Jeannie, the Hip Hippie
- Episode aired Oct 17, 1967
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
259
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Jeannie blinks up a music group when Dr. Bellow's wife assigns the job to Tony.Jeannie blinks up a music group when Dr. Bellow's wife assigns the job to Tony.Jeannie blinks up a music group when Dr. Bellow's wife assigns the job to Tony.
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Tommy Boyce
- Self
- (as The Boyce & Hart Group)
Bobby Hart
- Self
- (as The Boyce & Hart Group)
William Lewis
- Self
- (as The Boyce & Hart Group)
Steve O'Reilly
- Self
- (as The Boyce & Hart Group)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring the scene where Jeannie is assembling the members of the Boyce/Hart Band, an instrumental version of a song that Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote is playing in the background. The song was "Last Train to Clarksville", which was the first ever number-one single for The Monkees. In fact, there are several sly references to the band throughout this episode including having the covers to several of their albums in the background, the Bellowses holding a Monkees' album in their living room and during the audition scene a shot of Davy Jones' solo album that was released about a year prior to that show's debut.
- GoofsWhen Tony and Jeannie leave for the camping trip, a big hill can be seen in the background. This is not a view of Cocoa Beach, Florida but of California.
- Quotes
Amanda Bellows: [after Jeannie has turned Tony's living room into a campground with a fire, tent, and running brook] Oh, it's wonderful! Alfred, how come we never do anything like this?
Dr. Alfred Bellows: Amanda, I spend half my life *curing* people who do things like this!
- ConnectionsReferences Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- SoundtracksLast Train To Clarksville
(instrumental) (uncredited)
Written by Bobby Hart (uncredited) and Tommy Boyce (uncredited)
Featured review
Unhip 30-Minute Promo for a Music Group
The terrible title might as well be "Jeannie, the Hip Hop Gangsta" for all it has to do with hippies or being hip. A shamelessly cynical hijacking of the series to promote clean-cut Boyce & Hart, writers of hit songs for fellow NBC series The Monkees. (There's even an instrumental version of "Last Train to Clarksville".) Of course, the band is given plenty of screen time to perform their latest single (a tepid, forgettable ditty) for Phil Spector, no less. All that was missing was a wacky Monkees-style montage. A segment so disconnected from the series that Jeannie is shoe-horned in (via an implausible excuse) to play drums so the audience won't feel completely alienated by what is essentially an infomercial for a pop group.
The rest of the cast is shoved aside, having no purpose in this hack script. At least Emmaline Henry is given a chance to shine and show some personality and charm. She gets more lines and close-ups than usual. A very attractive, appealing comic actress totally overshadowed by gorgeous Barbara Eden.
Strange that the credits list future convicted murderer Phil Spector as "Steve Davis" yet a fawning Jeannie addresses him by his real name.
Eight weeks later the show went to Hawaii for a two-parter which paid for itself by promoting the hell out of singer Don Ho -- including a weirdly out of place music video. A shame to see the series being taken over by self-serving cigar-chomping record executives.
The rest of the cast is shoved aside, having no purpose in this hack script. At least Emmaline Henry is given a chance to shine and show some personality and charm. She gets more lines and close-ups than usual. A very attractive, appealing comic actress totally overshadowed by gorgeous Barbara Eden.
Strange that the credits list future convicted murderer Phil Spector as "Steve Davis" yet a fawning Jeannie addresses him by his real name.
Eight weeks later the show went to Hawaii for a two-parter which paid for itself by promoting the hell out of singer Don Ho -- including a weirdly out of place music video. A shame to see the series being taken over by self-serving cigar-chomping record executives.
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