Now, to begin with, I know that at least 90% of the I Dream of Jeannie fans absolutely hate this show with a passion because it doesn't use any of the original cast for voices, and because none of the characters look like the original cast. But, I still love it :)

There are good reasons why the original cast didn't lend their voices to it, and like everything in the world, it had to do with money (and a blown-budget). I'm still more than happy with what was produced, other than that I wished that CBS had ordered more seasons.

Okay, some of y'all have probably seen the episodes on YouTube, rather horrible-quality versions, and many misnamed for their proper titles. That's fine to learn about the show and determine if it's worth finding better copies. I can at least help with the latter part of that.

I discovered that CTV in Canada (https://www.ctv.ca/shows/jeannie) has the episodes for viewing, so long as you live in Canada. Otherwise, they are geo-locked. The other thing is that they put their logo on the bottom-right corner, so if that kind of thing bothers you, then try the DVD set below. You can at least see from the link how good the reproduction quality is.

The following link is to a page that has collected the best quality of the series I've seen since it originally aired. Even so, it's not quite as "uncut" as it is advertised because there are certain scenes I remember seeing as a kid that are not in these copies. Most likely, they are modern-edited versions for more commercial time per half-hour.

Even so, to me it was still worth buying the set. I don't remember what shipping cost, but figure at least five-bucks.

Jeannie - 1973 - The Complete HD Studio Animated Series (https://mantronixretrotv.onlineweb.shop/Jeannie_-_1973_-_The_Complete_HD_Studio_Animated_Series/p6119874_20326979.aspx)

If you've never heard of this cartoon before, then here's a fairly well-done site of information about it, and a wiki-page on the cartoon (with images from my collection uploaded to it):

Jeannie (TV series) explained (https://everything.explained.today/Jeannie_(TV_series)/)

Jeannie (series) (I Dream of Jeannie Wiki) (https://i-dream-of-jeannie.fandom.com/wiki/Jeannie_(series))

I don't know if this will entice anyone, but here are some images from the show:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/444/92oqQU.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/4185/c5Rl4h.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/2222/2USjsz.jpg

Perhaps I should edit my post about "I know that at least 90% of the I Dream of Jeannie fans absolutely hate this show" to read "I know that at least 99.999999999% of the I Dream of Jeannie fans absolutely hate this show..." I'd be the 0.000000001% who love it among the IDoJ community :D

i watched it as a kid and enjoyed it. It obviously wasn't the same genie. But Jeannie did tell Tony that "we are all (named) Jeannie."

i watched it as a kid and enjoyed it. It obviously wasn't the same genie. But Jeannie did tell Tony that "we are all (named) Jeannie."
Good point :)

I watched it when it originally aired and loved it, but I loved pretty much any show with magic in it (Shazzan, Mr. Merlin, for two examples). The critics of the time didn't like it, but they don't always get it right either. It just would have been nice if CBS had gone ahead and ordered a second season. The show was getting good enough ratings for that to take place.

Good point :)

I watched it when it originally aired and loved it, but I loved pretty much any show with magic in it (Shazzan, Mr. Merlin, for two examples). The critics of the time didn't like it, but they don't always get it right either. It just would have been nice if CBS had gone ahead and ordered a second season. The show was getting good enough ratings for that to take place.

Around that same time Remco released the small I Dream of Jeannie doll in a blue costume with blonde hair. But they used the cartoon Jeannie on the box art (also with blonde hair). And the large bottle playset design (sold separately, of course) was the cartoon bottle, but came with a Jeannie doll now in the pink costume.

When Jeannie teamed up with the Scooby gang she popped out the villain and her arms simultaneously.

https://i.postimg.cc/5N2vB3vm/arms.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

When Jeannie teamed up with the Scooby gang she popped out the villain and her arms simultaneously.

Yeah, that and details about her face lets you know that it was definitely a different animation crew. Even within the regular series, if you look at some angles (frame-by-frame helps see them) the quality of the drawing changes, sometimes drastically.

Hanna-Barbera didn't care as much about minor shows like this one as compared to The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Johnny Quest. Those shows brought in a profit versus just paying the bills.

But, at least there was an entire season of an additional animated djinni (Shazzan being the first) while Bewitched only warranted a single episode on The Flintstones ;)

I just discovered yesterday while doing a search on my Roku that there are several streaming apps which have the series now. The two free channels have it with ads (of course) but I haven't tried the Philo app because it's subscriber-based.

