Barbara Eden was the most beautiful woman on TV during those times. I never missed an episode. Her demeanor, enthusiasm, smile and fun attitude were infectious. Larry and Barbara made a great team and had the right chemistry to make the show work. I still watch the show on UA-cam and am glad for the channels here that post them.
I Dream of Jeannie may never had gotten higher than 26 in the ratings but I would be willing to bet that it is more remembered than many of the shows that got higher ratings. I wasn't even born for the first few seasons but I remember it being in reruns a lot.
@@secondchance6603 Yes. But she never appeared as a pregnant GENIE! This pic is photoshopped. She may hav been pregnant during the first season, but they covered it up.
To, Barba Eden, I was a little boy in 1965, I always like your show . I am so happy that you are alive and doing well. My Aunt is 91 years old and still play 18 holes of golf. Hard for her to find senior to keep up with her. May God keep blessing you and Happy New Years. for 2023. Just a Fan.
I loved the show and the wedding was so funny because she could not be photographed. I loved it and watched it each week. I am 66 and still watch the reruns and laugh.
I'm 63 and I to still watch it. She has always been my idle. I used to collect Jeannie bottles yep I was a fan always will be.. I'm from Utah where are you from
First they had to screw up the carefully plotted scenarios that had assured they couldn't copulate aka that a Genie would lose its powers if they did, but after going through the ridiculous plot lines in getting the Great Gin's dispensation to that rule and permission to marry once the deed was done instead of the fresh sensual twist to a couple dealing with magic in their lives all you had left was a second rate "Bewitched" which had already cornered the market on every possible comic caper that could arise within a magical marriage. Second it took her out of her harem costume for many more scenes in which she like Samantha out if her witch's cloak passed as a mortal wife. TV didn't need another Donna Reed. And young males like me back then wanted that forbidden peek at sensual human female FLESH! No flesh no reason to tune in. Jeannie unlike Samantha was dependant on being objectifed by young male viewers.
None of the shows which had a rating higher than I dream of genie could make the legendary status of the show... Its iconic till this date. Will remain a legend forever 💞.
I grew up with "I dream of Jeannie" and it will always be one of my favourites! Barbara Eden was BEAUTIFUL 😍 Along with Bewitched, The monkeys, The Partridge Family, Petticoat Junction Gilligan's Island and The Best series of all time: The Brady Bunch! Those were the GOLDEN YEARS. 📺 Didn't we Truly have it all?
Barbara was 33 when the first episode was filmed. Think about that for a moment. Not 23, 33. I've never seen a prettier 30 year old to this day and I am in my 50's.
They just don’t make or write shows of this quality anymore. Loved this shoe. I’d say my favorite episode was when Roger “Major Healy “ learned about Genie. Thanks for the memories
Sure they do! There are awesome shows being made; you just have to find them in the myriad of choices we have today. Remember, in 1966 this show was unable to keep up with the ratings. It just connected with kids and stayed relevant in reruns.
Born in 63. I remember most of the TV shows when I was in that era. Now, the kids get teachings of things I don't want to mention. Reminiscing of my past? What is going on now? Tears!
Blame us kids who grew up to become the demographics Nielsen likes to cater to. We want adult humor--we got it. Then again, there are hundreds of shows today, not 40. There's plenty of quality TV for kids to watch.
@@Jonaontheradio I'm not blaming kids. I don't know about hundreds of quality TV shows. I don't know what "not 40"means. Do you know about the smut the have at schools for little kids? Or are you okay with that?
I won't disagree but I would say that I always thought that Elizabeth Montgomery was the better looking of the two. It's sort of like the Ginger vs Mary Ann or Betty vs Veronica arguments. For the record Mary Anne was way hotter than Ginger and even though they are cartoon characters Betty was hotter than Veronica.
She got a nose job..along with Diahann Carroll and Marilyn Monroe I've seen a NOIR movie with her in it. Eden was pretty..but you could tell the differrnce
One of the cleanest shows of my childhood, that didn't rely upon the smutty nature of writers like so many are today. There's a big difference between sexual tension and smut.
The audience gets what it wants. So what you see today is simply what most people had wanted. This show was targeted at families, however, so it stayed pretty clean. That still happens today.
For me it would be a tie. I loved "I Dream of Jeanne" and "Bewitched" about the same. Never thought of them being the same show feeding off each other, due to their unique main character and storylines. For example: Endora was a hoot with her interference, but Jeanne didn't have a constant interfering family member. Dr. Bellows had his own theme music, something Larry Tate didn't have. I viewed them both as separate entertaining shows. AND, I still can't believe Hagman became the evil J.R. Ewing... Great Acting!!
I Dream Of Jeannie has no message. It's just a fun farce. Bewitched tries too hard to use witches as a symbol of an under served minority group. Once Dick York was replaced by Dick Sergeant the show had already run its course. It was Zombie Bewitched. I do love the Hugo Montenegro score and incidental music. Dr Bellows theme kills, especially the "James Bond" version of it with tremolo guitar.
I watched ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ as a kid in the 1960s and was later stationed at the nearest USAF base to Cape Kennedy (or Cape Canaveral) in Cocoa Beach FL in the mid 1980s.
I loved you Jeannie, had the biggest crush on both you and Samantha, you 2 ladies truly made up a huge part of my childhood, and I treasure your memory!
