First Voyage, Last Voyage/April, the Ninny/The Loan Arranger

Episode aired Jan 17, 1981
TV-G
1h

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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Charo and Larry Linville in The Love Boat (1977)

Comedy Drama Romance

A young woman falls in love without knowing that her health is in danger. April becomes a nanny to TV sportscaster Ty Younger's kids. A loan shark sends one of his men to collect a debt, but... Read allA young woman falls in love without knowing that her health is in danger. April becomes a nanny to TV sportscaster Ty Younger's kids. A loan shark sends one of his men to collect a debt, but complications arise.A young woman falls in love without knowing that her health is in danger. April becomes a nanny to TV sportscaster Ty Younger's kids. A loan shark sends one of his men to collect a debt, but complications arise.

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Goofs
While Cindy and Paul are talking on the fantail after Cindy discovers that she is still sick, the rear-projection background of the ocean and sky suddenly skips, making the horizon momentarily jump up. (This happens right after Cindy tells Paul, "I'm frightened.")

Connections
References Captain Kangaroo (1955)

Soundtracks
The Love Boat
Written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox
Performed by Jack Jones

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Marcia, Marcia, Marcia never acted better

Maureen McCormick, who after graduating from "The Brady Bunch" just seemed to grow lovelier right up to her appearance in "Touched by an Angel," is a woman who looks great but is actually (unbeknownst to her) dying. How will the man she's fallen for (an unlikely Jay Thomas) react? She even gets a chance to emote. It doesn't get better than this. From adolescence I was a "Marcia" kind of guy.

Charo is back coochee-cocheeing around with her ambiguities about show biz and Larry Linville's monster children.

Richard Kline is a bruiser working for a shady loan company on the cruise to rough up a client. Then the client turns out to be the girl he's fallen for (Lisa Hartman).

A ship filled with 1970s celebs whose names have faded, without one old-time movie actor whose stars will never dim.

But even the cloyingly sad episode is watchable this time, rather than something to fast-forward through. IMHO one of the better episodes.

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