I remember as a kid watching an episode that had this creepy guy that lived in the woods on the Island. He was sort of deformed from what I remember. All I know that it is scared the living daylights out of me as a kid when it aired. Does anyone know which episode this was. Sorry I don't remember the plot ( I was like 5) I just remember this creepy looking guy/kid. Any help would be graetly appreciated.
shareThere is also a "Little House on the Prairie" episode with a clown in the woods. No wonder us children of the '70s grew up to be so warped!
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What was the name of that episode and on what season was it?
share'80-81 season, the 7th season (& it's on DVD). The episode is called "Sylvia."
When it was written by Michael Landon, you know to get the Prozac and Kleenex.
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Getting back to Fantasy Island, I remember the episode and its twist ending. The deformity is due to some sort of childhood disease and the fact he'd run away from the constant torment of others. Somehow or other he becomes involved with an Island guest and she sees through the deformity to the beautiful person within. Mr. Roarke 'cures' him and he becomes normal looking to himself and the woman, gives them some private secluded land with everything they could ever need to live a long and happy life. Someone, either Tatoo or the god-daughter-niece points out that he looks the same and Mr. Roarke gives his typical answer like, no he looks the way she sees him and that's all they need to be happy with one another.
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I sorta remember some lonely guy lamenting the loss of a young lady (bride or daugther)? But no idea if it was a 'bad' kind of story or another example of the lonely guy who someone reaches out to help. Sorry - maybe TV tome knows?
"El riesgo vive siempre!"
That 'Fantasy Island' plot reminds me of a 1945 movie called "The Enchanted Cottage" with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037671/
synopsis of The Enchanted Cottage:
"A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else."
imdb also says:
"The lonely woman was obviously not attractive -- neither to the battle-scarred man -- nor to the audience. He, burned and scarred, was practically repulsive looking to everyone, including the audience. Once their characters began honestly interacting, however, the audience was allowed to begin to accept them as real, humble, and friendly people -- like themselves. Then, the clever director had the make-up crew begin to -- ever so slowly, practically imperceptively -- soften their features, making their formerly perceived homeliness/ugliness more and more transparent. Thus, as the characters began to fall more in love and began to see the other as the person they had so long sought after, so too, did the audience! Then the characters' true beauty became so apparent, so much as what each would have wanted the other to be, that we, audience and players alike, saw them as the most handsome people we had beheld -- in a moment to remember -- as I have these 61 years since I saw the film. I believe it is one of the most magic 'happenings' on film I've ever witnessed. It's so good to be able to recall that moment so vividly, it 'happened again!"
If I were Mr. Roarke, I would have made them look normal to each other...but I would also have added the illusion that he was her and that she was him!!! Mr. Roarke has absolutely no sense of humor!!!
shareWas that the clown that raped and impregnated a girl, and the clown was eventually shot and killed by the girl's father, who was kind of scummy himself?
Doctor Who: "I'm a Time Traveler, I point and laugh at archaeologists."
At first I thought you were talking about the episode where Frankenstein's Creature (very benevolent) is living on Fantasy Island.
"They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser.
"And me," said Fowler, "back into a man."
Actually, this one sounds to me like "Crescendo/Three Feathers", from season 4 (12/20/1980), the first fantasy. Toni Tennille played a famous singer, Susan Lohmann, whose stardom came from her performance of musical plays written by a composer named Edmond Dumont (Monte Markham). Susan wanted to meet Edmond, so she came to Fantasy Island asking Roarke to set up the meeting...without knowing that he had a terrible deformity that forced him to hide from the world. (If you want to wait and see if this ever shows up on DVD, or pops up on Hulu.com, skip the text below...)
Dumont lived in a very secluded estate surrounded by jungle that was populated by wild animals, and had only a blind servant as company. It turned out he had wanted to meet Susan too, and admired her as much as she did him. But when they finally did stand before each other, he had the face of some sort of beast (the makeup looked sort of like a cross between a bear and a lion, if you can imagine that). She ran screaming from the estate and back to her bungalow, and was going to leave the island, claiming Dumont had tricked her into coming to his estate by making her fall for him through his music. But then Mr. Roarke sensed that Dumont was in distress, realized he was dying, and told Susan only she could save him. He was under a curse that caused every seventh generation to be born with a beast's face, and the only thing that could break the curse was for someone to tell the afflicted person "I love you". Which, in the end, Susan did; they left the island together, with Edmond cured, and presumably plans to marry and work together. A retelling of "Beauty and the Beast".
Does that help you? Sorry it's been so long since you first posted the question!
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