There's a famous picture of James T. Kirk on the Enterprise and behind him on a shelf is a Jeannie bottle. At 9:35 through 9:47 Bill Daily's objection is actually a confession as to why the ratings never climbed above 26. Clearly the show was about one thing and he admits it. It was a show about the sexual tension between Nelson and Jeannie. How many successful episodes can you write with such one dimensional plots? The only reason the show lasted 5 seasons was the dynamic between Eden and Hagman! They carried that show as far as they could.
The show was still just as good after they got married and it would have been interesting to have more Dr and Amanda Bellows episodes had the show continued.
Can't agree with you on that. First they had to screw up the carefully plotted scenarios that had assured they couldn't copulate aka that a Genie would lose its powers if they did, but after going through the ridiculous plot lines in getting the Great Gin's dispensation to that rule and permission to marry once the deed was done instead of the fresh sensual twist to a couple dealing with magic in their lives all you had left was a second rate "Bewitched" which had already cornered the market on every possible comic caper that could arise within a magical marriage. Second it took her out of her harem costume for many more scenes in which she like Samantha out if her witch's cloak passed as a mortal wife. TV didn't need another Donna Reed. And young males like me back then wanted that forbidden peek at sensual human female FLESH! No flesh no reason to tune in. Jeannie unlike Samantha was dependant on being objectifed by young male viewers.
@@jackvannote I dunno. We saw less of her belly but more of her thighs in season 5. I do agree however that staring at Barbara Eden was a very big reason to watch the show. In its later seasons Bewitched was a spent force, so I don't agree with you that Jeannie was a second rate Bewitched knock off in season 5. Bewitched suffered from a lack of chemistry between Agnes Moorehead and Dick Sergeant in the later years. They disliked each other in real life and therefore the comic tension between Darren and Endora was non existent. Also Jeannie II blows Serena out of the water as an evil twin type. The other thing that made Jeannie better than Bewitched throughout the two shows runs waas the complex straight man character of Dr Bellows. He likes Tony very much, and is just doing his job as a psychiatrist for NASA. He must nevertheless observe Tony on behalf of NASA to make sure that he is of sound mind. That tension, Dr Bellows finding out about Jeannie, actually increases in season 5 because the two couples start going places together socially. To me the ratings of the time mean very little. Jeannie has held up much better than bewitched.
@@canalesworks1247 As you may tell from my profile pic. I'm a bodybuilder that has lived the A Natural Bodybuilding Lifestyle for many years. As such a well turned out thigh isn't exactly what excites, so let's pass on that aspect. Sergeant was a dud and I'm aware of Ms Moorehead's off screen dissatisfaction towards his abilities, but she and the cast rise to the challenge nicely and "Bewitched" successfully shifted focus away from his weaknesses. Your best arguing point is the Dr. Bellows aspect of possible real discovery. Gladys is a hollow substitute for that threat in 'Jeannie' But I give Elisabeth and the writers more credit in the portayal of Serena, than you. She had a very distinct identity as Serena, where as evil Jeannie really has none, not even her own name. As for 'Jeannie' holding up better, that can only be thought so by the immature demographic that finds 'Jeannie' so titillatingly fascinating. It is, when all is said and done a mindless titillation, and complete childish fairytale. "Bewitched" drew its premise from "I Married a Witch" a 1940s movie adapted for the screen from a book, that is quite an erudite writing and genuinely presents the problems of mixed marriages in realistic fashion with realistic characterizations when you remove the magical aspect. In point of fact in the original mortal vs non mortal, is the contrivance necessary for that time period for discussing mixed human marriages. When realized in this light one sees it falls into the basic 9 of the original storylines all good books, and theater draw from since ancient Greece to showcase the human condition. The older and more mature one becomes the more one realizes (or should at least) that the Samantha/Darrin love affair and marriage better plays side by side to our real reality and rings true. In short, every man wants a Samantha in his marriage bed, while only some want a Jeannie type occasionally on the side. And sexy and desirable as that siren may be to a man's sensual fantasies she's always second rate to the real woman in his life, and witch or not Samantha and the whole premise of 'Bewitched" had the market cornered on adult 'reality' The 'Jeannie' team didn't even try. In the opening pilot its made clear this is "the girl in the bottle that followed Tony to Coca Beach where she plays spin the major". Jeannie is a child's game and appeals to the immature aspects of our nature where as "Bewitched" appeals to all facets of life. But both your and my divergent interpretations would be found infinitely fascinating by Hayden Rorke, aka Dr. Bellows. Best, 'Jurassic' Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communcative Enterprises A Multimedia Firm with interests in Film, Television and Video Productions
Looking at that list of shows when Jeannie was #26, I'd say our family watched more than half of them. And quite a few of those shows started out B&W then went to color.
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I watched because she was absolutely beautiful. Even as an older woman she was just blessed with that look. The show was funny and very memorable. Although I dont remember the wedding show lol.
Yes them getting married killed it. My favorite is My Master the Civilian when Tony was going to leave the space program and Jeannie let him see the best and worst day and then had to get another guy to take the job.
The times we couldn’t see past pretty,and the thoughts and dreams we wrestled with in our blindness,or still do. But your life doesn’t start until you get over it.when beauty wears off and life sets in,then is when you begin to see yourself again. That look,that wink,that wonder in their eye,was aimed at the one behind you too.
Loved this show and loved Bewitched too!, one shouldn´t have to choose wich is better. They both were pretty entertaining. I think mayor Heily was a great comedian worth to mention. Barbara Eden beautifull, lovely and funny. Mr Hagman handsome and hilarious. I enjoy watching it from time to time. Still laugh a lot!
I Dream of Jeannie must have been a bigger hit for us kids of the '60s who didn't move the Nielsen needle. It certainly has kept its shine over the decades. The wedding? That was the show's jump-the-shark moment before the shark was born!
