Was anyone else creeped out. . .

Hi Dianne, When I watched this episode as a kid in the 1970's, this episode didn't bother me. I saw it a few years ago, and it still didn't bother me, except for the harsh response of the uncle to the maid's profession of love. I thought, "Well, that's his character: strong type, uncomfortable responding to such professions, and perhaps he was surprised and relieved that she felt the same way."

Fast forward to 2014, and I watched this episode on the same date you did. (Actually, I recorded it and watched it a week later.) My reaction to the "brother and sister" and the uncle's reaction totally changed.

The brother and sister part was reminiscent of "Flowers in the Attic," especially due to their physical likeness to the characters in the movie, but a little lower key in the intimacy department. I kept thinking of this movie and its sequel when I watched this "Fantasy Island" episode, which did give me the chills and creeps as an adult -- worse than all the ghostly phenomenon ever did as a child.

The uncle's response to the maid was a bit over the top. Sure, I understand an initial laugh or two accompanied by a look of excited surprise, but the uncle's response was degrading -- never mind how long it took for him to get over the laugh and finally profess his only feelings, which was too late.

Back to the brother and sister in Fantasy Island, I think the backlash would depend on the audience. I would balk, but considering the world today, where violence and dysfunction are the norm and we've become so desensitized and inundated by shows like "Married with Children" and the successors, I'm not sure how others would act.

If it were nonfictional, then I think people would really be angry with the story line.

By the way, I like your kitty icons at the bottom of you post! I just love cats too! :)

Georgia Engel stunk in this episode, almost as bad as the tired Carol Lynley, who's on every other FI episode.

A brother and sister attraction has played out numerous times in Hollywood entertainment.

It's been done more times than I care to think about on daytime soap operas, it was supposed to be something we always wondered on the Brady Bunch (while I never did) and that spilled over in that second movie.

I always remembered Dermot Mulroney (you don't forget a name like that, regardless of how unimpressive his acting may be) in a tv movie where he fell in love with his step-sister and that turns out to be his first performance). That was in '86.

A quick check of this episode, which I don't recall, the brother and sister were played by Stephen Shortridge and Dianne Kay (one of the Eight is Enough daughters, who oddly enough, I recall an ending joke in one episode when eldest brother David Bradford was set up on a blind date with his own sister, Mary. I've always remembered their behavior when they feign trying to recognize one another), so that wouldn't have been much of a stretch of believability with those two.

I remember being totally creeped out by the hurricane episode of The Love Boat, when Donna Mills is looking for her mother (she was put up for adoption) and finds out it is David Birney's mother, with whom she has fallen in love.

He conveniently points out she adopted him when he was three, thereby making it okay. Even tho they didn't 'grow up' as brother and sister, it still looked bizarre to me.

No-actually the uncut episode shows a lot more interaction between the adopted brother and sister and their chemistry is just laughable. If anything, it just proved that Stephen Shortridge was a good actor but Dianne Kay was awful. I actually enjoyed Richard Anderson as the uncle the most.

This must be the episode you guys are talking about, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0577785/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12, I've never seen it and I'm not sure if I want to.