Fifty Thousand Dollars - A Fantasy Island Mini Documentary | Fantasy Island was, within its own fiction, a business. The first television movie put a figure on it. Fifty thousand dollars, paid in advance, bought one fantasy. In the currency of the late 1970s that was an enormous sum; several times the price of a house in much of the country. The number did real work. It established each guest as either wealthy or willing to spend everything, and both readings raised the stakes before a line of d
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Fifty Thousand Dollars - A Fantasy Island Mini Documentary | Fantasy Island was, within its own fiction, a business. The first television movie put a figure on it. Fifty thousand dollars, paid in advance, bought one fantasy. In the currency of the late 1970s that was an enormous sum; several times the price of a house in much of the country. The number did real work. It established each guest as either wealthy or willing to spend everything, and both readings raised the stakes before a line of d
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