Interesting, too bad you didn't get a chance to meet him. As an actor on The Love Boat he was pretty natural and a likeable character. He played a college guy looking to lose his virginity on the cruise...and he did with Maureen! Now, you probably hate him!
Naw! But now I'm wishing I could see that episode. I watched a lotta
Love Boat, but I don't recall that episode!
Just an aside, I remember watching the very first
Love Boat movie (made for TV in 1976) and, I can't tell you why since I don't remember much of it, but I loved it! It had an all-star cast, but none of the regulars who'd be on the TV series.
Then there was
The Love Boat II (1977) where more of the TV cast began to show up. (I liked the cruise director in that one.)
Because of the movies, I watched the show for a while, but began to fall out of love with it, due to it's somewhat formulaic nature. I kind of saw the addition of Captain Stubing's daughter to the cast as on par with adding cousin Oliver to the
Brady Bunch!