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3 unusual facts about The Love Boat


Battle of the Network Reality Stars

Mechanical Bull Riding (guest referee Ted Lange of The Love Boat fame) - Team Dark Blue won, followed by Team Green, Team Underdog, and Team Red.

Coins in the Fountain

The song Three Coins in the Fountain was recorded by Jack Jones (the singer of The Love Boat theme) and used in this film.

Rob Dames

He started his career in the film industry in 1977, with credits including The Love Boat, Benson, Marblehead Manor and Full House.


Bayn Johnson

After outgrowing The Electric Company in 1975 (she was replaced by another blonde, Janina Mathews as "Gail"), Johnson made television appearances on The Love Boat, Police Woman and Switch.

Catherine Parks

Parks has made guest appearances on TV shows such as The Love Boat, Three's Company, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Street Hawk, Tales from the Darkside, Hunter, and Empty Nest.

Jaime Lyn Bauer

Jaime has guest starred on numerous primetime TV shows, including The Rookies, S.W.A.T., The F.B.I., Bronk, Baretta, Kate McShane, CHiPS, Time Express, Lottery, Mike Hammer, The Young Riders, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel and Knots Landing.

Jolene Blalock

She made her television debut in sitcom Veronica's Closet, before guest appearances in The Love Boat: The Next Wave, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, JAG and starring as Medea in a 2000 television movie adaptation of Jason and the Argonauts.

Monster Squad

The series stars Fred Grandy (who also starred in The Love Boat and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum".

Patti Davis

She made a number of supporting acting appearances in the late 1970s and early 1980s, guest starring on shows such as The Love Boat, CHiPs, Nero Wolfe and Fantasy Island.

Peter Coffield

Coffield guest starred on several TV shows throughout the '70s and early '80s, including The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Eight Is Enough, Wide World Mystery, Family, and Love, Sidney, and he acted in TV movies such as Washington: Behind Closed Doors, and The Man Without a Country.

R.S. Allen

Usually collaborating with longtime writing partner Harvey Bullock, Allen co-wrote for a large number of television programs, including The Andy Griffith Show, The Flintstones, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Hogan's Heroes, and The Love Boat.

Shane Van Dyke

Shane Thomas Van Dyke is the son of Mary (Carey) Van Dyke and actor Barry Van Dyke (Airwolf, The Love Boat, Diagnosis: Murder) and grandson of the entertainer Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Night at the Museum).

Tiffany Welles

She was played by Shelley Hack and her debut coincided with the fourth season premiere, "Love Boat Angels" (episode 69), which was a crossover with fellow ABC hit The Love Boat.

Trish Stewart

She guest starred in numerous television shows in the 1970s including Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Trapper John M.D., Barnaby Jones and The Streets of San Francisco, Sword of Justice, Project U.F.O., The Rookies, CHIPs, Most Wanted and Bert D'Angelo, Superstar.


see also

Bernie Kopell

Kopell's longest-running role by far was as Dr. Adam Bricker on The Love Boat, an Aaron Spelling production.