The Love Experts

The Love Experts is a romance game/talk show hybrid, produced by Bob Stewart for first-run syndication in 1978–79. It was a spiritual predecessor to the more successful Love Connection.

Host
Bill Cullen

Announcer
Jack Clark

Premise
Three guests would appear and talk about their love lives—most of them were about love gone wrong and torn between two different people. After each guest told his/her story, a panel of four celebrities would give advice to the contestant.

After the guests told their stories, the celebrity panel would then choose which of the three contestants gave the most interesting story. That contestant won a prize (usually a trip).

Celebrity panelists included David Letterman, Elaine Joyce, Jo Anne Worley, Geoff Edwards, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Johnson and Billy Crystal.

Critical reception
Critics panned The Love Experts as being too obnoxious as a relationship advice show, and it ended after one season. In more recent years, the series has gained positive reviews; not only are the panel chemistry and host Cullen cited as top-notch, but the series has also been lauded for openly discussing relationship-based topics that were still considered somewhat "taboo" on television in the late 1970s.

Episode status
All episodes of The Love Experts are in the vaults of CBS Television Distribution.