User Reviews

The Dracula part of this episode sounded promising, but to be honest, was hard to pay any attention to as it was just dull. Robert Reed as a vampire - not even on Fantasy Island could I believe that!

The better story, was Eva Gabor's - who I find charming and delightful to watch. She has a scene with her niece explaining why she has to get married to "a jerk" and I thought the scene was very tender and showed she really could act. The best part was Jack Elam, who always provides comedic relief in anything I've ever seen him in so it was great to see him as a potential mate to Eva who couldn't be more opposite of him! The scene where they're sitting around the campfire and he's singing is worth watching this episode for alone!

Overall, I thought this was one of the better episodes as I am watching them in order - the storylines really haven't been great so far, but really depends on the guest stars and I thought Eva & Elam made this a good one to watch.

One story just as bad as the other for this one. Couldn't they have picked a much better actor (anyone, actually, would have been!) than the Brady father with the crazy hair, crazy eyes and off/on crazy mustache?! UGH! I can't stand this guy and his bad, '70s perm! Since he escaped the Brady Bunch and got loose across our beloved 70s TV series, he's turned into a creepazoid who can't act. Always playing villains. Or attempting to. Cut his hair, wet your fingers, slick his locks into place and shove him back to the family where he belongs!

The better story was marginal, and ruined for me by the previous reviewer who couldn't add the spoilers tag to his writings. Most annoying "little" girl I ever saw in a TV series, with a strong and precocious Jodie Foster/Kristi McNichol/Tatum O'Neal vibe, if you catch my drift. I didn't recognize Lloyd Bochner until he took off his glasses. I guess he was a versatile actor, after all! I only ever did see him playing the same character, over & over again: the corrupt businessman. This story was OK with comic relief provided by an Ernest Borgnine look-alike and Eva Gabor was almost the Tova here. Hmm.. where they making fun of this power couple, already? I mean, QVC didn't exist back when, did it? Eva played a cosmetics queen and so was Tova Borgnine (or would become, as of the 90s... I think?) Coincidence? Precognitive? Who knows!

Highlights of the show: a bucket of Fantasy Island (fried) Chicken for Lloyd and the girl's picnic. How's that for fake product placement?! Tattoo in a couple of costumes: a safari outfit complete with pith helmet, and a French director's one, complete with necessary red beret.

But dang if that wasn't the homeliest girl I ever did see. In her coming out of the plane, she looks terrible, and even homelier than Tori Spelling herself! She could have easily passed as Linda Hamilton's daughter, she resembled her a lot! (Which is weird, cos that one was cast as "Beauty" in the Beast, which I never saw it!)

The vampire story was a clear disappointment due to terrible actor and a bad story, the set up wasn't moody nor Halloweenish enough. The departure was also bad. We don't see Mr. Roarke drinking his glass of juice here, and that's always a letdown and perhaps sets the tone for what's to come. Nothing remarkable here, sadly, and after some pretty good ones, but I'm watching the episodes out of order. Seems Gabor played herself. 5/10 for what it was, not much! (The vampire's wife was wasted, btw!)