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  • Sep 7, 1979
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  • Sep 7, 1979
Fantasy Island (1978)

Summary Smiles everyone, Smiles! So began this long-running (7 season) series which was one of the ABC Network's anthology/guest-cast series (along with The Love Boat) that proved wildly popular. Each week two guests came to Fantasy Island to get their wish/fantasy fulfilled. Their mysterious host, the debonair and suave white-suited Mr. Roar...

  • ABC
  • Sep 7, 1979
  • ABC
  • Sep 7, 1979
Fantasy Island (1978)
Season 3
7 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 7, 1979
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Summary Smiles everyone, Smiles! So began this long-running (7 season) series which was one of the ABC Network's anthology/guest-cast series (along with The Love Boat) that proved wildly popular. Each week two guests came to Fantasy Island to get their wish/fantasy fulfilled. Their mysterious host, the debonair and suave white-suited Mr. Roar...

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Episode 1 • Sep 7, 1979 • 1 h
Hit Man/The Swimmer
Connecticut clothier Fred Forbush, whose business is failing, wants to be killed so that his family can collect on his life insurance; and former swimmer Terry Summers, who was paralyzed in a car wreck, seeks a cure for her condition.
Episode 2 • Sep 14, 1979 • 1 h
Goose for the Gander/Stuntman
Diner owner Marjorie Gibbs enters a cooking contest to win money to relocate her business. Retired stuntman Peter Rawlings hopes to reconcile with his son Bill, also a stuntman, who is about to attempt a life-threatening stunt for a film.
Episode 3 • Sep 21, 1979 • 1 h
Tattoo: the Love God/Magnolia Blossoms
Tattoo asks Roarke to grant his fantasy of being a "love god", which Roarke takes literally. Friends Myra Collinsky and Gladys Boylan want to experience the days of the Civil-War-era South.
Episode 4 • Oct 5, 1979 • 1 h
Baby/Marathon: Battle of the Sexes
Tattoo decides to adopt the orphaned infant of a native islander; and Gretchen Wasserman and Bunny Kelly want to win the Fantasy Island Marathon to save the floundering barbell-manufacturing plant where they work.
Episode 5 • Oct 19, 1979 • 1 h
The Chain Gang/The Boss
Californian Mike Jenner joins a chain gang to get information that he hopes will clear his father's name; and switchboard operator Cindy Carter of Illinois wants to be a corporate CEO.
Episode 6 • Oct 27, 1979 • 1 h
The Red Baron/Young at Heart
Wisconsin locksmith Cornelius Wieselfarber wants to be a World War I flying ace; and 50-year-old Pennsylvania librarian Helen Philips wants to be half her age for a weekend.
Episode 7 • Nov 3, 1979 • 1 h
The Wedding
Roarke is set to marry the love of his life, but Tattoo overhears a conversation that suggests the man who grants others' fantasies may not be able to realize his own.
Episode 8 • Nov 10, 1979 • 1 h
The Handyman/Tattoo's Romance
Selfish and bitter Ellie Simpson takes advantage of Tattoo's attraction to her niece Donna May to try to make the girl a country-music star; and gangland killing witness Holly Ryan seeks refuge from his would-be killers in an orphanage.
Episode 9 • Nov 17, 1979 • 1 h
The Dancer/Nobody's There
Klutzy private eye Betty Foster hopes to solve her first case; and wealthy Texan Big Jake Farley wants to meet Valeska DeMarco, the ballerina who inspired him to success.
Episode 10 • Nov 24, 1979 • 1 h
Class of '69/The Pug
Young Mitch Lee wants to see his father Joey win a boxing championship; and plus-sized Brenda Richards seeks revenge on former classmate Lance Reynolds, who humiliated her in front of the entire school at their prom years earlier.
Episode 11 • Dec 1, 1979 • 1 h
The Mermaid/The Victim
Julie Brett disregards Roarke's warnings and dates her dream man Michael Duvall, only to wind up as a sex slave; and college professor Harold DeHaven, hoping to make a significant scientific discovery, meets up with a mermaid.
Episode 12 • Dec 8, 1979 • 1 h
The Cheerleaders/Marooned
Kentucky candy factory workers Cathy Wilton and Marg Atkins want to be cheerleaders for a professional football team; and Kansas truck driver Melvin Mews wants to be shipwrecked on a deserted island with his favorite movie star Liz Merrill.
Episode 13 • Dec 15, 1979 • 1 h
The Inventor/On the Other Side
Professor Dwayne Clebe of South Dakota hopes to perfect his preservation formula and receive acclaim for it; long-widowed Irma Gideon hopes to contact her dead husband after twenty-five years of fruitless attempts.
Episode 14 • Dec 22, 1979 • 1 h
Lookalikes/The Winemaker
Idaho salesman Harry Simpson enters the world of gambling when he changes places with his double, while Tattoo promises Sister Veronica of California that she'll win a wine tasting content before he discovers her wine is undrinkable.
Episode 15 • Jan 12, 1980 • 1 h
Unholy Wedlock/Elizabeth
Young bachelor Danny Collier gets into trouble in his quest to marry his fiancée; and thirty-year-old Lisa Corday needs Roarke's help to defeat a dangerous ghost and end a nightmare.
Episode 16 • Jan 19, 1980 • 1 h
Rogues and Riches/Stark Terror
Lawyer Pete Gilbert is determined to lose himself in the eighteenth century, despite the entreaties of his partner Mark Hendricks; and young Amy Marson, rendered mute by her mother's death, wants to find out if she was responsible.
Episode 17 • Jan 26, 1980 • 1 h
PlayGirl/Smith's Valhalla
Sick of male chauvinism, Erica Clarke wants to turn the tables and treat men as sex objects; and Oregon rancher Jason Smith asks for a chance to lead a commando raid.
Episode 18 • Feb 2, 1980 • 1 h
Aphrodite/Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde
Picky Alan Blair seeks the perfect woman and meets Aphrodite; and stern psychologist Melanie Griffin wants to understand what attracts women to bad men, in hopes of rescuing her younger sister Jennifer from the clutches of a creep.
Episode 19 • Feb 9, 1980 • 1 h
The Swinger/Terrors of the Mind
Middle-aged divorced Herman Dodge wants to be the swinging single that he didn't get to be before he married. Sharon Sanders gains the power to see into her future.
Episode 20 • Mar 1, 1980 • 1 h
Nona/One Million B.C.
Blind detective Ned Scott wants his sight back so he can search for a missing actress. Mindy Harris and Caroline Taylor return to a time of old-fashioned chivalry in men and daintiness in women.
Episode 21 • Mar 8, 1980 • 1 h
Jungle Man/Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate
Unemployed actor David Farley gets to reprise his signature role of Jungle Man. Acclaimed ventriloquist Mary Ann Carlin is afraid that her marionette Valerie has taken over some of her personality traits.
Episode 22 • May 10, 1980 • 1 h
My Fair Pharaoh/The Power
Lucy Atwell yearns to immerse herself in the ancient Egyptian world of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Anthony. Fred Webster asks Roarke to give him the power of telekinesis.
Episode 23 • May 17, 1980 • 1 h
Eagleman/Children of Mentu
Widowed businessman Morris Binstock wants to become his estranged son Barney's favorite comic-book superhero Eagle Man to get the boy's attention. Journalism student Rochelle Mackenzie seeks out the story that will make her career.
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Ricardo Montalban

