Love Boat: The Next Wave

- Season 1

(2000)

The crew of a huge cruise ship awaits its new captain, Captain Jim Kennedy III, who left his US Navy career early for personal reasons. As if this transit weren't hard enough, his ex immediately forces upon him the care for their 15 year-old son Danny, a problem kid with a juvenile record; the captain orders Chief Purser Will Sanders to watch the boy permanently. The new Ship's Doctor John Morgan is seasick even before they sail. Josh Walters was stood up by his fiancée, so he takes their honeymoon with his mate Luke Staley, which makes girls believe they are gay, and...

The new, ex-Navy captain is still unable to relax and fit in. He wrongfully worries that's even harder for Danny, and welcomes overbooking means his son will have to bunk with him, but the kid has no trouble amusing himself, even steals a key from the new also ex-Navy assistant purser to spend time with a passengers daughter- as it turns out, the captains former love's. Bar Manager Paolo Kaire gets on great with congressman Warren McMahon, his disarmed bodyguard with Security Chief Camille Hunter.

Eager to keep his mischievous son Danny occupied, the captain assigns him the assistantship to the ship's photographer, which is right up his alley if only it can be made interesting. Tristan Reedy and Juliette Titlebaum, a young couple about to marry, booked the cruise to establish a sexual reference base by studying the mating of humans just as anthropologists would do with any other species, namely doing it with attractive crew members, as if they had no emotional baggage, but of course nature has its jealous way. Chief Purser Will Sanders is elated to spend some ...

The Sun Princess has its most international passenger list ever. Tom hopes to save his sinking marriage by returning to the cruise ship where he and his wife Janet met, but she doesn't cooperate. Student nurse Mary Dutton is about to graduate and leave for Jamaica, but meets ship mechanic Pete Dougherty, who loves her enough at first sight to quit after eight years just to follow her; Chief Purser Will Sanders helps him, but then she tells she's a nun in training. Contest cruise prize winners Larry Cranston and his wife, granny and sister-in-law are a grumpy bunch and...

Jim refuses to admit that he can't dance, then secretly takes lessons from Camille. Paolo considers giving up his career to marry the older woman he has been dating. Danny is assigned to kitchen duty and plays a practical joke on the bad tempered chef. John tries to improve his bedside manner around young patients. Two friends decide to have each other after failing to set each other up with someone else.

Danny is happy his dad finally invited his ma Pat Kennedy on board to celebrate the kids birthday together, less about the endless naval lessons. The captain approves chief purser Will Sanders' application to be transferred to the cruiser line's flagship, so junior purser Donald Griswald, like the captain ex-U.S. Navy, is assigned to observe Sanders before succeeding to the post. Camille also gets a transfer to the Grand Princess, later even ship's doctor John Morgan, which rains on Danny's party parade. Donald's dry pragmatism is inappropriate on a fun cruise. Mother...