Love, exciting and new.
For my next pick,
Frozen TV Dinner is proud to select, in the
Pre-80s category,
The Love Boat.
The series debuted in the fall of 1977 after 3 made for tv movies aired in 1976 and early 1977. The series aired for 9 full seasons through 1986, mostly on Saturday nights, back at a time when people actually watched tv on Saturday nights.
The show took place aboard the Pacific Princess cruise ship (or one of its various sister ships for the show's frequent trips to destinations other than the west coast), and featured one of the largest parades of guest stars in television history. In fact, I'd say that if you were famous in the 1970s (or earlier) and didn't make a guest appearance on The Love Boat, you weren't really famous in the 1970s. Check out the list of everyone who made guest appearances on the show over its run:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...at_guest_stars
The series also had a small cast of regulars, including Captain Stubing (who was later joined by his daughter aboard the ship); Gopher, the ship's purser; Doc, the ship's doctor; Isaac, the bartender; and Julie, your Cruise Director.
Every week, the show had three main storylines, which usually didn't overlap with each other. One usually involved the show regulars in a humorous story; one was a humorous story involving one (or more) of the ship's passengers; and one was usually a more serious story between two or more of the passengers. As one would expect from a show with this title, the storylines typically involved love and/or romance in some way.
One of the often repeated premises was the single woman who confided in Julie that she was looking for Mr Right, and a single man who confided in Gopher or Isaac that he was looking for Miss Right, then the crew members scheming to get the two single people together...which they usually did by the end of the episode.
The opening credits...