# Fantasy Island and Love Boat **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838 "2018-01-30T22:04:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/41 "2018-02-01T00:10:28Z")
One \*Love Boat \*episode had Sonny Bono play a reluctant Alice Cooper expy named Deacon Dark. Say what you want, but with better production, [this would probably be better than 80% of the 1970s hard rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimX_j0O7dQ). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/42 "2018-02-01T00:47:30Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I remember one Fantasy Island episode where a couple came to the island. The man had been there a hundred years before, and had a “Picture of Dorian Grey” style painting hanging on the wall. He wanted to sacrifice his girlfriend to the great god Pan, in order to get another hundred years of youth. (Is this the episode **Morgyn** was remembering?) The woman took a dim view of the idea, the man tried to force her, and Roarke took a branding iron to the portrait, breaking the spell and letting the guy die of old age in a few seconds. > > I could have sworn David Hedison played the man, but the Wikipedia pages and imdb pages don’t seem to list any such episode with Hedison in it. > [@wonky](#): > > If you look up “The Picture of Dorian Gray” on imdb, it says it was referenced in an FI episode that David Hedison starred in. > > ["Fantasy Island" The Chateau/White Lightning (TV Episode 1981) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0577809/) Thanks to the magic of YouTube, I just watched this episode. It’s not the one where Roarke quotes Barrett-Browning. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/43 "2018-02-01T01:17:27Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Good lord, what was wrong with _Newhart_? My father said it was “nothing but sex.” Yeah, I have no idea either. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/44 "2018-02-01T01:38:55Z")
Um, I only watched Love Boat as a drinking game as an undergrad, and I don’t remember too much except little snippets…:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/45 "2018-02-01T01:41:32Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I always remember that episode of Love Boat that had several has-beens come aboard and hilarity would ensue. Yeah, yeah, that’s the one I remember! ---
**Author:** ![PlumBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@PlumBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlumBob)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/46 "2018-02-01T02:36:06Z")
Best Love Boat? Was when they drove into a storm and the bartender, I think his name was Isaac emptied the pool out and got promoted. I don’t know why the rest of the crew was MIA. Best Fantasy Island? Hands down when Mr Roark fought the devil. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/47 "2018-02-01T02:37:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Didn’t Judy Landers appear a lot on Love Boat also? Someone else really only known for her looks. Eight appearances, as six different characters, plus playing herself in the same episode in which Barbi Benton played herself. 🙂 Judy’s lookalike sister Audrey was on four episodes of Love Boat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/48 "2018-02-01T02:43:29Z")
There was one episode I recently caught on MeTv. I was flipping through and had to stop. I didn’t remember seeing Nazis on the Love Boat. They were in Amsterdam for this episode. George Kennedy was an OSS officer captured behind the lines. Chloris Leachman betrayed him to the Nazis and he was tortured. When they meet up again we see in flashbacks she actually saved his life because everyone he was with was murdered by Nazis. They lived happily ever after. Also Captain Stubbing falls in love with Elke Summer but rejects her when he finds out she is a madam. Pretty dark for a Love Boat. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/49 "2018-02-01T02:53:58Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > There was one episode I recently caught on MeTv. I was flipping through and had to stop. I didn’t remember seeing Nazis on the Love Boat. They were in Amsterdam for this episode. George Kennedy was an OSS officer captured behind the lines. Chloris Leachman betrayed him to the Nazis and he was tortured. When they meet up again we see in flashbacks she actually saved his life because everyone he was with was murdered by Nazis. They lived happily ever after. Also Captain Stubbing falls in love with Elke Summer but rejects her when he finds out she is a madam. > > Pretty dark for a Love Boat. I saw that one recently too - Vicki also fell for a fugitive who was really a prince. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/50 "2018-02-01T02:55:03Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > My main issue still lies in not understanding why they made nerdy Doc Bricker a ladies man. Because he _was_ nerdy and that he was a Ladies Man was the joke? That’s the way I recall it. And plus, women go for Doctors, no matter what they look like. Trust me, this I know. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/51 "2018-02-01T03:30:40Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Judy’s lookalike sister Audrey was on four episodes of Love Boat. 🙂 They looked as much alike as sisters often do, but no more than that. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/52 "2018-02-01T04:21:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They looked as much alike as sisters often do, but no more than that. Ah yes, the Landers siblings were the hot sisters that people thought were the worst example of working minimal talent on the Ho Stroll until those people with the K surname came along and showed us that there are indeed several rungs below what we thought was the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/53 "2018-02-01T04:44:40Z")
