Classic TV Showdown: I Dream of Jeannie VS Bewitched! 

The 'I Dream of Jeannie' cast nailed it...and the team of Hagman - Bill Daily were perfect together. God, Larry Hagman could be hysterical as a 'victim'.

Team Jeannie! Roger and Dr Bellows are amazing supporting characters. It's so funny how Tony's life should be a dream because he has a beautiful woman who can grant him any wish and only wants to please him, so his life is perfect right? No! She's always causing so much trouble trying to help him when he didn't ask for it 😂 he always begs Jeannie not to use her magic and she does it anyway and then they have to use it again to get out of the trouble it started in the first place 😂 such a great show. Love this video!

I prefer "Bewitched" as well! Also you can't forget the endless debates of "The Munsters" vs. "The Addams Family" and "The Brady Bunch" vs. "The Partridge Family"!

Hi Heath and Bree. I'm in the I Dream Of Jeannie camp! Love the new setup.

Richard Kiel (Jaws) also was in IDJ as well as Ted Cassidy (Lurch). They are often mistaken for each other.

I dream of Jeannie for sure... Larry Hagman's timing coupled with the bubbly fascinating character of Barbara Eden is a sure winner. Bill Daily was the glue that held it together...

I think you forgot Ginger vs. Mary Ann. I love both Jeannie and Bewitched. I could never choose.

Love both, but I Dream Of Jeannie is my favorite.

I'm partial to Elizabeth Montgomery and the nose wiggle but Barbara Eden was a knockout.

Fun stuff. If I had to choose, it would be Bewitched, but only because I'm way more familiar with it. Pretty sure as a kid, I saw every episode, most multiple times. I've seen IDoJ much less, but have been thinking about fixing that. And yeah, the latter, does sound (especially when you see Eden's genie in a belly-dancer uniform) like a set-up for an adult movie, but is as safe as most 60s sitcoms as I recall.

I know this an older video. Tubi has a section that is devoted to nostalgia tv. It has Both shows. I forgot how much I loved both shows. I agree with both of your points. I still live I love Jeannie better through.

I'm just as a child to a teenager, growing up in the future when if Magical Girls are in Live-action fantasy

Wow that's a hard one but I say I dream of Jeanie only because I watched it every afternoon when I got home from school. I love both but!

I prefer I Dream of Jeannie. I love that she's both submissive and dominant at the same time. She refers to Nelson as Master ( which is funny because he freed her in the first episode ), but at the same time is very self aware she's a lot more powerful than he is. The entire premise is good too. They're clearly in love with each other from episode 1 and can barely stand being away from each other. And at the end of the day it makes me laugh more than Bewitched. But both shows are pretty amazing.

pardon me. it was Elizabeth Montgomery that played the witch

One of my favourite guest stars on Bewitched was Star Trek's James Doohan! Would love to see a Munsters vs Addams family discussion like this!

I dunno, IMO Jeannie was way more rebellious than Samantha.... Samantha usually always TRIED to obey Darrin, she was willing to try to live under the terms of not being true to what was natural to her to fit his world. And would Darrin would catch Samantha disobeying him she would usually grovel to him. Jeannie, on the other hand, would say, "Yes, Master" but ultimately did what she wanted. And if Jeannie thought she knew BETTER than Tony, she would outright not obey him, she would FORBID him from going places sometimes, she would blink him into a drawer, into her bottle, etc... and keep him there... Jeannie practically ran that house lol

The nose wiggle in Bewitched is adorable, but Jeannie's outfit... I mean...

Great video! I missed you guys, you were gone 15 YEARS in RU-vid time 😂 Loving the new intro and set, awesome stuff 👍🏻

I’d would love to see more of these showdown videos. Y’all go into great depth about the shows pros and cons.

I can't stand how amazing that intro was! Definitely worth the 30 seconds, and a few repeats. Well Done!

I can't choose, since I've only seen a few of each. But I loved this video, Bree and Heath! Great to see you both discuss them with such love.

I love both

I like both, but have grown to prefer Bewitched - and Dick York was the best Darrin Antenna TV is the best!

@Cereal At Midnight - Did you see that I Dream of Jeannie (the complete series) on Blu Ray is coming out in July!!!

I watched both shows when they originally aired. I think both shows weee/are wonderful. Having said that, BEWITCHED is my all time favorite sitcom with a message of love, acceptance, and a "mixed marriage" that Darrin and Samantha made work, in a mortal world so quick to judge others. And what great casts, both shows led by two wonderful women. R.I.P. Liz. Excellent video.

I love both and can’t choose. Man I miss the old school days of nick at night.

Jeannie is funnier. Poor Dr. Bellows. And Larry Hagman was an incredibly adept comedic actor.

I just bought the Seasons 1 & 2 Combo Pack by Mill Creek in its original Black-and-white Presentation at a store a few weeks ago.

These shows were on all the time in reruns when I was growing up in the early 70's. WandaVision has rekindled my interest in revisiting some of them.

