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List Price: $39.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 3939
Released: January 30, 2007 |
| Our Price: $15.99 |
| Used Price: $13.28 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Back in the blink of an eye are Barbara Eden as Jeannie and Larry Hagman as Major Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Third Season. The four disc box set features all 26 episodes. Third season highlights include three episodes shot on location in Hawaii, the first appearance of Jeannie’s evil sister and guest stars including Bob Denver, comedian Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Hawaiian singer Don Ho and music producer Phil Spector.
Description of I Dream of Jeannie - The Complete Third Season:
By its third season, the daffy 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie just got sillier--which is not necessarily a bad thing. Given that the show's premise involves a half-naked woman subservient to an astronaut, we're clearly watching a rampant male fantasy to begin with; it's the goofiness (ably executed by the stars) that gives the show charm instead of smarm. So bring on the evil twin sister, Jeannie 2; the Hawaiian royalty; guest appearances by Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, and Milton Berle; an epic (for a sitcom) four-episode story about Jeannie being trapped in a safe that's about to be sent to the moon; the groovy rock band (in an episode featuring record producer Phil Spector, later to become a gun-toting recluse, as himself)...it's all turned into a delirious soup of 1960s farce by Barbara Eden (who perfected the combination of sexy/ditzy long before Jenna Elfman or Jessica Simpson), Larry Hagman (one of the nicest guys on TV until he became ubervillian JR Ewing on Dallas), Bill Daily (among the greatest second bananas of all time), Hayden Rorke (the perpetually stymied Dr. Bellows), and Emmaline Henry (Mrs. Bellows, a hip and sexy older woman in the decade that launched the idolization of youth). I Dream of Jeannie scrupulously avoided political or social relevance--when Mrs. Bellows thinks that Jeannie is a young woman enslaved by Major Nelson and tries to rescue her, this troubling idea is played for laughs--but that puts the show in an engaging bubble of entertainment, as out-of-synch with its own era as much as with ours. --Bret Fetzer
I Dream of Jeannie - The Complete Third Season Reviews:
Brings back memories 
2009-12-11 - We bought this DVD for our daughter who just loves "I Dream of Jeannie" as much as I did when I was her age. She's been watching the first two seasons over and over, so we finally got her the third and fourth seasons when they were on sale. Still good, clean entertainment. Brings back memories, especially of the era. Lots of fun.
A Fun Watch 
2009-03-07 - I Dream of Jeannie is a very fun watch, especially this season. It was very entertaining with some good plots. I felt though that the order of the episodes made no sense. I have a gripe with two episodes: Here Comes Bootsie Nightingale and Jeannie Goes to Honolulu. Here Comes Bootsie Nightingale was OK, but the actress could have been WAY better. The thing I really don't like is that the picture seems to be bouncing from 12:00-16:00. This is very irritating. Jeannie Goes to Honolulu must be the WORST EPISODE of the whole series. Nine whole minutes of the episode were of a stupid Don Ho music video. I hate to speak ill of the dead, but the song picked was awful. The video was so annoying. It was of Don Ho just walking around holding a boys hand with Jeannie dancing annoyingly in the background.
My advice is to get a VHS of the Bootsie episode, then put it on your computer. Also, copy all the episodes to your computer. Use it to make a new order of episodes using the VHS version of Bootsie. A good episode order would be:
1. Jeannie or the Tiger
2. Fly Me to the Moon
3. My Turned-On Master
4. Jeannie, the Hip Hippie
5. Everybody's a Movie Star
6. Who Are You Calling a Jeannie?
7. Meet My Master's Mother
8. Operation: First Couple on the Moon
9. Haven't I Seen Me Someplace Before
10. Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery
11. My Master, the Ghostbreaker
12. My Son, the Genie
13. The Second Greatest Con Artist in the World
14. The Battle of Waikiki
15. My Master, the Weakling
16. Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie? Saga (4 Episodes)
17. Please Don't Feed the Astronauts
18. Have You Ever had a Jeannie Hate You?
19. Divorce Jeannie Style
20. Here Comes Bootsie Nightingale
21. My Double-Crossing Master
22. Tony's Wife
I love Jeannie
2009-01-28 - I just love this series. It takes me back to my childhood, when I Dream of Jeannie was my favorite show, and I literally did dream of being Jeannie as a little girl! Thanks for getting this series in color and on DVD format! I am the proud owner of all five seasons, some of them purchased through Amazon, because it had the best price.
Great Comedy
2008-11-25 - Not much I can say that other reviewers have not covered (such as episode lists etc). Episodes are crystal clear and look better on these DVDs than they did when originally aired (yes I saw the original airs). Light hearted comedy with a lot of nonsense that allows me to escape the harsh realities of life from time to time. Your kids and grandkids can watch these.
classic TV
2008-11-02 - I grew up watching these shows. Own every season and now my children watch them too. Good classic tv without all the sex and violence. Perfect.
