Love Boat
Television series | |
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German title | Love Boat |
Original title | The Love Boat |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Year (s) | 1977-1986 |
Episodes | 249 in 10 seasons |
genre | comedy |
Theme music | Jack Jones |
idea | Aaron Spelling |
music |
Paul Williams , Charles Fox, Duane Tatro |
First broadcast | September 24, 1977 on ABC (USA) |
German-language first broadcast |
January 2, 1985 on Sat.1 |
occupation | |
Love Boat (Original title: The Love Boat ) is an American television series, which was first produced by Aaron Spelling Productions , then by the Douglas S. Cramer Company and finally by The Love Boat Company from 1977 to 1986.
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The passenger ship Pacific Princess sails with its crew around Captain Stubing across the world's oceans and docks at various dream destinations, such as the Caribbean , Egypt , Scandinavia , Europe or Hong Kong . The passengers, mostly American guest stars from that time, as well as the crew experience both romantic, exciting and cheerful stories during the journey.
Cast and dubbing
Role name | actor | German dubbing voice |
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Captain Merrill Stubing | Gavin MacLeod | Joachim Kerzel |
Dr. Adam "Doc" Bricker | Bernie Kopell |
Friedrich G. Beckhaus Reinhard Kuhnert |
Paymaster Burl "Gopher" Smith | Fred Grandy | Wolfgang number |
Bartender Isaac Washington | Ted Lange |
Manfred Lehmann Kurt Goldstein |
Cruise Manager Julie McCoy | Lauren Tewes (1977-1984) | Karin Buchholz |
Vicki Stubing , the captain's daughter |
Jill Whelan (guest roles in 1977 and 1978, 1979–1986) |
Melanie Pukass |
Cruise Manager Judy McCoy | Patricia Klous (1984–1986) | Sabine Jaeger |
Ashley "Ace" Covington Evans | Ted McGinley (1984-1986) | Udo Schenk |
Guest stars
Well-known passengers on the Pacific Princess included a .:
- Don Adams
- Eddie Albert
- Debbie Allen
- Kirstie Alley
- Don Ameche
- Loni Anderson
- Melissa Sue Anderson
- Richard Dean Anderson
- Ursula Andress
- Edward Andrews
- Alison Arngrim
- Frankie Avalon
- Hermione Baddeley
- Douglas Barr
- Kathy Bates
- Meredith Baxter
- Stephanie Beacham
- Ed Begley Jr.
- Shari Belafonte
- Pamela Bellwood
- Dirk Benedict
- Lee Bergere
- Milton Berle
- Bill Bixby
- Linda Blair
- Ray Bolger
- Sonny Bono
- Ernest Borgnine
- Tom Bosley
- Eileen Brennan
- Lloyd Bridges
- Raymond Burr
- Cab Calloway
- Leslie Caron
- Diahann Carroll
- David Cassidy
- Carol Channing
- Cyd Charisse
- James Coco
- Dabney Coleman
- Jack Coleman
- Joan Collins
- Chuck Connors
- Joseph Cotten
- Courteney Cox
- Bob Crane
- Billy Crystal
- Robert Culp
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Bill Daily
- Tony Danza
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Troy Donahue
- Howard Duff
- Patrick Duffy
- Herb Edelman
- Erik Estrada
- Linda Evans
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- Morgan Fairchild
- David Faustino
- Corey Feldman
- Mel Ferrer
- Joan Fontaine
- John Forsythe
- Michael J. Fox
- Anne Francis
- Gary Frank
- Robert Fuller
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Melissa Gilbert
- Robert Ginty
- Ruth Gordon
- Harold Gould
- Robert Goulet
- Farley Granger
- Stewart Granger
- Karen Grassle
- Peter Graves
- Erin Gray
- Lorne Greene
- Andy Griffith
- Buddy Hackett
- Joan Hackett
- Tom Hanks
- Mark Harmon
- Julie Harris
- Jenilee Harrison
- Lisa Hartman
