Q.Watching a Three Stooges marathon on New Year’s Eve brought back memories of a TV movie about the founding of the Three Stooges.
It centered on an older Moe who was telling his story to a reporter. Is this correct? A. Well, believe it or not that was “The Three Stooges,” a 2000 TV movie with Paul Ben- Victor as Moe, Evan Handler as Larry and Michael Chiklis as Curly. The movie reviews their early career with bandleader Ted Healy and their career at Columbia Pictures. At the end, for old time’s sake, Moe presses the reporter’s tongue with a hot iron. Q. My husband and I watched a movie on TV several decades ago and we have never been able to identify or find it. Here’s the plot: Two young Jewish men are in Rome for the election of Pope John 23rd. The movie is then a flashback to when the Pope was Cardinal Angelo Roncalli and saved a shipload of Jewish refugee children from the Nazis by issuing them Catholic baptismal certificates. The two men at the beginning of the film were two of the children saved. Can you help with a title and whether it is available? A. That sounds like the 1973 TV movie “Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John,” which starred Raymond Burr as the Pope. The cast also included Don Galloway, Henry Darrow and Eric Braeden, who plays Victor Newman on “The Young and the Restless,” as a Nazi. It’s not on DVD. Q. Who sang the theme song to “The Love Boat”? A. The song was sung by Jack Jones, and although it was never a big hit it reached number one on the old-people-who-like-Jack-Jones hit parade. “The Love Boat,” for the record, ran on ABC from 1977-86.
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By J. Peterson For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:13 BST, 30 August 2022 | Updated: 06:14 BST, 30 August 2022
Channel 10 has released the official trailer for its highly anticipated new reality series The Real Love Boat.
The hilariously cheesy trailer sees host Darren McMullen performing the classic Love Boat theme song from the original '70s sitcom.
'This is one of those experiences that you really have to pinch yourself and can’t believe your luck,' McMullen said in a statement.
The hilariously cheesy trailer for The Real Love Boat sees host Darren McMullen (pictured) performing the classic Love Boat theme song from the original '70s sitcom
'I feel incredibly blessed and I’m looking forward to seeing the romance blossom for our singles.'
Former Below Deck Mediterranean star Hannah Ferrier also appears in the trailer.
The show is based on the classic sitcom The Love Boat, which aired from 1977 to 1986.
Hannah is the Cruise Director of the boat, while Studio 10 reporter Daniel Doody is Head of Entertainment.
Former Below Deck Mediterranean star Hannah Ferrier (pictured with co-star Daniel Doody) also appears in the trailer
'After more than a decade at sea in the Mediterranean, I am so excited to join The Real Love Boat and help all our amazing passengers find love!' Hannah recently said.
'I’m going to be watching them very closely and helping them every step of the way on their journeys to find their perfect match,' she continued.
'I am currently filming in the Mediterranean and can’t wait to share with you the journey of our beautiful passengers finding love - not to mention my favourite back drop in the world - the Med.'
Hannah is the Cruise Director of the boat, while Studio 10 reporter Daniel Doody (pictured) is Head of Entertainment
Hannah starred as Chief Stewardess on Bravo's Below Deck Mediterranean for the first five seasons of the show, before departing in 2020.
She welcomed her first child, a daughter named Ava Grace, with husband Josh Roberts in October, 2020.
The Real Love Boat is expected to air on Channel 10 and 10Play later this year
The show is based on the classic sitcom The Love Boat, which aired from 1977 to 1986
The Love boat is a very popular US comedy/drama television series first released in 1977 on the ABC TV channel.
The show is set on a cruise liner and based around the captain of the boat Merhill Stubing, a handful of crew and passengers featuring various guest stars and romantic liaisons on the Love boat.
The theme song to the TV show is called “The Love Boat” sung by Jack Jones.
The Love Boat Lyrics
Love exciting and newCome Aboard We’re expecting youAnd Love life’s sweetest reward
Let it flow it floats back to you
Reporting from Las Vegas —
Set a course for adventure; your mind on a new romance. Yes, it’s a line from the theme song for “The Love Boat.” Jack Jones, the Grammy Award-winning jazz and pop singer, performs his timeless hits at the Suncoast Showroom on Aug. 22 and 23.
