Just as an aside, I was a young teenager during the show’s run, and I remember the pilot episode in which Mr. Roarke was not some sorcerer who created the fantasies through magic, it was all done with illusion, and he had an infrastructure of workers helping him.
One of the plot lines of the pilot was that a guest kept almost getting killed in his fantasy, and it turned out that one of the workers had a past grudge against the guest and was trying to kill him. In the climactic scene the worker revealed himself to the guest and was about to kill him, saying “the hell with you” when Mr. Roarke appeared with a shotgun, and calmly said, “no, the hell with you, Mr. Smith”.
That was a pilot episode I could get behind. When the show turned into pure magic I was disappointed at how cheesy it became.