Crime Cruise: Love Boat Exposed

Send us Fan Mail Teenage Runaway Girl? Captain's Paternity Tested! A study of Playboy magazine and body hair Producer Caleb in Stranger Things inspired drag? We celebrate one year of podcasting Love Boat Exposed!! Visit LoveBoatExposed.com to dive deeper, and connect with the show; send us a message or record a voicemail for air. Make sure to subscribe - we're on all your favorite podcas...

Send us Fan Mail Julie Newmar + Don Knotts !! The mis-match of the century!!  Now The Love Boat has had pretty much every cast member from another of our old favorite TV shows, Three's Company! That's right, Catwoman from the original Batman TV show and Classic TV's own Barney Fife / Mr. Furley .  Seduction. Impersonation. Pregnancy? Another plot touches on The Holocaust. Heavy.  Ar...

Send us Fan Mail 🛳️ New Lows are Hitting the Deck on this Episode: 🤪 The sad use of the word "Re*ard" (multiple times) to describe a young mentally handicapped boy - by his mom, Three's Company's Joyce DeWitt (!) 😞 The act of constant sexual harassment and possibly the other "R-word" - as a creep over-powers a woman for the entirety of the cruise - and her man, Thre...

Send us Fan Mail 🚕 Pretty lady propositions shlub taxi driver & pulls him onto cruise! 🍑 Doc's bare butt stars in a sick office-bedroom adventure!! 👰‍♂️ Doc Marriage proposal? Lady Doc humbles Doc Briker! 🤒 Lovesick crew member redemption arc?! Caleb's Rule?   "If best friends kiss 50 times, it's not considered just best friends anymore." —  Producer Caleb Charlott...

Send us Fan Mail 🎉💍 Season 3 Begins - Fall 1979 with a Big Fat Wedding in Alaska!!  🏔️ Goodbye Mexico as Love Boat heads north to North America's Final Frontier 👮 NCIS' Mark Harmon in his 20's! 🏃 Man leaves bride at alter for ex-girlfriend? 🪮 Mrs. Roper is back again as Three's Company continues to stock the cruise guest list 🐎 Doc high-horse as he disapproves of someone&...

Send us Fan Mail Season Two Double Header!! Too much packed into just one show!! 👨‍🎤 Sonny Bono is a Goth Death KISS Rocker ☠️ Overheard Murder Plans! 👵 Grandma gives birth in a sick Doc Experiment?! 👩‍🦰 Redheads femme fatales seduction! 🧏‍♀️ Say it isn't so: Fun with a deaf character? 😴 Goodnight Season Two ... and nearing the end of the 70s decade🪩🕺☮️ The Innocence of Gopher "...

Send us Fan Mail 🏩 Julie sets her sites on a senior dude - we're not sure why ❤️‍🔥 A prepubescent boy falls in love with ... Julie. Thank you, Stubing. ⛽ Gaslighting behavior on full display ✊ Evil capitalists vs. union organizers? 👖 Stolen clothes that magically fit the thieves 🤓 and a side-dish of manipulation of slow adults  " The Portrayal of Female Characters on Love Boat &quo...

Send us Fan Mail 🌶️ Papa Stiller caught with Charo in his hot little hands?! Ben Stiller 's Parents are aboard! (Anna Meara and Jerry Stiller ) 🕺 Multi-talented Corey Feldman makes his Love Boat Debut! 😳 Julie unknowingly trains Charo in the art of seduction!! 💔 Stolen Love? A buried story from WW2 creates tensions and mystery. 🌩️ " The Sins of Our Fathers" ' ... that's...

Send us Fan Mail 🔮 Appropriation and the Gypsy fortune-teller 💐 Didi Conn ("Frenchy" from Greece) visits - and Gopher practices the art of deception 🐷 The Captain is a Sexist Pig 🔍 GRANDY WATCH Begins: Gopher: Congressman and Politico? Body Positivity : "If you guys saw me at the beach, you would all think that I was some kind of a monster. I have a umbrella. I've got a hat...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode? Wild. Visit LoveBoatExposed.com to dive deeper, and connect with the show; send us a message or record a voicemail for air. Make sure to subscribe - we're on all your favorite podcast platforms!  rsmedia.group creations Fair Use Act Disclaimers Information contained on this podcast and all related materials is for criticism and commentary, as well as...

Send us Fan Mail 🔄 EPISODE REWIND  Top-Rated Episode of Season 2 (Originally aired Nov. 30 2023) 👙 A bikini-clad Barbi Benton is back, and so is Mrs. Roper! Plus, Isaac loses his mind while vacationing on his cruise ship, and Julie wants to give herself up as the ultimate sacrifice to a lonely madman...and more! 🎉 SEASON 2 BEGINS!!! 🏝️ Gilligan Style!! Our crew is stranded on a deserted tropica...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode rocks at a fast-pace with characters and plots that include: 🗡️ An appearance by the murderous OJ Simpson?! 🦰 Hayley Mills (grown-up Pollyanna) ⛵ Yachting with scandalous P Diddy??! 👎 A boatload of stereotypes ⚾ Reggie Jackson knocks it out of the ballpark ⌛ Crispin Glover from Back to the Future time-zaps to 1979?! Crazy Stuff. Pretty Funny, actually. Check it o...