Good point. I was a child in that era and I always wondered who these Neilson ratings people were and why they had so much control over our programming.
I was a tiny child when this show was on and all I wanted was the I Dream of Jeannie doll, but alas due to sad circumstances that never happened. Loved this show! ❤
@Bruce Havourd Well you didn't intend to be, but asking about a sad circumstance she might not be able to share without it being again sad and painful for her was well maybe not rude but a little thoughtless don't you think now in hindsight? I'm sure tiyr a nice person, we all make such lapses in judgement some times. God Bless, Jack
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Am I the only one who liked it when they got married? After 4 seasons, it was always the same situations, at least on the fifth season, they would be seen as a couple, not playing cat and mouse hiding.
I’m sure just like Get Smart who married Max and 99 and pretty much ended that show, I’m sure marrying Jeannie and Maj. Nelson was the beginning of the end. As far as favorite episodes, my top three are: Sammy Davis,Jr., Laugh In, and the four parter when Jeannie gets locked in the safe
Personally, I thought Bewitched, The Munsters, and Gilligan's Island were better shows with better scripts. However, I Dream of Jeannie was still a lot of fun! My favorite episodes were the ones that featured Jeannie's wicked sister. She was a fun but powerful and magical bitch! I wish that more of the episodes took place with a Middle Eastern cultural backdrop to the story. Also, there was only one episode with the evil Blue Djinn, the guy that sealed up Jeannie in her bottle 2,000 years ago. I think the show would have been much better if the evil Blue Djinn had been featured in several other episodes. That was a fun and very frightening magical character that was portrayed extremely well by the actor, Michael Ansara, who I believe was Barbara Eden's first husband.
As a 70 year old.........i'm having a few drinks tonight and feeling a bit nostalgic. You could give me all of the 60's sitcoms on a usb stick and i'd sell my tv tomorrow. What a beautiful period, in retrospect.
@@RodneyMcMinge WAIT! If you had to watch ALL of the '60s sitcoms, you'd have to watch the dregs. I remember the comedies that were hopefuls but crashed and burned. The Tammy Grimes Show...Hey Landlord...and others.
@@Jonaontheradio Jona , you've got a good point there. It's just kinda funny to get to 2023 and think...you know what ?....i think the 60's was my happy place........as well as being young and dumb at the time haha.
You may be the only person on the planet who thinks that Jeannie was a bitch. You're entitled to that interpretation but I really disagree. She is if anything very sweet and willing to help, despite the havoc that her magic causes most of the time. I always think of Bewitched as being inferior to Jeannie. It's too up its own rear end in terms of messaging. Jeannie is pure escapism. I do believe it's on par with Gilligan. The Munsters was a one gag show. It's fun but it only lasted for two seasons.
I started watching this show when it went into syncation in 1971. I was 10 yrs old. And I use to draw Jeannie in class and sell my pictures for 25 cents.
Same thing happened in “ The Nanny” when she married her boss. TV execs never learn because a new generation comes in that never learns from the past. Same kind of thing with “ After M*A*S*H”. The main point of the original was the Korean War. After that was over the whole point is missing. It’s surprising they did try ‘ After Gillighan’s Island’.
I grew up on I Dream of Jeannie > after going to work in the Hollywood MPI in my late 20's > eventually got to work with Barbara Eden while on tour with Bob Hope / Les Brown Band! I thought I would be so calm cool & collected with Barbara > but while on stage with her in Lighting & Sound Checks > I was a mess & could not even speak well! SHE WAS STILL GORGEOUS JEANNIE > UP CLOSE & PERSONAL! 😋
No, getting married didn't kill the show, it was the stories, better written episodes would have been nice. Favorite episode was season 2, episode 1 Happy Anniversary, and also season 2, One of our bottles is missing.
I still watched and liked the show after the wedding. I was not happy when it ended. I did enjoy the two t.v. movies and loved Barbara Eden in both of them.
I Dream of Jeannie started out as a wonderful and [original] fantasy show with its own plot and set of rules. Then APPEARANTLY the NBC suits thought it was "smarter to turn the show into a pale (and really sad) imatation of "Bewitched". SMH
Une charmante personne qui prenait tout l'écran. Son rire contagieux, son innocence, ces innombrables gaffes, etc. Elle est unique. Nous l'aimions tous. Une série unique et irremplaçable. Que de beaux moments et de souvenirs. La télévision de nos jours est si triste. Je n'aime pas ! Tout comme la musique des jeunes.
@@allan9603 I used to play with Barbie Dolls when I was younger but I collect them now. I'm not a fan of Jim Beam. I really don't drink. I just saw the bottle & I thought that it looked like the Jeannie bottle & bought it. I intended to bling it up but I got lazy & didn't. LOL
To this very day, I watch I dream of Jeannie on antenna tv and bewitched in on after it and I changed the channel. Too me Jeannie is way funnier and better.
We watched I DREAM OF JEANNIE regularly. I think my dad like to see Barbara Eden. Forgot she was married to Michael Ansara. I saw him on so many TV shows from westerns to the Original Star Trek series!
I remember watching both this and bewitched on nick at night once in a while whenever I would stay the night at my grandparent's place since I didn't have cable or satellite at the time. it was alright. though I prefered the wonder years and Gilian's Island.
Saw both IDOJ and Bewitched reruns as a kid in the mid 90s and thought that IDOJ was more entertaining. Favorite episode was when Major Nelson returns from the moon and is quarantined.
