OPEN POST: With Joan Crawford's Banned Love Boat Episode!

By AK

In 1978, The Love Boat was surfing the waves as the #1 show on ABC, just as Joan was still the #1 star in Hollywood, so it's easy to understand why she was cast as Julie McCoy's little sister in this episode. 

However, poor Joan was unaccustomed to the hectic pace of episodic television, so she started hitting the vodka early and by 8am she was thoroughly plastered. When she met the young actress who played Vicki Stubing she snarled at the producer "Who let this dwarf on the set? Is this a remake of 'The Wizard Of Oz?!'"

However her morale improved when she met the actor who played Isaac.


After giving him an appreciative up and down with her eyes (focusing on the bulge below his belt) she purred "So...Isaac, is it true what they say about...BARTENDERS?"

Isaac's response:


So yes, it was a rather fraught experience for everyone involved. In fact, at the end-of-filming party the slightly tipsy Miss Crawford started fiddling with Gavin MacLeod's belt, saying "C'mon Stubing, let's see the captain's log!"


Suffice it to say, La Crawford left every man on the set weak and begging for more. Unfortunately, the episode bordered on pornographic and was never shown on network television, just like her disastrous appearance on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood:


Happy Open Post, and let's all try to be even half as exciting as Joan!

Photo Credits: Getty Images; Four Star Television/ABC; WQED/PBS

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