I Dream Of Jeannie - Complete Series Blu-ray Review 

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My dad is always shocked when I tell him that shows like Mission impossible and I dream of Jeanne is on Blu-ray, that people today are buying them. I find it awesome!

I’m really hoping we get a bewitched set, my family only on season two on DVD of all things and the child and I watched it a lot (I think I stopped watching it somewhere around the early double digits of my life) not to mention my dad recently re-watched all of it on IMDB TV. While I haven’t seen I dream of Jeannie, these Shows from the 60s are all very fascinating to me with how they used to do effects. One time my dad noticed in an episode of bewitched that the backyard lawn and the carpet were made out of the same material.

The drop off in quality between seasons 2 and 3 is astounding

Thank you so much for mentioning the 15 Years Later movie, I bought this set a year ago and was so dissapointed and then haven't watched it since and never saw that the movie was on there. I actuall compared my Jeannie Sony release to this and I thought they were more crisp than these were and was going to get rid of the bluray. I was planning on buying the movie by itself for the longest time. Then after I saw this I was so excited about the movie being in this set it made me feel better about buying it. Love your Channel! Thank you again!

Dude, that Nick at Night shirt is fantastic!

I Dream of Jeannie is my all-time go-to comfort food show so I can't wait to get my hands on this set regardless of the video issues and disc count. I've lived with the syndicated cuts all my life and the dvd sets for over the past decade, so if this is the best it's ever looked, I will still be happy (even if it could've been better).

I’m a fan of Jeannie. Just found her this year. Her interaction with Larry and Healy is SO good and the psychologist. Bellows. Would like to own al series.

Thanks for doing this unboxing and review. I’m definitely interested in picking up this release. I would love it if they did a quality Blu-ray boxset of Bewitched.

They just announced a bewitched complete series Blu-ray set by mill creek too. Will drop September 17th. Preorders are up too hopefully it’s a lot better release for picture quality

I watched this as a child when it aired in reruns on Channel 7 in Melbourne, Australia in the 1980's.

It's a real shame. I'm not a MASSIVE fan of these 60s shows (I saw them as a kid in the 80s and haven't seen them since), but I would happily buy blurays of this, Bewitched, The Munsters, Addams Family and Beverly Hillbillies if they'd got amazing remasters.

Here is my comparison (I think the blu ray looks worse)... I now own both the complete blu ray set and the the original seasonal releases on DVD (one box set per season). Several years ago I purchased the original season by season "I Dream of Jeannie" DVD releases when they first came out. I always like to get them in their first run release as later releases can actually look worse. These were box sets with four DVD's per season. They were single stacked in slim plastic cases, two slim plastic cases in each season box. Each slim case had nice art work along with the episode titles plus fairly extensive episode summaries on the back. These are not the cheap cardboard cases when the DVD was re-released. There is a really nice artistic menu system on each DVD disc and the image is genuinely pretty good. I received the complete blu ray set today and immediately set out to compare the image quality. I compared the exact same scenes from several episodes (from both the original DVD release and the new blu ray). I also compared them on two different players two different TV's. One set up included a Sony 4K player and 65' Samsung 4K TV. The other set up included an LG blu ray player and 65' Samsung 1080p TV. I viewed the comparison with my wife and four of our kids. Mind you, I worked for fourteen years in audio/video sales and installation. And we ALL agreed, the new blu ray release actually looks WORSE on both TV's than the original plastic slim case season by season DVD release. The new blu ray has some strange interlacing going on (whatever it is, I'm not sure at this point) that actually makes the images look more blocky than the DVD release.

Thanks Heath!

Great insights into the set. Been waiting a while for this one. Definitely will pick it up even though it's not as great as we'd hoped but it still seems like a step up from the DVDs I have so that's good enough for me.

The quality of this release reminds me soo much of when fans were constantly begging George Lucas to give them the Unaltered versions remastered and put onto dvd in 2006, but instead of Lucas actually doing that, he just took a regular dvd and burned a Laserdisc copy onto a dvd and called it a day.

Thanks I was scared these were gonna be stacked discs or in paper sleeves like their roseanne comeplete series set.

Does the blu ray include Spanish dubbing?

So getting this just for the fact that Mills Creek has been so hit or miss with me the way they do their sets. Not a fan of how they had the DVDs in the dvd set of I Dream of Jeannie. On some of your videos I hear you talk a little about the company releasing the media. That said I wonder if you might consider doing a little spotlight on these companies themselves with the pros and cons on how good of a job you think they are doing from the quality of their relases to the packaging to the offering of being bare bones or having the bells and whistles.

Glad to see this set, my UK DVD set has encoding errors, the last disc of Season 2 hard locked my player up and I was forced to rip it to MKVs to get watchable episodes minus 2 two minute opening sections that can't be read across two episodes on that disc.

Thank you Heath!