Send us Fan Mail - Julie and Doc Have more foreplay (!) - Oscar Goldman from "6 Million Dollar Man" wallows in big self pity  - His wife is driven to constant tranquilizer usage - The woman doctor-shops and overdoses on pills - Two Girls, One Guy. This ain't pretty. - and a heavy dollop of fat shaming by your very own captain   Enjoy this wild episode!! Love Boat Season 2, Episode 2...

Send us Fan Mail 🍸 Captain's Alcoholism comes in handy 👨‍🦽 Handicapped Vietnam Vet resolution 😚 Gilligan (Gilligan's island) picks up a lady friend 💣 Julie, a homewrecker - again! 🥪 We also talk Madonna, grilled cheese, & tomato soup,  😐 #️MeToo: "I like how the captain draws a line not drinking at work, but he will have sex with women at work. He will grope women at work...

Send us Fan Mail 🌶️ Julie's Reunion Cruise Reveals illicit encounters and super creeps. 🪖 Love Boat goes political with a Vietnam War theme. 🐔 Vietnam War Draft Dodger on The Love Boat 😖 Assorted Scandals, Romance, and Betrayals 🛏️ Woman designated as "Man-Hop Steamroller" 🎭 Bob Denver (Gilligan) and Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironside) Trust and Betrayal in Relationships: &quot...

Send us Fan Mail ⭐ " Ted Lange, if you're listening out there , I would like to go beyond Cameo. I'd like to patch you in as a guest because we've got questions, and you're one of our favorite characters." — Rob  🚫 Unjust Profiling : "Well, first of all, are we profiling her by saying that since she was a convict, she stole them? Is that what we're suppose...

Send us Fan Mail 🚢😈🪄 The Love Boat sails into the Realm of Dark Magic  🦱 Welcome Back Kotter revisits the Love Boat  🐹 "The Gopher" slams down the gauntlet. The captain gets it between the eyes and Goph walks out the door ⚠️ PLUS, we expose: 🔮 Creepy magicians 💬 Speech impediments 🐇 Animal protection laws 💦 The state of Sweathogs in general 💪 Overconfident male bravado 👨‍🦲 Jo...

Send us Fan Mail Lock your cabin doors! Spouses are swapping and no one is safe! From open marriages and love triangles to questionable moral decisions, no scandal goes unturned in this episode. Ginger from Gilligan's Island is the Doc's Ex Ex Ex Ex Wife Down to Clown Gaslighting, Cheating, and Revenge on the High Seas - Jokes about sending a glitter bomb to someone - Commentary on produ...

Send us Fan Mail Ventriloquists bring new forms of deviant behavior onboard when their dummies seem to get a mind of their own - and look out for when these creepy "sex dolls" are on the prowl. Spotlight on Julie as she is actively recruited to become a wife to a feret-like man and a pack of orpans in the wilds of ALASKA of all places!    Visit LoveBoatExposed.com to dive deeper, and con...

Send us Fan Mail Captain and Doc on the make, again. Women's attraction to Doc remains inexplicable. Using the set from Zoro's on Love Boat. Dabney Coleman and Rue McClanahan win points for their acting Chico and the Man connection. "That's kids been found stealing a watch, how could he be redeemed? Love Boat, you just made a stereotype come to life in front of our eyes!"...

Send us Fan Mail 🩺 Doc happily tells a passenger he would like to probe her ... then later, he has another woman on his operating table. 🐹 Gopher gets ranked highly when we introduce the sleaze and horny meters . He actually "pins the needle" 😐 Julie goes full Stepford as she doesn't react to the twisted behavior around her. 🩸 More evidence of the captain and the doc's bloo...

Send us Fan Mail 🍕 Julie is the ultimate people pleaser (wink, wink); at least, that's what two boys figure as they bet an anchovy pizza to the first one that beds her. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 "Little People" invade the Love Boat, and they cause some passengers to face their own micro-prejudices 👱‍♀️ Doc and Mrs. Brady are a thing, and SHE pretty much makes that happen. 🤪 "Girls Secrets Re...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨 The Doctor is continuously sexually propositioned by ... Gopher's sister. Also, she is a minor. And she wants the doc to teach her how to "love" correctly.  🔪 Jamie Lee Curtis had just starred in the original Halloween movie and now visits The Love Boat for this episode. Unfortunately, there is no Michael Myers, neither from SNL nor the classic horror film. 👻 J...

Send us Fan Mail ⚔️ Communist Infiltration! A blonde Russian amazon brings the Doc to his knees - literally. Will America win in this love struggle? Will the Cold War melt under her touch? O k, I got all that out of my system 😮 The Captain Learns he has a Daughter - he never knew it! The story is revealed in a series of daydream flashbacks; they also show the captain as a young man. Disturbing....

Send us Fan Mail Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 to connect with a trained counselor or visit the 988 Lifeline website . 🛳️ T he Love Boat redeems itself a bit in it's Season 2, Episode 7 episode - a suicide is thwarted and an interesting monologue - from a...