The Love Boat (TV Series) Too Hot to Handle/Family Reunion/Cinderella Story (1978) User Reviews

Kathy Bates, Bob Crane and a weird twist

[sfoshee-1 · 7/10 · 25 June 2018]

Besides having an early appearance by Kathy Bates, this first season episode also stars Bob Crane in his last IMDB acting credit. In an ironic twist, another actor in this same episode, Bruce Solomon, also appears later in the 2002 film Auto Focus, about Bob Crane's murder.

Bob Crane Sets Sail / Kathy Bates gets Burned

[WalterKafka · 10 February 2024]

I should have been in advertising. It looks so easy on television. Bob Crane. Let's not talk about Bob Crane. Hey, Bob Crane! Here he plays a "reprobate" steward. He happens to run into his daughter on the cruise. Well, pop culture is like that, in that it accomodates all kinds. This episode asks us to be sympathetic to his character. Goodbye, Bob. America really never knew you. Young Kathy Bates was thin. She did alright for herself though. She plays a honeymooner. I've been married more than a decade. I was never this hot. Robert 'Airplane' Hayes is here too. That's some cute trivia that Bruce Solomon would later appeaer in Autofocus, the story of Bob Crane. I've seen Don DeFore on Hazel. That's the show the retro networks air in a distorted aspect ratio that makes it almost impossible to watch. David White is here too. He played Larry Tate on Bewitched. I'm more of an I Dream of Jeannie fan. (Never really cared for witches.) Captain recommends 'Berman's Encylopedia of American Shipwrecks.' I would totally read that. Guess what! It's a real book! Judy Luciano is a spicy meatball in that white bikini. She was married to Don Adams in June of 1977 and divorced in 1990. This was her only acting role. (We haven't seen Don yet but we will.) Something went wrong with the casting here because John Rubenstien and Bruce Solomon have the same hairstyle. This one really didn't do anything for me. Crane is sweaty and awkward and that hair doesn't help. This subplot did absolutely nothing for me. One subplot deals with a couple put into a difficult situation by a deception put into motion by the ship's crew. There's really not too much romance here. On Kafka's Love Boat Scale, this episode gets 2 * out of a possible 4 *.