Posts Tagged ‘I Dream of Jeannie’
Primetime Monday 1968
What with the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the war in Vietnam, the summer of riots and the election of Richard Nixon, it seemed as if the country were coming apart. As Jeff Grimshaw tell us below, television was now more than ever seen as an escape from everything the world was throwing at us. Perhaps we need that escape today too. So click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1968.
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Primetime Monday 1968 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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7:30 |
8:00 |
8:30 |
9:00 |
9:30 |
10:00 |
10:30 |
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ABC |
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Peyton Place |
The Outcasts |
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CBS |
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Here’s Lucy |
Mayberry R.F.D. |
Family Affair |
The Carol Burnett Show |
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NBC |
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In |
NBC Monday Night at the Movies |
 Please note that you may have to download the Veoh player to watch the episode of “The Avengers.” |
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I Dream of Jeannie: Jeannie, The Hip Hippie.
From Season 3, Episode 6
Original Airdate: October 17, 1967
Jeannie assembles a singing group so Tony can go on vacation.
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were the songwriting duo who wrote most of the successful songs for The Monkees. They also recorded a couple of albums on their own with their best song being “I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight,” which reached #8 in early 1968. This episode also a features a brief appearance by Phil Spector. It so sad that he has ended up a such a pathetic character, serving a prison sentence for murder.
I Dream of Jeannie: Happy Anniversary
From Season 2, Episode 1
Original Airdate: September 12th 1966
Jeannie wants to celebrate the first anniversary of meeting Tony on the desert island where they met.
In this episode Michael Ansara plays the Blue Djinn, who was responsible for imprisoning Jeannie in her bottle. Ansara was Barbara Eden’s husband at the time. He got his big break playing Cochise on the 50′s western, “Broken Arrow.”
