What’s wrong with Jeannie’s bottle in this photo?

They couldn't find a taller, less dangerous ladder for Barbara to use?

This thread is peak DL

OP, it's just a poor photo. Look at Jeannie's clothes, they look dirty as well. Poor color filtering.

She decorated her home the same way.

Why does it need a ladder to get into? Couldn’t they just have built it on the floor?

color photos fade OP- just like your powers of deduction

R5, I wondered that too.

It's how the light is hitting the velvet fabric and the type of photo.

How do you not know this? Step away from your anime and look at real things.

Or they could have built a staircase for it.

I’m with OP. It looks like an intentional mess of the space and her clothes. Must have been a plot-line about something getting into the bottle.

And the set is raised because they are going to film it in motion.

Can I get in there too?

Looks like powder or dust. Maybe for the cocaine plot line?

Where did Jeannie go to the bathroom? Did she not cook? No books or something to pass the time?

Thinking back, I never realized how damned misogynistic this show was. Would never get made today.

Yet no one is biting. Someone is trying to tell me that it is just a trick of the light on the velour, but I disagree. It looks like it has been made up to look abandoned.

It's a photo that is over 50 years old, so it's obviously quite faded.

Nah, I think it’s a story on the show or one of the movies. I’ll see if I can browse the episodes one by one. I figured someone here might be a big IDOJ fan.

OP is obsessed.

OP is blind and crazy.

You mean it's not a real bottle?

It is built off the floor so the bottle can be easily tilted when it is needed for a scene. It happened several times in the series.

She was often reading in there, R14.

And drinking with visitors.

And vacuuming the dirt. Maybe OP is right and it WAS dirty for an episode.

Her son was so fine.

Was she born in 1931 or 1934?

I think the interior is littered with sand.

And the contraption the bottle is on is for shooting a scene when someone has picked up the bottle and then carries it around.

I recall scenes of Jeannie jostling about amidst purple pillows.

I wish I had a cylindrical room in my house. I would spare no expense to turn it into Jeannie’s bottle.

Actually guys, that us Nancy Brees, Barbara Eden's stunt double for the episode "Sputnik Spitroast" were Master brings home a couple of horny Cosmonauts. Barbara's contract prohibits jizz of any nationality.

Its all so slap together. The ladder! sheesh. They never get away with that now.

Just looked up to check the age of Barbara Eden. Wow! She is now 87, born August 23, 1931.

Why didn't the set carpenters build a ramp or staircase for easier access?

Wasn't there an episode where there was a bunch of dust inside the bottle? Maybe something about her not having been in it for so long?

Her son really looks a lot like his late father. I always felt sorry for Michael Ansara. A Lebanese man relegated to riding around on horses with a bow & arrow and feathers stuck in his head for much of his career.

[quote]Why didn't the set carpenters build a ramp or staircase for easier access?

Because she was a thirty something capable woman, not the fucking Queen Of England. She's 87, she survived a ladder climb!

R33, but she was also the star of the show. It’s hard to imagine producers expecting a TV star to climb a ladder nowadays.

Why did Barbara and Michael divorce? Was it him or her?

I understand that she allegedly entertains elderly Japanese businessmen for income...hope that it’s not true.

[QUOTE] It’s hard to imagine producers expecting a TV star to climb a ladder nowadays.

People didn’t lawyer up as much. It was a great gig, really the role of a lifetime that she still gets to benefit from. It was probably all part of the fun of being on the show.

What are the details with Barbara making her income entertaining multiple Japanese men? I'd never heard that it was fact.

Maybe Babs Eden trashed the place one weekend, and the pic is from when they came in one Monday and found she’d holed up in there with a case of Ouzo.

They might not be helping her UP the ladder, but down it.

[quote]I understand that she allegedly entertains elderly Japanese businessmen for income...hope that it’s not true.

Barbara is 87, she ain't entertaining Japanese anything.

Hilarious, R38.

“I understand that she allegedly entertains elderly Japanese businessmen for income...hope that it’s not true.”

Such are the indiscretions of youth.

Not true.

She actually works the autograph circuit and is one of the most popular and successful today. If you go to meet her, be prepared to wait in line.

Are there that many elderly Japanese businessmen less elderly than she is?

Japan's a good market for eldertrade, with a quarter of the population being over 70.