Hellivision

Yes! Love Boat is available on DVD! Call me lame, but I’ve already watched every episode available and I’m champing at the bit for the next release. Those marketing geniuses at ABC really know what they’re doing!

I’ll refrain from the usual Issac is everywhere joke and make just one observation: Julie is a slut! I never realized what a floozy she could be - probably because I was still young and innocent when this show was in reruns. I remember Doc being a sexual libertine, but I was shocked to see that fresh-faced, goody-two-shoes, one-piece swimsuit wearing Julie try to lure some different guy back to her cabin on almost every cruise.

Side note: one Love Boat related image that’s burned into my brain is Doc in bed with two lady passengers. Considering the TV standards of the day though, I’m now wondering if my perverted mind came up with that image on my own. Why would I make that image up? I’m a little skeeved out by the implications. Hopefully somebody else remembers an episode where that happened. If so, please comment!

One last thing: I think the opening theme song is at least in the top five of all time TV theme songs. I can’t stop singing it.