Two survivors of the 1960s show "Laugh-in," Dick Martin and Jo Anne Worley, board for this cruise, in separate stories.
Worley plays a woman who's having a wedding cruise. She plannrd her wedding down to the limo driver. All she doesn't have is a groom. Will a little advertising help complete the ensemble?
Martin plays a scientist (donning spectacles is LB shorthand to let us know he's smarter than the average bear; and the glasses also mean, in Love-Boat-speak, he can't see what's right under his nose). On the LB all scientists and researchers are a little mad, but Martin takes the cake.
He's researching sexual stimulation. Bringing along his research asst., who has a crush on him, he proceeds to treat her with absolute aloofness. How can she scheme to turn that around?
Finally, former football player Rosie Grier plays a former football player at loose ends who threatens Gopher and Isaac, for different reasons. The former keeps putting his foot in his mouth; the latter takes the football player's wife (Melba Moore) for a guided tour while Rosie moves and feels sorry for himself. Who will survive?
A nicely comic episode. Thanks to Gopher all three story-lines get the laughs (though Dick Martin occasionally overplays his hand). They even manage a few surprising twists, though the climaxes paint by numbers.
The lively Worley, who always brightened the dreariest "Laugh-In," (as a seven year old I loved most Worley and the guy in the raincoat riding a trike) makes every scene she's in shine. She effervesces.
Like God and Gaul, Love Boat episodes are in three parts, usually with one skippable story thread. In this outing a game cast makes the entire episode watchable, though Worley's third is way out in front while Martin's trails the field. As nutty as Martin acts normally it might have been a good idea to ring in a more serious actor as the researcher.
Worley plays a woman who's having a wedding cruise. She plannrd her wedding down to the limo driver. All she doesn't have is a groom. Will a little advertising help complete the ensemble?
Martin plays a scientist (donning spectacles is LB shorthand to let us know he's smarter than the average bear; and the glasses also mean, in Love-Boat-speak, he can't see what's right under his nose). On the LB all scientists and researchers are a little mad, but Martin takes the cake.
He's researching sexual stimulation. Bringing along his research asst., who has a crush on him, he proceeds to treat her with absolute aloofness. How can she scheme to turn that around?
Finally, former football player Rosie Grier plays a former football player at loose ends who threatens Gopher and Isaac, for different reasons. The former keeps putting his foot in his mouth; the latter takes the football player's wife (Melba Moore) for a guided tour while Rosie moves and feels sorry for himself. Who will survive?
A nicely comic episode. Thanks to Gopher all three story-lines get the laughs (though Dick Martin occasionally overplays his hand). They even manage a few surprising twists, though the climaxes paint by numbers.
The lively Worley, who always brightened the dreariest "Laugh-In," (as a seven year old I loved most Worley and the guy in the raincoat riding a trike) makes every scene she's in shine. She effervesces.
Like God and Gaul, Love Boat episodes are in three parts, usually with one skippable story thread. In this outing a game cast makes the entire episode watchable, though Worley's third is way out in front while Martin's trails the field. As nutty as Martin acts normally it might have been a good idea to ring in a more serious actor as the researcher.