I'll be upgrading this to real hd

I bought first 7 seasons of Bewitched on dvd. I only missing season 8. I prefer 4:3 full frame. The Saint in black & white in 1:78:1 / 1:85:1 looks amazing, this also count for The Incredible Hulk. In 2019 i bought tv series on dvd who till my disapointed get Bluray digital remaster and not be remasterd on same way as there did before. I believe there name this open scann what is not same as taking 4:3 and make 1:78:1 from it. Also 4:3 on tv are not good for your tv you can read in tv guide of your tv.

Thanks for the in-depth review. Besides from the imperfections you mentioned, just curious what are your top 3 favorite episodes?

Hey, Heath, ClassicFlix has released The Abbott and Costello Show Season 1 Blu-ray today. Think you'll review that release?

Is the color better? That's really the selling point for me lol and is it clearer....at all?

The episodes on this blu-ray are the same transfers from the DVDs sony did about 17 years ago...just in HD. Its like I Love Lucy or the Andy Griffith Show...no new masters on the blu ray.

I am far from a technical A/V expert, especially for someone my age. But, I do know IDOJ and its long history on home media. From my limited understanding of such things: the streaming services, DVDs/Blu-ray, and channels currently airing it all came from the same master (“Oh, master!” JEANNIE puns for the win). As you pointed out, any remastering efforts were done by Sony/Columbia likely in the early 2000s when the series was being prepped for their initial DVD release. And that’s it! The evidence to support this rests on the fact that each version of every episode across all platforms is identical; that is, the season 3 opening theme is applied to every season 2-5 episode, a handful of episodes have tiny syndication edits, the soundtrack/laugh track for three episodes has been “reconstructed”, etc. The silver lining here being that there’s no undiscovered miscellaneous masters floating around we are being screwed out of…I guess? So, that’s the story - the current prints seen everywhere ARE the only transfers in existence that I’m aware of. I am unsure if this is standard practice for just Sony or most studios regarding a show this old. Regardless, I believe the picture quality issues on the Blu-ray stem less from Mill Creek’s outdated sources and more from the odd upscaling they applied, in addition to the compression. Of course, if you have any other info to the contrary I would gladly stand corrected.

Is there any extras on the new set? Apart from the film.

Hey man! I really appreciate this video. I have a question. Is it dubbed to spanish like the dvds? 🤔

Also, when you buy a box set from Mill Creek and one season that has over 26 episodes, just put onto 2 discs means that they didn't release it to DVD, the DVD Releases all get 3 discs, the ones only sold on the box set are reduced to 2 discs, no matter how many episodes are on there.

How does the picture quality compare to the HD presentations on The Roku Channel and Tubi? Thx.

Where's Bewitched? No offence to Jeannie, but Bewitched rules 👍

The colorized version of season 1 has an audio commentary and a feature yet called out of the bottle with interviews from Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman and Bill Daily are they in this set

The DVDs that are the Sony DVDs look great, great quality! I'm looking at this on a Blu-Ray Player on a 4K TV, and it looks better than ever, since I had the Mill Creek DVD, and since I now own the Sony DVDs, you can definitely see the compression from 10-14 episodes on 1 disc. Definitely better quality! I'm sticking with these!

I plan to get this at some point (right now purchases are focused on Christmas giving) because I don’t have any copy. I’ve always liked the episodes I’ve caught, but have only seen a handful so far.

to me is a no go go, i have it in blu ray and they have the dubbed in spanish and that add up more value

I'm getting mine this Friday. I was curious if the episodes are the original broadcast versions or DVD versions? The DVD version has the theme song first then the episode where the original (I think) has an opening scene then the theme song.

So when you "retire" a title, do you sell off the dvd or donate or just give it to someone?

My dvd set is crystal clear

Did you have any problems with the set? I am experiencing one spot on the last disc were it does a visual skip and makes an absolutely horrendous sound. This is happening in Help help a shark when tony and Jeannie are in the hallway outside the generals office. I tried it on both the Xbox one s and my pc blu ray drive. I sent my first copy back and got a replacement in the mail today and same problem. I am just wondering if this is a wide spread issue.

I hope Bewitched is next. With the option to be colorized.

If the image quality on this blu-ray release is equal to or better than the prints available on the Tubi TV app, I'd be delighted. IDOJ looks really good on Tubi (watched on a 32" television), best I've ever seen; they're better than my DVD season sets look.

Forgive me for posting my input throughout the thread, but I truly want to save people the money from buying this set. As a former A/V professional (we did high end installs for corporations and churches) and, having now done my own comparison of both the blu ray and DVD (original plastic slim case release) on two different set ups, me and my family actually think the blu ray looks blockier and see no clear improvement on the color. Try comparing the same scenes, look at the same object and look at the DVD vs blu ray. For example, in looking at Barbara Eden's eyes and outfit in comparative scenes we noticed that the blu ray was more jagged and blocky. Pupils on the blu ray looked staggered.

I thought with bluray and the obsession over the terms 2k and 4k, that we had seen the last of this kind of crappy product where you don't know what you're getting on disc. Thought we were in an age where we have a certain standard of releases. I guess I was wrong. In fact, I think they are getting more and more sneaky when it comes to TV shows...never quite confirming what is true HD, what is upscaled, and what is SD.

