TVWI: NBC picked up both I Dream of Jeannie and Dragnet in its daytime schedule

I Dream of Jeannie is a sitcom created by Sidney Sheldon, produced by Screen Gems and aired between September 18, 1965 and May 26, 1970 with reunion TV movies airing between 1985 and 1991.

Dragnet 1967 is a revival of Dragnet ran for 3 1/2 seasons, produced by Mark VII Limited in association with Universal Studios, and aired between January 12, 1967 and April 16, 1970.

In 1969, NBC however want to cancel It Takes Two and You're Putting Me On and wanted to replace It Takes Two with reruns of I Dream of Jeannie and wanted to replace You're Putting Me On with reruns of the 1967 rendition of Dragnet.

Reruns of I Dream of Jeannie and Dragnet premiered on NBC on September 29, 1969, the same day Lohman and Barkley's Name Droppers, Bright Promise, Letters to Laugh-In and Sale of the Century premiered.

Jeannie's daytime repeats on NBC, however facing The Lucy Show reruns on CBS, dominating in the ratings, before being cancelled on July 31, 1970, replacing Jeannie's reruns with Dinah's Place, the talk show vehicle for Dinah Shore.

Dragnet's reruns on NBC became the third show to appear in the 1:30pm timeslot since December 30, 1968 when the network lost Let's Make a Deal to ABC, which placed it in the same slot it had aired in on NBC before canning on December 26, 1969, the same day Letters to Laugh-In ended. The two shows before that was the soap opera Hidden Faces and the Bob Stewart creation You're Putting Me On. The three shows afterwards in the 1:30pm timeslot was Life with Linkletter, Words & Music and Joe Garagiola's Memory Game, before landing on Three on a Match, a Bill Cullen vehicle that was aired from 1971 to 1974.
 
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