I Dream Of Jeannie Mistakes, Goofs And Oddities Season 5

[@gymbeef]

The mad home wrecker is my favourite episode, there is a scene where Alasco wheels out the potted plant near the stair case out the door but in the scene where the officers are guarding the front door the plant is seen in the background. The painting of the two horses in the new set was used on so many occasions throughout the series one being in Roger Henley's apartment.

[@outsider238]

Ooo!!! Good catch! I'll have to go back and watch that! Haha! I love it! 😆😅

[@mainlyfine]

Appreciate your hard work putting these together. Thank you🙂

[@outsider238]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them! 😁

[@bradmartin7598]

Thanks for your time in making these reviews of these beloved childhood shows. I really enjoyed watching them.

[@outsider238]

Thank you so much! 😁

[@flashgordon6238]

Got to meet Larry Hagman at a motorcycle rally in Ventura, California back in the 90s. He was the Emcee and the proceeds were for liver transplants. I live in the beach town next to Ventura and have been riding here since 1984. Around 1997 I had two East German female exchange students move in to my apartment for six months while they were working a research project with California State Channel Islands University (the former Hotel California state mental facility in Camarillo, CA). One of the gals was a big fan of Larry during Dallas, so I took her up to his estate on my Harley. Larry had a 20,000 square foot mansion on a 43 acre lot overlooking the Ojai Valley. It's a great ride up Sulphur Mountain Road to his place. As we pulled up to the outskirts of the estate, we saw a white convertible Mercedes Benz coming out of the gate. It was Larry Hagman. Jennine (My German roommate) was bouncing up and down on the back of my bike waving and he stopped and waved. I didn't want to act like a pestering fan, so I didn't approach him, but he waited a bit, smiled and waved goodbye - then drove down the mountain. Jennine wanted head back to call her parents back in Germany and tell them all about it.

[@outsider238]

That's a great story! I'm glad he took the time to wave and acknowledge both of you. Seems like I hear mostly not so good things about him so it's nice that he did have a friendly side to him!

[@peter-mickey-chu198]

Here’s A Fun Fact: The Actress Who Is Playing The Young Mrs. Bellows Is Laraine Stephens Who Was Married To Dean Jones For 47 Years (1966-2013); She Just Died On August 17, 2024 At Age 84 Years Old.

[@outsider238]

Oh wow! I didn't know that. I don't remember seeing her in anything else besides this episode.

[@leeroyholloway4277]

Delightful concept and presentation... thank you for putting this series together for us.

[@outsider238]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@richardwilliams473]

Love the yellow hand pointer on a stick

[@dingerma]

I have just finished watching the season 5 video of your series. I have been binge watching all 5 seasons of IDoJ. I have wanted to do that for a long time. Your videos really enhanced the experience. I was born in 1959. Jeannie was my first love. Every boy wanted a Jeannie. You did a totally awesome job making these videos. It helped to give the whole 60s SitCom scene a interwoven family feel. I imagine that working at that time in that industry was the best fun a person could have. Thanks for making these videos. I am moving to Bewitched (to see more of the Dr. Bellows house). I think F Troop, McHales Navy, and Hogan’s Heroes are next. I already watched The Addams Family and The Munsters. You know that at the time of The Addams Family and The Munsters, a viewer had to choose which one he would watch. The times matched up. During the summer reruns we were outside playing at that time. When Batman came around, we had to find someone who had a color TV set. Good times.

[@outsider238]

Wow! Thank you for the excellent comment! I'm very glad you enjoyed these videos! Jeannie was one of my absolute favorites back then. We grew up with some great shows! I still love them all! 😁

[@ClassicAustralianTV]

I've really enjoyed watching this series on IDOJ, I look forward to seeing what show you analyse next!

[@outsider238]

Thank you very much! 😁

[@Snoopy380]

The last episode filmed (power outage) and the poker game weren't the only episodes shown out of sequence. In an earlier season, Dr Bellows told Inspector Higgins, that Tony had $3 million dollars in his Christmas club account. The episode that showed Tony wanting to a loan was shown AFTER the IRS episode.

