Movies Similar to Fantasy Island: Season 04 (1980)

The lavish "wish-fulfillment" TV series Fantasy Island enters it fourth season with the mysterious Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and his mercurial aide Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) still making dreams come true for the various and sundry visitors to Roarke's lavish island resort. New to the series is Wendy Schaal), who is seen in a handful of episodes as Roarke's goddaughter Julie. If there were any doubts that Roarke was no mere entrepreneur, but instead possessed magical and even mystical powers, those doubts are dispelled in the season opener, in which Roarke enables a terrified woman (Carol Lynley) to break the bargain she has made with the Devil Himself, or, as he is known hereabouts, Mephistopholes (played by Roddy McDowell). This would not be Roarke's last dust-up with Satan, as proven later in the season in the rare half-hour episode "Possessed". The "fantasy" element of Fantasy Island is delved into even further in the Season Four episodes wherein a mermaid (Michelle Phillips) dreams of being human, Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) is endowed with the artistic talent of Toulouse-Lautrec, and Julie begs Roarke to revoke her own magic powers so that she can have a "normal" marriage. This year's guest-star lineup includes Ross Martin, Tom Wopat, Charlene Tilton, Loni Anderson, Lyle Waggoner, Bobby Sherman, Peter Marshall, Jerry Van Dyke, Ann Jillian, Joe Namath and Jimmy Dean. The longest entry this season is the 90-minute "Skater's Edge/Concerto of Death/The Last Great Death", which, per its title, features three rather two separate plotlines, and boasts a guest roster including skating star Peggy Fleming, Dick Shawn, Juliet Mills, Jack Carter and Bradford Dillman. Season Four ends with a standard hour-long effort, in which a poor Mexican family is allowed by Roarke bypass the usual $50,000 fee in order to give their son the "best birthday ever", while at the same time a timid woman "inherits" a romantic fantasy from a deceased relative. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi