The Love Boat - Cast

Cast

  • Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing, "Your Captain"; also playing Capt. Stubing's father, under the name O. D. Warbux, in two episodes, as well as Captain Stubing's brother, under the name Sonny Wilde
  • Bernie Kopell as Dr. Adam "Doc" Bricker, "Your Ship's Doctor"
  • Fred Grandy as Burl "Gopher" Smith, "Your Yeoman Purser"
  • Ted Lange as Isaac Washington, "Your Bartender"
  • Lauren Tewes as Julie McCoy, "Your Cruise Director" (1977–1984)
  • Jill Whelan as Vicki Stubing, the captain's daughter (1979–1986)
  • Ted McGinley as Ashley "Ace" Covington Evans "Your Ship's Photographer" (1984–1986)
  • Pat Klous as Judy McCoy, Julie's sister and her successor as cruise director (1984–1986)
  • Sandy Helberg as "Gopher" Smith in first "Love Boat"
Further information: List of The Love Boat guest stars

The series' attraction was in the casting of well-known actors in guest-starring roles, with many famous film stars of yesteryear making rare television appearances. It wasn't the first series to use the all-star cast anthology format — Love, American Style used the formula seven years earlier, but The Love Boat had such success with the formula that future shows in similar style (such as Supertrain and Masquerade) were inevitably compared to The Love Boat.

Many famous stars agreed to do the early movies because they were filmed aboard actual cruise ships. (The series was filmed primarily on sets in California — 20th Century Fox Studios for seasons one through five and Warner Hollywood Studios for the remainder of the series.)

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