Although I did enjoy I DREAM OF JEANNIE, it really was a cheap rip off of BEWITCHED. It also worked the sexual angle, that I felt was maybe a little overt for a very small child. BUT IN ITS DEFENSE, it's heyday was very much in the "free love" time of our consciousness. I do feel though Samantha and Darrin had a sexy energy about them. Especially Darrin #1. He had that awkward geekiness that spelled a tiger in the bedroom. I also loved their affection towards each other. And when it was time to turn up the heat it was done in a way where we could use our imaginations. Samantha always wore the cuntiest biased cut Dior night clothes, that fit her like an evening gown. She was a verrrrry caucasion woman with a true flair about her. Perhaps thats what drew me in as well. I was surrounded by these dreary white women in my community. Very few of them posessed MAGIC!!! Barbara Eden was cute, but very DUMB as Jeannie. Samantha was a strong woman who CHOSE to curb her witchcraft in search of peacefulness with her man. Serena was brought in to really add the kick that Jeannie provided on a different network. Elizabeth Montgomery was a very fine actress and comedienne.
Dick York was a loveable flusterd Darrin. David White brilliant as Larry Tate. And who could forget Marion Lorne?? As Aunt Clara she was soooo loveable and precious. I lived for the Kravitz's across the street. Both actresses that played Gladys were fabulous, but I have to say the original who lost her fight with cancer during the show was my fave. I was more fond of the second Louise Tate (Casey Rogers). She was just more attractive to me. More believeable as a bored Connecticut housewife. I always LIVED to see Samantha in her flying dress. I got equally excited when she served as Queen of the Witches. The shots of The Cosmos Cotillion were fabulous. The lighting and the mossy trees with the groovy music. Just wonderful.
"We live in music, in a flash of color, we live on the wind and in the sparkle of a star."
Endora describing the life of a witch