It's May of 1980 and Season Three is coming ashore. We've got a 90 minute episode for the occasion. Julie wants to make sure you're aware of the porpoises. (You'll disappoint her if you don't look.) The most interesting casting here is an early appearance from Martin Short, about half a martini short of Ed Grimley. Christopher Norris has been receiving calls from an obscene phone caller. Is her on-board beau one and the same? Larry Breeding is good casting for the possible stalker. Catherine Bach is being protected. Her protector receives a cablegram. She's released from custody. Only our man has fallen for her. He's gonna keep protecting her. (Can't blame him there.) We've also got a subplot about a man (James MacArthur again) whose elderly aunt (Helen Hayes) may or not may be interested in a man. The man is more interested in carpets and rugs. Is he too boring? It says here that Hayes is actually MacArthur's mother. I had no idea. Oh yes, and Doc has sworn off women after a bad experience. 'I don't even miss them,' he asserts. If he can exercise such will, he'll win a bet against Gopher and the Captain. What will he do with the gorgeous Lindsay Bloom? 'I've been having these chest pains,' she says. No normal man could possibly resist! Henry Polic is selling clothes, but he might be more interested in Larry Breeding's body. We reached some, uh, real peaks in Season 3. What does Season 4 have in store? On Kafka's Love Boat Scale, this episode gets 3 * out of a possible 4 *.
The Love Boat (TV Series)
No Girls for Doc/Marriage of Convenience/The Caller/The Witness (1980)
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