Ex-con Eddie Riggins (
Richard Kline), whose lawyer Gloria Baxter (
Vicki Lawrence) got him pardoned from prison after he was convicted of embezzling, confesses to her that he actually committed the crime after all. Hollywood public relations firm employees Doris Talbot (
Debbie Reynolds) and Marsha Stern (
Marilyn Michaels) are slated to book movie stars on a special Celebrity Cruise, but accidentally book the real celebrities on a different ship and wind up impersonating the celebrities, themselves, to keep Julie (
Lauren Tewes) out of trouble with the increasingly impatient Captain Stubing (
Gavin MacLeod). While researching an upcoming stage role as Florence Nightingale by working as Doc's (
Bernie Kopell) nurse, actress Phyllis Faraday (
Carole Cooke) meets and takes a liking to Sam Zacchary (
Forrest Tucker), who doesn't like show business types.
—Maisie Fleckum