The Love Boat/Captain & the Lady / Centerfold / One If by Land...

Captain & the Lady / Centerfold / One If by Land...
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	September 24, 1977
Written by	"Captain & the Lady" Michael Norell "Centerfold" Jay Grossman "One If by Land..." Judy Skelton and Paula A. Roth
Directed by	"Captain & the Lady" Stuart Margolin "Centerfold" Richard Kinon "One If by Land..." Alan Rafkin
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The Love Boat — Season One

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Captain & the Lady / Centerfold / One If by Land... is the first episode of the first season of The Love Boat.

Guest Stars in Alphabetical Order: Meredith Baxter Birney (Sandy Rytell), Bonnie Franklin (Stacy Skaugstad), Shelly Novack (Representative Brad Brockway), Suzanne Somers (Lorraine Hoffman), Brenda Sykes (Ginny O'Brien), Jimmie Walker (Ronald Baker)

Starring Your Love Boat Crew: Gavin MacLeod (Your Captain), Bernie Kopell (Your Ship's Doctor), Fred Grandy (Your Yeoman Purser), Ted Lange (Your Bartender)

and Lauren Tewes (Julie, Your Cruise Director)

Also Starring: Robert Symonds (Aubrey Skaugstad), Gertrude Flynn (Mrs. Pendleton), Chris Capen (College Guy), Ted Chapman (Man)

Plot Overview

Stubing and his ex-wife have to face the realities of a badly resolved separation when they find themselves trapped on the same cruise. The future wife of a powerful political congressman worries that the photo she took for an erotic magazine some years back will jeopardize her husband's political career, so she tries to cover this fact from him, by hiding all the copies of the magazine that are available in the ship, until she finds the courage to confess her past to her husband. Ginny O'Brien is followed by her hard-to-commit boyfriend through all the ports where the cruise passes. However she's not going to accept a relationship without a proposal of marriage.