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GOLD showing B*Witched/I Dream Of Jeannie
steveh31
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From 6 May.
Bit of a weird choice none UK shows from the 60's a real change of direction for the channel.
Bit of a weird choice none UK shows from the 60's a real change of direction for the channel.
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I remember when the BBC showed it in the 60's the end of the opening sequence was always clumsily cut off at the end.
It was only when I visited my Canadian cousins a few years later there was some sort of 'sponsored by' announcement at the end of the opening credits- which the BBC had rather clumsily removed!
Lol pop music of my era so influenced anyway altered now.
I have amended but it isn't showing up
Makes a change from OFAH
Pah, I Dream Of Jeanie isn't worthy enough to be in the same planetary sytem as Bewitched, derivative rubbish.
I bet Bewitched was sponsored by a ciggie company, weird that the three main actors [ Montgomery , York and Sargent, } all died of smoking related cancer in their early sixties.
Better than nothing!
Did they show the colour versions on Living?
From memory, Channel 4 only showed Jeannie episode 1 in black and white then jumped to the colour episodes.
I think 4 showed all the black and white Bewitched.
Enjoyed Bewitched more because the stories were better, and I liked how Endora would always ridicule Samantha's husband.
Jeannie was ok - I remember being fascinated by the inside of the bottle/lamp where she lived - all cushions and velvet:
http://interiordomaindesigns.com/blog/files/2012/04/i-dream-of-jeannie-barbara-eden-bottle-home.jpg
I can't remember what she called him, though.
(Oh, and Sam twitching her nose. And the baby twitching its nose.)
No, Quaker Oats, Chevrolet and Oscar Mayer were the main sponsors over the years. I Love Lucy on the other hand ...
She called him lots of different things eg Darwood. I don't think she had one 'wrong' name for him.
Endora was always my favourite character.
Never found the show as good when Dick York left though. So sad how he ended up ill and with nothing.
York was a seriously talented thesp, doing top dramatic stuff on broadway, a contemporary of Perkins, Hopper and Dean, then he gets a gig in a fluffy sit-com, it pays the bills though.
Same with Corbett in Steptoe and Son, he was a Brit Method actor of high regard and thought the Steptoe gig would only have a six episode run and he could get back to serious stage acting.
I like the Bewitched episodes where Sam's more devilish, and sexier, alter ego appears,
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lMBpq1Ua7Ds/UVXiLEgmrCI/AAAAAAAAEsI/PsptfyPpFFo/s1600/Bewitched.jpg
I could sing both now.
Don't you mean 'Pandora Sparks' aka 'Serena'?
(Of course Liz Montgomery herself of course!)
http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/ximages/celebs/BewitchedSerena.jpg
Not to be outdone, 'Jeannie' had her alter ego/evil sister too, also played by Barbara Eden :
http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Jeannie-and-Her-Twin-Sister-i-dream-of-jeannie-6447055-400-313.jpg
Oh do not be so silly. OFAH will still be shown as it has been for past 7 years or so. YAAAAWN
fab news, haven't seen either programs in years
...plus Aunt Jemima's Pancakes and Syrup as well as Ken-L Ration dog food with US Government Inspected Horsemeat! Now there's a scandal waiting to happen. Unfortunately, dogs can't speak or write letters of complaint yet, so it maybe some time before the shit hits the fan. Pavements, on the other hand, may have been hit already!
No Larry Hagman in it, but Ken Kerchaval (Cliff Barnes in Dallas) was in it.
I think there are 3 spin off movies.
Wayne Rogers (Trapper from MASH) played Nelson in the first one.
Nelson was missing from the second one.
Did Hagman finally appear for the third one?
There were only two
I Dream Of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (1985) and I Still Dream Of Jeannie (1991)
she was a really beautiful woman