The Love Boat

TV Opening

[@halparker9742]

As you get older you realize that your childhood was awesome. Time flies by quickly. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.

[@theodoreritola7641]

I would trade the memories to go back to 1970

[@jpyeatt9696]

@halparker9742 = best comment!

[@mrequi1]

God isnt that true

[@Dennis-kn2cf]

Feminism ruined relationships.

[@juniortorres3967]

I know!

[@masonlovesroblox]

This TV show was my mother’s inspiration for a business. In 1981, she started a very successful travel agency specializing in cruises. Mom passed away 10.5 years ago. Hearing this theme song makes me quite nostalgic. I miss you mom! Sail on! Bon Voyage!

[@chunkygroove9038]

Great to hear. I love it when TV shows inspire people to follow a new path. Your mother was obviously a woman who was not afraid to dream & turn her dreams into reality. Inspirational!

[@Alex-ve8uq]

Sorry for your loss.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Is the business still around, or what? What's the story on that? I'm legit curious.

[@TheErgoner]

Wait...The travel agency...is It "Princess cruises"? I just heard this song playing on The horn of those Cruises when It was just about to set sail here in Spain😳 Sorry if my English is a bit weird.

[@Soul03]

Wow that's so cool did you or anyone take over the business?

[@xxxx6047]

I was born 1975, Why was I in a hurry to grow up. The early 80"s best time to be alive !!! I wish I could turn the clock back to 1980.

[@rosstempletonogskater]

Me too, I would be 14 or 15

[@danielmarinucci9342]

In 1980 I was 14.

[@iTzYoMasterXX]

Same.

[@markr6358]

XXXX !!you're not the only one who feels that way

[@theodoreritola7641]

Maybe to you ,,,The 70s were way better , IM 61 I was there

[@georgeslionheart6604]

Hearing this song for the first time in decades brought tears to my eyes . It was a very good show with innocent yet challenging story lines . Always concluded well . For one hour it made us all forget about all our troubles .

[@Kharkovkid]

Elvis and "Clam Bake!" was on the late movie. Big Brother walks in and barks, "Turn that has-been hillbilly off right now!" Just then, Elvis drives into a gas station and the little hose activated bell goes Ding! Ding! My brother`s jaw drops and he says, "I haven`t heard that sound in thirty five years!!"...

[@theodoreritola7641]

I would take the troubles of the late 70s over to day ANY TIME ,,,

[@mrequi1]

@@theodoreritola7641 True, today's children will face difficulties orders of magnitude greater than anything earlier generations could have imagined.

[@JTland-sea-air]

Yes! Followed by Fantasy Island of course...

[@bulletproof6895]

Isn’t it crazy how songs or clips of our childhood evoke such emotion. Makes your realize your time on earth goes by so fast. One day your 9 yrs watching lifeboat with your mom or dad and the next you are 47 yrs old laying in bed typing this. time flies

[@stevielegend325]

wow. as soon as the song started I instantly felt the same feelings I had as a kid....just pure joy....even could smell whatever my mom would have been cooking at the time...amazing to me these songs have that power to literally bring me back in time to that level. awesome.

[@oaesan]

Me too. Oh what nustalgia!

[@kittytaylor9618]

It is amazing how things awaken our senses. This was such an innocent time, yet it’s really onerous.

[@bilkisuladan2443]

My sentiments exactly

[@spkanava]

Lemmenlaiva

[@sirrobin4394]

Me too. Very similar memories to yours. :)

[@anthonygilmore5969]

I'm 54 and remember this as I get teary-eyed lol. Me and co worker's was just explaining how they need to bring this back.

[@jasonquartin5196]

m 54 also. The 1970s were the best of times. So long ago Wish i could go back.

[@rosemarywoodhouse4832]

They definitely need to bring this show back.

[@huntercollinskelly2424]

The Love Boat theme song always takes me back to the seventies, when our family use to watch it on a Saturday night when I was a kid , simpler times an great tv

[@joesolo7719]

seriously, those were the days. great times then. Sure there were still bad things/evil in the world, but everyone collectively seemed happier. No internet no social media. But we cannot go back.

[@troygoodall4825]

Farewell to a legend. R.I.P Gavin. I enjoyed watching the Love Boat when I was growing up. Thank you for the memories.

