Fantasy Island: The Stripper/The Boxer (1979)
Season 2, Episode 17
Marcia Brady, part 3
20 July 2015
Nothing too extraordinary happens in this episode, as it's also the 3rd out of 6 appearances for Maureen McCormick, and the other familiar faces include Forrest Tucker, Michael Callan, Chuck McCann, Laraine Stephens(I never heard or saw her), Stacy Keach Sr., and Ben Murphy. The lesser story has a wealthy woman(Stephens)flee to the island in order to escape a marriage arranged by her influential father(Keach Sr.), only because she loves some guy named Barnaby(Barnaby?), who her father dislikes. My biggest problem is that this woman goes out of her way to try and marry Barnaby, played by an unimpressive Willam Beckley, that she ends up leaving him for Russ(Callan), who is basically mean to her. Fail. The better story, although not THAT much better, has a boxer(Murphy)wanting to fight a champion one more time before he(Murphy)dies. Somewhere along the way, he meets up with old flame Jennie(McCormick), who's an employee on the island now, but she wants nothing to do with him at first. There's a scene where she's angrily teasing Billy on the bed, and she mentions something about her past, but it was never looked into or mentioned again, and I think the writers missed a chance to make this story more interesting than it was. This story did end on a good note, although it was slightly predictable.
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