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Fantasy Island Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1979 - 1980
Episode 1
Hit Man/The Swimmer
Fri, Sep 7, 197960 mins
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
Goose for the Gander/Stuntman
Fri, Sep 14, 197960 mins
A diner owner whose restaurant is to be razed for a new highway wants to win a cooking contest to raise the money to relocate her business; and a retired stuntman hopes to reconcile with his estranged son, also a stuntman, who is about to attempt a life-threatening stunt for a movie.
Episode 3
Tattoo: the Love God/Magnolia Blossoms
Fri, Sep 21, 197960 mins
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
Baby/Marathon: Battle of the Sexes
Fri, Oct 5, 197960 mins
Tattoo decides to adopt the orphaned infant son of a native islander he knew well; and two women want to win the Fantasy Island Marathon so they can use the publicity and prize money to save the floundering barbell-manufacturing plant they work at.
Episode 5
The Chain Gang/The Boss
Fri, Oct 19, 197960 mins
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
The Red Baron/Young at Heart
Sat, Oct 27, 197960 mins
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
The Wedding
Sat, Nov 3, 197960 mins
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
The Handyman/Tattoo's Romance
Sat, Nov 10, 197960 mins
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
The Dancer/Nobody's There
Sat, Nov 17, 197947 mins
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
Class of '69/The Pug
Sat, Nov 24, 197960 mins
A woman who's over weight comes to the island for her class reunion and her wish is to get back at the man who humiliated her in school. So she asks Roarke to make her svelte so that the man will come to her. At the same time she meets a meek guy whom she was close to in school. And the heavy weight champion comes to the island for a bout. It's the son of his sparring partner who wishes that his father can have an actual bout and maybe win. So while training the manages to knock the champ down and when the challenger pulls out. Roarke suggests why not let his sparring partner take his place.
Episode 11
The Mermaid/The Victim
Sat, Dec 1, 197960 mins
A woman disregards Roarke's severe warnings and dates her dream man, only to wind up one of his stable of sex slaves; and a college professor, hoping to make a significant scientific discovery, saves the life of a mermaid who tries to tempt him away from his crumbling marriage.
Episode 12
The Cheerleaders/Marooned
Sat, Dec 8, 197960 mins
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
The Inventor/On the Other Side
Sat, Dec 15, 197960 mins
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
Lookalikes/The Winemaker
Sat, Dec 22, 197960 mins
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
Unholy Wedlock/Elizabeth
Sat, Jan 12, 198060 mins
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
Rogues and Riches/Stark Terror
Sat, Jan 19, 198060 mins
A man is determined to lose himself in the eighteenth century, despite the entreaties of his lawyer partner who tries to entice him back with the promise of a lucrative business deal; and a young woman, rendered mute by her mother's death, wants to find out whether she was responsible.
Episode 17
PlayGirl/Smith's Valhalla
Sat, Jan 26, 198060 mins
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
Aphrodite/Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde
Sat, Feb 2, 198060 mins
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
The Swinger/Terrors of the Mind
Sat, Feb 9, 198060 mins
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
Nona/One Million B.C.
Sat, Mar 1, 198060 mins
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
Jungle Man/Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate
Sat, Mar 8, 198060 mins
An actor from a long-running TV show that ended two years ago and finds it hard to find work comes to the island to step into the character's shoes. Roarke tells him that it will be real; in the sense that he won't have a script and all the persons in the show will be real and it will be like two years have actually gone by. And he discovers that the world is in shambles. And a ventriloquist thinks her dummy is becoming too dominant and she wants to deal with it. But when the dummy comes to life things get complicated.
Episode 22
My Fair Pharaoh/The Power
Sat, May 10, 198060 mins
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
Eagleman/Children of Mentu
Sat, May 17, 198060 mins
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.