Episode
Fantasy Island: The Man from Yesterday / World's Most Desirable Woman
Overview
In ""The Man from Yesterday"" William T. Keating posing to be a photo-journalist arrives with the intent to kill, not interview, his subject the famed Mad Major Calvin Doyle, deserter and murderer. And in ""World's Most Desirable Woman"" middle-aged Marsha Garnett is transformed into Carla Baines, the sexy beauty she was twenty years ago in order to get revenge on her soon-to-be-ex husband.
Details
- Series
- Fantasy Island
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1981-01-31
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Man from Yesterday / World's Most Desirable Woman is Episode 13 in Season 4 of Fantasy Island. It aired on 1981-01-31. The runtime is 45 min.
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