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Fantasy Island Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1977 - 1978
Episode 1
Pilot
Fri, Jan 14, 197760 mins
Wealthy businesswoman Eunice Hollander Baines attends her own funeral; jaded hunter Paul Henley becomes the prey; World War II veteran Arnold Greenwood relives his romance with a woman he met in England.
Episode 2
Return to Fantasy Island
Fri, Jan 20, 197860 mins
A career woman's assistant hopes to break through his boss's all-business façade; a couple who gave up their daughter for adoption and can have no more children want to see the girl; and a woman who lost her memory on her honeymoon wants to experience it again to cure her amnesia.
Episode 3
Escape/Cinderella Girls
Sat, Jan 28, 197860 mins
Magician Gregory Udall wants to perform the ultimate escape from a notorious prison on a nearby island. Best friends Ann Dowd and Maxine Bender want to be wealthy for a weekend.
Episode 4
Bet a Million/Mr. Irresistible
Sat, Feb 4, 197860 mins
Fred and Joan Wade gamble everything they own on their dream of building a grand resort hotel; and nondescript Chuck Huffman wants to be ultra-attractive to every woman who sees him.
Episode 5
The Prince/The Sheriff
Sat, Feb 11, 197860 mins
The crown prince of a small European country wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.
Episode 6
Family Reunion/Voodoo
Sat, Feb 18, 197860 mins
Two children trick their divorced parents into a family weekend together, complete with future stepparents, in the hope of reuniting Mom and Dad; and a young woman with amnesia turns to a voodoo practitioner in the hope of finding out if she is a missing heiress.
Episode 7
Lady of the Evening/The Racer
Sat, Feb 25, 197860 mins
Well-known call girl Renee Lansing wants to escape her old life and find true love; race-car driver Jack Kincaid wants to relive a crash to end his nightmares of it.
Episode 8
Treasure Hunt/Beauty Contest
Sat, Mar 11, 197860 mins
Stu and Andrea Chambers and their partner Jim Defoe may be driven apart by their quest for a treasure. Sally Quinn hopes to win a beauty contest to follow in her late mother's footsteps and gain her neglectful father Neville's attention.
Episode 9
The Funny Girl/Butch and Sundance
Sat, Mar 18, 197860 mins
Famous comedienne Katherine Patrino seeks anonymity in a small town, like the one she came from. Bill Cummings and Alex Farrelli fulfill their dreams of being Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Episode 10
Superstar/Salem
Sat, Mar 25, 197860 mins
Working stiff Richard Delaney wants to become a baseball star; Walter and Martha Tate are fed up with the loose ways of today's young people, so they want to go back to a time when people were "better behaved".
Episode 11
Trouble, My Lovely/The Common Man
Sat, Apr 1, 197860 mins
Overlooked process server Stanley Scheckter wants the action and excitement of being a private eye for a weekend; and perpetually browbeaten husband Fred Stouton wants the respect of his wife, son and mother-in-law.
Episode 12
The Over-the-Hill Caper/Poof, You're a Movie Star
Sat, Apr 15, 197860 mins
Blackmail victim Spencer Randolph and his aging buddies reunite their gang to defeat their blackmailer; and young Shirley Russell revels in her fantasy of being a movie star -- until director Arthur Gantman requests that she appear nude.
Episode 13
Reunion/Anniversary
Sat, Apr 29, 197860 mins
Four high-school friends, each with a dark secret, gather for a ten-year reunion of their old group. Tom and Toni Elgin, who are drifting apart, relive their wedding day in hopes of patching things up.
Episode 14
King for a Day/Instant Family
Sat, May 6, 197860 mins
A plumber's fantasy to be a king challenges him with diplomatic problems and a queen with a secret; and a graduate student who thinks she knows everything about raising kids learns otherwise when she's assigned to babysit her mentor's children for the weekend.
Episode 15
Fool for a Client/Double Your Pleasure
Sat, May 13, 197860 mins
A newly minted lawyer looking to try a criminal case winds up having to present his own defense when he's framed for murder; and an oil-pipeline laborer from Alaska wins a date with gorgeous identical twins, which turns out to be less than it was cracked up to be.
Episode 16
Call Me Lucky/Torch Song
Sat, May 20, 197860 mins
Career gambler Harry Beamus' dream of winning every game he plays has a monkey wrench thrown into it by the arrival of his son; and Edith Garvey wants to be a successful 1920's torch singer, like her grandmother.