent me into utter hysterics! I laughed for ten minutes straight. It was just so over-the-top with this big, smiling doofus singing so happily. You have to see it to understand.

Yes, I must admit, I watched it too. And it got worse when ABC began airing daily repeats Monday-Friday in the afternoons. I would watch those during the summer, as if seeing them once wasn't enough.

Anyone know anywhere that may have posted up the Deacon Dark scene from the Love Boat? I'd love to see it again, but its not on youtube.

So BAD it's Good!