Before this gentleman became TV’s best known sexy bald ship’s captain…
…this guy was, and he had his own fragrance, too:
The show enjoyed consistently high ratings for most of its run, which made MacLeod a big enough star to rate his own cologne…made by Hormel. As in the people who make Spam (the woefully-underappreciated luncheon meat, not the unsolicited commercial email).
The great injustice is that there was never a fragrance named for “Julie, the cruise director”. I had such a crush on that character:
The two captains would finally overlap in the early 1990s, when Patrick Stewart guest-hosted Saturday Night Live, taking some very un-funny writing and through his acting and charm, turned them into some very funny skits. The most notable of the skits was Love Boat: The Next Generation, where Stewart played Picard as the captain of a spacefaring cruise ship:
The skit was popular enough among Trek fans that people have cosplayed it:
I’ll close with the 1979 opening of The Love Boat, complete with that karaoke-friendly stick-in-your-head theme song:
Tropical Storm Helene is now Hurricane Helene, and its closest approach to Tampa Bay happens…
Once again, I’m hoping that the vibes from the clown cemetery that’s been protecting Tampa…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8zhYA0BHU Definitely not anything I would’ve predicted.
Oh, my sweet summer child, do you not know about the “Loofah Code” in The…