- Singer Andrea Barclay wants to overcome debilitating stage fright by performing for the toughest audience that Roarke can find; and rock star Jimmy Jordan, who witnessed a murder, disguises himself as a butler to elude his pursuers.
- "Legends": Andrea Barclay is a talented and aspiring actress/singer/dancer who hopes to have a golden career in musicals...if only she didn't get such a debilitating case of stage fright every time she opened her mouth. In order to provide her with a cure, Roarke sends her back to 19th-century Langtry, Texas, where she finds Roarke and Tattoo calmly playing cards in a saloon. While she's upbraiding them for doing this to her, a brawl breaks out, and Roarke suggests she make the most of this "toughest audience" she asked him to provide her. So she makes her way to the stage and starts singing "Darling Clementine", only to have an irate Judge Roy Bean stride up to her and tell her to stop. He's saving that stage for the legendary Lillie Langtry, who he expects will be arriving in town to perform within a day or two. Nobody else is allowed to set foot on it, including Andrea. But she soon learns that Bean is actually in love with Langtry and trying to impress the woman with his town and his saloon both named after her. When a stagecoach comes in, Bean has a welcome reception all set up, only to find Langtry isn't on it, thus making him the town laughingstock. Andrea starts feeling sorry for him and they begin to develop a tentative friendship. However, just as she's starting to gain some confidence, Langtry whirls in with an entourage, dazzling Bean and leaving Andrea in the cold. Langtry expresses condescending appreciation of what Bean's done for her, but she tells him she won't sing for him and intends to leave the next morning. When Roarke comes to check up on Andrea, she explains the situation and says she wants to do something for him, so that he can still show his face on the streets of Langtry. To her complete surprise, Tattoo hands her a gun and suggests that might give her an idea. It does: she goes tearing off after Langtry to force her to sing. But when Langtry still refuses, Andrea makes her hand over a costume and face mask, with which she absconds back to town and gets up on stage to perform as Lillie Langtry, saving Roy Bean's reputation and curing her stage fright at last. "The Perfect Gentleman": Rock legend Jimmy Jordan is searching for sanctuary on Fantasy Island; in the middle of a concert two nights before, he witnessed a gangland murder, and now he's running from the mob. To throw them off his trail, he sent his car over a cliff and went into hiding as fast as he could. Unfortunately, the ruse didn't work; even though the rest of the world thinks Jimmy Jordan is dead, the mob is still hot on his tail and has followed him to Fantasy Island. So Roarke takes him out to get a haircut and a complete makeover, and presents him to Miss Michelle Buchanan, heiress, as her family's new butler, Godfrey. Michelle has two younger sisters, Taylor, an overly precocious 17- or 18-year-old, and Cassie, about 15. Michelle is preoccupied with her upcoming engagement announcement and the party at which this will take place; Taylor and Cassie, mostly left to their own devices under their sister's guardianship in the wake of the deaths of their parents and their stepmother's desertion with half the family estate, fixate on Jordan, though for different reasons. Taylor wants to have an affair with him; Cassie is convinced she's seen him before. Michelle puts Jordan, as Godfrey, in charge of her sisters so she can finish making party preparations. After a shopping excursion, they wind up at one of the island's restaurants, where Taylor offends a man who is trying too hard to pick her up. In trying to smooth things over, Jordan attracts the attention of the two mob guys who have been pursuing him. From then on they keep close tabs on him. At the engagement party the following day, it turns out that the man Taylor snubbed is the piano player Michelle hired, and after what Taylor did to him, he now refuses to play. Cassie shames Jordan into taking his place, and Jordan does an "imitation of himself", playing a cut from one of his own albums. Secretly Cassie captures this performance on a small portable cassette recorder, telling Tattoo that voices are as distinctive as fingerprints ("I learned that on Hart to Hart") and she intends to use the tape to prove that Godfrey is really Jimmy Jordan. However, before she can carry out her plan, Jordan is grabbed by the two mob men and dragged off to their car. Cassie chases after them shouting that a producer really liked "Godfrey's" performance and wants him to portray Jimmy Jordan in a new TV movie. She succeeds in confusing the mob men, who leave without Jordan. Roarke and Tattoo show up then and Roarke hands Jordan a telegram, which he presents to Michelle. She then announces, to her sisters' shock, that the engagement is off and the three of them will be able to stay together. It turns out that their father's company was failing, and she had been getting ready to marry a rich guy so it could remain solvent. Jordan secretly contacted his manager, who was the only one who knew he wasn't really dead, and had him invest in the company, getting it back on its feet. Since the mob is still hunting him down, he leaves the island with the three sisters in the guise of Godfrey, and with Michelle as a potential romantic interest.
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