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Ken Berry wants to be an exorcist, but he winds up in a Monkees episode.
A woman wants to be reunited with the twins she gave up for adoption thirty years ago.

Ooh, I just realized I’m getting close to the end of season two. I’m excited to see what changes in season three. When do we get to see Roarke’s patio?

Roarke looked really annoyed today when he motioned for the music to start.

Ooh, nice house. Do not google the house, Jenny.

Roarke: Tattoo will unload your equipment while I show you around.
Tattoo: Boss, I think I should stay with you and Mr. Fielding; it could be very dangerous for you to be alone.

Roarke: Most of his victims were beautiful young women.

Edna Camberly: Any more cancellations, and I’ll have to close the school.

This is such a Monkees plot.

Edna Camberly: You must have been a soccer star at school!
Fielding: No, actually, I’ve never played the game before, but I did read about it.

Hmmm, is he possessed by the ghost, and that’s why he’s really good at soccer all of a sudden?

I feel like we’ve seen this set before, with all those stained glass windows in the back. Wasn’t this the General’s house in “The Hunted”, or the banquet hall in “King for a Day”?

Peeking ’round the corner, just like a Monkees episode.

Edna Camberly: He’s no ghost; he’s the school fencing instructor, Alain LeBlanc.

Mmm, nah, I think he’s the ghost.

Alain LeBlanc: Edna. Sell this place. Start a new school with a safe environment.

He’s definitely the ghost.

I feel like Spock would make a good ghost hunter, because he’d always be able to find a logical explanation for the haunting.

I love the blue walls in the bungalows. The Monkees‘ ballroom green, not a great colour for my future house; bungalow blue though, that could work.

Carol Gates: It must be hard, having a baby with no husband.
Tracy Miller: Well, I don’t intend to find out just how hard that may be.

Oh. Nevermind — she’s just gonna give it up for adoption. That makes more sense in the context of this story. I forgot that Fantasy Island‘s not that edgy.

Elliot Fielding: He’s gone.

Elliot Fielding: She’s gone.

Such a Monkees episode.

Tom wants to be a football player, but he’s old and fragile… so the solution is his wife needs to be more supportive? When they’ve got a little kid, and Tom could potentially become brain-damaged, and then she’d have to raise him on her own? Yeah, I don’t think so.

Carol Gates: About putting your baby up for adoption? I’d like to buy it from you.

Carol had the perfect way to convince Tracy not to put her baby up for adoption: just tell her about how she put her own children up for adoption, and how she’s regretted it ever since. It took her forty minutes to figure that out.

And Fielding heard about a secret underground smuggler’s cove twenty minutes ago, but he didn’t think to ask more about it until there were seven minutes left in the episode. Not the brightest guests today.

Elliot Fielding: I’ve never fenced before, but I have read all about it.

I literally said exactly that when he looked at the swords on the wall.

I’m surprised they didn’t have a lesson at the end of the episode about how you can’t just read about things and become an expert, but nope — Fielding was an expert on soccer and gardening and fencing even though he’d never done any of those things for real.

Roarke: And now it is time for something Miss Carol Gates has been waiting to say for thirty years. Miss Gates?
Carol Gates: Tom, Tracy… happy birthday, children.

“Your fantasy is over.” We don’t get many of those in these early episodes though.

I thought they didn’t show Carol leaving the island, so I had to go back and double-check; it was just a very brief shot of her waving.

I liked this episode; both fantasies were good for once. Although, there was not very much Tattoo and Roarke. And hey, there was no closure on Tattoo’s practical jokes at the end!

Oh, nice, the mansion is listed in IMDb.

• Tattoo’s shenanigans: practical jokes, because girls love a man with a sense of humour
• Tattoo has no faith:
  • Tattoo: Boss, can you really do that? Provide him with a ghost?
  • Tattoo: Her children, boss — were you really able to find them?
• Roarke’s drink: same old
• Ominous shot of Roarke raising his drink: no
• Locations: Camberly School for Girls
• Recurring phrases:
  • Carol Gates: Do I have a choice?
    Roarke: Oh, you do indeed.
• Leaving with an extra guest:
  • Carol Gates with her son, daughter, daughter-in-law, and grandson
  • Elliot Fielding with Edna Camberly