- David Hasselhoff
- Richard Hatch
- Teri Hatcher
- Olivia de Havilland
- Helen Hayes
- Katherine Helmond
- Florence Henderson
- John Hillerman
- Mitzi Hoag
- Lee Horsley
- Susan Howard
- Trevor Howard
- Hunter tab
- Janet Jackson
- Glynis Johns
- Dean Jones
- Shirley Jones
- Steve Kanaly
- Howard Keel
- Gene Kelly
- George Kennedy
- Werner Klemperer
- Jack Klugman
- Don Knotts
- Diane Ladd
- Lorenzo Lamas
- Dorothy Lamour
- Audrey Landers
- Judy Landers
- Peter Lawford
- Cloris Leachman
- Janet Leigh
- Larry Linville
- Heather Locklear
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Shelley Long
- Patrick Macnee
- Lee majors
- Randolph Mantooth
- Pamela Sue Martin
- Ricky Martin
- Virginia Mayo
- Rue McClanahan
- Roddy McDowall
- Kristy McNichol
- Anne Meara
- Lee Meriwether
- Ethel Merman
- Ray Milland
- Yvette Mimieux
- Erin Moran
- Rita Moreno
- Pat Morita
- William R. Moses
- Julie Newmar
- Leslie Nielsen
- Jeanette Nolan
- Lilli Palmer
- Rowdy Roddy Piper
- The Pointer Sisters
- Markie Post
- Vincent Price
- Luise Rainer
- Phylicia Rashād
- John Ratzenberger
- Della Reese
- Joe Regalbuto
- Clive Revill
- Debbie Reynolds
- John Knight
- Joan Rivers
- Doris Roberts
- Pernell Roberts
- Tanya Roberts
- Tim Robbins
- Ginger Rogers
- Cesar Romero
- Mickey Rooney
- Telly Savalas
- Martin Short
- Jaclyn Smith
- Suzanne Somers
- Elke Sommer
- Tori Spelling
- Jean Stapleton
- Jerry Stiller
- Susan Sullivan
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Holland Taylor
- Renée Taylor
- The Temptations
- Alan Thicke
- Heather Thomas
- Jay Thomas
- Sada Thompson
- Gordon Thomson
- Lana Turner
- Robert Urich
- Brenda Vaccaro
- Robert Vaughn
- Ben Vereen
- Village People
- Robert Walden
- Jimmie Walker
- Nancy Walker
- Ray Walston
- Andy Warhol
- Adam West
- Betty White
- Mary Wickes
- Cornel Wilde
- Vanessa Lynn Williams
- William Windom
- Michael Winslow
- Shelley Winters
- Jane Wyatt
- Jane Wyman
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
- Stephanie Zimbalist
Adaptation
The German television series Das Traumschiff , which has been filmed by ZDF since 1981 , is an adaptation of Love Boat . As in the original, the passengers are well-known (German-speaking) actors.
Sequels
The television film Love Boat: A Valantine Voyage was produced for American television in 1990 . Between 1998 and 1999 the less successful follow-up series Love Boat - Off to New Shores with Robert Urich as Love Boat captain Jim Kennedy was created. Other leading roles are Phil Morris, Stacey Travis, Corey Parker, Randy Vasquez, Kyle Howard and Joan Severance. In the episode "The old crew" ( English "Reunion" ) Gavin McLeod, Bernie Kopell, Jill Whelan and Lauren Tewes come from the old team again on board the new Love Boats.
Background information
- Between 1976 and 1977, before the series started shooting, three Love Boat television films were made. The first television film (The Love Boat) is about the journey around the captain Thomas Ford ( Ted Hamilton ) (the characters "Gopher", played by Sandy Helberg , and "Isaac", played by Teddy Wilson , already existed). In the second TV film (The Love Boat II) , the actors of "Gopher" Smith and bartender Isaac took over their roles, the ship was commanded by Captain Madison ( Quinn Redeker ). Bernie Kopell, who later became Dr. Bricker, played the role of Dr. O'Neill. It was not until the third TV film (The New Love Boat) that all the actors in the later series were included.