[@outsider238]

Yes I mentioned that in whatever season that was. 1 or 2 I believe. It's interesting how they aired the episodes sometimes.

[@DanUpdegraff]

What colossal gall! That line still cracks me up every time.

[@outsider238]

Me too! Hahahahaha!!!! Dr. Bellows was the best! 🤣😅

[@paulkelley3901]

thank you so much for these videos. the hard work and dedication it took to make these along with your real passion and affection for the series really shines through. if this indeed is the last of these kinds of vids from you i want to thank you in advance for all you did. yes the show was silly and corny and sometimes a little extra goofy, but as you said it was all good clean fun and a lot of hard work went into it by all involved. thank you again!!

[@outsider238]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Yes these shows were fantastic. I may do some more of these but maybe break it up so that one video doesn't take so long to make.

[@thomashawkinson7017]

Great work! Thank you sir. Tom H.

[@outsider238]

😁👍

[@alancranford3398]

Jeanie and Tony marrying CHANGED the show, and the producers and writers were not able to adapt. Bewitched is proof that a married couple sitcom with Jeanie and Tony could have worked out well even though being married changed everything. For one thing, Roger wouldn't have been playing for Jeanie as a bachelor male pursuing a single woman prey--both as a genie and as a woman. How would that have been handled--the friendship between Tony and Roger? You touched on the Bellows' being part of the stories--I point you at Bewitched again. Then there would have been more of Jeanie's relatives and her genie world. Yes, there were possibilities.

[@outsider238]

It would have been nice to get at least one more season out of the series. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened.

[@joekouyoumjian2601]

Great final installment on your Jeannie series. Thank you for your time and effort to put this all together. Hope to see more from you on other classic series in the future?

[@outsider238]

Thank you! I might tackle some others if I can muster up the energy! Haha! 😄

[@jaimefuentes1480]

Good observation, thanks 😊

[@Edgeofnight80s]

Great presentation on all the oddities videos. Love em all! The final weeks of the season 5 were a jumble of NBC pre-emptions. Otherwise 'Jeannie and the Hurricane' would have ended the season which would have made more sense, and would have been the best episode for the finale. 'Jeannie and the Chili King'. That episode was supposed to air on April 14th, (kicked off for Apollo 13) but aired instead on May 12. (not May 26 as reported incorrectly by IMDB) 'Jeannie and Four of a Kind' was originally supposed to air on April 21st but was bumped due to news reports of Apollo 13. It then was rescheduled to air on May 19th nearly a month later, after the "Hurricane" episode had already aired. Sources 1970 issues of TV Guide. Strangely enough the card shark "Four of a Kind" episode was really the final first run episode aired on NBC, with the Chili King airing a week before! For some strange reason the syndication placement of those two shows reversed them, so that Chili King became the final episode and remains that way to this day. Phew!

[@Snoopy380]

In "The Mad Homewrecker", why didn't Dr Bellows notice that "thing" in Tony's office and ask why it was there and how it got there?

[@outsider238]

He did. Major Nelson told Dr. Bellows that he"loved" it so much that he wanted it in his office even though Jeannie blinked it in there. Don't forget that if you watch these shows on commercial TV, they have about 6-7 minutes cut out of them since the show ran longer with less commercials back then.

[@flashgordon6238]

The putty in the window at 17:37 is normal and is called window glazing. Very common for that style window. We used to pull it out of the school windows in the 1960s and use it like putty.

[@outsider238]

Ah, thank you! I'd never seen that before. It looked a little sloppy so I just assumed it was quick work done for the sake of that set piece.

