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You're welcome :-)
If you can do streaming, I have seen the show on both tubi and the Roku app. Plus, there's at least one Youtube channel which shows full episodes. You just need to see the episode guide to know where they all fall in each season. IMDb has a good guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058815/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl
Jeannie has the ability to make people forget.
There are two scenes in the first season from <i>My Hero?</i> and <i>The Richest Astronaut in the Whole Wide World</i>. In "My Hero?" Roger discovers Tony trapped in the concrete of his patio after Jeannie blinked out the swimming pool. When she returns, she freezes Roger, rescues Tony, and he complains he'll never be able to explain what happened. When Jeannie blinks out, Roger has forgotten what happened just as Jeannie had assured Tony.
In "Richest Astronaut" at the end after Tony has gotten Roger in trouble with the general and Dr. Bellows, he agrees to give Jeannie back. She then "changes time" so that everything he had wished up to that moment was erased from existence, including the memories of people who learned about it all. Tony explains it as her ability to "change time".
I think near the end of "Jeannie the Guru" Tony asks her to make Susie forget she ever met Jeannie, but we don't get to see that happen as he's interrupted by Susie arriving with her newest BF, a motorcycle biker.
The show should have had a 'show bible' so that all of these discrepancies never too place. But, that just wasn't a thing back then for any show. That kind of focus on continuity didn't happen until much later, like in the 1980s or so. The IDoJ reunion movies still broke canon, so they certainly weren't worried about continuity even then.
Much as I agree with your assessment, this thread was created to troll the fans. This whole sub-forum seems infested with them. Better to show up at the sitcoms-online forum where the trolls often get shown the door. MovieChat doesn't have much in the way of moderation.
I Dream of Jeannie on "Sitcoms Online":
https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=74
I haven't heard or read anything about that. What's your source?
There was no indication that he was gay. Babu was voiced by Joe Besser, one of the six 3 Stooges (because there were six actors over the course of their existence as a comedy team).
He <i>was</i> green in skin color, though.
Roger even states in one of the episodes (can't remember which one, but it was well after the first season) that he is "on detached duty to NASA." He's also a member of the Army Corp of Engineers, and why he wears green army colors and not the blue Air Force colors :)
Since I don't really acknowledge Bewitched anymore, I would say I Dream of Jeannie was better. It is at least based on known folktales of powerful magical beings called djinn. There are no stories or folktales with witches and warlocks coming anywhere close to what is depicted in Bewitched.
I Dream of Jeannie has an actual historical connection to the ancient stories making it much better in my view.
I've tried arguing that point with various people. But their minds are closed to different views. The only thing they see is a human with magic powers, and not a magical entity which only [i]appears[/i] human.
I'm holding off pre-ordering until I know if the resolution is actually better than that of the DVDs. If it isn't, I won't have any good reason to buy the whole series yet again.
Maybe you could make some screenshots at the same resolution (like 1333x1000 pixels) for comparison? That would be most helpful :-)
Thanks :-)
<i>I Dream of Jeannie</i> got me more interested in the stories of the Arabian Nights, so I started reading them, and was pleasantly surprised. Plus, if you ever read the story of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" you'll see all of the stuff in that original story that Disney either got wrong, or made up, or left out entirely (such as the Djinni of the Ring).
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