Passengers paid thousands of dollars to be on The Love Boat while filming.
Those were no ordinary extras milling about the deck. Fans could shell out for tickets and sail alongside the cast and crew. For example, when The Love Boat went to Hong Kong in season seven, tourists paid "between $3,370 and $8,550" for the cruise, according to a 1983 article in People.
The Love Boat was sold for scrap a few years ago, and two men died dismantling it.
By 2010, the Pacfic Princess ship had become too old and costly to renovate. When the owners couldn't sell it as it was, they decided to sell it for scrap in 2012 to a Turkish company for about $3 million. It was taken to Turkey the following year, where two men died of carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to dismantle parts of the ship.
Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell and Ted Lange are the only actors to appear in every episode of The Love Boat.
Thousands of guest stars (no, really, the tally is in the four digits) and dozens of regular cast members passed through the ship over the years. However, only the captain, the doctor and the bartender were there throughout all 250 episodes.