By today's grandiose standards for cruise ships, the old "Love Boat" of TV fame might well be called a bucket of bolts. But the fact it's being reduced to that is, well, kind of sad. This year, she is bound for Turkey. Her final hours will take place in a shipyard not far from the… Continue reading Does Nobody Love The Love Boat?
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Ships Becoming Sound Specific
When the Royal Princess makes its grand entrance next month in Southampton, the ship's horn will play the theme song from The Love Boat…and if you don't know the tune you weren't watching TV in the '70s. Princess calls it "a whimsical decision." Until now, to the best of our knowledge Disney was the only… Continue reading Ships Becoming Sound Specific
Gavin MacLeod, The Captain and More
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
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