"Fantasy Island" Rogues and Riches/Stark Terror (TV Episode 1980) Poster

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Dolly Read steals the episode
zuzupetal_996 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
As a big Little House on the Prairie fan, I was excited to see Melissa Sue Anderson here, although her storyline wasn't very interesting and pretty anti-climactic. The fact that she was rendered mute because of her mother's death, seemed a bit dumb watching her communicate with people but refusing to talk. At one point even signing "thank you", although I don't think she signed anything else. The end result was kinda sad, but still made her mother's death seemed like such a waste even though it was an accident (although still caused by someone even if indirectly).

The second story itself wasn't real interesting either, but I did enjoy seeing Robert Goulet here in a fun role as the man who would rather live in the 1800s. Watch for Dolly Read in a very sexy scene as she eats ribs all-the-while easily seducing John Schuck - worth watching the episode alone just for that!
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Not much terror
stones7815 July 2014
As a fan of the darker segments of this show, "Stark Terror" was about as tame as it gets, even though it was still a decent story with some familiar faces like Melissa Sue Anderson, Michael Constantine, and Elinor Donahue. Anderson plays a girl who suddenly becomes mute, then watches her mom fall down a flight of stairs and then die; the scene didn't really work for me because she loses her voice moments BEFORE her mom falls. The way she died and the culprit who caused it was a bit of a letdown, although when Mr. Roarke confronts him in the cellar of the lighthouse, it made for a cool moment. The other story titled "Rogues to Riches" was a bit better than I thought it would be, and starred Robert Goulet, John Schuck, and a fun appearance by Alan Hale, Jr., who wields a big sword. Without giving away much detail about the story(too lazy), I thought the best moments revolved around the Inn, which was done really well. Goulet was the typical ham, but I felt he and Schuck had decent chemistry together. To wrap this review up, both stories were pretty good, although I was slightly disappointed with the darker segment, because it wasn't dark enough for my personal liking.
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