What makes it more? In simplest terms, Jeannie, her costume, and her wonderful … um … tummy are in color!
And everything else is just as fetching in color. The new set of 31 out-of-this-world episodes takes off where Season One left us – Jeannie doing more unpredictably wacky things that get Tony & Co. in trouble (or what appears to be trouble). For instance, she flies off in a fit of pique when Tony forgets their one-year anniversary. That’s the season opener, but in later episodes, she changes the weather with disastrous results and has to save Tony when he accidentally frees a blue djinn from a bottle; he’s the one who imprisoned Jeannie for 2000 years in her own bottle. Later, she transforms Tony into an operatic virtuoso and succeeds so well that he lands in a popular talent show. That show proves that lip synching shouldn’t be attempted by the faint of heart.
Amongst others, the guest stars include Paul Lynde (Hollywood Squares), Groucho Marx, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dabney Coleman (Buffalo Bill). Each of the episodes makes very good use of the guest star, as in "The Greatest Invention in the World," where Jeannie fulfills Tony's best friend Roger's (Bill Daily) boyhood desire to be the funniest man in the world by turning him into Groucho. Equally fun, Tony has to scramble when he is put in charge of lining up performers for General Peterson's anniversary party, and to get him off the hook, Jeannie summons "The Greatest Entertainer in the World," Sammy Davis Jr.
If you buy into the notion that a genie can attach herself to an astronaut and cause this sort of mayhem 24/7, then you’re going to like of I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Second Season. And you don’t even have to cross your arms and blink hard to get a copy; it’s at your local video store …
