Jeraldine Saunders
Jeraldine Saunders was an American writer and lecturer, best known as the creator of The Love Boat, an ABC Television series and its associated made-for-TV films portraying the humorous and romantic adventures of various itinerant passengers.
The program was based on her 1974 book, Love Boats, her anecdotal account of her time employed as the first full-time female cruise director. Saunders was the author of Omarr's Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column read by hundreds of thousands worldwide and that was originally created by Sydney Omarr, to whom she was briefly married in 1966.
In 1968 Saunders discovered her fiancé, the actor Albert Dekker, dead in his Hollywood home. The death was ruled to be accidental.
