{"id":2224,"date":"2026-10-22T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:30:06","slug":"heres-how-the-love-boat-stayed-afloat-according-to-star-bernie-kopell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how The Love Boat stayed afloat, according to star Bernie Kopell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The success of The Love Boat<\/em> shouldn\u2019t have been a surprise to anyone. With an all-star cast led by producer Aaron Spelling, the show reached new heights, defying the misgivings of critics. Despite the cancellation of many shows around it, The Love Boat <\/em>managed to stay afloat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard all this before,\u201d said one of the show\u2019s stars, Bernie Kopell, during an interview with Knight Ridder,<\/em> referring to rumors that the series would soon find itself cancelled. \u201cWe weren\u2019t supposed to last against Kojak <\/em>or The Carol Burnett Show. <\/em>We\u2019re just going to go right on sailing. There\u2019s no panic on set. We\u2019re healthy and unconcerned. We don\u2019t feel we have to play catch-up ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Kopell believed that the longer the series went on, the more secure they became.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we\u2019re more alive today than ever before,\u201d said the actor. \u201cWe really didn\u2019t have it down pat in the beginning. Since then, we\u2019ve been getting better and better. It\u2019s like a winning team. We have our stuff together.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Kopell, who played ship doctor Adam Bricker, The Love Boat <\/em>didn\u2019t just provide a vacation for the people on the ship; it gave a much-needed break to the audience watching.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a need for romantic fantasy,\u201d said the actor. \u201cIt is a means by which people escape. We put people on a clean, pretty ship and take them to pretty places they\u2019ve never been to. It relieves pressure and maybe puts a smile on their faces. It\u2019s the same kind of romantic escapist fiction that thrived during the depression. Maybe if times were less trouble, there would be less of a need for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The success of The Love Boat shouldn\u2019t have been a surprise to anyone. With an all-star cast led by producer Aaron Spelling, the show reached new heights, defying the misgivings of critics. Despite the cancellation of many shows around it, The Love Boat managed to stay afloat. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard all this before,\u201d said one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuyenhay360.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}