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I had to look over the cast for this movie, New Love Boat and Love Boat Book II, to see what I did recall from where.

I really vaguely recall the other two, but this one, the first one, I do remember.

Remember nothing about the crew. Didn't know we were supposed to be watching them or what a 'pilot' was.

And I didn't know Tom Bosley and Cloris Leachman were from this one either. I thought they were in one of the other movies. Don't know what their story was. I think they were more just part of Karen Valentine's and Hal LInden's.

The stories. Like so many episodes of the TV show would have.

It began with Gabe Kaplan, a letch on the ship, out for a good looking babe. He finally gets her, this blonde.

"Love it." All she would say.

He wines her, dines her, then he gets her alone.

She speaks with a voice on helium (oh, it wasn't her real voice. It sounded like a cartoon). She said she would eat all the chocolate she wanted now that she found love and it would make her break out, but she knew he loved her.

Story two would be Hal Linden and Karen Valentine. She was a bit of a klutz. They actually married on the ship, and as he went to put the ring on her finger, she drops it and dives to the floor after it.

I miss Karen.

Story three was a totally unrecognizeable Florence Henderson with a slimy Don Adams. They were an unhappy couple. He sought to have her accidentally killed in a stage act where the performer would shoot a gun with blanks at a certain bar stool, and Adams would get Henderson in that chair.

He switched bullets, got her to the chair and waited. As he waited, Flo confessed she knew all to him, and she wanted their marriage to work.

The performer, thinking the gun had blanks in it, aimed at Florence.

At the end of the movie, Karen went off with Hal, Florence and Don . . . departed (won't say how it turned out, tho I loved Florence's last line to Don in that cabin!) and then we see Gabe.

Running. Fleeing. Trying to escape from the pursuing blonde.

"And my mother will move in with us, and we will be so happy!" KNowing nothing about the show, or the following movies (which again, I remember nothing about them) this movie stood well on its own. I wouldn't mind seeing it again sometime.

But I sure don't recall if that song was on it either, tho I do remember the final music with Gabe running was by and large the actual theme music.

This was the beginning of the long running TV show.

Captain Stubing was cool because he knew all about life which was far out because he was just a freaking sailor; Julie was the cruise director who made good money at the bars picking up johns late at night; Doc was a laugh-riot since he considered himself a ladies man...pffft!; Issac was the jive bartender who liked to dance and time permitting, he even made a few drinks for the customers; and Gopher was a screw-up, but he was a lovable one, so its OK.

What a motley group, but we loved them because they were always there when we didn't have anything better to do on Saturday night. Good show.