The Love Boat Marooned/The Search/Isaac's Holiday: Part 1 (1977–1987) watch online HD

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.

"Marooned / The Search / Isaac's Holiday – Part 1" is the first part of the first episode of the second season of The Love Boat. Guest stars include Audra Lindley, John Astin, Dick Martin, Barbi Benton, Norm Crosby, Laraine Day, Lola Falana, Donna Mills, David Birney, Avery Schreiber and Edie Adams.

In this first part,we get to see Captain Stubing,Doc,Gopher,Julie and some guests visit an uninhabited island near Cabo San Lucas.Apparently,a hermit who went nuts takes them prisoner with a gun.Then,a hurricane bears down the island.As for Gopher,he becomes anxious of his upcoming vacation that he drives away crazy.

This is definitely one episode that I hate considering that it was definitely idiotic.While the show does not provide great stories and it is not known for its brilliance but rather the guest stars that graced to the show,it won't be even up to par to the normal episodes that they have.Hopefully,something improves in the second part.

Granted, the Love Boat is hardly the place to look for brilliance, but this two-parter is truly abysmal, IMO. The Dick Martin character/storyline is just poorly written & poorly performed. The premise of the ship being threatened by a hurricane while an incompetent boob (Martin) is in charge while Stubing takes some passengers on a small boat excursion is just not funny. The Gilligan's Islandesque sequence is actually worse. John Astin has a few funny lines, but the rest...I thought the beach shack the group was "imprisoned" in was going to fall down when the characters tried to "escape." The Luke/Leia sequence with Donna Mills & David Birney is downright creepy. Those swinging 70s!