I Dream of Jeannie - Season 3
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The fun continues as Jeannie keeps trying to fit in with the normal
world and win her master Tony s heart. They work together to turn a
chimpanzee into a human she transfers her powers to someone else for
a day to prove she can live without her magic she grants Rodger a
birthday wish she must train a new genie and much more magical
mayhem. Every day with Jeannie is a new exciting escapade!Format:
DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396176522
Manufacturer No: 17652
Amazon.com:
By its third season, the daffy 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie just
got sillier--which is not necessarily a bad thing. Given that the
show's premise involves a half-naked woman subservient to an
astronaut, we're clearly watching a rampant male fantasy to begin
with; it's the goofiness (ably executed by the stars) that gives the
show charm instead of smarm. So bring on the evil twin sister,
Jeannie 2; the Hawaiian royalty; guest appearances by Don Rickles,
Paul Lynde, and Milton Berle; an epic (for a sitcom) four-episode
story about Jeannie being trapped in a safe that's about to be sent
to the moon; the groovy rock band (in an episode featuring record
producer Phil Spector, later to become a gun-toting recluse, as
himself)...it's all turned into a delirious soup of 1960s farce by
Barbara Eden (who perfected the combination of sexy/ditzy long
before Jenna Elfman or Jessica Simpson), Larry Hagman (one of the
nicest guys on TV until he became ubervillian JR Ewing on Dallas),
Bill Daily (among the greatest second bananas of all time), Hayden
Rorke (the perpetually stymied Dr. Bellows), and Emmaline Henry
(Mrs. Bellows, a hip and sexy older woman in the decade that
launched the idolization of youth). I Dream of Jeannie scrupulously
avoided political or social relevance--when Mrs. Bellows thinks that
Jeannie is a young woman enslaved by Major Nelson and tries to
rescue her, this troubling idea is played for laughs--but that puts
the show in an engaging bubble of entertainment, as out-of-synch
with its own era as much as with ours. --Bret Fetzer
