Yet another episode where the ever annoying, botched Jaclyn Smith wannabe, plays yet again an aged woman trying to become "young" and "desirable". Yawn! Done to death and by this same woman! Did they have no other ideas? I just watched her last night playing old lady whom Roarke youthens so she can be in a Ziefield follies like show! The ridiculous parts are these:
1) She was 31 at time of filming and is playing 39 as "old". She's made up to look a bad fifty plus. (The woman must be in her 80s now, it would be funny to see how desperate she now is. Is she still trying for "Barbie on Fantasy Island" shtick?!)
2) Her husband doesn't recognize her. Mind you. He married her in her 20s and has lived with her all this time. Same face, same everything except Roarke got her dark circles and nose to mouth and forehead lines removed, that's it! (Some writers really took 80s audiences for fools!)
The other, what do we have here but Dennis Cole, once again! Didn't I see him earlier this week playing a mean piano recital with a haunted emerald ring?! (Yes, I did!) He is dull as dry rocks, as usual, but he had lovely blond hair, in a bowl cut, plus a russet brown beard this time. Martin Milner is wasted here. I guess he wanted to cut loose from his copper image and is totally miscast and just unpleasant to watch.
Also, deja vu much?! This story is a repeat of one played by either Sony Bono, or some other guy that Frances Nguyen asks him to run after her, then he has to marry her pleasantly plump sister instead. But I remember the same shtick with the boy helper being upset, and the 2 girls being sister (they only appear at the end, going bye bye here!). What the what? This is like Bewitched, warming up leftovers with the Darrin #2 seasons! How come only me remembers this?
Highlights of the show: Bert Levy had some really cool velveteen suit jackets! (They're in fashion now, for men and women!) A brown one, navy and a dark green one, I can't pick a favorite, I want them all, hold the grey! Mr. Roarke becomes mister Buttinski big time here. But I love Mr. Roarke and so we get double helpings of Ricardo Montalban. All for the best, and he does improve both stories. (But boy am I tired of Barbi, Dennis and the rest!)
Nitpick: we do see both Martin Milner and Dennis Cole's stunt doubles on the bridge. For what? For shooting fake guns that only have sparks at the end of the barrel and jumping down a pond? I had to rewind that. I see Fantasy Island stunt doubles all the time. (The other day, it was a man in a long blonde wig for an actress. They didn't have stuntwomen back then?!)
Mr. Roarke probably elevates this to a 7/10 but I'm not overrating this time, removing 1 star for the ever annoying Barbi Benton (who had hair like Jaclyn Smith and looked like her homely, Asian sister) and because of Dennis Cole (why did the real Jackie ever marry this one? We'll never know!) Not much Tattoo at all in this one, and that's another minus for me! Not one I want to rewatch.
2) Her husband doesn't recognize her. Mind you. He married her in her 20s and has lived with her all this time. Same face, same everything except Roarke got her dark circles and nose to mouth and forehead lines removed, that's it! (Some writers really took 80s audiences for fools!)
The other, what do we have here but Dennis Cole, once again! Didn't I see him earlier this week playing a mean piano recital with a haunted emerald ring?! (Yes, I did!) He is dull as dry rocks, as usual, but he had lovely blond hair, in a bowl cut, plus a russet brown beard this time. Martin Milner is wasted here. I guess he wanted to cut loose from his copper image and is totally miscast and just unpleasant to watch.
Also, deja vu much?! This story is a repeat of one played by either Sony Bono, or some other guy that Frances Nguyen asks him to run after her, then he has to marry her pleasantly plump sister instead. But I remember the same shtick with the boy helper being upset, and the 2 girls being sister (they only appear at the end, going bye bye here!). What the what? This is like Bewitched, warming up leftovers with the Darrin #2 seasons! How come only me remembers this?
Highlights of the show: Bert Levy had some really cool velveteen suit jackets! (They're in fashion now, for men and women!) A brown one, navy and a dark green one, I can't pick a favorite, I want them all, hold the grey! Mr. Roarke becomes mister Buttinski big time here. But I love Mr. Roarke and so we get double helpings of Ricardo Montalban. All for the best, and he does improve both stories. (But boy am I tired of Barbi, Dennis and the rest!)
Nitpick: we do see both Martin Milner and Dennis Cole's stunt doubles on the bridge. For what? For shooting fake guns that only have sparks at the end of the barrel and jumping down a pond? I had to rewind that. I see Fantasy Island stunt doubles all the time. (The other day, it was a man in a long blonde wig for an actress. They didn't have stuntwomen back then?!)
Mr. Roarke probably elevates this to a 7/10 but I'm not overrating this time, removing 1 star for the ever annoying Barbi Benton (who had hair like Jaclyn Smith and looked like her homely, Asian sister) and because of Dennis Cole (why did the real Jackie ever marry this one? We'll never know!) Not much Tattoo at all in this one, and that's another minus for me! Not one I want to rewatch.