Not quite the same. Serena seemed to be Endora’s accomplice in trying to sabotage Samantha’s marriage. Jeannie II just wanted to have a good time.
According to the wiki: ’ Despite her constant plotting with Endora, Serena is in favor of Samantha and Darrin being married.’ I remember the character, but I honestly can’t remember any plot points with her. Bewitched plots weren’t memorably deep 
. But sounds like she was played as more mischievous than malevolent.
Yeah. She was the groovy counterpart to the kinda square Samantha.
Indeed, Serena and Uncle Arthur were the only two witches who actually liked Darren and supported his marriage to Samantha.
I’m ashamed I remember that without having to look it up.
Though half of Uncle Arthur’s reason was if Endora didn’t like Darren, liking him would annoy her and he liked annoying his (much) older sister.
Weirdness, Paul Lynn showed up in an early season as the driving instructor for Sam.
I mean, didn’t Serena bespell Darrin to fall in love with her? I always had the vibe that she was interested in him, so maybe not precisely supportive.
I’m ashamed I remembered that, even if it’s untrue.
Pandora Spocks was the listed actress for Serena.
There was no “Who shot Tony?” on IDOJ.
Dallas by far.
Apt…
Addendum:
I remember now that Kristin had a miscarriage after JR paid to get her out of town, and she was impregnated soon afterwards by another man. So Christopher was not JR’s son, as Bobby learned from digging up the original birth certificate. Up to that point, JR had blackmailed Bobby by threatening to reveal his dirty secret, but Bobby decked him the next time he tried it.
I’ve always thought it odd that JR and Sue Ellen, who also knew the dirty secret, never bothered to do the simple math required to prove it couldn’t be true.
It would have been Dr. Bellows.
Honestly, who could blame him?
Larry Hagman himself thought so little of I Dream Of Jeannie that he didn’t do the reunion movie, Wayne Rogers subbed in. I don’t think he cared much for the role and I don’t think he really added that much to it; Dick York was far more effective in the same sort of role on Bewitched.
IDOJ was silly even by 1960s standards; Bewitched, Hogan’s Heroes, and Get Smart were better sitcoms of that ilk.
As I think about it, the role demanded that Hagman essentially act as the straight man to the entire rest of the main cast: Jeannie, as well as Roger Healey (his playboy antics, as well as his occasional schemes to benefit from Jeannie’s powers) and Dr. Bellows (continually suspicious of strange goings on in Tony’s life).
Dick York brought a certain frantic, wide-eyed frustration to Darren, but that sort of thing may not have been in Hagman’s wheelhouse.
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s Joie Addison, not Principal.
On Bewitched York was the funny one of the couple, despite Montgomery having the powers. The show didn’t work as well with Dick Sargent. Sargent could do a snarky one liner, but he wasn’t the reactor York was, he was more like Hagman. Plus he couldn’t pull off the romance very well either. So they had Montgomery do more comedy, puns and stuff, and she wasn’t that good at it.
Yeah, I don’t know if Hagman could have done what York did either.
My life is in ruins.
I found a clip of the scene (on a porn site, can’t find it anywhere else) - but it wasn’t at all the scene I remembered. In my memory the camera was looking into the elevator from the lobby. When the doors opened there she was. But in the clip the camera was down the hall, you couldn’t see into the elevator. Something fishy here.
I was thinking along very similar lines. And York/Sargent provides a natural experiment of two very different actors slotted into the same role making into a different role.
Which raises the question in my mind of what other actors might have done a different or better Major Nelson than Hagman? And how might the IDoJ overall plot and other players have been different? Akin to how Bewitched’s Montgomery had to alter her role to make up for Sargent’s differences.
I can’t help you with that clip, but I had a similar ruinous revelation once.
I saw Bachelor Party (1984 film) - Wikipedia when it came out. I was GF-less and frustrated at the time. There’s one scene where one of the bachelor guys is in a hotel room alone and there’s a knock at the door. Standing outside is one of the bachelorette babes in a negligee. She says something like “I’m lonely. Please make love to me.”
It somehow struck me as a hugely sexy and touching moment; not raunchy, but very engaging to this male person in the audience.
I saw the clip a few years ago flipping through youtube and it was utterly flat. Despite the babe being as cute as ever. Somehow it was nothing like I remembered it.
My life was ruined.
Imagine a world in which Major Healy had found Jeannie. Suddenly he has the power for all his hare-brained schemes to work (and blow up in his face.) Between the naive, trusting Jeannie and the now-powerful Roger Healy, Larry Hagman has to play the staunchly moral, secret-keeping straight man even harder than he did in the original.
No wonder Hagman wanted to play a villian in Dallas.