Loved this show so much I bought the entire 139 episode complete series about 6 months ago and am watching an episode right now! The chemistry between all the actors was awesome and Amanda, Dr. Bellows wife was one of my favorite characters along with Jeanie and Tony.Healy was funny but as I watch it now as an adult he sure was slow! Didn't catch on quick and it irritates me now.I have so many favorite episodes I couldn't pick one.Ive been wondering how Jeanie did NOT lose her powers after they got married like it said she would.i thought Larry Hagman was pretty hot in this show even as a kid I thought he was handsome.I had no clue about his addictions so that was shocking.This show and Bewitched we're my 2 favorites as a kid along with The Brady Bunch of course.❤️❤️❤️
This is why the show appealed to kids and not as much to the adults who were needed to get ratings. That is why the show remains a favorite in syndication; we kids are still fans!
This follow-up is a very good documentation of as well as a very good follow-up on I Dream of Jeannie both of the TV Series as well as The TV Movies along with other I Dream of Jeannie data(s) too
Too bad the writing team didn't think about the idea and possibilities of Tony and Jeannie having half-human/half-genie children in their marriage where they would learn how to live normal human lives along with learning how to control their genie powers via their mother.
I was a small boy when it was on but yes it was the getting married that killed the show. It turned out the same way for Petticoat Junction once they started getting married it was the end of the show. When Steve got married to one of them the Ratings started going down.
When I was a kid that was my favorite show. Like many boys my age we were all in love with Jeannie. Barbara Eden was the most beautiful woman to ever hit the movie screen. She had such great talent. And Larry hagman was a great actor and a pretty damn handsome man. I still watch that show whenever I get a chance.
Barbara Eden was the most beautiful woman on TV during those times. I never missed an episode. Her demeanor, enthusiasm, smile and fun attitude were infectious. Larry and Barbara made a great team and had the right chemistry to make the show work. I still watch the show on UA-cam and am glad for the channels here that post them.
❤️ Jeanne & major Tony Nelson hangout together
She got me through puberty. What a knockout she was and stayed that way throughout her life! ❤️
@Bruce Havourd
Same here! 👍 ❤ never be another.
did you get jam on the T.V.screen
I Dream of Jeannie may never had gotten higher than 26 in the ratings but I would be willing to bet that it is more remembered than many of the shows that got higher ratings. I wasn't even born for the first few seasons but I remember it being in reruns a lot.
Except for BeWitched, it is the most remembered for sure. And Jeannie is the most iconic female character of all series in all time.
I agree. I loved that show, still do till this day. Barbara was my feminine ideal.
Barbera Eden was never shown pregnant on screen.
The show got cancelled because it had run its course.
@@markcadieux3445 She is clearly pregnant here 4:11
@@secondchance6603 Yes. But she never appeared as a pregnant GENIE!
This pic is photoshopped.
She may hav been pregnant during the first season, but they covered it up.
To, Barba Eden, I was a little boy in 1965, I always like your show . I am so happy that you are alive and doing well. My Aunt is 91 years old and still play 18 holes of golf. Hard for her to find senior to keep up with her. May God keep blessing you and Happy New Years. for 2023. Just a Fan.
Your aunt is like my mom in law--go go go go!
@@Jonaontheradio, The Fact the they are Still Going is what is most significant !
I loved the show and the wedding was so funny because she could not be photographed. I loved it and watched it each week. I am 66 and still watch the reruns and laugh.
I'm 66 also and I loved the show.
I'm 63 and I to still watch it. She has always been my idle. I used to collect Jeannie bottles yep I was a fan always will be.. I'm from Utah where are you from
@@sweetlanakay Originally, Chicago. Now I'm in Phoenix.
Beautiful lady! And she's still beautiful even at her age now.
I was just a kid, and do not remember the wedding episode, and the show still remains my top favorite programs from my youth, to this day......
ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS EVER!!!!! Them getting married wasn’t bad. It just ran it’s course.
It ran it's course because they got married.
What? Yes, it was the worst decision they made.
First they had to screw up the carefully plotted scenarios that had assured they couldn't copulate aka that a Genie would lose its powers if they did, but after going through the ridiculous plot lines in getting the Great Gin's dispensation to that rule and permission to marry once the deed was done instead of the fresh sensual twist to a couple dealing with magic in their lives all you had left was a second rate "Bewitched" which had already cornered the market on every possible comic caper that could arise within a magical marriage. Second it took her out of her harem costume for many more scenes in which she like Samantha out if her witch's cloak passed as a mortal wife. TV didn't need another Donna Reed. And young males like me back then wanted that forbidden peek at sensual human female FLESH! No flesh no reason to tune in. Jeannie unlike Samantha was dependant on being objectifed by young male viewers.
I agree, it was a good way to end the series.
Wasn't she supposed to lose her powers once they got married?? Well she didn't!
None of the shows which had a rating higher than I dream of genie could make the legendary status of the show...
Its iconic till this date. Will remain a legend forever 💞.
I agree. The show had stood the test of time. Even the post wedding episodes are charming and enjoyable.
I grew up with "I dream of Jeannie" and it will always be one of my favourites! Barbara Eden was BEAUTIFUL 😍 Along with Bewitched, The monkeys, The Partridge Family, Petticoat Junction Gilligan's Island and The Best series of all time:
The Brady Bunch!
Those were the GOLDEN YEARS. 📺
Didn't we Truly have it all?
I totally agree!!
I agree too! And don't forget "The Lucy Show"!
Sanford and Son knocked out the Brady Bunch.
