In fact, dreadful doesn't begin to cover it. What were they thinking with this one!? The guy who is supposed to carry The Whistle story has the personality of the coil that's under my fridge. The Turkish museum curator is desperately trying to act "sexy" but it doesn't work for her. (And what was up with her skin at the end? She looked more overbaked than even George Hamilton! Did she spend the entire night, before plane departure, in a tanning booth? Made no sense!)
John Carradine is wasted here. The spooks are all annoying, their demon masks look like cheesy relics from The Twilight Zone. The story was static and idiotic. It had some cool Egyptian and Easter Island like artifacts. The special effects, even for early 1980s were cheap and ridiculous (a kaleidoscope projected onto the screen to create a split light prism in rainbow colors).
The other story was possibly even more annoying. The woman in search of her father had dumb expressions on her face the entire show. The fathers were annoying and pulling long faces. Carolyn Jones played an extremely annoying character, and looked ridiculous with her gaudy deep blue eye shadow clashing with her jade green outfit. This story was a bore, evenmoreso than the annoying Whistle story.
Julie was extra annoying, pulling faces and even Mr. Roarke couldn't save this one. (But watching several per week, makes you notice that he always not so covertly threatens the lives of his guests during the intro and pulls the same faces when drinking his wine: congenial smiles then casting dark stares at his always clueless guests.) Tattoo and his ever cute antics was sorely missing, here. (Is his departure the reason why the show went downhill fast at the end? Or... did they also fire the better and even mediocre writers and settle for the very worst?) It's hard not to notice, at the end, that Ann Turkel hit the tanning booth and is, overnight, ten shades darker than she started with. (Why did people do this to themselves in the 70s? Such brainwashing! It looks hideous on naturally pale peoples!)
There are no highlights to this show. The only good thing: the production kept things tight, unlike in later seasons, it's well filmed and moves at an okay pace, but watch it on Tubi so it makes a bit more sense, at least it's more coherent than watching it on GET TV, with the missing scenes. I think I've covered everyone. If I missed someone, trust me: they were just as annoying as the rest of the cast. This should have been called Daddy's Ungrateful and Annoying Little Girl and The Annoying Whistle People. I'm giving this a very generous five out of ten but it's probably more of a 4/10.