The Love Boat: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Love Boat Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who?/Rocky
Sep 23, 1978 · 60 min
Julie's parents arrive on board the Pacific Princess and announce their plans to divorce; an author of morally uplifting pamphlets and a prim censor fall in love while sharing a ca
The Man Who Loved Women/A Different Girl/Oh, My Aching Brother
Sep 30, 1978 · 60 min
A man makes a move on three women; not knowing that they are travelling companions. Captain Stubbing's god son is taking a cruise with his wife, whom he married two years ago but h
Where is it Written?/Julie's Aunt/The Big Deal
Oct 14, 1978 · 60 min
Captain Stubing's Uncle Cyrus uses every trick in his devious mind to get Julie alone, until her ""Aunt Phoebe"" intervenes; a desperate businessman uses his daughter as bait to cl
The Kissing Bandit/Mike and Ike/The Witness
Oct 21, 1978 · 60 min
A shy young man becomes a completely different person at night; a businessman who doesn't have time for his family learns a valuable lesson; a man who believes his chances of survi
Ship of Ghouls
Oct 28, 1978 · 60 min
A magician keeps his engagement secret in order to dazzle female audiences, while his neglected fiancee turns to Captain Stubing for comfort; Doc and Gopher pursue a model who is a
Accidental Cruise/The Song is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
Nov 4, 1978 · 90 min
An executive and his secretary are mistakenly assigned the honeymoon suite; a songwriter's music renews a woman's love for her husband; Captain Stubing meets his daughter by a form
Till Death Do Us Part - Maybe/Chubs/Locked Away
Nov 11, 1978 · 60 min
A ghost experiences jealousy as his mission to find his wife a new husband appears to be succeeding; overprotective Gopher mistakenly entrusts his kid sister to Doc to stave off th
Tony's Family/The Minister and the Stripper/Her Own Two Feet
Nov 18, 1978 · 60 min
Crew members make a valiant effort to keep six stowaways a secret from Capt. Stubing; a church member disapproves of her minister's new romance; a nearly-blind woman refuses to adm
Folks from Home/The Captain's Cup/Legal Eagle
Dec 2, 1978 · 60 min
Doc must perform a risky operation after an accident; one of the ship's laborers is recruited to replace a missing dignitary; a bitterly divorced man has it in for his ex-wife's at
Isosceles Triangle/El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks
Dec 9, 1978 · 60 min
A beauty can't choose between Captain Stubing and Doc; a man and his wife return to the ship with an orphaned boy; a hospital executive falls for a seemingly successful businessman
Double Wedding/The Dummies/Julie Falls Hard
Dec 16, 1978 · 60 min
Identical twin sisters decide to swap fiances; a separated ventriloquist team use their dummies to rebuild their relationship; a handsome widower proposes to Julie, who has fallen
Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
Jan 13, 1979 · 60 min
Doc's ex-wife hires an actor, who takes his role a bit too seriously, as her fiance; a philandering marriage counselor's wife seeks solace from Captain Stubing; a woman pretends to
Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
Jan 20, 1979 · 60 min
Gopher quits his job to manage a new hotel; a wealthy eccentric widow books a five-year passage and begins meddling in the crew members' lives; a magician tries to avoid his assist
Like Father, Like Son/Don't Push Me/Second Chance
Jan 27, 1979 · 60 min
A father takes too much of a liking to his son's new girlfriend; a bachelor is terrified at the idea of marrying his gung-ho girlfriend; the crew gives a troubled teen a chance at
Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (1)
Feb 3, 1979 · 60 min
Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.
Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy (2)
Feb 3, 1979 · 60 min
Julie's high-school class holds its ten-year reunion on board the Pacific Princess.
Dream Ship/Best of Friends/Aftermath
Feb 10, 1979 · 60 min
Crew members learn that Captain Stubing is under consideration to take over a prestigious cruise ship and go overboard to help their captain make an outstanding impression; a woman
A Good & Faithful Servant/Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover
Feb 17, 1979 · 90 min
Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam
Mar 10, 1979 · 60 min
Julie ends up in the middle of an unusual love triangle when the visiting 13-year-old son of the head of the cruise line develops a crush on her at the same time that she is trying
Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker/Murder on the High Seas
Mar 17, 1979 · 60 min
A singer tries to persuade his manager to let him abandon the shock tactics that made him famous and let his music speak for itself. He becomes even more determined to establish s
Super Mom/I'll See You Again/April's Return
May 5, 1979 · 60 min
One-time stowaway April Lopez returns to the ship as a popular singer. However, she grows tired of the hassles of fame and decides that she would like to become a cruise director.
Third Wheel/Grandmother's Day/Second String Mom
May 12, 1979 · 60 min
Gopher gives his parents a cruise as a Mother's Day present. Gopher's father grows jealous of the close relationship between mother and son. An older couple, who has finally seen