0:25-26 captures the ultimate in late 60s glam. Also the pink/red costume was magical. So sexy, and her hairstyle with the pillbox was iconic
She has had a great life , I Pray she is with us awhile longer .
Barbara was 33 when the first episode was filmed. Think about that for a moment. Not 23, 33. I've never seen a prettier 30 year old to this day and I am in my 50's.
I agree, but don't forget Hollywood make up and lighting.
And pregnant to boot
Obviously you’ve ever heard of Debbie Harry then have you⁉️
33 is YOUNG!
33 is still youthful. Maybe 43.
They just don’t make or write shows of this quality anymore. Loved this shoe. I’d say my favorite episode was when Roger “Major Healy “ learned about Genie.
Thanks for the memories
Sure they do! There are awesome shows being made; you just have to find them in the myriad of choices we have today. Remember, in 1966 this show was unable to keep up with the ratings. It just connected with kids and stayed relevant in reruns.
I loved the show and I loved Roger Healy, but boy oh boy! What a lech he was, putting his hands on women all the time, especially in the workplace. 🥴
Born in 63. I remember most of the TV shows when I was in that era. Now, the kids get teachings of things I don't want to mention. Reminiscing of my past? What is going on now? Tears!
Blame us kids who grew up to become the demographics Nielsen likes to cater to. We want adult humor--we got it. Then again, there are hundreds of shows today, not 40. There's plenty of quality TV for kids to watch.
@@Jonaontheradio I'm not blaming kids. I don't know about hundreds of quality TV shows. I don't know what "not 40"means. Do you know about the smut the have at schools for little kids? Or are you okay with that?
@@billhill3526 Jeannie cleavage is not exactly clean for kids to watch either.
Could never forget my Favorite Jeanie. Special!!!
Loved and still love this show!
Barbara Eden one of the most beautiful women ever
I won't disagree but I would say that I always thought that Elizabeth Montgomery was the better looking of the two. It's sort of like the Ginger vs Mary Ann or Betty vs Veronica arguments. For the record Mary Anne was way hotter than Ginger and even though they are cartoon characters Betty was hotter than Veronica.
Yeah she was my first girl friend. When I was like five.
@@markastoforoff7838 Barbara #1 and Elizabeth #2 in my heart. Even when I was a kid I thought they were beautiful.
She got a nose job..along with Diahann Carroll and Marilyn Monroe
I've seen a NOIR movie with her in it.
Eden was pretty..but you could tell the differrnce
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Jeannie war die absolute Heldin meiner Kindheit. Absolut bezaubernd, charmant und einzigartig!! Danke und alles Liebe für dich Barbara! 💖💕💖🧞♀️
One of the cleanest shows of my childhood, that didn't rely upon the smutty nature of writers like so many are today.
There's a big difference between sexual tension and smut.
bonor materi
I'm rewatching it on Peacock now.
No belly buttons in those days.
Roger Ramjet-
Roger Healy was the horn dog of the show.
The audience gets what it wants. So what you see today is simply what most people had wanted. This show was targeted at families, however, so it stayed pretty clean. That still happens today.
Loved this show👍🏻❤️Jeanie was so beautiful.
Great Review!! The Show Ran It's Course!! However, I Still Watch Reruns Every Day ❤️
Even at 91, Ms. Eden is STILL beautiful!
For me it would be a tie. I loved "I Dream of Jeanne" and "Bewitched" about the same. Never thought of them being the same show feeding off each other, due to their unique main character and storylines. For example: Endora was a hoot with her interference, but Jeanne didn't have a constant interfering family member. Dr. Bellows had his own theme music, something Larry Tate didn't have. I viewed them both as separate entertaining shows. AND, I still can't believe Hagman became the evil J.R. Ewing... Great Acting!!
I Dream Of Jeannie has no message. It's just a fun farce. Bewitched tries too hard to use witches as a symbol of an under served minority group. Once Dick York was replaced by Dick Sergeant the show had already run its course. It was Zombie Bewitched.
I do love the Hugo Montenegro score and incidental music. Dr Bellows theme kills, especially the "James Bond" version of it with tremolo guitar.
I watched ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ as a kid in the 1960s and was later stationed at the nearest USAF base to Cape Kennedy (or Cape Canaveral) in Cocoa Beach FL in the mid 1980s.
Yes I dream of Jeannie was a great show.. And Jeannie "AKA Barbara Eden" if you're watching we love you....🌹🤟😘
Great show from my childhood, seeing this video brought it all back...thank you.
I loved you Jeannie, had the biggest crush on both you and Samantha, you 2 ladies truly made up a huge part of my childhood, and I treasure your memory!
I always loved that show and always will. Barbara Eden was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
There's a famous picture of James T. Kirk on the Enterprise and behind him on a shelf is a Jeannie bottle. At 9:35 through 9:47 Bill Daily's objection is actually a confession as to why the ratings never climbed above 26. Clearly the show was about one thing and he admits it. It was a show about the sexual tension between Nelson and Jeannie. How many successful episodes can you write with such one dimensional plots? The only reason the show lasted 5 seasons was the dynamic between Eden and Hagman! They carried that show as far as they could.
As sheriff Andy Taylor once said “ Mother Nature has been very kind to you” when Barbara Eden was on an episode of the Andy Griffith show.
in fact he said i never remember mother nature spending so much time on one person
The show was still just as good after they got married and it would have been interesting to have more Dr and Amanda Bellows episodes had the show continued.