[@kelvington4182]

Jeannie has, what we would now call, a perception filter. So while you can technically see her, she's not invisible, but like most Genies she doesn't remain on or in your mind. Thus you forget meeting her, sort of like the Devil in the Witches Of Eastwick, or the TARDIS in Doctor Who. In the appearance of the Jewelry store, that would have taken 20 minutes or so to change out all those props. The camera was locked down, but if you take a freeze frame of just before the blink and just after, you will see Barbra is in a very different position than the previous frame. It works for the most part because the framing on the door doesn't change. The way this was typically done, and you have to remember this was before video villages and video playback on sets, the actor would freeze, and a piece of glass would be placed in front of the lens, then they would draw some marks on this glass to mark her position. Then she would get back into place based on the marks, the glass would be removed, and they would continue to shoot. This was very common on Bewitched where large changes were made in a scene during her lip twitch.

[@outsider238]

Very interesting! I didn't know about the glass trick. That's a great way to deal with a switch that would take a lot of time to change out. I'm assuming they used a similar technique for when Jeannie blinks Tony and Roger from Cuba to the back patio. Thank you for the excellent information! 😁

[@passatboi]

The window with the putty and no glass was the same one used in Tabitha's classroom in Bewitched "I'm not a Toad, I'm a Butterfly".

[@outsider238]

@@passatboi Oh! That's very cool! 😁

[@passatboi]

Found another one in "The Wedding". After Jeannie and Tony blink themselves away from the photographers at NASA at the beginning of the episode, there is a zoom/push in shot of Jeannie's bottle in its new nook above the fireplace in the new redesigned house because that's where they end up (in the bottle, because Jeannie is crying and distraught). At the END of the episode, before we see them watching the film of the wedding in the bottle, there is another zoom/push in shot of the bottle in the OLD house set on the little writing desk/hutch thing they used to have the bottle on, as opposed to the nook above the fireplace. They must have used an old cut - but then....why not just reuse the same shot of the bottle above the fireplace that they used earlier?

[@outsider238]

@@passatboi Oh wow! That's an excellent catch! I can't believe I didn't notice that one! 😆😄

[@phillipk.brodie9662]

I really believe if the writing ✍ was better, Season 5 may have been a decent one. And "Hurricane Jeannie" would have been perfect as the final episode instead of the awful ones they aired after it. I loved seeing Mrs. Bellows with Dr. Bellows more this season; together they were pure gold. 🔥

[@leestoner4337]

Dick Wilson,was also the town drunk in Bewitched, back in the early 80 's ,Dick's daughter was on a short lived TV game show called Relatively Speaking, she was, She said when she was on Kindergarten the teacher ask the children what their fathers did for a living, all she knew was he was the town drunk,she said, that her whole family was proud of him,the teacher and principal thought it was affecting her mentally,so they went to talk with the mother,and that's when they found out he played a drunk on Bewitched.

[@danielmacdonald8349]

I didn’t mind when they got married. Yes - Jeannie wasn’t in her smoking hot little outfit as much anymore but she sure wore a lot more short dresses that showed off her absolutely gorgeous legs. So basically lost a lot of cleavage- but got a LOT of leg. Either one works for me.

[@outsider238]

Haha! Agreed! 😁

[@billryan6024]

I actually liked Jeannie in non-harem outfits way more. Not even close and I thought the rarely seen green harem outfit looked much better with her blonde hair, but women today have totally forgotten how to dress. Such a shame.

[@kennyspaulding796]

@@billryan6024 agreed. I liked seeing Jennie dressed in the current fashion more than the harem clothes. Like you said you can see her beautiful legs. And yes girls don't care how they look any more.

[@alancrisp1582]

🙂 As I have bought all of the box sets of I Dream of Jeannie .I can watch them in any order I like. Re- watching the last season episodes .I enjoy them just as much, as the earlier ones.I even enjoyed Larry Hagmans ,next series right after Jeannie .The Good Life, I believe I was one of the few people who did. In my view all classic comedy today 😆.....

[@outsider238]

Larry was actually a fantastic actor and really good with the physical comedy. Too bad his behavior behind the scenes was so bad. They were actually going to fire him after season 1.

[@alancrisp1582]

@@outsider238 Yes you are quite correct of course. In real life he was not an easy man to work with. All his former co- workers ,have stated this observation. 😊 for your efforts....