I was a pre-teen to teen when these shows first aired. I loved the theme song for **The Love Boat** , especially the Jack Jones version. I would try to catch the opening every week. Then I’d wait to see who were the guest stars that week. If there was a cutie like Morgan Brittany or Loni Anderson, I’d stay tuned for the whole episode. If not, I’d change it to Airwolf or the Saturday Night Movie on CBS. As for **Fantasy Island** , I always wondered how awesome “Hawaii” was as the “Hawaiian Girls” came running out of the cottage and Mr. Rourke and Tattoo followed. Years later we took a school trip to the [Arboretum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Cottage_and_Coach_Barn) about 15 minutes from home. And there is the exact cottage from TV. Little did I know back then. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/54 "2018-02-01T05:36:03Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > As for **Fantasy Island** , I always wondered how awesome “Hawaii” was as the “Hawaiian Girls” came running out of the cottage and Mr. Rourke and Tattoo followed. Years later we took a school trip to the [Arboretum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_Cottage_and_Coach_Barn) about 15 minutes from home. And there is the exact cottage from TV. Little did I know back then. Wait. They didn’t film in Hawaii? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/55 "2018-02-01T11:49:13Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Ah yes, the Landers siblings were the hot sisters that people thought were the worst example of working minimal talent on the Ho Stroll until those people with the K surname came along and showed us that there are indeed several rungs below what we thought was the bottom. One of the sisters had at least some talent; whichever one was in Chorus Line the movie. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/56 "2018-02-01T15:29:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > One of the sisters had at least some talent; whichever one was in Chorus Line the movie. Audrey. And, of course, her big number in that film was “[Dance: Ten, Looks: Three](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yjj6_LBCs).” 😃 (NSFW for language) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/57 "2018-02-01T17:50:02Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > You’re sure it was a passenger, not the cruise director? 😛 It was a passenger, the wife of the Doctor’s old mentor. The mentor was a surgeon who had lost a hand in an car accident (his wife was driving). He was torturing her and she was taking pills (Valium?) to cope with it. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/58 "2018-02-01T18:06:45Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > It was a passenger, the wife of the Doctor’s old mentor. The mentor was a surgeon who had lost a hand in an car accident (his wife was driving). He was torturing her and she was taking pills (Valium?) to cope with it. I do remember that one. The mentor was terribly disappointed in Doc for not making more challenging career choices. Then Doc was able to spot the wife’s drug addiction which had gone unnoticed by the mentor. That WAS a good episode. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/59 "2018-02-01T18:18:25Z")
> [@PlumBob](#): > > Best Love Boat? Was when they drove into a storm and the bartender, I think his name was Isaac emptied the pool out and got promoted. I don’t know why the rest of the crew was MIA. They’d gone on an outing ashore and gotten detained by a hermit (John Astin - oh, man, I need to re-watch this), leaving a second-line crew behind. The replacement captain (played by Dick Martin, I see) had no idea what he was doing, sitting still and waiting for the regular crew to return instead of getting out to sea and outrunning the storm (as Captain Stubing said he would, in what was actually a pretty fair piece of acting for MacLeod). I’m not sure if Issac (who was actually on vacation at the time) actually got a promotion, but he did earn a set of epaulettes from Stubing as a sign of respect. The IMDB recap can be found [here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636714/). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838/60 "2018-02-01T18:32:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Audrey. And, of course, her big number in that film was “[Dance: Ten, Looks: Three](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yjj6_LBCs).” 😃 (NSFW for language) I heard somewhere that that number had a different title in early runs of the show, but the producers watched the audience during a performance and they weren’t reacting. Of course, everyone had looked through their programs and seen the title, which gave away the surprise of the song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-and-love-boat/807838.md?page=4)