[@thepoitinpimp9816]

He was also great in The Mary Tyler Moore Show

[@gregwatson8219]

Dorky but success ful show

[@BAKER22-l4u]

​- You sound jealous

[@mike-sylviagainey-hernande8541]

I could live 1979 to 1990 over and over again

[@yoshpeters3079]

Mike-Sylvia Gainey-Hernandez 76-90

[@kevinkelley3657]

I was born in 1972. I remember this show, and Dallas, and Falcon Crest, and Mystery Island very well. We were children then, 30+ years later, we are not children. Now, life does not seem as simple, because we now have responsibilities. Teaching the next generations is my job, because I really feel that my parents and the previous generations did no teach me much.

[@JulianneHannes]

I was born late 80s and envy those who lived then and experienced that time firsthand living in it

[@kevinkelley3657]

I am sure that everyone views their teenage years as some of the best times ever. When we pass through those years in our lives, everything is new and exciting, the politicians do not seem as dishonest, and life is just better when we are young and dumb. That being said, the music in the 80's still has no compare.

[@carmenadams575]

Oh my goodness! Me too! Over and over.😊😊😊

[@dennisleporte2327]

If us kids were good on saturday nights we used to get to stay up to watch this. If we were VERY good Fantasy Island lol

[@Briguy1027]

LOL yup yup, always a treat to stay up to watch fantasy island after this awesome show, :)

[@petebondurant58]

ABC!

[@stevemandl5140]

NBC and CBS are better

[@jamesdooling4139]

Dennis LePorte You must be my age!

[@jamsdodger8970]

I used to watch this on a Sunday afternoon. Brilliant. I've never been on a cruise, but it did look "Exciting and New" !!! It made me want to go on one though, especially on Pacific Princess.

[@franlooving4203]

Love this song!!! Love this show! I am crying at the memories of watching it with the family as a kid! Such a fun, happy show!

[@swiftkarma4436]

This song brings tears to my eyes. When I was a little girl I would dream of crusing in the 80s while watching The Love Boat. My dreams became reality when I started cruising annually from 12 yrs old until my 40s. I watch The Love Boat still because it reminds me that dreams can come true as most of mine really have.

[@theodoreritola7641]

1977 AIRED 1ST Just saying ,,

[@theodoreritola7641]

In the mid 70 we were doing that all ready, Before the 80s were in Diapers

[@theodoreritola7641]

Ist aired in Sept 1976

[@BAKER22-l4u]

Always chase your dreams

[@philaman1972]

This show was absolute magic. Saturday 8pm on ABC = TJ Hooker; 9pm = Love Boat; 10 pm = Fantasy Island. Escapist TV at it's finest!

[@healingstartswithaconversa3761]

yep!

[@susanneevans1733]

Here in Toronto on Sat. nights it was CHiPs at 8 pm, Love Boat at 9 pm and Fantasy Island at 10 pm.

[@thunderhawk11]

.. And throw in some Knight Rider, Magnum and Simon & Simon for good measure.

[@scootover7]

Now Saturday night is all about reruns, and I think back then there wasn't as many channels. it's sad 100-200 channels and almost nearly nothing on.

[@scootover7]

Yeah now Saturday nights on Network is usually reruns or sports

[@Ixapter]

One of the best theme songs of all time. :)

[@darknessthehedgehog3]

+Ixapter no kidding its even better cause of the Regal princess

[@ricotorrez7385]

+thatEquestrian .bronyfurry I know that song from me TV shows and the website is called princess cruise line

[@crucialpdenislea1963]

Best theme for me, must be the one for the Persuaders, (John Barry), Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.....

[@fred_scott6195]

Is choo havin a larf.

[@Gildedbutterfly1976]

Totally lol. Makes me want to dance around the room.

[@bigfinewomanful]

Rest In Peace Captain Stubing aka Gavin McLeod

[@atampuri69]

These were the times when we all watched the same shows and listened to the same music. Today we are so divided.

[@40Kens]

Nicely said. And I have said the same. 1970s to the mid 80s. Free TV, 13 usable channels. And we all watched the same shows. It was more unifying this way, made us all "on the same page". And a Pacific Princess Cruise of 1980 was more fun - no "War on Terror" and X-raying your luggage! People kept Love private mostly! 1980 plus/minus 5 years was a great time, less negativity and vulgarity..in ones mind. The Love Boat had at least 3 story lines or plots. 1. totally fun. 2. somewhat serious. 3. very serious theme/s.. 1980 and The Love Boat, cheaper prices, better food, more positive themes, and youthful, and people were just more sociable and friendlier then..Naturally!

