Gavin MacLeod took over as the Captain on The Love Boat after the show's pilot. Why? Because the then-head of ABC felt his ...

"I guess he thought I was an extra. And even if he did, why would you do that to an extra?" he recalled in a clip from the ...

From 1977 to 1987, Ted Lange was a star on The Love Boat, playing beloved bartender Issac Washington in more than 250 episodes of the cruise-themed romantic comedy series. Over his many seasons on the ...

The Love Boat's first captain was a little too steamy for the ship. In CW's docuseries, TV We Love, there is a look back at the cast from the original Love Boat pilot, which saw Australian actor Ted ...

The Love Boat was one of the most popular television shows in the 1970s and ‘80s. It featured a beloved main cast and a weekly rotation of some of the biggest celebrity guest stars of the day. Nearly ...

It was a Pacific Princess party. The cast of “The Love Boat” reunited to celebrate the opening night of Ted Lange’s new Off-Broadway play, “Lady Patriot,” in New York City on Tuesday. Lange, 77, was ...

LITTLE POTATO SLOUGH, Calif. — Under a nearly full moon at the end of May, a 70-year-old cruise ship with a wild and enigmatic history sunk in a lonely back channel in California’s Sacramento-San ...

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Jack Jones, a Grammy-winning crooner known for “The Love Boat” television show theme song, has died. He was 86. Jones died Wednesday night at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, ...

(CNN) — From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation over the years. And the market has skyrocketed. Back in 1970, an estimated 500,000 people ...

Jack Jones, a singer who found fame and chart success on the easy-listening side of the street in the 1960s, and who later became etched in television-watching America’s psyche with the “Love Boat” ...