These were upscaled from the same masters used to make the DVDs. They are upscaled 480i (interlaced) and worse, the masters were old enough to have been done with 3:2 pulldown to convert 24 film frames per second to 30 video frames per second. The 3:2 pull down causes you to get frame 1, frame 2, a meld of frame 2 and 3, a meld of frame 3 and 4, frame 4, repeat. The meld on frames 2/3 and 3/4 means you never get a clear frame 3 and that 2 out of five frames have mismatched interlacing. The upscaling done here was also crap. I was able to take a few different frames from the DVD set, upscale them and get better results than presented in this blu-ray release. I'm hoping for an ACTUAL remastered Region B or region free release.

What about the sound? Is it upgraded?

I user to watch repeats of this as a kid. Also Mr ED and a show with an ape scientist. Mr Smith or Dr Smith. I think he smoked cigars too.

Couldn't find the Sony disks. So, I got that set. Better than my crappy computer files.

I understand that Mill Creek is a budget company. Very cheap on a lot of stuff, but when Warner/20th Century Fox put out the Batman 1966 Blu-Ray release, on most discs it had 12 episodes on 1 disc, and boy did they look great, they looked fantastic! Why does the Warner release look better with 12 episodes than Mill Creek? And I know they are older transfers of this set, but I'm just saying.

Is there anything on the DVD’s that is not on the Blu-ray’s?

Funny enough, months after I watched this review, I already own the Mill Creek DVD Set, so I bought the Sony individual sets on Ebay for great prices brand new, and I have to say, the Sony Version looks better than the Mill Creek DVD set (Because of compression of Mill Creek). But I'm never going to buy this set, I'll stick with the Sony and Mill Creek DVD sets.

they need to get other tv series on board with BR Disk, The Incredible Hulk (TV series) is on BR. Bewitched, All in the Family, Brady bunch. partridge family. to name a few

Mill Creek did this transfer and the color sucks. Also, the reunion movie is on the second disc (instead of the first disc where it reads it is), and when you try to watch “Hurricane Jeannie,” you can’t get to it without going to the first episode on that disc and fast forwarding to it. A shotty release for a series that deserves better.

I wonder if anyone has ever thought about doing a petition to get these off of the shelf for a better set?

Is it region-free?

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I love this whole series for what it represents. The good old days, when a woman could be viewed as a object of beauty and it was not considered a bad thing, considered instantly sinister in intent and design by the Twitter cancel mobs that shape culture today. How times have changed. Probably why I sink further and further into Vintage properties. Man I wish I grew up in a different era. I know history is looked threw rose tinted glasses. However don’t tell me the 50’s-60’s were not a simpler time. Opportunity was more abundant and families actually stayed together for the most part. Good times. Like the matrix I don’t want to be NEO, I want to be the guy who begs to be inserted back into the matrix lol. Forget all the enlightenment of today. Give me a steak a pack of cigarettes and a GTO. Give me a home with a loving wife that I pay the bills and she as a loving wife and homemaker, gives me the reason to do so. A series like this today has as much in common with society in 2021 as a Martian 👽 does. The day n life trials and tribulations of a 50-60’s family unit is paradise, almost un fathomable to what is presented as common place American living to my unfortunate butt today. When you cut threw the comedy, you see what remains as this sitcom was suppose to emulate the target audiences life at that time in a typical middle class American home of that era(it’s median baseline). This was not a groundbreaking risk taker designed to shock the American of that days senses. Besides a beautiful genie 🧞‍♀️ the cast plays it strait, plays it like a typical person of that era would in accordance to the high jinx the beautiful genie 🧞‍♀️ enacts upon them. It’s what my Grandpa and Grandma (blessed with innocence and non enlightened moral fiber) deemed high end comedy akin to a seinfield, whatever sitcom trash is liked today. Tell me that’s not simpler, My Grandparents, it’s whom the studio targeted to beam this vintage gem into the homes of that treasured era of the nuclear family. A true shock that this time machine, not only avoided the censorship chopping block, but has manifested a reintroduced set to the masses. Good going mill creek!

Sounds like this was lackluster

this release was a major disappointment. streaming on imdb via prime is much better if it wasnt for the commercials. those are even 1080p, not this 1080i upscaled crap.

Your "good" review is based on a price (3-40$ US) available at 1 shop. It is not the price we get elsewhere, and especially across the border in Canada. Once again, the distributor is neglecting French, one of the 2 official languages in Canada. Frankly, I'll pass this bluray boxset and mills Creek products - as usual.

Too bad the movie is incredibly bad. Wayne Rogers is a terrible substitute for the comic talent that was Larry Hagman. It's poorly paced, poorly scripted. Shoulder pads everywhere! Big '80s hair. Substitute sound effects. A lousy '80s rendition of the theme. And the tone is so darn serious! Where's the frenetic energy and fun of the series?

At 3:57 did you say “what the f**k”? ... really? Or am I hearing things? If so, I’m disappointed Heath.