[@hansgrueber8169]

Thank leftist radical educators that have infiltrated the school system.

[@panismith1544]

True 👍

[@MercuryBubble]

How sad we have variety to watch and listen to other things lol

[@1234567895182]

I disagree, with the internet, I feel we are more connected than we have ever been

[@Leprechaunproduction]

I'm a child of the 90's and never watched this show, but dangit, this is such a catchy theme! It has that wonderful 'carefree 70's feel that I've come to love from shows of that era. We need more of that feeling in today's shows!

[@pedestrianrights1257]

"We need more of that feeling in today's shows!", yeah, well you can FORGET IT. Take Star Trek, for example. They have made (here on YT), many videos MOCKING how BAD the modern Star Trek ( Discovery) is compared to the truly-awesome Star Trek the Next Generation. Everything revolves around the CULT of wokeness. Look at how they've even ruined Star Wars with wokeness.

[@-someone-.]

@@pedestrianrights1257 superman is now gay, and she hulk is trans curious. The bible says these days will come, we are in the eye if the storm right now.

[@myrablue1307]

Today's shows stink- no beautiful shows, no family shows, no TGIF that ABC had during the 1990s, no really, really funny shows...nothing. ABC is a major disappointment. The one soap they had left even sucks now.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Ya no kidding

[@theodoreritola7641]

@@myrablue1307 We had all that in the 70s ALL Ready

[@The_Lone_Wolf_Emperor_]

This intro was elegant with that elegant touch of the 1970's. I really miss those days.

[@lowbridge7070]

I remember watching the Love Boat (and Fantasy Island following it) on a regular basis every Saturday night back in the early-mid 1980s when it was still originally on the air. There was something so COMFORTING and SOOTHING about the opening theme as well as each and every episode. Entertaining too. Being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home, escapist fantasy was exactly the right kind of formula that I really needed and just PERFECT for a saturday night after a whole weeks worth of depressing, stressful nonsense. But the fact that i watched and loved the love boat was my MOST closely guarded and BIGGEST well kept secret at the time. Because a teenaged boy simply did NOT admit to his fellow teens about watching love boat as well as being a fan of that show. Not unless he wanted to be the target of ridicule. There were many tv shows around that time a teen could openly admit to being a fan of. But The Love Boat wasnt one of them. Saturday nights are just not the same without The Love Boat (and Fantasy Island) airing new episodes at its regular time (Love Boat, 9pm. Fantasy Island, 10pm). It's a crying shame, really.

[@BAKER22-l4u]

I'm sorry that you had to deal with that..Bit please know you're special, God loves you, and that you were born to do great things

[@bndkllr2763]

Everyone in my family knew, that NOTHING interrupted my mother watching The Love Boat. It was her favorite show when I was growing up in the 1980s, and we'd all gather around the television after dinner and watch it when it came on. Oh the memories. I miss my mother so much. But hearing this makes me feel like she's alive again!

[@ACNC1]

Im getting that warm 1970's fuzzy feeling again.

[@smmfm5545]

ACNC1 Between the disco beat in the theme and Jack Jones's fine singing, it's easy to get that 70s feel.

[@Milesco]

smmfm : You are so right!

[@spiff2268]

Probably the cocaine.

[@firstnamelastname-jc3oz]

duuuuude....totally

[@firstnamelastname-jc3oz]

duuuuude....totally

[@smoothflight3090]

That theme song was so beautiful to me and I believe it will always hold a special place in my memories. God bless the 80's.

[@classicalretroback]

Me too 😇💎

[@raystrong2823]

And the '70's. Show's premier season was 1976.

[@theodoreritola7641]

You missed the 70s ,, WHEN LOVE BOAT 1ST AIRED

[@theodoreritola7641]

@@raystrong2823 80s kids all ways try to rob the 70s kids In every thing from songs to movies you name it ,,

[@theodoreritola7641]

SAME HERE the 70s were very special And a great 70s tv theme song The love Boat 1st aired on tv in SEPt 1976 With the Theme its 70s Baby

[@Schlipperschlopper]

What a wonderfull great nice american good old time sound and show! The soundtrack is one of the best ever composed! Sophisticated!!

[@tkml8130]

Those were The Good Old Days!!!

[@keeppressing1760]

Let the church say amen 💯💯

[@lamontamuhammad517]

The last moment in time when growing up was fun

[@1Georgias]

Jack Jones! What a gifted singer!! Thanks Jack!

