- Merrill expects a prestigious award but the presenter is not whom he expects. Adam is attached to elderly George and Gloria Hancock from his hometown. Recently divorced Dan Holt runs into his ex-wife's lawyer Ann Sterling.
- The Captain (Gavin MacLeod) is expecting a prestigious award but the presenter (Pat Harrington Jr.) may not be whom he expects it to be; Doc (Bernie Kopell) becomes attached to an elderly couple (John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan) from his hometown, only to have to perform a life-threatening operation on the woman; and a recently divorced man (Bert Convy) runs into the lawyer (Leigh Taylor-Young) who represented his ex-wife in the divorce.—Glorified Gopher
- As the episode begins, Isaac is proposing that he, Doc, Gopher, and Julie make a four-day trip together when this cruise ends. Julie can't attend because she's going out of town to visit her family. Doc expresses complete cynicism about family life, because he has no family of his own and is very lonely. He meets an attractive blonde named Amber (Cisse Cameron), and the two of them literally run into elderly George and Gloria Hancock (John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan), a longtime married couple who apparently live in Baltimore, Maryland where Doc attended medical school. Doc is more drawn to these "Folks from Home" than he is to Amber, who winds up with Gopher.
Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod) has been chosen as Captain of the Year by the cruise line. Sheridan Winthrop is the wealthy playboy who is supposed to present the award to Stubing in person, but never arrives at the ship before it sails. Instead, Winthrop's press agent Diane DiMarzo (Florence Henderson) is left alone with the task of breaking the bad news to him. Compounding the problem is Hank Vosnick (Pat Harrington, Junior), the ship's handyman, who keeps making unwanted advances toward her. When it becomes clear that Captain Stubing will not be happy about the news of Winthrop failing to show up, she recruits Hank to impersonate Winthrop and present "The Captain's Cup" to Stubing at a public ceremony in the dining room. Will the charade work?
Danny Holt (Bert Convy) is bitter about his recent divorce and hopes to forget his troubles during the cruise, but that's not likely when he runs into Ann Sterling, the "Legal Eagle" who represented his ex-wife in the divorce.
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What is the Spanish language plot outline for The Captain's Cup/The Folks from Home/Legal Eagle (1978)?
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