The Love Boat - Season Two - Vol. 1
by Alan Rafkin, Allen Baron, Bob Claver, George Tyne, Gordon Farr
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Actor: Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Gavin MacLeod, Lauren Tewes, Ted LangeDirector: Alan Rafkin, Allen Baron, Bob Claver, George Tyne, Gordon Farr
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 660 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Love Boat - Season Two - Vol. 1
Movie Review: Pure viewing pleasure!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had been waiting for LOVE BOAT to come out on DVD, but it wasn't until I watched these again that I realized that this is the greatest cheese show of all time! I loved this and FANTASY ISLAND as a kid, but back then, I preferred the strange adventures of ISLAND. Watching these now, the goofy take on male/female relations and the mixture of tears with bad jokes is camp heaven. I love the relationship between the crew and seeing a rotating collection of stars great and small making their weekly visits. All the two hour films have been awful, so skip those and settle in for a consistently silly and wonderful show. It WOULD be nice to see an interview or two with the cast and I would love to get the Andy Warhol episode as a bonus! Please, keep 'em coming!
Summary of The Love Boat - Season Two - Vol. 1
LOVE BOAT:SEASON TWO VOL 1 - DVD MovieSealed with a kitsch, The Love Boat cruised into its second season as one of television's top 20 shows and guiltiest of pleasures. Leaving uncharted waters to edgier shows of the day, The Love Boat was pure escapist entertainment. Each of these 13 episodes steers a tried and true course through three stories; one involving the crew members, another played for laughs, and the other more dramatic, but with a reassuring finish that allowed everyone to disembark with hope of a happy-ever-after. Each episode, too, is a minor miracle of casting with a star-studded roster ranging from seasoned Hollywood veterans to fresh faces just finding their sea legs. Vincent Price is featured in a Halloween episode as the Amazing Alonzo, who almost makes his fiancée (Joan Blondell) disappear for real when he keeps their engagement a secret from admiring female passengers. June Allyson stars as a woman losing her eyesight, with Van Johnson as her over-protective husband. Robert Reed is a man who witnessed a shooting but is afraid to testify, with Toni Tennille as a woman with a personal stake in the case. And Jill Whelan is introduced as Vicki, the young daughter of Capt. Stubing's lost love. On the lighter side, we have Billy Crystal as a shy young man by day, masked kissing bandit by night, Soupy Sales and Jo Anne Worley, as a buttoned-up boss and his adoring secretary who awaken after a drunken party in the honeymoon suite, and John Astin as a hermit who maroons Captain Stubing (Gavin McLeod) and company on his deserted island. The Love Boat isn't Shakespeare, but the writers must have brushed up on classic films to pay homage to the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera stateroom scene (ship's engineer Larry Storch's large Italian family is smuggled aboard so he can celebrate Thanksgiving with him) and Ninotchka (Loretta Switt stars as a humorless Russian who gets an extreme makeover). In these tumultuous times, The Love Boat remains the quintessential "Stop the World" series that allows viewers too forget their troubles. So when goofball Gopher (Fred Grandy) dons women's clothing to protect cruise director Julie (Lauren Tewes) from an overeager passenger (Red Buttons), your blissful smile is The Love Boat's "sweetest reward." --Donald Liebenson
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