Episode
Fantasy Island: Flying Aces / The Mermaid Returns
Overview
In ""Flying Aces"" airline pilot Tony Chilton goes back to World War II to experience the thrill of combat flying with his father who died in that war. And in ""The Mermaid Returns"" Princess Nyah desires to learn what human love is like and becomes enamored with Mr. Roarke.
Details
- Series
- Fantasy Island
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1980-11-01
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Flying Aces / The Mermaid Returns is Episode 2 in Season 4 of Fantasy Island. It aired on 1980-11-01. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: The Devil and Mandy Breem / Instant Millionaire
In ""The Devil and Mandy Breem"" Amanda Breem who sold her soul to Satan in order to save the life of her husband, seeks Mr. Roarke's help in saving her from the devil's grasp.
And in ""Instant Millionaire"" Tattoo takes on a Fred Catlett's fantasy to become an instant millionaire which could end up getting him killed.
Episode 3: The Skater's Edge / Concerto of Death / The Last Great Race
In ""The Skater's Edge"" untrained farm girl Charlie Girl from Minnesota fantasizes about competing as a world-class figure skater.
In ""Concerto of Death"" piano player Jeremy Hale comes to believe that his famous concert pianist brother was murdered and is tormented by his memory.
And in ""The Last Great Race"" a couple agree to a winner-take-all race to decide the property settlement for their divorce.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Don Quixote / The Sex Symbol
In ""Don Quixote"" Texas millionaire Donald Quick wishes to become the heroic Don Quixote and find his Dulcinea encountering trouble along his journey.
And in ""The Sex Symbol"" plain Jane, Helen Hendrix wishes to become adored and desired by men, as a sexy Marilyn Monroe type. She finds out that being a sex symbol gets her far more than she bargained for.
Episode 5: The Love Doctor / The Pleasure Palace / Possessed
In ""The Love Doctor"" movie actress Kim Holland seeks to become anonymous for the weekend and finds the Love Doctor instead.
In ""The Pleasure Palace"" Gordon Hughes' attitude about his life is dramatically altered when he travels back to find his ""roots"" circa San Francisco 1906.
And in ""Possessed"" a very worried mother brings her suddenly cold and very changed little girl to Mr. Roarke for help.
Episode 6: With Affection, Jack the Ripper / Gigolo
In ""With Affection, Jack the Ripper"" Lorraine Peters a female criminologist sets out to discover the identity of Jack the Ripper and solve the Whitechapel mystery and finds herself marked as his next victim.
And in ""Gigolo"" Stanley Hocker from Stubbenville, Ohio feels totally inadequate in matters dealing with the opposite sex, he dreams of becoming a modern day Don Juan.
Episode 7: The Invisible Woman / The Snowbird
In ""The Invisible Woman"" Harriet Winkler wishes to become invisible so she can spy on her philandering fiancee and finds that the one thing their relationship doesn't have is trust.
And in ""The Snowbird"" Ned Pringle falls in love with one of the Flying Ferinis', a trapeze act, and in order for him to get close to her he takes on the challenge to become a trapeze artist himself.
Episode 8: Crescendo / Three Feathers
In ""Crescendo"" singing star Susan Lohman hopes for romance with the brilliant composer of her songs. Not knowing that the mysterious and elusive composer is cursed her hopes are shockingly dashed when they meet.
And in ""Three Feathers"" Alan Colshaw is unjustly accused of cowardice, having abandoned his three flight mates in the crash and disappearing. Not knowing what happened to him, he is in desperate need to exonerate himself.
Episode 9: My Late Lover / Sanctuary
In ""My Late Lover"" the widow Anastasia Dexter has three perspective suitors and is flabergasted by her husband's ghostly interference with choosing one of them.
And in ""Sanctuary"" Thomas Henshaw has been poisoned for some unknown reason, and with only hours to live, searches for the identity of his killer in a place called Gull Island Rest Home a sanctuary for known criminals.
Episode 10: High Off the Hog / Reprisal
In ""High Off the Hog"" the Boggs a hillbilly family from the Ozarks become millionaires for the weekend and they fall prey to unscrupulous con men.
And in ""Reprisals"" Trudy Brown abuses the power Mr. Roarke grants her to gain confidence and self esteem when her jealousy over her cousins' success in the Fantasy Island Athletic Competition nearly destroy her.
Episode 11: The Artist and the Lady / Elizabeth's Baby
In ""The Artist and the Lady"" an untalented artist wishes to possess the talent to paint a great masterpiece, ends up becoming enamored of his muse.
In ""Elizabeth's Baby"" terminally ill and very expectant Elizabeth Blake wishes to look ahead into her unborn baby's future.
Episode 12: The Heroine / The Warrior
In ""The Heroine"" romance novelist Florence Richmond whose own life is rather dull, wishes to become one of her book's wild and lusty heroines.
And in ""The Warrior"" mild-mannered Robert Graham wishes to become a martial arts warrior in a fight to the finish in order to fulfill his fantasy about beating the best.
Episode 13: The Man from Yesterday / World's Most Desirable Woman
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.