- Harriet Winkler wants the power to become invisible to be sure her fiancé Denny Palumbo is being faithful; and circus popcorn vendor Ned Pringle joins a trapeze-artist troupe to get closer to Velda Ferini, the girl he loves.
- "The Invisible Woman": Harriet Winkler's engaged to entertainer Denny Palumbo, who is trying to cobble together a new nightclub act after the demise of his old one, Denny and Trish -- caused by his divorce from Trish. Harriet knows of Denny's previous reputation as a womanizer, and wants to keep tabs on him to be sure he's not going to cheat on her with the two girls who make up his new act, Denny's Dynamite Dolls. But she has to do it without his knowing...and to that end, she wants to be invisible! Roarke gives her a potion that renders her -- but not her clothes -- unseen to everyone else (except to Roarke himself, as Tattoo discovers to his faintly envious disbelief). So each time Harriet takes a dose of potion, she has to strip in order to be completely undetected. She promptly uses her first dose to check on Denny rehearsing with the Dynamite Dolls. When one puts the moves on him, Harriet whacks her rear end with a cane, outraging the girl and making her quit the act. Denny walks in on the other in his bed and throws her out, upon which she also quits. Harriet is thrilled at Denny's fidelity, but now Denny's without an act for his contracted Fantasy Island appearance, and something has to be done fast. So Denny's manager, Morty Green -- a longtime friend of Harriet's -- brings Denny's ex, Trish, to the island in hopes they can be talked into reviving their old act. It doesn't look good: they hate each other, and the only way they'll forgive each other is if Denny crawls to Trish with a rose in his teeth while Trish puts on a gag for at least five minutes. Desperate to save Denny's showbiz career, Harriet sets about tricking the two into doing exactly what they said, with the help of her invisibility potion. She lures Denny outside after the shirt he's trying to put on, and when he's pounced on it at last, she sticks a flower in his mouth just as Trish comes out of her next-door bungalow. Later Harriet corners Trish alone in a beauty salon, ties her into her chair and gags her, and leaves a message on Denny's door to "see silent Trish". Having each been hoodwinked into doing what the other wanted, the two reluctantly give in and start rehearsing an act together...and to Harriet's sorrow, begin to reconcile. She's about to leave the island when Morty confesses he's been crazy about her for a long time. Harriet soon realizes she returns Morty's feelings, and leaves the island a much happier woman. "The Snow Bird": Ned Pringle is a circus popcorn vendor and has fallen madly in love with a trapeze performer named Velda -- a member of the famous Flying Ferrinis act. He wants to find some way to meet her and perhaps make a future with her. So Roarke gives him a magic pouch of powder used by trapeze performers and transports him directly to an audition to become part of the Ferrinis' act. He shortly finds he's filling a temporary vacancy left by Mario Ferrini, who badly injured his leg in a botched attempt to perform a stunt incorporating four complete mid-air somersaults, and still limps and uses a cane. Ned passes the test and attracts the attention of Velda, who defies her strict father's edict and sneaks in to see Ned in the middle of the night. Mario, out walking, discovers her whereabouts, and uses the information to blackmail his sister into silence when she protests his intentions to make Ned perform the quadruple-somersault stunt. Ned is certain he can do it -- till he accidentally drops the magic pouch just before he's about to make the attempt. Roarke swings in on the trapeze, and Ned explains what happened. Mario, angry at the delay, strides toward the ladder to find out what the holdup is -- and both Ned and Roarke notice that he's no longer using his cane and is walking perfectly normally. Roarke disappears, and Mario clambers to the trapeze platform, where Ned confronts him in regard to his "injury". Trapped, Mario realizes he has no other choice. Ned hands him the pouch that Mario retrieved before climbing up, encouraging him to perform the stunt he originated -- and this time Mario succeeds. Papa Ferrini is about to throw Ned out of the act when he sees Ned kissing Velda, but Mario talks him out of it and into allowing Velda to emerge from her sheltered existence and marry Ned.
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