The Hollywood-born performer has more than 50 albums under his belt, with 17 of them charting Billboard’s Top 20.
His biggest hits include the theme song from “The Love Boat” along with “The Race Is On,” “Lady,” “Call Me Irresponsible” and “What I Did For Love.”
Jones’ two Grammy Awards for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance came from his singles “Lollipops and Roses” by Anthony Velona, and Bacharach and David’s “Wives and Lovers.”
His release, “Jack Jones Paints A Tribute To Tony Bennett,” was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
Jones also made a mark in films and television. Most recently, he was the voice of Greg’s frog in the animated TV mini-series featuring Elijah Wood, “Over the Garden Wall,” and appeared alongside Christian Bale and Amy Adams in the 2013 award-winning film “American Hustle.”
Jones also appeared in musicals such as “Guys and Dolls,” “South Pacific,” “She Loves Me” and “Pajama Game.”
Jones has spent much of 2015 paying tribute to Frank Sinatra during what would have been Sinatra’s 100th birthday.
Tickets start at $29.95.
Tickets: Suncoast, (702) 284-7777
The Love Boat was a popular ABC TV show that ran from 1977-1986. It was set on a cruise ship, and followed a few plot lines each week as passengers and crew had various adventures. This song runs about 1:30, and was used to introduce the guest stars and regular characters. In the '70s and '80s, many shows had well-crafted theme songs that introduced the actors and led to the first commercial break. In the '90s, theme songs began to disappear as shows often went right to the action.
When we spoke with Charles Fox, he told us how the show and the music for the theme came about. Said Fox: "When I did Love Boat, before it was a television series it was a television movie, a 2-hour movie-of-the-week. And we did two or three of them. Doug Cramer, who had been the president of Paramount Television when I did Love, American Style, he was partner on Love Boat with Aaron Spelling. And when I had the first meeting about the show, he said, 'Just think of 'Love, American Style' on the water, on a cruise ship.' The only difference is that a cast of characters would revolve around each story, whereas in Love, American Style, there are three separate segments with different casts - totally different scripts. Each one was about 12-14 minutes long. Love Boat, the cast would intertwine two or three different stories, start with the captain, with the steward, and all that. And Gopher. So that was the basic difference. But he says, 'Think of 'Love, American Style' on the high seas.'
So that had to have a spirit of adventure, you know. And I will tell you something else, I don't know if I've ever told this story to anyone, but when I sat with Doug Cramer he asked me if I knew Murder on the Orient Express, the film. It was a big movie at the time, and I said I did. He said, 'You know the shot of the train taking off - the Orient Express about to go from Paris to Venice and passing through the eastern block countries?' He said, 'There's a shot at the beginning, at the main title, where the wheel started to turn little by little, and the smoke stack.' And he says, 'There's a sense of excitement and anticipation. If you could write the same kind of music for that, I think that would be great.' So I said, 'Well, I remember that very well, and John Barry did a wonderful job with that, but it was a waltz.' I recall it being just a nice waltz which seemed to go very well with the period and all that. He said, 'Well, then, maybe you could use that as a guide.' Well, I went home and I looked at my show, and I said, 'It really has nothing to do with a waltz.' It was a big, elaborate film; it was Cinemascope with high shots of the train coming around bends. And ours needed to have more of an immediacy, it had more rhythm and more percussion. So I ended up writing the Love Boat theme with a disco beat. And Doug, when he heard it, said, 'Perfect.' (laughs) Said, 'It's exactly what I wanted.'"
Jack Jones was very popular singer in the '60s; among his hits were "Wives And Lovers," "Dear Heart" and "The Race Is On." He went on to become a successful performed in Las Vegas.
A version recorded by Dionne Warwick was used for the last season of the show.
A remix by the producer Roulette and sung by Olivia Newton-John features in the 2011 film A Few Best Men. Newton-John appears in the film and recorded all the songs on the soundtrack.