- Diner owner Marjorie Gibbs enters a cooking contest to win money to relocate her business. Retired stuntman Peter Rawlings hopes to reconcile with his son Bill, also a stuntman, who is about to attempt a life-threatening stunt for a film.
- A diner owner whose restaurant is to be razed for a new highway wants to win a cooking contest to raise the money to relocate her business; and a retired stuntman hopes to reconcile with his estranged son, also a stuntman, who is about to attempt a life-threatening stunt for a movie.—Kim West
- Diner owner Marjorie Gibbs wants to win a cooking contest to raise money to relocate her business; and retired stuntman Peter Rawlings hopes to reconcile with his estranged son, also a stuntman, who is planning a dangerous stunt for a film.
- "Goose for the Gander": There's a prestigious cooking contest being held on Fantasy Island, and Marjorie Gibbs' fantasy is to win the prize money so that she can afford to change the location of her New Mexico diner, which is about to be bulldozed to make way for a new highway. It doesn't look too good for her: the judge is a very haughty and sarcastic food critic, and her competition is a group of accomplished European chefs, including one mercenary French chef who's been losing status in the restaurant world. Joe Lange, from New Jersey, has the same fantasy; but almost from the start he and Marjorie develop a romantic interest in each other. Joe plans to make old-fashioned barbecued ribs; Marjorie will be entering her famous spinach pie. The desperate French chef, Antoine de Vouvray, has a live goose with him, which he intends to kill eventually to make fresh goose-liver paté. While the contestants are in the kitchens preparing their entries, the goose breaks free from de Vouvray and creates havoc all over the kitchen. In the confusion, while Joe and Marjorie are recapturing the bird, de Vouvray -- who has tasted Marjorie's pie and realizes it's far better than he thought -- steals her recipe, intending to use it as his own entry now that Marjorie has asserted that she won't let him kill Patty, the goose (after "paté", which Marjorie misheard). When Marjorie finds out what happened, she thinks her fantasy's a bust...till Joe offers to let her compete alongside him, as a team. Marjorie's stolen spinach pie nearly wins the contest for the scheming de Vouvray...till Roarke cajoles the irritable judge into trying Joe and Marjorie's ribs, making the man fall madly in love with the dish and winning Joe and Marjorie the competition. "The Stuntman": Pete and Bill Rawlins, father-and-son film stuntmen, had a falling-out five years ago and haven't spoken since. Pete wants to reconcile with his prickly son, who is planning a very dangerous and life-threatening stunt that seems meant to surpass anything Pete ever did in his legendary career. Everyone on the film crew has tried and failed to talk Bill out of doing the stunt; they appeal to Pete to try as well, but neither he nor his very worried wife Norma can budge Bill on the subject. Finally Roarke steps in and has a little talk with a startled Bill, making him see that Pete only wants to keep his son safe -- and alive. To Norma's horror, Pete and Bill agree to do the stunt together, so that there will be less risk to either man alone. Working together, they surmount the difficulties in performing the stunt and are reconciled, deciding to work together once more.
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