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Some interesting fun differences between the colorized pilot and the b&w (from the Sony DVDs). The colorized has the 2000 CPT Holding copyright notices while the b&w doesn't. Also, the colorized credits are the actual pilot prints with the unique cards for supporting cast not seen in any...

Was the fixed print used for the Mill Creek release?

See, this is the sort of thing that should be on the IDOJ blu ray releases. These are lost to time and their absence can sometimes create oddities with no explanations. Examples: The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday (2 parts). Jeannie starts to disappear because she's depressed she doesn't know...

Isn't it interesting to see how we used to revisit our favorite shows long before the convenience of home video? Reference books like this were a godsend.

The edit is too good. I feel it was an edit done prior to original broadcast, probably for time. The bit was going on too long as it was. The fact that the tom toms are there and she's putting them down next to the drums makes it look like a missing scene.

Can't blame Mill Creek for that stuff. The sound issues plagued the Sony prints for years.

I just watched that one (thanks a lot it's pretty awful). You see the drum there and there's a quick shot of Jeannie putting the tom toms down directly after the bugle bit but there is no cut in the soundtrack. Music and laugh track never jumps. I don't have an older print to compare it to. But...

If not more so (and I prefer Jeannie).

Yeah the music and sound effects took a hit, especially in the second season.

I don't have the series memorized, but I don't know of missing scenes. Each episode runs about the same length (around 25 minutes) and the only real edits I've noticed have been in sound effects, the correct opening credits and the subtitles for the non-English dialog in the pilot. There is...

The PQ is what it is, but I would at least appreciate a fix for the awful sound issue on "Help! Help! A Shark!"

TBH, the image when I stream is either pin sharp or pixelated, depending on my wifi. I don't get consistency and my streaming image, even of 4K movies isn't up to the standards of the physical media. So, really, the shows I watch on the various streaming sites never look as good as the DVDs or...

It's a good potential explanation as to why he didn't "get it." Bewitched was more calm, less reliant on physical comedy and Samantha didn't need Darren to drive the plots as much. You could have rewritten this for Sam and Darren and it may have even worked better. Sam being an independent 80's...

What made this series as fun as it was wasn't Barbara Eden alone. It was the madcap energy of the stories and the incredible comic timing of the cast. The lack of energy may be excused with age but the comic timing would have still been there. It's a shame they couldn't get Hagman but the script...

I forget just how hideous the reunion movie was. The only high point is Ms. Eden herself, who looks great. Otherwise, it's dire and the ending is ridiculously sad while trying to put a positive spin on it. A finale completely ignored in the 1991 follow up (which was even worse if I recall...

I pretty much agree with the review of the picture quality. Honestly, the first two seasons don't look bad, the final three are less impressive but still better than the Mill Creek DVDs (which averaged out the same number of episodes per disc). What needs to be addressed are the glitches. The...

I don't recall it happening on the Sony discs but it did not happen on the Mill Creek DVDs. Mill Creek has a print without the issue, so a replacement would be possible.

I'll be the first to admit I have a pie in the sky wish list of how classic shows should be treated and packaged. But just the basic "don't overstuff on a disc" release would be appreciated. I may not be satisfied with how the original Star Trek was putout on Blu Ray, I at least appreciate that...

I have the Sony release as well as the Mill Creek DVD box set. I'm in it for the show, but this release doesn't sound any better better than something I can get off a bootleg site (and a bootleg site might even do a better job at box art). If a label is going to release a series on Blu Ray...

I have no doubt. Sadly, I Dream of Jeannie might very have supported a higher budgeted release. It's a classic show that is still well known. This didn't need to be a budget toss-off. I'd have paid twice as much for more discs, better transfers and even a few bonus features.

That This happened to me with two VEI released: The Immortal and The Magician. I wound up ripping them to digital files so I could watch them without being distracted. I've never had this happen with the less cheap labels.

There were a few color TV shows from 1950 on. Some, like The Cisco Kid and The Adventures of Superman (in color from the 3rd season) were syndicated. Considering the majority of sets were monochrome , the decision to hold back full color network broadcasting was understandable. We didn't get a...

Great! That's awesome to know, thanks.

Is that really conclusive? The original Mill Creek DVDs were without the more recent copyrights on the black and white episodes and I had heard those were "decolorized."

Rather like Shout Factory's "T.J. Hooker" DVD set. The first two seasons were the original Sony release and looked great, Seasons 3 - 5 were older, unrestored prints. Sony doesn't really seem to care about the home video market. I'm glad I still have the Sony "Bewitched" DVDs since they will...

Now the REAL question: does the opening episode have subtitles for Jeannie before she speaks English? Until the later prints, these were on the episode. It's a shame the unaired extended cut of the pilot wasn't included. Well, one of the many shames...

But are they the actual B&W prints or just the colorized prints with the color shut off? As for the reunion movie, I don't count it anyway. Because, honestly, Wayne Rogers as Tony Nelson. A cameo by Dr. Bellows. It was a Barbara Eden vanity project and the second (mercifully not included) is...

This release is just kind of a disappointingly weird, lazy mess. Considering how compressed the Mill Creek DVDs were, this will be a jump in quality from that. However, with the compression in the back 3 seasons, how much better will they be than the Sony releases? I know Mill Creek is a budget...

Knowing Mill Creek, I can almost guarantee that this is a straight HD upgrade of the same prints they put on DVD. I am only going for this because the compression of their DVD release was oppressive and because the Screen Gems logo was restored on the prints they used. Had this been some other...

Man, they crammed those episodes on the last three seasons!