Part 1 of 2. The passengers and crew cruise through Japan. Photographer Lila Pearsell (
Heather Thomas) is prejudiced toward the Japanese, because her father was crippled in World War 2. She meets businessman Bud O'Hara (
Tony Danza) and falls for him, without knowing that his father (
James Shigeta) is Japanese. Martha Chambers (
Mariette Hartley), a teacher of Asian history, poses as a geisha girl named Myoshi, to get to know Capt. Merrill Stubing (
Gavin MacLeod) better. Dockworker Barney Gordon (
Ted Knight) and his wife Gladys (
Rita Moreno) are showing off the five million dollars, they won in a lottery, and making the crew uncomfortable. A Japanese businessman pays for widowed Celia Hoffman (
Jean Marsh) and her daughter Joanie (
Nancy Morgan) to travel to Japan, because they own some embroidered silk artwork that contains one third of a treasure map. Along the way, the two women befriend Harvey Willis (
Harvey Korman) and Ben Cummins (
John Ritter), who may own the other pieces of the map.
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