And the cruises would get more and more exotic. Aaron Spelling already had so much power with the network in making money and getting ratings, that they were able to really break out of the studio. So you’ll think, ‘Did they shoot at sea or not?’ And that’s the way the show proceeded in the beginning, but in becoming a hit, they had a lot of leeway with the network. Points out Jim, “When you’re watching some of the early episodes, you’ll see those nighttime process shots where everybody’s standing in front of a moonlight sea that is clearly rear-projection, but in the same episode you’ll see a shot during the day that’s clearly done on a moving ship at sea. One of the things that was done as soon as as it was obvious how successful the show was, was to start filming a number of episodes per season on actual cruises. And so when these old stars would be approached, so many people who you thought would never have done television or would think, ‘I don’t want to do some cheesy show,’ as America always viewed The Love Boat, would do it, because they would sometimes get a first class trip somewhere sometimes, and even if they didn’t leave the soundstage, they’d get first-class treatment and be adored.”
The actors, particularly women, who would be worried about their appearances, looked absolutely incredible. And so they knew the hair and makeup teams were top notch, they knew that the wardrobe people would make them look their best.
TAKING A SHOT OF LOVE CAST MOVIE
And those people were so grateful for that opportunity and that old fashioned Hollywood grandeur they knew they would be taken care of by Aaron Spelling’s company along with Doug Cramer, who was a great old movie fan. Sometimes they’d go on and do other stuff, too, but sometimes it was almost coming out of retirement for one final bow. “ The Love Boat,” Jim continues, “gave a lot of those really wonderful stars an opportunity to come back and take another turn at bat. You put them together and it just kind of blended the right way.” Then he meets Cramer, who has this good idea and has really good taste. Spelling had the clout to say, ‘Let’s do this again.’ On top of that, he had a reputation for treating actors well and a database of actors he could go to. His partnership with Douglas Cramer was new and it was lightning in a bottle when the two of them met. Aaron was so successful with ABC already and it was a fruitful partnership. “I think it was really through his clout that they got a chance to take a third swing at the premise.
TAKING A SHOT OF LOVE CAST SERIES
Finally, ABC gave the green light for The Love Boat to go to series and a lot of the credit for that has to go to Aaron.
TAKING A SHOT OF LOVE CAST TV
It was wonderful and people loved it.”Īlso in 1977 came the final TV movie, The New Love Boat, which brought aboard Gavin McLeod as Captain Stubing, Laren Tewes as Julie McCoy and executive producer Aaron Spelling, who was riding high at the time with Starsky and Hutch and Charlie’s Angels, among others. On a Saturday night you could escape the snow of New Jersey, where I was, and end up either in Mexico or the Mediterranean or Australia. “In a lot of ways, the show really kind of opened our eyes, but what it really did was to cheer us up from the winter doldrums.
“ The Love Boat brought those locations to American living rooms and a lot of people who couldn’t afford to go to or had never been to these places,” observes Jim Colucci, author of Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai and who is currently writing the ultimate companion to The Love Boat.
And that’s especially true when it comes to The Love Boat, which took viewers on romantic cruises to domestic and foreign destinations between 19. CBS may have owned Saturday nights in the first half of the 1970s with series like All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Carol Burnett Show, but ABC took the crown in the latter half of the decade with the one-two punch of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
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