[@outsider238]

@@alancrisp1582Well at least it all looked great in front of the camera! I'm glad you enjoyed this! 😁

[@kennyspaulding796]

The actor at 33:35 I haven't seen him enough to know his name but seen him often in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, but I do clearly recognize him from an episode of M*A*S*H he played a chopper pilot that was just a couple of patients short of the record for the most hospital trips before Hawkeye and Trapper had to ground him for diabetes. They also didn't like him making a profit off of souvenirs which children were getting killed retrieving parts for.

[@FidelioBlack]

The problem with season 5 is the order of episodes. It was a mistake to put the wedding in the middle of the season. It's a peak moment; after that things will go down. I'd have put more filler episodes, then the two-parter where they get engaged, then all the episodes of them engaged and the wedding as a season finale. That way be would have gotten the episodes of them married in a sixth season, with hurricane Jeannie as the season finale and series finale. (The budget one could be cut out though; It might be the worse episode on the whole series) The wedding itself doesn't bother me, it was a logical development for their relationship. It could just be shown in a more attention-catching way. My problem with the budget episode is that most of the things Jeannie is supposed to not know and learn in that episode are things she'd already learnt during difference episodes of the first two seasons. Now on "See you in C-U-B-A", The biggest goof to me as an Spanish speaker is the fact that the Cuban guy has a Mexican accent. 😂

[@hifijohn]

9:11 I wonder what building that is.

[@outsider238]

I've wondered the same thing.

[@jamesgregg1907]

Awesome

[@justinturley7071]

For me the problem with Hurricane Jeannie is that it was written by James Henderson, who was writing simultaneously on I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched. The problem I have with his scripts is that even though most episodes of his script call for Jeannie to be the cause of a lot of problems towards Tony he never really wants her to be the main villain of the story, so instead he never let Jeannie be the blame at the end of the episode.

[@passatboi]

Emmaline Henry played much older than her age on this show. They gave her the two-tone white hair treatment, but in reality, she was only 2 or 3 years older than Barbara Eden (so in her 30s). Meanwhile Dr. Bellows was in his 50s. That's why she has no wrinkles or brow furrows compared to him.

[@wb3381]

I noticed Mrs Bellows was 18 years younger than him

[@outsider238]

Oh wow! I didn't know that! I never thought about their ages but she did look younger than Dr. Bellows.

[@jaimefuentes1480]

Minute 28,..me kissing 💋 nobody 😅...OMG❤ Jeannie is a vampire..

[@justinturley7071]

The story of Tony having to call down the 2 astronauts down is pretty clunky in the story sense, but at this point in the show’s history, nobody really cared what happened, because of the network mandated marriage of Tony and Jeannie. Season 5 isn’t a season I go out of my way to watch, but Hurricane Jeannie is the best episode of the season. It’s sad that Hurricane Jeannie wasn’t aired in their proper order, instead they were aired backwards in release order, Chili King was filmed first, “One Jeannie beats 4 of a kind” filmed second, then Hurricane Jeannie was filmed last, Hurricane Jeannie wasn’t supposed to end in a dream, the bottle breaking was supposed to end the show, but because NBC aired those episodes backwards, they filmed the dream sequence to not break continuity.

[@richardwilliams473]

Hard to believe that Barbara Eden was married to Michael Ansara. Michael was such a mean looking guy.

[@Janovus]

In the new house segment the narration missed a fact/blooper. When Jeannie asked Tony if he liked the house in a magazine he had shown her she blinks that as their new house. But her bottle was already on the shelf in the picture in the magazine. Obviously they took a picture of the new set with the bottle already on the shelf and used that as the magazine picture. Also, the bottle didn’t fit on the shelf with its top on. Why not make a shelf that fit? 🍾

[@richparsons4205]

Tony is wearing white shoes because at a later point Jeannie blinks a wedding dress on him..with white shoes. The shoes were not supposed to be seen on him in that clip…

[@outsider238]