I am crazy-loyal to Robert Montgomery and because his daughter stars in Bewitched, I always told myself that that show is better (when compared to I Dream of Jeannie) BUT when it comes right down to it, I cannot choose one over the other (no matter how much I love Robert Montgomery). I grew up watching reruns of both shows on cable TV and I really did enjoy both equally. I liked the home-yness of Bewitched and I like the outta-this-world mood and setting of I Dream of Jeannie. Nah guys, I can't choose. Loving the new intro and set-up - very well done Heath & Bree!

Being a Larry Hagman fan I like both but Jeanie is where it’s at for me

Actually, Sidney Sheldon (the creator of I Dream of Jeannie) got the idea from the movie The Brass Bottle (that co-starred Barbara Eden) he got Barbara Eden because she was in that movie (because different brunettes were not beautiful and funny) but he wanted her for the Jeannie role. The pilot was actually filmed on December 2-4 (the unaired pilot) the aired pilot had an extra scene filmed (the sneezing scene). So, with that out of the way, both shows are good, different, but good and funny. Bewitched got me into Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Great review, great intro. Now if you will excuse me, I will go watch I Dream of Jeannie on DVD.

I like the new opening credits. Fun video. To be honest, even as a kid, the only weird 60 sit-com I watched regularly in syndication were the Munsters, the Addams Family, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. I preferred the more realistic sit-coms such as Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Sanford and Son, Mary Tyler Moore and the Bob Newhart Show. I think Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden were the best things about each show and incredibly sexy. Montgomery is very compelling in the Twilight Zone episode she was in with Charles Bronson, the Thriller episode with Tom Poston, JOHNNY COOL and many of the made for TV movies she was in after BEWITCHED. Same for Barbara Eden in FLAMING STAR, THE BRASS BOTTLE (source for I DREAM OF JEANNIE?), THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO and the TV movies she was in after JEANNIE.

101st I liked both shows - but BEWITCHED was my fave

I prefer bewitched of I dream of Jeannie

“The Magic.” Bree you sounded like my mom! I agree I was bummed when I was about to get retro TV as all the shows were 90s and 00s. I still Haven’t seen I dream of Genie. It was never on tv around here growing up.

I Dream of Jeannie is what I preferred, though Bewitched was funny in its own way. I do believe the first 4 seasons were the show’s strongest, with Season 1 being the absolute strongest, it had the best scripts in that season. I feel the network forcing Tony and Jeannie to marry in the last season was the wrong move, and it showed, ratings tanked and the show was cancelled.

How about Family Ties vs Growing Pains. Really hard to choose What show is better, I enjoyed both equally.

Sam

cool intro 👍. I'm a dream of jeanie guy too. Bewitched it was a good show too. Elizabeth McGovern was beautiful. Barbara Eden a beautiful woman too . I enjoyed the video 👍👍

I'm sad to say, until you mentioned they were different shows - I didn't realized they were. I watched them as a preteen in the 80s and they were grouped together with a lot of other 60s shows when shown locally. Star Trek grabbed my attention the most, but I never developed a distinction between them. I find TV shows mostly formulaic so I hardly watch old ones other that Star Trek, and a guilty pleasure of Wild Wild West lol. Otherwise, and unfortunately, I haven't watched them as an adult. Thanks for straightening me out, I need to correct this course of action lol

Barbara Eden. Case closed. 😍

OK, saw this, and thought it might have been a series within...and when I found that this is the first one...man. You've got a winner on your hands. You know you'll have to do ADDAMS FAMILY vs. THE MUNSTERS ( I'm an Addams family member since my seventies childhood. ), but there's a ton of shows to do , even the odd ones, like HOGAN'S HEROES vs. pretty much any other World War 2 based series. If you do BATMAN vs. THE GREEN HORNET, I hope the Hornet wins that one.

I Dream of Jeannie was funnier....Dr Bellows :))

I loved Barbara Eden and I’ll admit that she was my first crush (even beating out Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island). I felt the humor was better timed in “I Dream of Jeannie” and you just couldn’t get mad at her, despite her mistakes. And she was super sexy. She wanted to please Tony and her heart was totally into that. Although I watched “Bewitched” it felt like a fight was always brewing in the Stephen’s home. It was uncomfortable to watch. Darrin had a perpetual stick up his rump and demanded to do things the hard way. His character was really a big wiener. And I always despised the episodes where one of Samantha’s inept relatives visited and messed things up. Or they conjured up someone from history/fairy tale and had to figure out what to with them. And it always turned out to be some clever advertising gimmick that Larry Tate loved. Ugh. Clearly, I would have let the ladies do their thing without an argument breaking out. They both had the powers to make life easier and that’s good, right? I always envisioned Samantha and Darrin getting a divorce. Or maybe Endora finally had enough of “Derwood” and got rid of him for good.

So, I Dream of Jeannie was set for July 13, but was set back to August 3, but was set back to September 21. What happened?

An alpha male should always be in charge because it is only he who knows how to be fair and run things in an orderly manner without chaos!

