I am so tired of the Fantasy Island repeat sets, but I especially HATE the F. I. theater, a farce of a set with a tiny stage. You mean to tell me that these people paid $50,000 just to rehearse in that miserable stage without an audience?! Yep, folks: we've seen this same fantasy over & over & over again. And every single episode showing the dreadful F. I. stage is more awful than the other!
Couldn't these people rent their local town's theater's stage for a couple hours? Surely that'd have been cheaper than $50K!? But nope. Forget going back in time to discover Jack the Ripper's secret indentity or playing Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. Nope. These folks shelled out their life savings like the old coots they are, just to act like fools in the world's tiniest stage! If only Imogen Coca had worn her spun milkweed dress with the wings and gone "Ti-ti-ti-ti!!" as she took flight!
Then we have nepotism in action, when a 10 1/2 yr old Tori Spelling shows up for one of the worst storylines ever! This has to be the most dreadful Fantasy Island episode ever. Badly lit, slow paced, poor production values and an annoying child actress, if there ever was one! Who cares what happens to her and the God pretender.
Highlights of the show: George Kennedy as God calling Tori Spelling "funny-faced" and even singing a song to her about her funny face. Ricardo Montalban looking mortified as Mr. Roarke is made to sing, which he does... very badly! And a puppy drinking water out of a bowl is the best part of the show.