Oh! Well that would make sense. I just figured he didn't want to wear the probably more uncomfortable dress shoes! 😆

[@hoagie1978]

He is also wearing those same white clog shoes in the episode " The Mad Homewrecker" at about the 22:35 mark when they are all standing against the wall looking at the new living room. I say they were some sort of casual shoes he wore when not wanting to wear dress shoes on set and figured his feet would not be seen in a shot. Now that we can re-watch and pause stuff, we can catch the bloopers. 🤣

[@kkal1183]

It was I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched for my brother and I. Somewhere I picked up two Jeannie bottle repros that are almost identical to those on the show. Sad you aren't going to do more vids. 😭 Please reconsider. btw, I think you got the marriage thing backward. The writers where instructed to marry Nelson and Jeannie because the series was running unusually long and the producers knew it was ending and wanted to tie up that loose end.

[@outsider238]

Yeah it's possible the ratings were starting to slip and they decided to end it properly which is a good thing. I'll probably do more blooper videos but I might do individual videos for individual episodes of various shows. Doing the whole season in one video is very time consuming. That will be more manageable. 😁

[@passatboi]

There were so many script/universe continuity errors: Genies can't marry mortals. Genies CAN marry mortals, but they lose their powers. Genies can marry mortals, and they don't lose their powers.....

[@outsider238]

Haha! Yeah the writers really should have consulted each other over the scripts.

[@mackermaldrill2656]

Outsider, since you love the interior of the Nelson house, like I do, you can go to Marina Coates' channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXPTmGNsmbCAasU and see the home's interior including what would wee see if the forth wall was there. At 29:20, I did see movement in Jennie's sister's foot.

[@outsider238]

That was an excellent tour! Thank you for the link! 😁

[@kennyspaulding796]

Took a look myself. That was cool. Since it was part 2 I had to see part 1 as well. Guess I'll be binge watching her channel some time so I can see other TV show house's.

[@outsider238]

@@kennyspaulding796 It was very nicely done!

[@mackermaldrill2656]

@@kennyspaulding796 She also has a great tour of Rob and Laura Petrie's house.

[@kennyspaulding796]

@@mackermaldrill2656 I also seen she had the Steven's (Bewitched) and the Munsters house.

[@jasonmoors1191]

I'm guessing product placement didn't exist for sitcoms of this era--the set crew didn't spend much time trying to cover up the Hi-Ho crackers and masking tape for that bag of Fritos! Learned a new fact about Hayden Roark's sexual orientation--it must've been difficult for gay men in the 6o's to live their lives and fearing discrimination

[@outsider238]

Yes it didn't seem like they were able or willing to do product placement back then. That's certainly changed now! 😄 Barbara Eden said Hayden was unabashedly gay so he was pretty open about it in his circle of friends and coworkers. Probably not so much publicly though.

[@billryan6024]

Great job. I had caught a few while watching but not this many. Very interesting. And quite sloppy by the production and directing people. That was pretty surprising for such a well written show.

[@outsider238]

Thank you! Yeah I'm sure a lot of it had to do with being on a constant time crunch doing a weekly series. It can be quite a grind.

[@DanAVC]

in the episode djinn dijinn, the pied piper major nelson called jeannie darling and they weren't married yet

[@outsider238]

@@DanAVC Oh! I never noticed that. Were they already engaged?

[@DanAVC]

@outsider238 no this an episode before guess who is going to be a bride

[@outsider238]

@@DanAVC I never thought about if Major Nelson called Jeannie "Darling" before they got married. I guess he wouldn't have unless he was under one of Jeannie's spells. Very interesting! 🤔

[@dennispoe5901]

Can u do this on other shows

[@outsider238]

Jeannie and Lost In Space were the only shows that I noticed these because I watched the episodes way too many times. Haha! I know of other bloopers in certain episodes of other shows like My Favorite Martian and Star Trek. I suppose I could do individual episodes instead of the entire series as these videos are rather draining to make.