[@humbertoflores2545]

Yes he is, also an underrated singer, I was born in the 70s, but I just found out he was the performer of this TV series song.

[@justsomeplantcells-]

The brass part as well!

[@mananimal3644]

Little know fact. The Manson Family broke into Jack Jones house and robbed him in 1969. He slept through it. They stole food and valuables. If Manson killed him we would not have this song!

[@Droosmom1970]

@@mananimal3644 we would still have it, it was written by Paul Williams. But it wouldn’t be the same because someone else would be singing it. But that’s interesting! I just watched a documentary on Manson the other day. Crazy man. He was personally responsible for bringing an end to the hippie era.

[@aussieburn777]

I thought it was Alan Thicke at first till I googled it. What a great voice and one of my fav themes ever well Charles Fox 👏 how can u go wrong.

[@vontaeb8242]

The horns on this song are fantastic!!! My favorite part as a kid.

[@Timmymasu]

I love watching this with my dad. I'm 20 now but can still appreciate an amazing show when I see one.

[@leewidmayer706]

Takes me back to my youth. Loved this show. Loved his cameos on King of Queens! He and Jerry Stiller were brilliant! Hope these two guys are sharing a drink together! RIP Gavin!

[@Bartels92]

Life just seemed happier back in these days

[@scootover7]

People could take a joke better back then and weren't as stupid back then as now.

[@jane1975]

@@scootover7 Yeah, PC and social media have effed everything up.

[@johnmartinez7440]

@@jane1975 My PC is faster than ever, it's ruined nothing.

[@johnmartinez7440]

@Tricia R. Yeah, when all people had to worry about was the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation.

[@johnmartinez7440]

@Tricia R. Back in my day, we called it "not being an arsehole". Now it seems to be in vogue to be an arsehole to people, and if they don't like it then they're "too PC".

[@kittywilloughby]

...One of my all-time faves! This is classic! I always wished to be on "The Love Boat"!!!

[@Ralph10852]

Me,too Tara!

[@tuffman1970]

It took Titanic 2 hrs to sink. Took the Love Boat 9 yrs to sink. . Loved that show. That was the gateway show to watching Saturday night live. Had to make it thru fantasy Island. Then the news. If I was lucky I didn't fall asleep to watch Mr. Bill and Steve Martin's antics. What memories!!

[@chuckers40]

It's one thing to have a big hit show, but to have at least two big, long-running, (at least 5 years) Iconic series is something special.Gavin MacLeod is one of them. R.I.P. to a TV legend.

[@janemaguire6057]

Omg the love boat was a brilliant show and the theme music was the best .I still sing it today ..The 80s was the best .

[@theodoreritola7641]

The theme song is from the 70s And The Love boat was a smash hit in the 70s before the 80s even started

[@michaelbarlow6610]

"The Love Boat" was one of my favorite TV shows back in the 1980's. Lauren Tewes was so beautiful as Cruise Director Julie McCoy. The show was better in its' earlier seasons than in the seasons towards the end of its' 10 or 11 year run on ABC-TV.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Same here but back to the mid 70s When the LOVE BOAT Was Bran new

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@@theodoreritola7641 "The Love Boat" was a wonderful show up until Lauren Tewes was fired from the show. After she left the show it was never the same. Plus that show unfortunately, like "All in the Family" and "The Carol Burnett" show, failed to adhere to the old sports and entertainment truism/adage to "quit while still throwing your fastball". "All in the Family" should have ended its' brilliant run with the episode in which Mike and Gloria Stivic leave NY to move to California. Unfortunately Carroll O'Connor foolishly decided that the show should go on and continued it as "Archie Bunker's Place" which was never anywhere near as funny as "All in the Family". He didn't do the wise thing that Mary Tyler Moore did when she ended her show while it was still a great show. She saw the first signs that that show's writers were running out of fresh ideas for stories and wisely ended that great show before it had a chance to decline in quality!

[@theodoreritola7641]

@@michaelbarlow6610 Yes your right , And both great 70s tv shows

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@@theodoreritola7641 . If Carroll O'Connor had ended "All in the Family" with the episode in which Mike and Gloria leave NY to move to California, that show would be rightly regarded as one of the all-time greatest shows ever. But it will forever have the enormous blemish of continuing too long which sadly marred its legacy!