Can't agree with you on that. First they had to screw up the carefully plotted scenarios that had assured they couldn't copulate aka that a Genie would lose its powers if they did, but after going through the ridiculous plot lines in getting the Great Gin's dispensation to that rule and permission to marry once the deed was done instead of the fresh sensual twist to a couple dealing with magic in their lives all you had left was a second rate "Bewitched" which had already cornered the market on every possible comic caper that could arise within a magical marriage. Second it took her out of her harem costume for many more scenes in which she like Samantha out if her witch's cloak passed as a mortal wife. TV didn't need another Donna Reed. And young males like me back then wanted that forbidden peek at sensual human female FLESH! No flesh no reason to tune in. Jeannie unlike Samantha was dependant on being objectifed by young male viewers.
@@jackvannote I dunno. We saw less of her belly but more of her thighs in season 5.
I do agree however that staring at Barbara Eden was a very big reason to watch the show.
In its later seasons Bewitched was a spent force, so I don't agree with you that Jeannie was a second rate Bewitched knock off in season 5. Bewitched suffered from a lack of chemistry between Agnes Moorehead and Dick Sergeant in the later years. They disliked each other in real life and therefore the comic tension between Darren and Endora was non existent. Also Jeannie II blows Serena out of the water as an evil twin type.
The other thing that made Jeannie better than Bewitched throughout the two shows runs waas the complex straight man character of Dr Bellows. He likes Tony very much, and is just doing his job as a psychiatrist for NASA. He must nevertheless observe Tony on behalf of NASA to make sure that he is of sound mind. That tension, Dr Bellows finding out about Jeannie, actually increases in season 5 because the two couples start going places together socially.
To me the ratings of the time mean very little. Jeannie has held up much better than bewitched.
@@canalesworks1247 As you may tell from my profile pic. I'm a bodybuilder that has lived the A Natural Bodybuilding Lifestyle for many years. As such a well turned out thigh isn't exactly what excites, so let's pass on that aspect. Sergeant was a dud and I'm aware of Ms Moorehead's off screen dissatisfaction towards his abilities, but she and the cast rise to the challenge nicely and "Bewitched" successfully shifted focus away from his weaknesses. Your best arguing point is the Dr. Bellows aspect of possible real discovery. Gladys is a hollow substitute for that threat in 'Jeannie'
But I give Elisabeth and the writers more credit in the portayal of Serena, than you. She had a very distinct identity as Serena, where as evil Jeannie really has none, not even her own name.
As for 'Jeannie' holding up better, that can only be thought so by the immature demographic that finds 'Jeannie' so titillatingly fascinating. It is, when all is said and done a mindless titillation, and complete childish fairytale. "Bewitched" drew its premise from "I Married a Witch" a 1940s movie adapted for the screen from a book, that is quite an erudite writing and genuinely presents the problems of mixed marriages in realistic fashion with realistic characterizations when you remove the magical aspect. In point of fact in the original mortal vs non mortal, is the contrivance necessary for that time period for discussing mixed human marriages. When realized in this light one sees it falls into the basic 9 of the original storylines all good books, and theater draw from since ancient Greece to showcase the human condition. The older and more mature one becomes the more one realizes (or should at least) that the Samantha/Darrin love affair and marriage better plays side by side to our real reality and rings true. In short, every man wants a Samantha in his marriage bed, while only some want a Jeannie type occasionally on the side. And sexy and desirable as that siren may be to a man's sensual fantasies she's always second rate to the real woman in his life, and witch or not Samantha and the whole premise of 'Bewitched" had the market cornered on adult 'reality' The 'Jeannie' team didn't even try. In the opening pilot its made clear this is "the girl in the bottle that followed Tony to Coca Beach where she plays spin the major". Jeannie is a child's game and appeals to the immature aspects of our nature where as "Bewitched" appeals to all facets of life. But both your and my divergent interpretations would be found infinitely fascinating by Hayden Rorke, aka Dr. Bellows. Best, 'Jurassic' Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communcative Enterprises A Multimedia Firm with interests in Film, Television and Video Productions
Lovely memories of this show will always remain with the ones who watched it.
Looking at that list of shows when Jeannie was #26, I'd say our family watched more than half of them. And quite a few of those shows started out B&W then went to color.
I'm old enough to have seen the series' original run ... and I still dream of Jeannie!
Agreed ! 😃
The middle part had me laughing..... "The scenes filmed in Jeannie's bottle were actually a movie set."
Had me thinking "you think?" to myself wondering why that even had to be mentioned.
Really no shit Shirlock
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Did you think it was in the actual bottle?!
The mind boggles!
I watched because she was absolutely beautiful. Even as an older woman she was just blessed with that look. The show was funny and very memorable. Although I dont remember the wedding show lol.
This was before Larry became Jr Ewing and I liked him then and Jeannie WELL in my SHELTERED CHILDHOOD I ALWAYS liked HER 💯 percent 👍😍
Yes them getting married killed it. My favorite is My Master the Civilian when Tony was going to leave the space program and Jeannie let him see the best and worst day and then had to get another guy to take the job.
That episode was hilarious. Larry Hagman was such a physical comedian. Remind me of John Ritter.
The times we couldn’t see past pretty,and the thoughts and dreams we wrestled with in our blindness,or still do. But your life doesn’t start until you get over it.when beauty wears off and life sets in,then is when you begin to see yourself again. That look,that wink,that wonder in their eye,was aimed at the one behind you too.
Im a '77 kid. And loved this show so much
BLESS YOUR HEART 💙
The best I Dream of Jeannie episodes are the ones with Jeannie's Evil Wicked sister
❤️ Jeanne sister, sexy voice& green outfit, & dark hair etc etc
I watched every episode! So much fun. One of my favorite episodes was when Jeanie tried cooking, very fun.
