According to News Blaze, CreateSpace (an Amazon.com company) has an agreement with Universal Studios Home Entertainment to release rare movies from their vault as part of their "Universal Vault Series" using DVD on demand technology. One of those movies is the 1964 movie The Brass Bottle starring Burl Ives, Tony Curtis and, of course, our beautiful Barbara Eden! This movie is about a man who finds a big burly genie in a brass bottle and the wackiness that ensues. BE plays Tony Curtis' girlfriend. The movie is considered the inspiration for IDOJ.

It is only available on Amazon.com and has a list price of $15.99. Keep in mind it is a DVD-R disc and may not play in all players.

The Brass Bottle Starring Barbara Eden

According to TV Shows on DVD.com the Sixth Season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch is arriving on DVD on March 23, 2010. 

This season includes two appearances by Barbara Eden as Sabrina's evil Aunt Irma in Episode 9: "A Birthday Witch" and Episode 14: "The Arrangement". BE will make one more appearance as Aunt Irma in Season 7, yet to be announced.

TVShowsonDVD.com is reporting that Sony will release a one disc collection of I Dream of Jeannie Fan Favorites on September 29, 2009 at a suggested retail price of $14.95. The disc will contain seven episodes from the Fifth Season including the infamous "The Wedding" episode which many consider to be the point where IDOJ jumped the shark. The observant fan will note that these seven episodes are what the second disc from the Complete Fifth Season DVD collection is comprised of.

 www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dream-Jeannie-Fan-Favorite-DVDs/12586

Blink 4 bigger image

Click READ MORE... For detailed box art.

Having already purchased all 5 seasons of I Dream of Jeannie, I was curious to see how Sony was going to lure audiences to buy the complete series. The packaging is a novel idea with the DVDs enclosed in a paper 'Jeannie' bottle complete with cork.

The set also includes 55 trading cards with facts about the show and descriptions of all 139 episodes. Many of the card images have not been seen before including those of Jeannie's dark-haired evil sister (also named Jeannie). The packaging features artwork used in the animated opening sequences of the series.

Sony chose to use the colorized episodes from the first season in this DVD set. While the colorization is good I would rather have the more accurate representation of the first year which aired during the 1965-66 season on NBC. I Dream of Jeannie was actually the last series to be aired in black and white on network television.

I Dream of Jeannie the Complete Series DVD Boxed Set

DVD/APPROX. 3128 MINS./1965/US NR

Tis the season for studios and distributors to begin sending us lists of products, hoping I'll craft an article telling all of you what to buy for those hard-to-figure relatives and friends. But there are SO many product lists coming our way this year that I don't think I'm going to be so presumptuous. I will, however, let you know when a boxed set comes along that seems obviously designed for gift giving.

Such is the case with "I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Series," which comes not in conventional packaging but in an elaborately decorated cardboard "bottle" that's a replica of the 1964 Jim Beam decanter that inspired the show's most famous prop. It's designed to be displayed on a countertop, table, or shelf. The kind of cardboard affair you'd see at point-of-purchase displays, it's 11 1/2" tall, 5 1/2" across at the widest spot, and 2 1/2" deep. The bottle has a hollowed-out bottom that holds an accordion-style round expandable file that contains all 139 episodes on 20 discs. A cardboard decorative stopper is included, along with a matching separate box that holds 55 roughly 3x4" full-color trivia cards with photo illustration and trivia snippet on one side and a description of three episodes on the flipside. More on those in the "Extras" section.

Sony released Season 1 in two versions, the original black-and-white and colorized. Purists who desperately want this collectible bottle should know that it contains the color version. Though some Internet rumors have this set including a much-later "return to" TV movie, that's not the case. The content is the same as on all five individual seasons. The discs have new labels on them numbered to 20, but the menu screens and options are the same as on previous releases. Missing, though, is any sort of list of episodes, their airdates, and brief summaries, which were included in all of the previous single-season sets. That's a pretty big oversight, and, some might say, a pretty big price to pay for a cool-looking bottle that pretty much has to be permanently displayed somewhere rather than shelved with your other DVDs.

But don't fret, it's not that big a move. According to http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dream-Jeannie-The-Complete-Series/10467 the set will be released a week later on November 11, 2008.
 
Culver City, Calif. (August 25, 2008) - I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Series, starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman in one of the most beloved sitcoms in television history, comes to DVD in collectible bottle packaging November 4 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This collector's set also includes episode cards with trivia from each season. The 20-disc box set features the romantic magic of all 139 episodes and will be available for $174.95 SRP.

DVD Special Features Include:
Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
Full Screen Presentations
Audio: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Subtitles: Spanish, Portuguese
Closed Captioned
 

Proposed Boxed Set

Thank you to DrBombay and GeekyGuy for submitting this update. I combined both articles into one under the first submitted article by DrBombay. I always do a handstand when someone submits a new article but I was blinking from the chandelier that two people submitted news on the same story!!!