November 30 will be the "new" release date for I Dream of Jeannie on Blu-Ray. Any thoughts?

I've recently re-watched both complete series (I'd only seen Bewitched as a kid, don't remember IDOJ being shown here in Italy, although apparently it was) and I like them both but have to agree with Heath. Have to say both have some pretty terrible episodes though 😸 But on the whole, I Dream... is better even though I actually prefer Elizabeth Montgomery to Barbara Eden. Larry Hagman's great. Do more content about retro TV and old sitcoms please 😸

Bewitched forever 💖💖❤️❤️❤️

In terms of creating the episodes, I Dream of Jeannie had more ideas for episodes. Bewitched does, but from Season 2 - 8, they started to remake episodes. A Vision of Sugar Plums, and Samantha Meets the Folks were repeated twice in Seasons 1 and 2, in Season 2, they recycled footage from the original and filmed a new cold open. Also, I Dream of Jeannie only copied 1 episode, weareas Bewitched copied 6 I Dream of Jeannie episodes.

Well, Samantha the witch was more intelligent, so could better utilize her skills. I would trust her with my checkbook. . . . . .But Jeannie worn a chiffon bikini, and worshipped her master. . . . and depended on Tony's intelligence to profit from the magic. It was up to him to wish for a problem solution, and he never got control of that. 20/20 TV hindsight, I think I could. . . so I'd rather have Jeannie.

Where did you get those t shirts? 😊

Complete set is cheap too for these old shows.

Far n inspired me to be a digital artist and study advertising..

The Way I choose is simple, as a kid watching both I Dream of Jeannie was my absolute Favorite and Barbara Eden & Raquel Welch were my top 2 Stars, Bewitched was top 5 back then, and Jeannie blows Samantha away in overall beauty and sexiness and that killer body, but Samantha is also Beautiful, so I loved both actresses and shows. But today at 59 I can watch Bewitched over and over again, and I have, I tried re-watching Jeannie and just can't get through 1 season, Bewitched aged better with time, well written and funny show, I hate both Darrin and Tony, both were total azzes and idiots, but Tony had to be dumber, Roger had the right idea!

Have to go with I Dream of Jeannie. Funnier and Bewitched was more repetitive.

Great opening 👍🏻 Bewitched all the way ✌🏻

Do you own the black and white original versions of Season 1 of I Dream of Jeannie and Seasons 1 and 2 of Bewitched?

Wow - it's amazing to me that your knowledge of these shows admittedly comes from the "Nick at Nite" era of the 90's! I just turned 60 this year, and I pretty vividly remember both shows when they were on prime time and of course went into reruns almost immediately. Since you mention "Nick at Nite," how can you leave out from your discussion the Nick at Nite "vote" (which I think may have been in summer 1994, maybe 1995?), where people called in to a voicemail (the Internet was pretty much in its infancy back then) and voted "Who was more powerful - Samantha or Jeannie?" Some people gave their reasons, and Nick at Nite sometimes aired these voicemails. Anyhow, whoever won the vote, Nick at Nite would show a whole evening of the winner's shows - and it was, hands-down, Samantha, as no man was her "master." (Yes, I like both shows too. I can't remember who I voted for in that Nick at Nite contest.)

Bewitched wins hands down, Bewitched was a huge hit for ABC, Elizabeth Montgomery was beautiful as Samantha, Elizabeth Montgomery ,left this planet Earth way too Soon , I have the Bewitched Set on DVD

All in the family vs the Jefferson's next?

Although I love both of these show, I normally go toward Bewitched. I love Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Fox (Dr Bombay), Marion Lorne (Aunt Clara - how can you not love her), Maurice Evans (Sam's Father), and yes sometimes even Paul Lynde. So many get character actors showed up on this show over the years.

so much talk about subversion... There's a stuffiness and talking down to men that turned me off Bewitched. I Dteam Of Jeannie is fun and outright hilarious.

Both shows were filmed at Warner Ranch and their houses could be seen in each others external shots. They just finished demolishing all of the ranch (which stopped being a "ranch" in the 50s) where the Partridge family also lived and the fountain scene in Friends was filmed. Currently it's about 40 white trucks, a lot of dirt and a brick wall being put up. So much for "walls don't work". Elizabeth Montgomery hated the Genie show because she knew it was a rip off and was taking some of her audience.

I love both shows but I prefer Bewitched I grew up with that show I'm 57 years old now .I still watch the reruns brings back good memories as a child.

Bewitched all the way, man.

I don't like nor dislike either. Not too much urban appeal in either show.

Just to get series a minute. Elizabeth Montgomery wasn't happy with I DREAM OF JEANNIE, feeling it ripped off BEWITCHED, right down to the annimated opening. She had no hard feelings toward the actors, maybe toward Screen Gems. Example, Jeannie's brunette sister as opposed to Sam's brunette cousin Serena (based on her own look-a-like cousin). Gun shows, though.

Bewitched is much funnier!

I’m in the bewitched side. But I’m a witch fan. I’ve seen all the witch shows

I'm a fan of both shows but Bewitched wins