Loved this show and loved Bewitched too!, one shouldn´t have to choose wich is better. They both were pretty entertaining. I think mayor Heily was a great comedian worth to mention. Barbara Eden beautifull, lovely and funny. Mr Hagman handsome and hilarious. I enjoy watching it from time to time. Still laugh a lot!
I Dream of Jeannie must have been a bigger hit for us kids of the '60s who didn't move the Nielsen needle. It certainly has kept its shine over the decades. The wedding? That was the show's jump-the-shark moment before the shark was born!
Good point. I was a child in that era and I always wondered who these Neilson ratings people were and why they had so much control over our programming.
I was a tiny child when this show was on and all I wanted was the I Dream of Jeannie doll, but alas due to sad circumstances that never happened. Loved this show! ❤
Hey, no need to pry into details that's sorta rude; it was nice of the commenter to share with us at all
@Bruce Havourd Well you didn't intend to be, but asking about a sad circumstance she might not be able to share without it being again sad and painful for her was well maybe not rude but a little thoughtless don't you think now in hindsight? I'm sure tiyr a nice person, we all make such lapses in judgement some times. God Bless, Jack
@@jackvannote Thank-you!
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Barbara Eden was so spectacularly beautiful that even seeing clips of this show decades later, makes me swoon. My god she was gorgeous.
She s still not bad to look at
I l ❤️ Jeanne sister Barbara eden kept her very pretty looks into 1970s tv 📺 guest shows stuff
I met Harry Ackerman, who created Bewitched, in Hollywood!!!
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My all time favorite show. I could watch it everyday. I wanted to be Jennie. Miss that show and wish someone would make a remake!!
I used to LOVE Watching this as I kid😊🇬🇧👍🏻 what happened to shows like this? Lol "Fake reality Tv" ruined TV 😁😂🤣
I think the show ran it’s course. It had a good run, and it would have driven me crazy if the show had ended without them ever getting married.
Am I the only one who liked it when they got married? After 4 seasons, it was always the same situations, at least on the fifth season, they would be seen as a couple, not playing cat and mouse hiding.
I’m sure just like Get Smart who married Max and 99 and pretty much ended that show, I’m sure marrying Jeannie and Maj. Nelson was the beginning of the end. As far as favorite episodes, my top three are: Sammy Davis,Jr., Laugh In, and the four parter when Jeannie gets locked in the safe
Personally, I thought Bewitched, The Munsters, and Gilligan's Island were better shows with better scripts. However, I Dream of Jeannie was still a lot of fun! My favorite episodes were the ones that featured Jeannie's wicked sister. She was a fun but powerful and magical bitch! I wish that more of the episodes took place with a Middle Eastern cultural backdrop to the story. Also, there was only one episode with the evil Blue Djinn, the guy that sealed up Jeannie in her bottle 2,000 years ago. I think the show would have been much better if the evil Blue Djinn had been featured in several other episodes. That was a fun and very frightening magical character that was portrayed extremely well by the actor, Michael Ansara, who I believe was Barbara Eden's first husband.
As a 70 year old.........i'm having a few drinks tonight and feeling a bit nostalgic. You could give me all of the 60's sitcoms on a usb stick and i'd sell my tv tomorrow. What a beautiful period, in retrospect.
@@RodneyMcMinge WAIT! If you had to watch ALL of the '60s sitcoms, you'd have to watch the dregs. I remember the comedies that were hopefuls but crashed and burned. The Tammy Grimes Show...Hey Landlord...and others.
@@Jonaontheradio Jona , you've got a good point there. It's just kinda funny to get to 2023 and think...you know what ?....i think the 60's was my happy place........as well as being young and dumb at the time haha.
He was her first husband.
You may be the only person on the planet who thinks that Jeannie was a bitch. You're entitled to that interpretation but I really disagree. She is if anything very sweet and willing to help, despite the havoc that her magic causes most of the time.
I always think of Bewitched as being inferior to Jeannie. It's too up its own rear end in terms of messaging. Jeannie is pure escapism. I do believe it's on par with Gilligan. The Munsters was a one gag show. It's fun but it only lasted for two seasons.
She was so beautiful back in those days when i was a 👦 boy then I'm so glad she is still alive a beautiful woman
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I had always wondered what happened to this show when I was a child. I am so sad to know why it was dropped. It beats Bewitched in my opinion.
I started watching this show when it went into syncation in 1971. I was 10 yrs old. And I use to draw Jeannie in class and sell my pictures for 25 cents.
Amazing woman.
I'm 62, and shes always been in the background throughout my life, even as a young boy.
A truly beautiful Barbara Eden, always. As a kid I watched every episode. Critics and ratings usually do not agree with the regular folks.
Thank you for sharing about I dream of Jeannie I love that show❤
l a lot
Same thing happened in “ The Nanny” when she married her boss. TV execs never learn because a new generation comes in that never learns from the past. Same kind of thing with “ After M*A*S*H”. The main point of the original was the Korean War. After that was over the whole point is missing. It’s surprising they did try ‘ After Gillighan’s Island’.
My favorite line of all time. " YES MASTER " 😅😅❤
I watched all of I Dream of Jeannie and would like to see a new one come out on TV
No matter what happened to the show I still love it. And I was bummed out when it what is canceled.
I hope there's a great theatrical movie and/or a streaming series.
Not me today's bunch if production and creative types would only screw it up. Stick to perfection the original reruns.
