Part 3: The post-Love Boat Years The TV series The Love Boat ran from 1977 to 1986. For the quarter century that has followed, both characters have continued to entertain television aficionados and cruise ship passengers alike. While there's so much more to Gavin MacLeod than Captain Stubing, they share one majorcharacteristic. If the Captain… Continue reading Gavin MacLeod, The Captain and More
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Gavin MacLeod: His Remarkable Story
Part 1: Before The Love Boat At birth, he was named Allan See. In later years he would be called Happy Haines and Murray Slaughter and Merrill Stubing and Jonathan Sperry, among other public personas. More than any of them, he is Gavin MacLeod. Changing his given name to his current name was one of… Continue reading Gavin MacLeod: His Remarkable Story
Friday: The Love Boat's Captain
For people who remember the start of the cruise boom, there's really only one ship captain whose name will stand forever. Merrill Stubing is his name and he wasn't really a captain at all…just a man who played the role on The Love Boat, the 30-minute TV show that did something special for cruising. So… Continue reading Friday: The Love Boat's Captain
A Royal Princess and Her Ship
If we didn't know better, we'd say Princess Cruises makes up this stuff… The story starts with the fact that the cruise line's long-time spokesman is Gavin MacLeod of The Love Boat TV show. Princess finds one of its officers in training, on the way to being a captain, is named Gavin MacLeod. Now… Continue reading A Royal Princess and Her Ship
Meeting of Love Boat Captains
Several months ago on this blog, we introduced you to a Love Boat built with Lego® and the man who had no life…er, the man who built it. His name is Ryan McNaught and when he put a quarter of a million little Lego pieces together he produced a remarkable model of TV’s most famous… Continue reading Meeting of Love Boat Captains