De plane! De plane! Welcome to Fantasy Island, where for $50,000, you can live out your fantasy thanks to Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo. Each week new guests would arrive via a Grumman Widgeon before engaging in a variety of scenarios. TV guru Aaron Spelling's initial pitch for the series was a joke after being shot down for a number of ideas, but executives loved it. Two Fantasy Island made-for-tv movies aired before becoming a weekly series. Establishing shots of Kauai were used for the island, while the cottage was a little closer to home.
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