Balloon Landing?
Why do the guests arrive via a hot air balloon? I am 46, and old enough to remember first run episodes. However, I don't remember this.
shareThe 2 episodes you are referring to were shown on two consecutive Sundays,
Season 2, Episode 23 Cornelius and Alphonse/The Choice (6 May 1979)
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Season 2, Episode 25 Amusement Park/Rock Stars (13 May 1979)
Both episodes were shown on Sundays at 8 PM during family prime time. I believe they were trying to attract more kids as viewers. In both episodes the guests arrived in hot air balloons like you remember. The attendants, band, and dancers at the beginning were all kids.
In all the other episodes, the guests arrived in the plane and disembarked via the plane dock. (Of course, the exception would have been the mermaid, Naya, in 3 episodes and the ghost from the Flying Dutchman. Both requested a fantasy from the ocean...
So, you weren't remembering wrong. :)
they brought kids to the island in the balloon and the story centered around them...shown at 80m instead of 9pm...trying to get a younger audience
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