The Love Boat/Making the Grade / Doc's 'Ex' Change / The Gift

Making the Grade / Doc's 'Ex' Change / The Gift
Season 3, Episode 16
Airdate	December 15, 1979
Written by	"Making the Grade" Ben Joelson and Art Baer "The Gift" Don Segall "Doc's 'Ex' Change" Marc Sheffler
Directed by	Gordon Farr
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The Love Boat — Season Three

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Making the Grade / Doc's 'Ex' Change / The Gift is the sixteenth episode of the third season of The Love Boat, and the sixty-eighth episode overall.

Guest Stars in Alphabetical Order: Kaye Ballard (Joan Redmond), Ronee Blakley (Sally Carter), Sonny Bono (Benny Carter), Red Buttons (Buddy Redmond), Dick Gautier (John Hurley), Juliet Prowse (Samantha Bricker), Jessica Walter (Madeline Harris)

Starring Your Love Boat Crew: Gavin MacLeod (Your Captain), Bernie Kopell (Your Ship's Doctor), Fred Grandy (Ship's Purser Gopher Smith), Ted Lange (Your Bartender), Jill Whelan (Vicki)

and Lauren Tewes (Julie, Your Cruise Director)

Guest Starring: Johnny Timko (Danny)

Plot Overview

Doc's most recent wife, Samantha, comes aboard with some shocking news: thanks to a crooked divorce lawyer who never filed their papers, they are still married. A man admits to his wife that he "borrowed" from his company's petty cash to pay for their cruise, as he felt ashamed by the fact that he couldn't give her things. They believe they may have found a way out of their predicament when they find 2000 dollars hidden in a jacket loaned to them by a passenger's wife. The man tries to retrieve his money without letting his wife find out that he is still gambling. A boy is horrified when his mother begins dating his hated history teacher.