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This show is FUN. The host, Tim Shaw, somehow comes up with some crazy (and often destructive) ways to quiz his audience on scientific principles. What is more effective at stopping a bullet--a brick wall, a hay bale, a steel plate or a fish tank full of water? If a basketball is launched straight up from a vehicle traveling 20 MPH, where will the ball land? What shape of plastic explosive is the most effective for blowing the door off a hotel room safe? I recently purchased the entire first season on DVD. Apparently National Geographic is no longer showing the episodes. If they are, I am not finding them. Looking forward to next season!

Granted, the Love Boat is hardly the place to look for brilliance, but this two-parter is truly abysmal, IMO. The Dick Martin character/storyline is just poorly written & poorly performed. The premise of the ship being threatened by a hurricane while an incompetent boob (Martin) is in charge while Stubing takes some passengers on a small boat excursion is just not funny. The Gilligan's Islandesque sequence is actually worse. John Astin has a few funny lines, but the rest...I thought the beach shack the group was "imprisoned" in was going to fall down when the characters tried to "escape." The Luke/Leia sequence with Donna Mills & David Birney is downright creepy. Those swinging 70s!