[@rodneypartin4445]

Listening to this song and looking at the actors from the 70s makes me sad but with a big smile because the 70s were without a doubt the best time and there is no comparison to today.

[@theodoreritola7641]

100 percent AGREE ,,

[@theodoreritola7641]

NOT EVEN CLOSE

[@BAKER22-l4u]

Sad how..It was a special time

[@johnwalton2019]

What a glorious time period the 80s were, we never knew how good we had it did we?

[@theodoreritola7641]

But it was on in the 70s before the 80s were in diapers .The Love Boat was a huge hit in the 70s all ready for 4 years

[@Angel-xd9lt]

We were lucky I was born in 1977 and I grew up with all of this TV was my babysitter and I would watch Family Ties and other TV shows like Charlies Angles and the late 70's and 80s and 90s were the best I would give anything to have those days back again and I miss Tower Records so much. We had shopping malls and TV shows and great movies and people were nicer and people danced and sang. Were so lucky now everything sucks now. I hate 2024.

[@mperry1329]

I loved this show when I was a kid on Saturday nights with my mom and my sister and we baked cakes for both the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. It was a fun time. My mother passed away April 7, 2019 and it's been exactly a year since she has been gone.

[@ICTS22]

I to have very fond memories of my parents taking me to her sister's house where I would get to stay up late and watch Love Boat, Fantasy Island and maybe even the midnight movie if we were lucky while they made sweets to take to church for the old folks. Such simple times...

[@mperry1329]

@@ICTS22 there was also shows like Charlie's Angels, Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, & Quincy, etc. They were interesting & fun to watch, also, the theme music scores for these sound really cool back then and even today(including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Baretta, and the music score for Gilligan's Island also).

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

@@mperry1329 at least you have something to remember her by. May she forever Rest In Peace 😔🙏

[@benrat5759]

the 60s 70s & 80s had the BEST TV shows ever...hands down..at 52 l thank God l grew up during those times...l feel sorry for this young generation ...awful cartoons, tv shows and movies most part its nothing but reality shows today...R.I.P classic shows from 1950s - 1990s.

[@davidcattell7631]

60s 70s 80s excellent Tv shows then am 50 years old now you can get them on dads I Will always remember 60s 70s 80s so sad for the young generation tv then was better than now

[@szvqorwnpstahskypfwmp9821]

God, I miss the old days when The Love Boat was on!! It was America at its finest. The best era in American history.

[@TheTRAINOR11]

One of the best opening tv shoe sings EVER !!! Things were so much more humane and loving back then...miss those days !

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 1st show of the LOVE BOAT was in Sept of 1976, I was There ..

[@oldschooldogy316]

I miss this show so much even though I never watched it for more than a few minutes. It reminds me of my childhood in the 80's. I used to love the opening theme. I guess my mother watched the show because I heard this opening theme ever Saturday night. It was one of those shows that I really didn't watch but still fell in love with the opening theme like Dynasty, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, etc. TV shows from the 70's and 80's had the greatest opening themes in my opinion.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Very good 70s theme song to a very good 70s tv show That ran threw the 80s

[@Bouncybon]

The Love Boat was total escapism promoting the most escapist holiday category of them all - cruising! I enjoyed it because it was so undemanding. Very relaxing too, after a tough day at the office - back in the 1970s! In those days no-one had ever heard of Islamic terrorism.

[@WillScarlet1991]

Or Israeli terrorism.

[@32bikkeltje]

Bouncybon True...we should have closed the borders permanently....

[@TheEnd-jt1db]

THEY TOOK YER JERBS!!!

[@italodiscohd]

Thank you. This needed to be said.

[@zanti4132]

The escapism was most obvious in the scenes by the pool. On the TV show, the extras in the background all looked like supermodels. On an actual cruise ship, most of the people by the pool look.... well.... catch my drift?

[@Ekkie101]

Jack Jones. One of the great singers of the twentieth century. And he's still doing it in his eighties.

[@antd8259]

The theme song is truly magical. I was born when it aired but i was very young. I remember my mother watching it. Truly comfort tv. You just can't get this style of comfort from today's tv...

[@johnsurgers1211]

one of my favorite shows of all times in the 80's.

[@ricardomurillo5205]

There is a lost episode where Kitt and airwolf take a vacation on the love boat and have a super baby ship that talks. And a new show is born: the knightwolf

[@theodoreritola7641]

And mine in the 70s When the Love boat started

[@dfszczepan]

This was such a great show, and I always loved the theme song, sung by Jack Jones. Thanks so much for posting!