[@kennyspaulding796]

@@outsider238 you said you hadn't seen other shows a hundred times like these 2 series. Well. What are you waiting for? Start watching more. Watch day and night. Give us more.😆

[@outsider238]

@@kennyspaulding796 Hahaha!! I'm thinking of another series that I know there's some bloopers in several episodes. I may not have to do each season as separate videos if there isn't enough to show for each season but I'll have to check and see so stay tuned!

[@kennyspaulding796]

@@outsider238 good enough. Back before DVD's I used to tape all my favorite shows on VHS tapes. By doing this I found out that some of these so called complete seasons or series are missing at least 1 episode for example: The Munsters. They did not include the episode that had a rock group looking for an old abandoned house to stay in and practice without fans interfering and found 1313 Mockingbird Lane. They were The Standels who called Herman "the cat with the flat head". I have the episode recorded and will somehow get transferred to a disc. Hopefully. Same for the Wild Wild West. There was an episode that had Dawn Wells that too I have recorded so I know I'm not nut's. Of course there more than likely blocked by licensing or releases which is the case of the show: Tour Of Duty when it was on the prime time lineup it was great because they played actual music of the 60's. They would open with Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones and throughout the show play various songs by the original artist. So I got the DVD series set and was horriblely disappointed ☹️. The songs were replaced with stupid Hollywood music. That made my VHS tapes more valuable if I can get them transferred to DVD's only problem is I missed 2 or 3 episodes. Damn. Sorry I didn't mean to write a novel.

[@outsider238]

@@kennyspaulding796 That's very interesting. I'm sure there's a bunch of reasons certain episodes get skipped like that. I remember when I bought the box set of Jeannie I had never seen the first season episode where Jeannie goes back in time to save a lady so that she could get her driver's license. I was shocked! I had seen and recorded every episode or so I had thought. Makes me wonder what other missing episodes are floating around out there from our favorite shows.

[@passatboi]

I wish someone from hair and makeup would have trimmed Hagman's eyebrows. They were getting out of control.

[@outsider238]

They were pretty bushy!

[@martinbeneteau309]

You forgot 2 bloopers that I found in season 5. The episode where Jeannie is having a party on the patio they show a part of the kitchen partition is already painted white but that change didn't happen until the next episode. The next one is on the 6 month anniversary episode Tony is explaining to Jeannie why he doesn't have a gift for her. He starts to tell her that the goat ate them and stops mid sentence when he realizes that he shouldnt have said that. Tony didn't know that she had the goat in the first place so how would he know the goat ate them? Let me know what you think.

[@outsider238]

Oh! Very good! I didn't notice the kitchen partition. Must be because the episodes aired out of order of the actual production. Now that you mention it, you're right! I never noticed that Major Nelson never saw the goat! Did she mention the goat when they were in the bottle? I'll have to go back and watch that scene.

[@martinbeneteau309]

@@outsider238 as for the first one that episode doesn't show the livingroom set just the open back doors and the patio. At one point they are in the kitchen and they show the swinging door and just a bit of the white panel that is over the bar. Probably didnt show on the first run on NBC in 1969. But TV's got much bigger so now you see those little mistakes. So you, I'm sure, are right about the filming order. Now the second one I don't think she mentions the goat when they are in the bottle. Just that she tried to knit the sweater with her own two hands. Then Tony starts to say ... Well the goat um .....well ...I lost them so I don't have anything for you either.

[@outsider238]

@@martinbeneteau309 Yes I think you're right about the goat part. I like that Dr. Bellows didn't trust Amanda with the real pearls and gave her fake ones! 🤣😅

[@martinbeneteau309]

@@outsider238 you had me thinking about what Jeannie said to Tony while they were in her bottle. I pulled out my IDOJ dvd's and just watched the episode. She does say she bought the goat! But she said it quite quickly. He could, I guess, assume that the goat ate them from his uniform pocket.

[@outsider238]

@@martinbeneteau309 Okay I wasn't sure. I thought I vaguely remembered her mention it but I couldn't remember. Thanks for checking! Now we can rest easier! 😁😄