- The series is based on a novel by Jeraldine Saunders . In The Love Boats she describes her experiences on a passenger ship as a ship hostess. Elements from the US series The Gale Storm Show , which was produced between 1956 and 1960, can also be found in Love Boat .
- The consequences usually have three, or sometimes more, storylines written by different authors. There is a subtitle in the opening credits for each storyline.
- Some of the Love Boat episodes have an original length of 90 minutes. For the German broadcast on Sat.1 , entire storylines were cut out of these episodes in order to be able to shorten them to 45 minutes. Some of the long episodes were also broadcast as a two-part series. It also happened that the cut out storylines were inserted into other episodes, for which others had to give way. In addition, more than 30 episodes have not been broadcast to date.
- While all episodes of the German adaptation Das Traumschiff were filmed on passenger ships, the majority of the episodes of Love Boat were recorded in a studio setting. Only a few episodes and a few scenes were actually shot on the Pacific Princess . The extra-long episodes are an exception, they were filmed on various cruise ships.
- Due to the frequent change of scenery, The Love Boat - unlike in many American comedy series (e.g. Golden Girls , Will & Grace or The Mary Tyler Moore Show ) - was not recorded in a theater atmosphere in front of a studio audience; here the laughing noises actually came exclusively from the tape. The background laughter contained in the original was left out in the German dubbing.
- The theme song Love Boat was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox. It was interpreted by Jack Jones, in the last season by Dionne Warwick.
- For the episode Adventures in the Caribbean of the American series Charlie's Angels (also produced by Aaron Spelling ) the Love Boat was the setting.
- The crux of the story about the Love Boat was the ship Pacific Princess , which was launched under the name Sea Venture in 1971 at Nordseewerke GmbH (then still part of Rheinstahl) in Emden (Lower Saxony). The series also used:
- its sister ship Island Princess and the
- Stella Solaris (in the Mediterranean),
- Pearl of Scandinavia (in China),
- Vistafjord (from 1981 also the first dream ship ),
- Royal Viking Sky (in Europe) and
- Royal Princess (in the Caribbean).
- In February 2012, the former Pacific Princess was bought by a Turkish abandoner for 2.5 million euros and scrapped in Aliağa .
Parodies
- In the film The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship (1982), pilot Ted Striker ( Robert Hays ), after escaping from the mental hospital, walks past Jack Jones, who is singing the Love Boat theme song in the limelight .
- In Ace Ventura - An Animal Detective (1994), the private detective Ventura greets the entrance of a party with “Hello Captain Stubing!” Because he looks very much like him in his uniform.
- In the comedy series Saturday Night Live (1994), the Love Boat is parodied in addition to Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century . Picard actor Patrick Stewart wears a captain's hat and stands at a steering wheel on the bridge of the Enterprise . On the model of the spaceship Enterprise , the Pacific Princess is merged with the saucer section. After the typical Star Trek introduction, which Stewart interprets a little differently (it starts with "Love, the final frontier ..."), the opening credits are underlaid with the Love Boat intro.
- In an episode of the US comedy series MADtv , the opening credits of Love Boat were parodied. In the Love-Titanic sketch, the Love Boat and Titanic were mixed together.
- In episode 8 of season 6 of South Park , Love Boat's opening credits are parodied as Catholic Boat .
- In the comedy series Sketch History , Love Boat is parodied under the title War Boat , in which the plot is transferred to the battleship Bismarck and officers of the Navy appear as the main characters .
- In the series "The L Word - When Women Love Women" reference is also made to Love Boat and Captain Stubing as well as Julie.
- In the film Running Man , a poster with the words "Hate Boat" hangs in the moderator's office.
Web links
- Love Boat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What is Canned Laughter? , WiseGEEK.
- ↑ Old love is rusting: “Love Boat” is being scrapped , Spiegel Online , March 12, 2012.