[@nicolemilman1795]

I awoke this morning with this theme in my head 😀 and it’s been decades since I heard it. Wild that I can find it in a moment!

[@jrob07105]

My fave show and theme song of all time. Just so beautiful! I STILL get goosebumps when he gets to “And love won’t hurt anymore…” then that big buildup to Lauren Tewes ❤

[@sidneycollier74]

I never missed every episode!!!...I was so in love with Julie and Jill Whelan!!! This is when tv was everything!!! Loved this time!!!

[@theodoreritola7641]

Ist show was in 1976

[@MrBusholiday]

Over 6 million people have viewed this video and only 9,000 votes? I think the majority of folks just enjoyed hearing this wonderful song from a better time. Thank God for the music made in the 60's and 70's. We can travel back in time recall our favorite memories from that period. Thank you puntadeleste for posting it!

[@BAKER22-l4u]

And the problem is what?

[@amosnorman548]

Wow!!! Time sure Flies! I was born 1969! Was in Jr. high and grade school watching this with Matt Houston! Mork and Mindy! Laverne and Shirley! The Brady bunch! Bosom buddies! Knight rider! Bay Watch! Dawsons Creek! Melrose place! Beverly 90210! Etc. Wish I could turn the clock back! 55 now but still have the strength of a teen thank God!

[@FoneArc]

Remember hearing this song when I was just a toddler. It's been seared into my memory. Good times.

[@jackycook64]

Wow! This brought back memories. I used to watch this every day before kindergarten. I had a cardboard box that I called my "Love Boat box" fully equipped with a pillow, blanket, and munchies. Every day I would pull my box into the living room in front of the TV, climb into it, and settle in for my daily dose of day time drama. My Love Boat box and I never missed an episode! 😂

[@myrablue1307]

Everyday? You must have been watching reruns. It came on Saturday night at 9pm Eastern Time...or was it 8?

[@steveespinola7652]

Life was so simple back then, I miss those days.

[@bash8257]

Farewell Captian Stuebing, safe voyage

[@VIRIATO1942]

I loved to watch the TV Series and the song was always a favorite of mine. "Love Boat" did more for promoting the desire in people to go on a Cruise Vacation than all the advertising combined put out by the Cruise Lines.

[@sydneystroud4397]

Power of TV...

[@gan9e]

Life's sweetest reward... The Love Boat.

[@highstimulation2497]

oh my god, I used to RECORD this song on my child's tape recorder every day! loved it!

[@carylschoonmaker5985]

God, I miss 70's television. Everything was family oriented and just plain entertaining. You didn't have to think about it, analyze it, or write somebody and bitch about it. It was just there for us to enjoy.

[@TheaterPup]

Actually the 70s were quite a mature decade as well as far as sexuality. And the adults were constantly analyzing and bitching about how TV and disco were destroying America, lol.

[@noledelgado8111]

This brings back the yesteryears when I watch it during the 70s. I really love the song 'cause it sounds so full of love.

[@noledelgado8111]

I guess Ray Baby that only time will tell if that would happen. But I surely hope that Hollywood can bring back the likable & adorable episodes of The Love Boat to a new generation.

[@THECLARENCES]

They had to add in that extra musical beginning because there were so many guests! The best! Miss this era...so simple and sweet. xoxo The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)

[@StarzzyJJASD]

Wonderful memories as a young boy growing up in Manchester England I used only dream off what it would be like to go on a cruise 🚢 I thought it was only for the very wealthy people now I’ve been fortunate to have taken my daughter on 20 cruises so we can make beautiful memories ❤ together

[@robindew9072]

Loved watching the Love Boat every week. Waiting to see what stars they would have on. Great show. The 80s rocked. Best decade ever

[@monito19802000]

Oh memories! When TV programs used to be good.

[@StukInBuf]

When they didn't resort to sexual or bathroom humor to make an effect.

[@matthewboyd68]

There were plenty of bad shows and songs back then too history always remembers the good parts and forgets the bad stuff that’s how nostalgia works

[@robertchan5805]

Polymath Voyd really?! Name some then 'bad's' !!!

[@matthewboyd68]

@@robertchan5805 about half the stuff you find on amazon prime tv

[@matthewboyd68]

Robert Chan and the movies that you see on mst3k if you take out the commentary

[@victorrojas2238]

Very beautiful Santiago de Chile 🇨🇱!!!

