"The Love Boat" The Zinging Valentine/The Very Temporary Secretary/Final Score (TV Episode 1983) Poster

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Valentine's Episode Unites Other Stars
richard.fuller111 July 2016
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A football player (John Amos) romances a schoolteacher Jayne Kennedy).

A man (Don Adams) running a secretarial company intends to tell a woman (Fannie Flagg) he can't get her a male secretary for her cruise, and she mistakes him for the assigned secretary.

A man (Donny Most) is dumped by his unseen girlfriend with a bunny-eared singing telegram (Claudia Lonow).

Most's story has been done in several variations on the show before, perhaps so has the mistaken identity with Flagg and Adams as well.

Same for Amos and Kennedy.

Amazingly, once more, Vicki appears to a minimum in this episode, so that's a plus.

The episode is fun in it's own way for seeing Amos, Kennedy, Most, Adams and Flagg together in a show.

Surprisingly, the three women actually meet up and so do the guys, then briefly pairing up to talk over matters with each other; Lonow with Amos, Most with Flagg, Kennedy with Adams.

For some reason, it was most fun for me seeing Amos, Adams and Most from Good Times, Get Smart and Happy Days. Wonderful shows.
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Take a Letter, Maria. Address It to My Wife.
WalterKafka9 April 2024
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'You'd like my father. You're practically the same age.' It's a Valentine's Day cruise. 'Duke Taylor? He's my favorite football player of all time!' Here he is. John Amos. Kate isn't interested in football players. She's a snooty college English teacher. I think she'll change her mind. Suzie is delivering a 'Musical Message' to 'Donald' Most. He's not playing the same character from the Alaska cruise. Suzie gets stuck on the cruise, so she'll have to perform for her ticket. Don Adams is looking for the editor of a magazine, Fannie Flagg. She confuses him for the secretary she needs. Too bad he has no idea how to take dictation! I do like the scene where our troubled characters meet and commiserate. This is pleasant enough. On Kafka's Love Boat Scale, this episode gets 3 * out of a possible 4 *.
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