http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/06/bookshelf-the-young-rebels-the-sea-gold-incident/ Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/06/bookshelf-the-young-rebels-the-sea-gold-incident/comment-page-1/#comment-8472 Barry I. Grauman Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:24:11 +0000 http://www.tvobscurities.com/?p=2828#comment-8472 I haven't read this paperback, but this adaptation was certainly more faithful to the original series (even with "Elizabeth" omiited from the story) than Bantam's 1966 paperback version of another Screen Gems/Columbia series, "I DREAM OF JEANNIE". That original novel was credited to "Dennis Brewster", but I suspect he was actually Al Hine, who wrote the "official" adaptation of "BEWITCHED" (blending seven early scripts into a full-length novel) for Dell in February 1965; several of Hine's phrases from the "Bewitched" book {i.e. "whiz kids"} turn up in the "Jeannie" novel. And Sidney Sheldon's name NEVER turned up once on the cover or copyright page [he originally owned the series as well as produced it]- the copyright for the book is in "Brewster's" name. And if you ever read it.....I suspect "Brewster" never saw ONE episode- he used a "precis" of characters involved in the series (as of December 1965), and some publicity material {"Jeannie travels in her familiar smoke swirl", read one NBC publicity release...and that's how she does it in the novel, instead of "blinking" from one place to another, as she did in the series} to write the book. The less said about that "original novel" right now, the better. I haven’t read this paperback, but this adaptation was certainly more faithful to the original series (even with “Elizabeth” omiited from the story) than Bantam’s 1966 paperback version of another Screen Gems/Columbia series, “I DREAM OF JEANNIE”. That original novel was credited to “Dennis Brewster”, but I suspect he was actually Al Hine, who wrote the “official” adaptation of “BEWITCHED” (blending seven early scripts into a full-length novel) for Dell in February 1965; several of Hine’s phrases from the “Bewitched” book {i.e. “whiz kids”} turn up in the “Jeannie” novel. And Sidney Sheldon’s name NEVER turned up once on the cover or copyright page [he originally owned the series as well as produced it]- the copyright for the book is in “Brewster’s” name. And if you ever read it…..I suspect “Brewster” never saw ONE episode- he used a “precis” of characters involved in the series (as of December 1965), and some publicity material {“Jeannie travels in her familiar smoke swirl”, read one NBC publicity release…and that’s how she does it in the novel, instead of “blinking” from one place to another, as she did in the series} to write the book. The less said about that “original novel” right now, the better.

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