- Unemployed actor David Farley gets to reprise his signature role of Jungle Man. Acclaimed ventriloquist Mary Ann Carlin is afraid that her marionette Valerie has taken over some of her personality traits.
- An actor from a long-running TV show that ended two years ago and finds it hard to find work comes to the island to step into the character's shoes. Roarke tells him that it will be real; in the sense that he won't have a script and all the persons in the show will be real and it will be like two years have actually gone by. And he discovers that the world is in shambles. And a ventriloquist thinks her dummy is becoming too dominant and she wants to deal with it. But when the dummy comes to life things get complicated.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- "Jungle Man": David Farley spent more than ten years playing the title role in a very popular television series called Jungle Man, and loved it. Unfortunately, it typecast him out of the running for subsequent parts after the series' cancellation, and now he can't even appear at conventions in his old role, thanks to the show's producers and their lawyers. So, at his wits' end, he asks Roarke and Tattoo for one more fling as Jungle Man. Rather than having him merely portray the character, however, Roarke turns him into the character, so that he lives Jungle Man's life. David is elated, but shortly learns he has a lot of lost time to make up for. The lives of the other characters in the series have continued on since its cancellation as well, and as a result David's wife Mara is in the hands of his archenemy Derek Haskell, his native jungle friends have turned inward and become distrustful, and the local dictator, Princess Rima, is about to make a deal with Haskell to sell out the jungle's inhabitants. David has to get back into Mara's good graces and win her over, and regain the trust of his former compatriots, while defeating Haskell and Princess Rima. With a lot of effort, he finally succeeds, and just when everything's back to normal, Roarke comes to tell him his fantasy's over. But this one ends in a very unusual way: because his life is worthless to him as David Farley, he wants to remain as Jungle Man forevermore. And Roarke lets him! "Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate": Mary Ann Carlin is a successful and famous ventriloquist with a wisecracking dummy who she now fears has taken over some of Mary Ann's own personality traits. Mary Ann is engaged to her manager, but before they take their relationship any further, she wants to resolve her fears and worries about Valerie -- who already seems to have a mind and a life of her own. Roarke, in a rather psychedelic sequence, brings Valerie to malicious life. Immediately Valerie sets out to ruin Mary Ann's life by first stealing her boyfriend (who falls like a dropped safe) and, in perhaps one of the most bizarre scenes ever shown on Fantasy Island, makes out with him -- while Mary Ann somehow telepathically experiences the entire session! Then Valerie attempts to destroy Mary Ann, who at last fights back, for her very life. In the end Valerie returns to her marionette state, and to seal the dummy's fate, Mary Ann sets Valerie afire. She leaves the island a much-relieved woman, with new plans for her life.
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