Briscoliciousness Alert!

[ClaudeNorth]

Just wanted to let all the Don Briscoe fans know that this weekend on TV Land, his episode of I DREAM OF JEANNIE will be airing twice.  The times are as follows:

6/28, 2:30 PM

6/29, 2:00 PM

The Briscolicious makes but a brief appearance, but he does wear a uniform and, IIRC, sports quite the tan.

Enjoy!!!

John

[Gothick]

Thanks for this alert, John.  I will be out of town (and far away from any television) but will try and get one of my housemates (who is a huge Jeannie fan) to tape it for me.  I have always wanted to see this.

Do you buy any chance have that shower commercial with our Don soaping up?  Just the thought of it makes my glasses get steamy.

Steve

[ClaudeNorth]

Sadly, I do not have a copy of the soapy Don commercial, nor do I have one of the cigarette commercial featuring him in a bathing suit on the beach.

These would make great extras for a DS DVD release!  MPI, are you listening?

John

[jennifer]

Why thank you John will set my vcr!

jennifer

[Julia99]

Sadly, I do not have a copy of the soapy Don commercial, nor do I have one of the cigarette commercial featuring him in a bathing suit on the beach.

These would make great extras for a DS DVD release!  MPI, are you listening?

John

OH my God! Really!  ::drooling:  How cool!  Yes that commercial and Grayson's Playtex one. . .I remembered it after Gothic told me the set up. .the white lab coat (ala Dr H), clipboard. . .I actually contacted Playtex but go "nooooo" response. louses.  They did have a whathisname's (Adam) commercial in L.A.  It was quite humorous as was his 'sexpot' movie they showed . . soft porn at the DS FEST! whoa!

[Gothick]

John, I surely do wish MPI would add features like commercials our favorite stars did back in the day, but I don't think they feel the need to bother, when they can just set a camera up in front of Dan Curtis and get 10 minutes of the Great One enlightening the world about his own extraordinary genius.  In the words of the immortal Lucy van Pelt, ::bleah::  Still, thanks for the note about the ciggie commercial.  I hadn't heard of that one before. Have you heard the rumors about DB's Colt magazine layout? ::salivates::

And Julia, perhaps the Rodan film finally revealed the true reason why Eliot was so interested in Adam! Everybody chant together:  big hands, big feet ...

sorry to be so disgusting. It's the weather.

G.

[sheenasma]

Do you buy any chance have that shower commercial with our Don soaping up?  Just the thought of it makes my glasses get steamy.

Steve

Down, boy.

Nancy

[ClaudeNorth]

Have you heard the rumors about DB's Colt magazine layout? ::salivates::

ARE YOU SERIOUS??  Or is this just wishful thinking on your part? 

[jennifer]

John, I surely do wish MPI would add features like commercials our favorite stars did back in the day, but I don't think they feel the need to bother, when they can just set a camera up in front of Dan Curtis and get 10 minutes of the Great One enlightening the world about his own extraordinary genius.  In the words of the immortal Lucy van Pelt, ::bleah::  Still, thanks for the note about the ciggie commercial.  I hadn't heard of that one before.p

i'd buy them then what a great idea!

Have you heard the rumors about DB's Colt magazine layout? ::salivates::

really

And Julia, perhaps the Rodan film finally revealed the true reason why Eliot was so interested in Adam! Everybody chant together:  big hands, big feet ...

sorry to be so disgusting. It's the weather.

G.

now i'm spitting my water all over my keyboard (ala rainey) LOL
the weather my ....!

you are too funny Steve!

jennifer

[Gothick]

Hi John!  I just double-checked the timing for the Jeannie/Briscoe broadcast (try saying THAT phrase three times fast).  Hope I can catch it.  I am away in Canada from tonight through next Thurs. so will have to have one of my housemates take care of getting a tape into the VCR at the right time--I'll pre-program, of course.

Oh, haven't I mentioned the story about Don Briscoe's Colt magazine layout?  I was told about this years ago from a fan who knew Keith Prentice and some other people from the old days.  I always wanted to go to that shop in NYC, Hidden Treasures or Gay Treasures or something like that, that sells old magazines of a certain stripe (!) to see if I could peruse some issues from the mid to late Sixties.  I know that DB didn't get much work between 1966 and 1968 so it's very possible that he supplemented his income with modeling work, as needed.  There is a collection of materials of this kind at Cornell University--I've always wanted to visit there (Grayson always said that she did some courses there, and reportedly gave acting seminars there in the Seventies).  It would be fun to try and track down DB's Colt layout.

Keep cool, despite the steamy temps *and* subject matter!

Gothick

[Gothick]

Well, yesterday I finally got to watch the tape of Don's appearance on Jeannie.  Was this 1966?  I'm thinking that was the year.

In the version of the episode that appeared on TV Guide, Don appeared only in one scene, as one of three air force officers interested in courting new "secretary" Jeannie Jeannie.

Don did have a couple of lines, but appeared in long shot throughout, and most of the time, his back was to the camera.  There was a nice moment as he was exiting where he flashed the Larry Hagman character one of his gorgeous smiles (we didn't get to see those very often on DS--I remember one he pulled on a fade-out in a scene with Grayson, where I always think she was sticking out her tongue at him, or making one of her outrageous faces).

Thanks again to John for alerting us to this.  It was great to finally get to see it.  I had missed several previous broadcasts.

G.