Greatest memory Family shows. Great memmories❤️
are you sure that inside the bottle was a sound stage set, cause i could have sworn they really shrunk down to film inside the bottle
I grew up on I Dream of Jeannie > after going to work in the Hollywood MPI in my late 20's > eventually got to work with Barbara Eden while on tour with Bob Hope / Les Brown Band! I thought I would be so calm cool & collected with Barbara > but while on stage with her in Lighting & Sound Checks > I was a mess & could not even speak well! SHE WAS STILL GORGEOUS JEANNIE > UP CLOSE & PERSONAL! 😋
I loved all the episodes!!
Barbara you are still the most beautiful woman of all times 😊
No, getting married didn't kill the show, it was the stories, better written episodes would have been nice.
Favorite episode was season 2, episode 1 Happy Anniversary, and also season 2, One of our bottles is missing.
Jeanie, Samantha, and Maryanne are the most loved women in television.
I heard that Larry Hangman couldn't do the I Dream Of Jeannie movies because he was doing Dallas at the time. He couldn't time to do it at all.
I still watched and liked the show after the wedding. I was not happy when it ended. I did enjoy the two t.v. movies and loved Barbara Eden in both of them.
I Dream of Jeannie started out as a wonderful and [original] fantasy show with its own plot and set of rules. Then APPEARANTLY the NBC suits thought it was "smarter to turn the show into a pale (and really sad) imatation of "Bewitched". SMH
Barbara Eden forever an angel 💕💕💕💕💕
The wedding killed the tension and the humor.
George Slaughter was my drama/art’s alive teacher in eighth grade , in the early 80’s
Une charmante personne qui prenait tout l'écran. Son rire contagieux, son innocence, ces innombrables gaffes, etc. Elle est unique. Nous l'aimions tous. Une série unique et irremplaçable. Que de beaux moments et de souvenirs. La télévision de nos jours est si triste. Je n'aime pas ! Tout comme la musique des jeunes.
Barbara is a CLASS LADY.😊
BEAUTIFUL INSIDE ❤ AND OUT 😊😊😊
One beautiful woman inside and out !
I found a Jim Beam Jeannie bottle at a thrift store. I also own an I Dream of Jeannie Barbie doll.
Do you drink Jim Beam and play with Barbie Dolls?
@@allan9603 Just a wee bit childish?
@@arnenelson4495 nope, just a wee bit curious.
@@allan9603 I used to play with Barbie Dolls when I was younger but I collect them now. I'm not a fan of Jim Beam. I really don't drink. I just saw the bottle & I thought that it looked like the Jeannie bottle & bought it. I intended to bling it up but I got lazy & didn't. LOL
To this very day, I watch I dream of Jeannie on antenna tv and bewitched in on after it and I changed the channel. Too me Jeannie is way funnier and better.
Ella mucho antes , hizo una película con Tony Randall en La botella de bronce, en donde el genio era un señor gordito
Watching re runs as a teenager i couldn't get enough of Jeannie, standing in front of the tv and .... using my imagination
We watched I DREAM OF JEANNIE regularly. I think my dad like to see Barbara Eden. Forgot she was married to Michael Ansara. I saw him on so many TV shows from westerns to the Original Star Trek series!
I remember watching both this and bewitched on nick at night once in a while whenever I would stay the night at my grandparent's place since I didn't have cable or satellite at the time.
it was alright. though I prefered the wonder years and Gilian's Island.
I loved that show!!!!!
I am still striving for a Jeannie's bottle themed bedroom.
Saw both IDOJ and Bewitched reruns as a kid in the mid 90s and thought that IDOJ was more entertaining.
Favorite episode was when Major Nelson returns from the moon and is quarantined.
Loved this show so much I bought the entire 139 episode complete series about 6 months ago and am watching an episode right now! The chemistry between all the actors was awesome and Amanda, Dr. Bellows wife was one of my favorite characters along with Jeanie and Tony.Healy was funny but as I watch it now as an adult he sure was slow! Didn't catch on quick and it irritates me now.I have so many favorite episodes I couldn't pick one.Ive been wondering how Jeanie did NOT lose her powers after they got married like it said she would.i thought Larry Hagman was pretty hot in this show even as a kid I thought he was handsome.I had no clue about his addictions so that was shocking.This show and Bewitched we're my 2 favorites as a kid along with The Brady Bunch of course.❤️❤️❤️
This is why the show appealed to kids and not as much to the adults who were needed to get ratings. That is why the show remains a favorite in syndication; we kids are still fans!
Bill Daly/Major Healy played that same character on the Newhart Show. That was his bit.
This follow-up is a very good documentation of as well as a very good follow-up on I Dream of Jeannie both of the TV Series as well as The TV Movies along with other I Dream of Jeannie data(s) too
She was wonderful.great show."
Too bad the writing team didn't think about the idea and possibilities of Tony and Jeannie having half-human/half-genie children in their marriage where they would learn how to live normal human lives along with learning how to control their genie powers via their mother.
Barbara Eden and Dawn Wells were my two favorite 70’s ladies.
This was a wonderful show!
its called low ratings
Barbara Eden was delightful, charming and just simply, beautiful.
I was a small boy when it was on but yes it was the getting married that killed the show. It turned out the same way for Petticoat Junction once they started getting married it was the end of the show. When Steve got married to one of them the Ratings started going down.
When I was a kid that was my favorite show. Like many boys my age we were all in love with Jeannie. Barbara Eden was the most beautiful woman to ever hit the movie screen. She had such great talent. And Larry hagman was a great actor and a pretty damn handsome man. I still watch that show whenever I get a chance.