So, as follows are direct links to free apps carrying the 1973 "Jeannie" Animated Series :)

Plex (https://watch.plex.tv/show/jeannie/season/1/episode/1?autoplay=1&utm_source=justWatch-catalog&utm_medium=deeplink&utm_content=610d85ff2ec873002c8e8e9f)
Crackle (https://www.crackle.com/watch/3005)

I don't have a direct link to Philo's page for the series, but here's another page which lists the apps airing it, which are clickable:

Reelgood - Jeannie (https://reelgood.com/show/jeannie-1973)

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I remember the character babu, a male genie whose catchphrase was "Yapple dapple!"

I remember the character babu, a male genie whose catchphrase was "Yapple dapple!"

He was voiced by 'Curly Joe' Besser and the character was much like that Failed 'not so HARD' Stooge!

Put it this way, even the tiniest viewers would have had no problems imagining that he could have been in the very same bottle as the gorgeous teen girl djini for centuries with no one else around- and the two of the NEVER doing more than talking and waving at each other!

No wonder she instantly crushed on that teen surfer despite the latter being a somewhat whiny dim bulb!

I have sometimes commented on the IDoJ page at Moviechat, usually to help people either misinformed or low on general knowledge about the show.

Tonight, I noticed that there is a page for the animated series, but had only one (bad) post. So, I added a better post about finding quality copies of the series. Here's the page for those who might want to talk more about the animated series by itself instead of here (I know not all IDoJ fans like the cartoon, so talking over there would allow them to better ignore this and any other posts about it).

https://moviechat.org/tt0069596/Jeannie

The cartoon version loved to reuse plots from the live-action version:
(episodes numbered by broadcast order)

Bumbling apprentice genie IDOJ #74, all 16 episodes of the cartoon
Jeannie loses her powers IDOJ #16, #40, #41, #65, #83, cartoon #5
Survival mission/course IDOJ #3, cartoon #4
A kid sees Jeannie IDOJ #11, #132, cartoon #10
Meeting famous dead person IDOj #41, #58, #76, cartoon #7
Jeannie jealous of her master's date IDOJ #36, #39, #60, cartoon #11
Jeannie's bottle mixed up with junk IDOJ #1, cartoon #11
Jeannie's master's best friend irresistible to females IDOJ #44, cartoon #13
Genie dog IDOJ #93, #107, #115, #131, cartoon #14
A character is turned into a dog IDOJ #36, cartoon #14
A genie thinks he or she is a jinx IDOJ #72, cartoon #15
Jeannie's master and his best friend switch bodies IDOJ #87, cartoon #16

Do the pictures of the redhead below resemble the cartoon Jeannie?

The cartoon version loved to reuse plots from the live-action version...
To be expected, though there are some episodes which diverted from those plots. Such as "The Kid Brother" where he most definitely learned that Jeannie was a djinni, unlike Marvin in "Jeannie and the Curious Kid". Other than Roger, no one knew about Jeannie's secret and/or had to keep it. Marvin only suspected and then later was either talked out of it, or just not believed because he's a kid who reads comic books.

Do the pictures of the redhead below resemble the cartoon Jeannie?
No, nor was that to be expected, either. They were not able to make it as a true spin-off series, and I'm fine with that.

I don't know for sure if this is true, but there is suspicion that the cartoon Jeannie was the inspiration for the game-djinni Shantae. Both use their ponytails to work their powers, and both are redheads. Shantae is a half-djinni while Jeannie is full-powered.

I get it. 99% of IDoJ fans can't stand the cartoon. "None of the original actors do the voices!" "No one looks like the original actors!" "Unoriginal plots/stories!"

Thankfully, I'm in the 1% crowd who loved this show, and got to watch it when it aired. I just had to wait 40+ years to get decent-quality copies of it online, and they still aren't truly uncut (should be about 24 mins long instead of the modern broadcast media cut lengths of 21-22mins.) Sony and HB still haven't figured out how to release it to DVD/VOD but have at least found venues to stream it. Still, in those aforementioned shortened versions.

I don't know for sure if this is true, but there is suspicion that the cartoon Jeannie was the inspiration for the game-djinni Shantae. Both use their ponytails to work their powers, and both are redheads. Shantae is a half-djinni while Jeannie is full-powered

Originally Jeannie's pony tail on the show would activate the magic as well. I assumed that's why the "Jeannie" cartoon did it. But I suspect it was too complicated to do every time live action. From the original script:


Jeannie tosses her head. Her pigtail makes a circle, then points straight up in the air. A large bloodthirsty falcon suddenly appears on Tony's wrist.


Barbara said that original Gene Nelson came up with the blink instead.

