Before this gentleman became TV’s best known sexy bald ship’s captain…
…this guy was, and he had his own fragrance, too:
Click the ad to see it at full size.
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:
Have a good April Fools’ Day tomorrow, but be mindful about your pranking.
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