I just looked it up, and, according to Wikipedia, her evil twin was also named Jeannie.
I thought you were mistaken, but I was mistaken.
I didn’t remember that, but I do remember liking her as a brunette as well. And, when I was a kid, the Blue Djinn was really scary to me!
So, was Bill Daily better known as Major Healey or as Howard, Bob’s neighbor on the Bob Newhart Show? Tough call, but I would guess Major Healey.
ETA: @mbh two posts up.
I did not know Jeannie had an evil twin. So I guess we both got some mutual edumacation. Thank you.
I must say the idea of two Jeannies, one of whom was highly cooperative and eager to please and one who was … not … is a very intriguing idea. And not one that could be adequately explored on 1960s network TV. :evil leer:
Though I suspect many/most of us enjoyed a “good” sitcom of the 1950s, “I Love Lucy”.
I think that is correct. Major Healey is the role he is best remembered for.
Weird trivia, the only Regular on I Dream of Jeannie to appear on Bewitched. It was a small one-off, but before Jeannie. (looks like that was his first role on screen.)
He was in a stealth Pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show that went nowhere before he got The Bob Newhart Show gig. He was going to play a nice but hapless local politician.
70s Sitcoms really did take things up a notch. Especially, All in the Family, MAS*H, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi & Barney Miller. Maude & The Bob Newhart Show probably also qualify.
@Elmer_J.Fudd, what were the “good” sitcoms of the 60s other than The Dick Van Dyke Show? I’m remembering the Andy Griffith Show and then the likes The Doris Day Show, That Girl, The Mother-In-Laws (one of the worst), The Patty Duke Show or Gidget?, My Three Sons? The Green Acres, Petticoat Junction & Beverly Hillbillies? Family Affair, My Three Sons, Beaver or Hazel? Here’s Lucy?
All the supernaturals were basically kid friendly. Most of these were insipid, I liked Hogan’s Heroes and great opening theme. The 60s was mainly crappy TV with a few bright spots and a lot of nostalgia.
When I was a kid, those reruns aired in the morning, so the viewership was probably mixed age-wise.
Oh, interesting. It was part of the afternoon line-up for me (right before “Dick van Dyke” and “That Girl”). Morning was “The Three Stooges”, which was quite the start to the day.
In 1970s LA, I Love Lucy or Dick Van Dyke in the afternoon would have seemed weird and The Three Stooges was buried in the UHF hinterlands on weekends.
Yeah, most of those shows are unwatchably bad, but I think Hogan’s Heroes holds up, in terms of acting and writing. Certainly better than My Three Sons, Green Acres, or Family Affair.
You forgot to mention the execrable F-Troop! Bad writing, bad acting.
Argh, one of the worst successful shows.
Not one of youse guys watched Dark Shadows in the afternoon? I did; wish I had all that time back.
I was little, but use to watch with my older sister. I barely remember it, honestly. I might also be one of the few people that liked the Johnny Depp Movie remake.
It could have been worse.
Agreed, but 10 year old me ate it up. I must have shared the “where-the-heck-are-we?” joke a hundred times at school.
Who says I’m execrable?
I also forgot McHale’s Navy, only slightly better.
I don’t know that I’d call Jeannie II evil, exactly. She was just more worldly and hedonistic than her sister, which probably passed for evil in 1960s sitcoms.
“Dallas” wasn’t only a cultural milestone in the US, but also in Germany, a TV sensation at a time when we still only had three channels. I was twelve when it first aired here, and I remember the preliminary reports in magazines and TV guides, announcing a show with an unknown share of depravity and immorality. Of course I was intrigued, and because my parents let me watch almost everything, the whole family (I didn’t have my own TV yet) watched the first episode together and stayed glued to the TV when “Dallas” aired for years. And say what you want about the show, Larry Hagman as JR was one of the best TV villains ever.
I was too young to have seen “I Dreamed Of Jeannie” in the sixties, and I only saw it sometime in the late 80s or early 90s on the afternoon program of some private channel. This was the first time I saw Larry Hagman in another role than JR, and I found him very bland in it. So for me personally, and in general, I voted for JR in the poll.
ETA: as for “Dallas” not having eye-candy: my teenage self sure had crushes on Pamela (Victoria Principal) and Lucy (Charlene Tilton), especially after a magazine had published Principal’s nude pictures. And don’t forget JR’s ever changing affairs.
I loved I Dream Of Jeanie but I can’t remember seeing a single episode of Dallas.
When I think of Larry Hagman though, what comes to mind is him playing frisbee on the beach at his home in Malibu. (There’s a video of him tossing one around somewhere but I can’t find it)
So far as I know, Dallas has never been syndicated. However, as I mentioned elsewhere, it has been exported to different foreign outlets. It was quite popular in Czechoslovakia when I was living there 30+ years ago.
Dynasty, on the other hand, was on in CHCH’s daytime Retro block until recently. It was HUGELY popular in Russia back in the mid-90s! My ex and I used to watch it every evening and laugh at how outlandish the plots and characters were.