Bob Hastings was, as far as I know, the only person to play a character on the live action IDOJ (in one episode, "The Used Car Salesman" mentioned above) and voice a character on the cartoon show (Henry, a regular character, the basic equivalent of Roger on IDOJ). Gary Owens, Mike Road, and Henry Corden all appeared on IDOJ, and were frequently used as voice actors in Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but I don't think any of those three voiced a character on the Jeannie cartoon. (Corden, who briefly played Jeannie's father in one episode of IDOJ, did play the father of a character who was voiced by the same actress who played the cartoon Jeannie- on "The Barkleys," another Saturday morning cartoon from the season before the cartoon Jeannie debuted.)

By the way, I think the Saturday morning cartoons on CBS in the 1970's were only about 21 minutes long to begin with (I think they were about 22 minutes long on all networks in the 1960's, then they seem to have been shortened by about a minute in the 70's on ABC and CBS only (to make room for "Schoolhouse Rock" on ABC and "In The Know" and later "In The News" on CBS).

Originally Jeannie's pony tail on the show would activate the magic as well. I assumed that's why the "Jeannie" cartoon did it. But I suspect it was too complicated to do every time live action. From the original script:

"Jeannie tosses her head. Her pigtail makes a circle, then points straight up in the air. A large bloodthirsty falcon suddenly appears on Tony's wrist."

Barbara said that original Gene Nelson came up with the blink instead.
I seriously doubt that the creators of the Shantae videogame ever knew that bit of trivia. Jeannie was shown on Cartoon Network for a while, so it's more likely they learned about her from there. To learn the trivia you mention, one would have had to see and read an original pilot episode script of IDoJ, something to which most people do not have easy access, especially over twenty years ago when the videogame was produced.

By the way, I think the Saturday morning cartoons on CBS in the 1970's were only about 21 minutes long to begin with (I think they were about 22 minutes long on all networks in the 1960's, then they seem to have been shortened by about a minute in the 70's on ABC and CBS only (to make room for "Schoolhouse Rock" on ABC and "In The Know" and later "In The News" on CBS).
If that were true, then I wouldn't remember certain scenes from when I watched during its original airing and then seeing on bootleg copies later where those scenes were cut for commercial time.

One in particular was of Jeannie doing her nails with her magic, and then all of the tools slipping inside of the polish bottle before it too disappeared. That scene is gone from all current copies. I can't remember which episode, but I do remember it distinctly. It's probably what also inspired Scott Awley when he did prelim drawings for the proposed IDoJ cartoon show of the 1990s. When that series never got produced, those same drawings then ended up on the modern board game. Here's the one I suspect was inspired by the missing scene mentioned:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/8485/6lfJAD.jpg

(I know Scott used to also make VHS tapes available of uncut copies of the show, when he had access to the HB vault. He made those copies from 3/4" videotape copies he had been allowed to make from the original film stock.)

I liked this cartoon. Are we up to 2% now?

I liked this cartoon. Are we up to 2% now?
My educated guess from being in the IDoJ community for over 20 years is no. I still see "fans" of the show being anti-fanfic because "That's now our Jeannie!1!!" as if they own the rights. They hate the cartoon even more.

Perhaps the better means of getting this cartoon known is to promote it more to the Shantae crowd. They can at least best appreciate a ponytail-using animated djinni :)

I just discovered yesterday while doing a search on my Roku that there are several streaming apps which have the series now. The two free channels have it with ads (of course) but I haven't tried the Philo app because it's subscriber-based.

So, as follows are direct links to free apps carrying the 1973 "Jeannie" Animated Series :)

Plex (https://watch.plex.tv/show/jeannie/season/1/episode/1?autoplay=1&utm_source=justWatch-catalog&utm_medium=deeplink&utm_content=610d85ff2ec873002c8e8e9f)
Crackle (https://www.crackle.com/watch/3005)

I don't have a direct link to Philo's page for the series, but here's another page which lists the apps airing it, which are clickable:

Reelgood - Jeannie (https://reelgood.com/show/jeannie-1973)

Crackle and Plex are no longer airing it. Maybe it's still on fubo (as shown at the Reelgood link), but I don't have a subscription to that one.

However people have uploaded the same episodes to Youtube. Same overall quality and same lengths. As stated before, they have indeed been cut, so don't believe the "uncut" statements, unless running times are over 23-minutes.

It was one of my favorite cartoon shows as a kid, but I loved the live-action version as well. I even had the coloring book when I was a kid. I must have thrown it away after I outgrew it, but I ended up buying another one on ebay many years later. Even though the cartoon series was simply called, Jeannie, some of the merchandise used the full title, I Dream of Jeannie. It was nice to revisit the episodes on Crackle a few years ago with nice quality prints.

Also, Ted Cassidy and Paul Frees were voice actors frequently used by Hanna-Barbera who appeared (or in Frees' case, was heard- he did the off-screen narration in early episodes) on IDOJ, but did not do any work on the Jeannie cartoon show.