The Love Boat had many outdoor scenes; it was a cruise, after all. Scenes, such as the ones by the pool, needed to look authentic, so they were shot on real ships.

The year ”Love Boat” set sail, 1976, only 600,000 Americans and Canadians took cruises; last year, about 1.7 million did. The youthful, romantic and racially integrated image of cruising that ...

They were all wrong. "The Love Boat" quickly became one of the most watched — and most identifiable — TV series of its time, sailing over 250 hour-long voyages between 1977 and 1987.

“‘The Love Boat’ really created the cruise industry,” Michael L. Grace, who worked as a scriptwriter on the program during the 1980s, told CNN Travel in 2022.

"The Real Love Boat" EPs Chris Culvenor and Jay Bienstock on hiring a real captain, bartender and cruise director — and getting hosts Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn to sing the iconic ...

The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One DVD set offers no context for one of the biggest hits of its era; it even forgoes the three TV movies that served as backdoor pilots for the series.

The cruise industry was very different in 1970, catering to an estimated 500,000 passengers. Three decades later that had jumped to five million thanks, say industry experts, in large part to a ...