Jeannie, the Hip Hippie
- Episode aired Oct 17, 1967
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
258
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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
Phil Spector, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
"Jeannie the Hip Hippie" has Dr. Bellows fearing he may have to cancel his long-awaited vacation because 'The Rolling Waves' were mobbed in Indiana, leaving Mrs. Bellows scrambling to find a band to replace them for her bazaar. Since Tony's vacation is also in danger, Jeannie blinks up four young men to form a group, headed by hit singing-songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, just starting out as performers since producing some of The Monkees' most successful songs. The clincher has Barbara Eden doing a decent job on drums for an audition for none other than Phil Spector! Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, and Colgems Records certainly weren't shy about promoting their artists, and among many references we see are shots of record LPs THE MONKEES (in Hart's hand), THE MONKEES' HEADQUARTERS (behind Hart on the wall), MORE OF THE MONKEES (held by Mrs. Bellows), and hanging on the wall in Spector's office (behind Barbara Eden) we see the 1965 Colpix LP from David Jones, pre-Monkees. Introduced with an instrumental version of "Last Train to Clarksville," Boyce and Hart perform two songs from their first LP, TEST PATTERNS: first, "Girl, I'm Out to Get You," which was not issued as a single, and "Out and About," which became their first top 40 hit, peaking at 39 two months before this broadcast. The duo scored their biggest success the next year with "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite," going on to add BEWITCHED and THE FLYING NUN to their list of TV credits.
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