[@blucolife]

This is the TV show that made me fall in love with cruises. My first cruise was actually a Princess from Venice to Barcelona, in 1985 I think. Back then, ships didn't have as many amenities, the arcade only had a few machines, but I still manage to have a great time.

[@brokedownsystem]

It's amazing that this show survived until 1987. I could've sworn it was off the air by 1982-1983.

[@lisaweiner9981]

The love boat will Always be my favorite show .

[@Purple1984Rain]

Love the taste of cheesy 70's nostalgia. We're expecting you Jack Jones to let it flow just one more time. Sing it baby!! :)

[@markreynolds9153]

Cheesy 70's lounge lizard style. I feel like I'm 12 again.

[@theriddler8695]

I want to do a Love Boat marathon in honor of the passing of Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod} 🛳 Bon Voyage 🎉🎉🎉

[@dayshiftnowknd7853]

Isaac points and then cracks-up. That just makes me happy 😃

[@michaelbrown4047]

I don't know exactly what brought me here. I'm gonna go with nostalgia. And if you didn't point back at 1:25, there is a hole in your soul. You always knew who Isaac was gonna hook up with by watching the special guest star credits and seeing if a black actress would appear on that episode.

[@SecondEvilEx]

I thought I was the only one who pointed back at Isaac.

[@michaelbrown4047]

Luna Fischbach your soul, it turns out, is whole....

[@enonereh3964]

Michael Brown Who did he hook up with?

[@stevenwebb7936]

+Michael Brown, Isaac is the man!

[@SecondEvilEx]

+Enon Ereh he'd hook up the guest stars with their one true pairing.

[@GenderSkins]

I use to watch this back when I was a kid, and loved every bloody minute of it. I even wanted to grow up faster, so I could board the ship to find the love of my life. And I asked my mom once, if this was a real ship in which people could sail on. She said yes, that it actually was, and that many of the people in the show was just simple passengers of that ship. Course I think it was mostly filmed on a building that was designed to look like a boat, but who knows it was a good show none the less. And I for one miss old shows like this.

[@wesmantooth5908]

RIP Captain. Set a course for adventure 🛳

[@1921RCP]

I was 17 years old when this show aired in 1976, it was fun to see stars from other shows aboard the cruise ship. ⚓

[@ijoelvillaruel]

THE CATHOLIC BOAT!!!

[@Bigbasssix1972]

Isaac Villaruel LOL!!

[@kylymapy]

+Isaac Villaruel no se burlen de la iglesia

[@MisterX867]

Ah callate con tu maldita iglesia

[@jahnaroth669]

Isaac Villaruel I didn't see Bishop Sheen did you?

[@jahnaroth669]

Isaac Villaruel that's not a crack about Achille is it? oh cause ya don't schprecken deuch? oh so it's a PLO jab by a dude named Isack wow great shit too bad ya did it, and what's that National Anthem? oh yeah - it's Mommie Egypt's and always will be........the Love boat exciting and new come aboard were expecting you.....

[@afroblack1000]

How come theme songs of the 60s, 70s and the early 80's are the best?

[@DarkMoonGeneral]

Because thats when tv was great.

[@afroblack1000]

agreed

[@Spontainiouz]

because people were far FAR more creative back then. Today everybody has a one track mind

[@afroblack1000]

Leon Gulley So true, its all about computer generated music done within 30mins

[@redskies9893]

afroblack1000 I think the anti depressant drugs have killed creativity in hollyweird

[@jawi9972]

I love to see you people remembering past times and telling the stories!...keep it up please

[@patricktilton5377]

Remember when Ted Stryker was escaping the mental hospital in AIRPLANE: THE SEQUEL, sneaking along a brick wall . . . and then there's that lounge singer singing the LOVE BOAT theme?

[@jackgotscard1161]

One of the best parts in the movie! The singer is actually Jack Jones -who sings the LB theme.

[@AB-fm2zn]

@@jackgotscard1161 Jack has a great song called Wives and Lovers from the 60s

[@bubhub64]

I loved Ted Lange, he was the coolest!

[@Brisco1]

This song has been playing on a loop in my mind all day 😅

[@jamesjones6049]

Woke up this morning with this song in my head...I miss all of these shows

[@Bert_de_Wit]

This song reminds me that i'm getting old. Sitting on the couch as a kid watching the show, wedged inbetween mom and dad. Now mom and dad are both gone, but the memories will remain forever.

