Fantasy Island
(1977)
Regisseur:
Gene LevittSchauspieler:
Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Wendy Schaal, Christopher HewettAuf der tropischen Insel Fantasy Island können Urlauber ihre lang gehegten Wunschträume ausleben. Der mysteriöse Inselbesitzer Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) und sein Assistent Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) sorgen dafür, dass auf dem paradiesischen Eiland jeder Wunsch wahr wird. Mit seinen besonderen Fähigkeiten kann Roarke sogar die Vergangenheit zurückholen. Roarkes neuer Assistent und Tattoos Nachfolger wird in der siebten Staffel Lawrence (Christopher Hewett).
Jede der einstündigen Folgen zeigte überschneidend zwei oder drei Erlebnisse verschiedener Urlauber. Produzenten waren Aaron Spelling und Leonard Goldberg. Die Serie war das Vorbild für die deutsche Serie Insel der Träume. 1998 entstand eine Neuauflage der Originalserie unter gleichem Titel, die ab 2000 ebenfalls in Sat.1 zu sehen war.
Smiles everyone, Smiles! So began this long-running (7 season) series which was one of the ABC Network's anthology/guest-cast series (along with The Love Boat) that proved wildly popular. Each week two guests came to Fantasy Island to get their wish/fantasy fulfilled. Their mysterious host, the debonair and suave white-suited Mr. Roarke, would do the sometimes impossible and grant them their wishes...but there was always some twist to the fantasy, letting the guest learn something about themselves or get something they weren't expecting. Best remembered for the presence of Herve Villechaize as the diminutive "Tattoo" and his cry of "De plane! De plane!" the show proved popular enough to go the distance and then spawn a brief revival/remake in the 1990s. A remake, Fantasy Island (1998) in the late 1990s was not as successful as its predecessor.
Smiles everyone, Smiles! So began this long-running (7 season) series which was one of the ABC Network's anthology/guest-cast series (along with The Love Boat) that proved wildly popular. Each week two guests came to Fantasy Island to get their wish/fantasy fulfilled. Their mysterious host, the debonair and suave white-suited Mr. Roarke, would do the sometimes impossible and grant them their wishes...but there was always some twist to the fantasy, letting the guest learn something about themselves or get something they weren't expecting. Best remembered for the presence of Herve Villechaize as the diminutive "Tattoo" and his cry of "De plane! De plane!" the show proved popular enough to go the distance and then spawn a brief revival/remake in the 1990s. A remake, Fantasy Island (1998) in the late 1990s was not as successful as its predecessor.