Mr. Roarke

Hervé Villechaize

Tattoo, Black Beard, Quasimodo

Wendy Schaal

Julie, Jennie Rowlands, Ruth Ann McAllister

Christopher Hewett

Lawrence

Carol Lynley

Catherine Harris, Dorothy Weller, Elizabeth 'Liz' Hollander

Dennis Cole

Captain Jeff Bailey, David Farley, Dr. Lloyd Hopper

Phyllis Davis

Christy Robbins, Elizabeth Leston, Helen Hendrix

Barbi Benton

Bunny Kelly, Courtney, Dee Dee Verona

Mary Ann Mobley

Amanda DeHaven, Bryana Spencer, Ellie Drake

Ken Berry

Eddie, Elliott Fielding, Harry Simpson

Michelle Phillips

Princess Nyah, The Mermaid, Andrea Barclay, Helen Sinclair, Shelia Godfrey, Valerie Larrabe

Stuart Whitman

Charles Wesley, Franklin Adams, Jesse Moreau, Joel Campbell, Rex Reinhardt, Tom Parnell, Walter Tate

David Hedison

Captain John Day, Carlyle Cranston, Claude Duncan, Daniel Garman, David Tabori, Karl Dixon, Phillip Camden

George Maharis

Dr. Hal Workman, Jack Becker, Joe Capos, Lowell Benson, Mario Ferrini, Professor Alan Blair

Maureen McCormick

Angela Brennan, Jennie Collins, Jennifer Griffin, Sally Quinn, Stephanie Wilson, Trudy Brown

John Saxon

Colin McArthur, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dr. Roger Sullivan, Evan Watkins, Michael Anderson, Monsieur Berandt Sabatier, Professor Harold DeHaven

Dack Rambo

Bud, Captain Rawlins, Captain Timothy Black, Carl Wagner, Mike O'Brien, Prince Peter d'Anatoli

John Myhers

Charlton Gould, Howard Callas, Lord Rupert Black, Mayor William Lacy, Phil Collins, Spencer

John Davis Chandler

Barker, Bellamy, Ed Larson, Eddie, Eddie Gunn, Tracer

Danielle Aubry

Buyer, Carrie, Diner, Madeline Eskorpos, The Stylist, The Woman in Tweed

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