[@monicarichardson2086]

I tear up whenever I hear this! It takes me back to a time when everything was simple & great!!!!

[@joesolo7719]

exactly. no internet or social media. More family values. sure there was evil and bad things going on in the world, but people just seemed a bit happier back then, dare I say...

[@ThirdProletariat]

I wasn’t even born but this song absolutely slaps makes me feel like going on a cruise

[@anthonys2818]

What wonderful memories listening to this song. One of my favorites to watch at 9pm. Miss show’s like this 💎 ❤

[@mrdre78]

This song popped into my head just now, so I played it for my 5 and 10 year old while lip syncing....they said they'll never forget it (while on the floor laughing at (with) me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾‍♂️😊😊😊...I grew up in Jamaica in the 80s, this show was HUGE!!!

[@raystrong2823]

🤣🤣😆that's children for you. You've given them something they'll remember for the rest of their lives. And they'll recall it and laugh fondly when they gather together in their 50's on, long after you've passed. How do I know? My little sister and I do those same things as 66 & 64 yr olds now thinking back on our daddy and the antics he did with us as children. It really is priceless.

[@domenicricci2978]

RIP Gavin MacLeod As Your Captain. May You Set Sail Into Heaven. You Will Be Missed.

[@rexiiforsure9558]

Gavin Macleod, great memories of him as the captain. An episode with Alan Hale Jr (skipper on Gilligan’s Island) as co-captain would have been fun! Also, as I mentioned previous an episode with Alfred E Neuman (Mad) would have been funny, especially seeing him in the opening credits!

[@GooglyMcDoubleface]

This show actually reminds me of a song disco back in the 70's for some reason. I love these shows. I think it was must be an angel. Something close to that.

[@michellepost3098]

Everyone has heard the phrase 'comfort food'. The Love Boat, Sunday Night Mystery Movie, and Hee Haw are my nostalgic comfort shows. And TV movie bumpers make me feel nostalgic, too. I was age 13 in 1974, and graduated May 1979. Awesome era for TV shows!

[@theodoreritola7641]

OOO Yah

[@theechoinggreen6175]

Used to watch this in the 80s with my Dad when I was a kid, happy times...

[@Tepporama]

This song makes me taste root beer floats! My grandma would make us kids root beer floats and we would watch Love Boat 🥰

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

These were the best of times in television, the 1970's and '80s. They no longer make such great timeless classic shows anymore.

[@myrablue1307]

They make crap. ABC sucks. CBS and NBC I never liked.

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

@@myrablue1307 ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN. All fake news networks now.

[@brigidhunter1699]

Truly ,God You blessed allá those years of Childhood and teenegerhood thanks for ley me live this wonderful years

[@tomlinkowski1697]

ABC every Saturday night in the 1980s, 8pm TJ HOOKER, 9pm THE LOVE BOAT & 10pm FANTASY ISLAND!. OMG! I miss my childhood!!

[@StargazerFS128]

Amazing how childhood feelings and memories rush back when watching these classic show intro's.

[@2quann]

I use to watch this show on my granny's little black and white television. Damn I miss those days when you had only a few channels to choose from.

[@handeyecoordinationskills]

Very sorry to hear the passing of Gavin, I'm a 51 year old man in Ireland 🇮🇪 and I loved watching it in the early 80s when I was 10yrs old

[@stevarino1989]

God, to have been in my 20s back in 1977, when Saturday night television was worth watching. I don't think there's been a Saturday night prime time sitcom since the days of the Golden Girls/Designing Women in the 80s. At least we have Me-TV now.

[@vaccumsealed]

haha. I was reading where u said, "I don't think there's been a prime time Saturday night show worth watching" and I thought u were gonna go on to say the love boat while I was personally thinking about the golden girls. Suddenly, there it WAS! U actually said what I was thinking. haha. I can still remember that line up like it was yesterday. Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, then The Commish. Ugh. Thankyou for being a friend is now ringing in my ear. I know what video to watch next. Onward!!!

[@umaga3501]

Yes good ol days, I was watching another channel they got now called Decades

[@johnnytuffguyful]

+Dee Ray Actually Hunter was on after Nurses. The Commish was on ABC.

[@ricotorrez7385]

+johnnytuffguy the song from me TV shows and the website is called princess cruise line

[@apriljones1013]

+AJ C Yes exactly