Fantasy Island - The Complete First Season
by Michael Preece, Don Chaffey, Joseph Pevney, George McCowan, Georg Stanford Brown
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Actor: Christopher Hewett, Herv? Villechaize, Kimberly Beck, Wendy SchaalDirector: Don Chaffey, Georg Stanford Brown, George McCowan, Joseph Pevney, Michael Preece
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 775 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Fantasy Island - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: This is comfort TV
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a child of the 1970's and grew up watching Love Boat/Fanatsy Island on Saturday nights - this DVD collection is a great blast from the past and you will love seeing all the old TV stars.
Summary of Fantasy Island - The Complete First Season
Smiles everyone smiles! It's the fabulous first season of FANTASY ISLAND the mysterious Pacific paradise where anything can - and will - happen. Join Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and his assistant Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) as they welcome their very special guests - including Bill Bixby Don Knotts Juliet Mills Leslie Nielsen Ray Bolger and Sandra Dee - for a weekend stay and make their fondest dreams and wishes come true. This DVD includes the long-running series' initial 14 episodes plus the 1977 pilot and the original feature-length television movie that started it all!System Requirements: Running Time 776 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396114906 Manufacturer No: 11490One of the definitive TV shows of the 1970s originally aspired to the dark moral complexity of anthology shows like The Twilight Zone. Even diehard fans will have to admit Fantasy Island fell short of its goal--but that didn't stop it from becoming hugely popular, lasting for seven powerhouse seasons. All the most iconic elements were present from the beginning: Diminutive Tattoo (Herve Villechaize, The Man with the Golden Gun) shouting "De plane! De plane!"; infinitely gracious Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) commanding "Smiles, everyone, smiles," before delivering pages of exposition with his implacable Latin gravitas; the white suits; the tropical island that somehow has all the vegetation and weather patterns in the world; the pageant of celebrities from Jim Backus to Karen Valentine, Barbi Benton to Don Knotts--it all added up to sneakily addictive television. After all, wish-fulfillment--be it a schlub who wants to be irresistible to chicks or kids who want their separated parents to reconcile or a former cheerleading team who want to relive their high school glory days--had a built-in narrative hook, even though the resolution (various versions of "be careful what you wish for") was never in doubt. Almost every episode bubbled over with sex, revenge, ambition, and regret, delivered with a shameless lack of subtlety. Over the course of the first season, the interplay between Montalban and Villechaize--each armed with an intriguing exotic accent--became more and more prominent, with Mr. Roarke becoming increasingly supernatural while Tattoo oozed the mortal sins of greed and lechery. Turn on any episode; you'll find it hard to stop watching, no matter how cheesy or ludicrous the storyline. This four-dvd set includes the original TV movie pilot, its sequel, and the 16 episode first season, as well as a couple of largely bland featurettes enlivened by the occasional barbed comment from executive producer Leonard Goldberg. --Bret Fetzer
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