- Eccentric banker Donald Quick fulfills his ambitions to be a modern-day Don Quixote; and plain-looking Helen Hendricks wants to be a sex goddess until three men take advantage of her newfound beauty.
- "Don Quixote": Donald Quick, a banker, wants to be his favorite literary character for a weekend. Unfortunately he's known in his hometown for doing some oddball things, and his position is in danger of being usurped by his greedy cousin. Quick's friend and attorney, Sam Woolf, a bit of a milquetoast who tends to be cautionary but tries to roll with the punches, can't talk Quick out of it; so he winds up playing Sancho Panza to Quick's Don Quixote. But they have to play out their roles in the present day, since something's wrong with Roarke's time-travel mechanism (!). Roarke outfits Woolf with a donkey and Quick with a horse, armor and a helmet he says shows the wearer a person's true soul. Before long Quick finds someone he can rescue; but to his surprise and Woolf's dismay, she doesn't want to be rescued from her boyfriend, an escaped murderer who won't hesitate to off anyone who he thinks gets in his way. Quick is convinced he's discovered his Dulcinea, though, and persists in trying to rescue the woman...and somehow succeeds. Slowly the two begin to develop a rapport and fall in love, and Quick soon learns he's falling for Dulcie Merchant, whose father has accounts with Quick's bank. Dulcie soon realizes she has no stomach for her rebellion against her strict father, and leaves the island with Quick and Woolf (who observes that Quick's rescue of Dulcie will count heavily in his favor in his case against his cousin). "Sex Symbol": Helen Hendrix is a somewhat shy, mousy woman who wants just once to be the center of male attention. Despite misgivings, and after some grave warnings, Roarke sets Helen up as the hottest new sex symbol of the moment, changing her hair from brown to blonde, losing her glasses and dressing her in figure-flattering clothes. At first Helen is having a blast, giving press conferences and basking in the admiring stares of every man within sight of her. But three crafty men have other plans for her, and stage her kidnapping, pretending to her that it's just a publicity stunt. When she realizes the truth, it's too late, and she has to rely on her own wits and wiles to keep from being raped by her captors. When one of them confesses to being in love with her, she manages to turn him against his compatriots and escapes with him. Before she can get away from the third man, though, she is magically transformed back into her usual mousy self, just in time for Roarke to catch up with the three men and have the authorities take them into custody. Helen decides that she's a lot better off being a mouse, after this experience!
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