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The Kids Are Alright (2018)
What happened to this show?
This was a great show, one of if not the best on television. Why on earth did it only run for one season?
The Love Boat: Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday: Part 1 (1978)
Isaac is The Man
We're working our way through vintage Love Boats in a quest to find the best of 70's and 80's TV (ahem). Last night's classic was the 2 part second season opener Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday. What a dumpster fire this is.
Captain Stubing decides to take a group of passengers (Barbi Benton, Avery Schreiber and his hair, Edie Adams (widow of Ernie Kovacs), and Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper)) to a deserted island off of Cabo, leaving the ship in the (in)capable hands of Dick Martin, fresh off of Laugh-In. Once on the island they are kidnapped by hermit John Astin (Gomez Addams) and imprisoned in his apparently impregnable bamboo hut. Meanwhile back on the ship, Deputy Captain Dick Martin repeated ignores hurricane warnings and is confronted by Isaac, who is vacationing by taking a cruise on the ship (where he works?) and pretending to be a big shot while romancing Lola Falana.
SPOILER ALERT - the storm hits and the inept Captain Stubing and his crew, who are responsible for over 600 lives on the ship, still cannot seem to escape from Gomez's palm leaf prison. Whatever. Anyway, the storm rips the roof off, Gopher goes outside during the storm (?) to check it out and gets hit with a coconut tree, knocking him cold and causing him to hallucinate about Farrah Fawcett. Cue dramatic moment from Julie McCoy your Cruise Director. Back on the ship Isaac tells everyone to ignore the deputy captain (mutiny?) and saves all the passengers singlehandedly. Captain Stubing and crew finally escape the island but Mrs. Roper falls for Gomez and decides to stay. The Captain eventually thanks Isaac for saving the ship and says he's getting a promotion "and an extra stripe in your next pay envelope," but we all know that Isaac is still a bartender on the same ship 8 years later. We feel for you, Isaac. The most impressive thing about these episodes is that somebody actually got paid to write them.
The Love Boat: Too Hot to Handle/Family Reunion/Cinderella Story (1978)
Kathy Bates, Bob Crane and a weird twist
Besides having an early appearance by Kathy Bates, this first season episode also stars Bob Crane in his last IMDB acting credit. In an ironic twist, another actor in this same episode, Bruce Solomon, also appears later in the 2002 film Auto Focus, about Bob Crane's murder.