


I was just trying to build my career, and then I hit this home run on this show. “As I look back, I now realize how lucky I was. Lange said the experience of being on “The Love Boat” was life-changing. Whelan has kept writing, acting and producing various projects, while Lange has stayed active in the theater world as a director and playwright, with a special passion for Shakespeare. Seated next to her was Lange, who kept praising his former co-star. Television Tragic ending for ‘The Love Boat’ ship The winning couple on the show, premiering Wednesday and hosted by Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn, will receive a cash prize and the “ultimate” luxury Princess Cruise. The two will pop in on CBS’ “The Real Love Boat,” featuring singles looking for love and competing in “chemistry and compatibility challenges” aboard a Princess Cruises liner.
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Two of those members - Ted Lange, who played bartender Isaac Washington, and Jill Whelan, who played Stubing’s daughter, Vicki - are hitting the high seas again this week, as they reunite for a reality series inspired by the vintage comedy. The crew members also engaged in plenty of their own high jinks. Interacting with the colorful passengers and steering them through their romantic highs and lows in every episode was the attentive crew, headed by Capt. Also boarding were unlikely guest stars (Halston, Bob Mackie and Andy Warhol among them) and up-and-comers (like Martin Short and Tom Hanks). Through nine seasons and several reunion specials, more than 500 celebrities from classic Hollywood (Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Lillian Gish, Joan Fontaine, Eva Marie Saint), Broadway (Ethel Merman, Robert Goulet, Tammy Grimes), television (Don Adams, Lorne Greene, Florence Henderson, Eve Arden), music (The Pointer Sisters, Janet Jackson, Engelbert Humperdinck) and sports (Dick Butkus, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Joe Namath) appeared on the ABC series. But time has not dulled the nostalgic glow around the series and its irresistible gimmick - an ever-changing rotation of major and minor celebrities involved in various rom-com adventures about the ship.
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More than 35 years have passed since the final voyage of the TV classic “The Love Boat,” set aboard a luxurious cruise ship, aired in 1986.
