Murder on the High Seas/Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker

Episode aired Mar 17, 1979
TV-PG
1h

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6.7/10

141

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Peter Lawford and Dana Wynter in The Love Boat (1977)

Comedy Drama Romance

Isaac overhears mystery writers researching a book and thinks they're plotting to kill Merrill. A rock star falls for a deaf woman. Doc's honeymooning friend Mitzi thinks her new husband Vin... Read allIsaac overhears mystery writers researching a book and thinks they're plotting to kill Merrill. A rock star falls for a deaf woman. Doc's honeymooning friend Mitzi thinks her new husband Vinnie doesn't really love her.Isaac overhears mystery writers researching a book and thinks they're plotting to kill Merrill. A rock star falls for a deaf woman. Doc's honeymooning friend Mitzi thinks her new husband Vinnie doesn't really love her.

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141

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Funny stuff, if unbelievable

Two Republican Congressmen (Fred Grandy, Sono Bono, though they didn't serve together) appear in this episode.

This episode takes lots of hard swallowing.

First, that innocuous singer/entertainer Bono is a wild mixture of KISS and Alice Cooper. Of course, he falls for a deaf girl. With the sort of music he plays it's just as well.

Second, that lovely Jill St. John has married comedian Charlie Callas.

Back in the 1970s NO ONE was funnier than Callas in full flow. But he's a nasty character here, which makes it more bizarre that St. John is in love with him. That's typical Love Boat casting. I love the dress St. John wears around the pool. Remember the old joke:

"It's just something I threw on." "You almost missed."

But this episode has some funny moments, as Isaac, his head filled with mystery novels, overhears a couple (Peter Lawford, Dana Wynter) plotting a murder.

Trivia
The second of four episodes guest starring Sonny Bono (one of them being 2 hours long, later syndicated as separate episodes making for a total of five episodes by that measure), who along with series regular Fred Grandy would later serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, the two respectively for the California 44th District and the Iowa 6th and 5th Districts on successive terms. Ironiically, Grandy's time in office started on January 3, 1987 and ended on the day that Bono's term started on January 3, 1995, with Bono serving until his death in a skiing accident on January 5, 1998. During Grandy's time in office, Bono had served as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California, from April 1988 to April 1992. Both served as Republicans.