I Dream of Jeannie, 50 Years Later!
By, Gina Meyers
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Astronaut Tony Nelson is stranded on a desert island in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean . With his space
mission aborted, he is forced to make the decision to parachute. He writes a
large S.O.S. sign in the hopes of being rescued. While waiting for the rescue
team to arrive, an old bottle rolls itself so Tony can see it. He decides to
open the bottle, and instantly out pops a beautiful, extremely youthful looking
2,000 year old Genie, who doesn’t speak a bit of English. She immediately
accepts Tony as her master and instantly learns to speak the English language,
viola.
Jeannie worships
Tony. To Tony it looked as if Jeannie looked at him as just her Master. Someone
to tell her what to do. To Jeannie, she felt love for Tony from the start and
worked her own special brand of magic on him, until he finally realized instead
of hiding Jeannie in her bottle, that he should embrace her beauty, love,
compassion, joy, and spirit. The only person besides Tony that knew about
Jeannie was Roger Healey, fellow Astronaut and Tony’s best friend. Roger was a
bit of a cad in that he liked a lot of women, however, he often encouraged Tony
to allow Jeannie to help assist them in innumerable messes that often occur in
life. Tony did notice that Roger fancied Jeannie and took note of it, but
didn’t act on his attraction for Jeannie until close to the last season of the
show. Jeannie was from a foreign land, after all, she was a Genie. She spoke a
different language and had different customs. She yearned to learn the American
way, and was completely mesmerized by anything Tony was a part of. She often
would pop herself to Cape Canaveral to watch
him on his space missions. Jeannie, in the first season was extremely jealous
of Tony’s girlfriend, which was basically a political move on Tony’s part,
becoming engaged to his bosses daughter.
Jeannie wasn’t concerned about making any huge political
statements or for standing out. Her loyalty and her passion was to get Tony to
fall in love with her. With this single minded approach, Jeannie was successful
in her campaign to prove to her beloved that persistence pays, at least on a
television series. The marriage of Jeannie and Tony was a huge Neilson rating
success!
I Dream of Jeannie was first telecast on September 18, 1965
and was a NBC production which lasted for five years, until September the 1,
1970. Jeannie was played by Barbara Eden, Captain Anthony (Tony) Nelson was
played by Larry Hagman. Other cast members included psychiatrist Dr. Alfred
Bellows, played by Hayden Rorke, and Captain Roger Healey, Tony’s best friend
played by Bill Daily.
THE CAST OF I Dream of Jeannie
ROLE PLAYED BY
Jeannie (Nelson) Barbara
Eden
Captain Tony Nelson Larry
Hagman
Jeannie Nelson Barbara
Eden
Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson Larry
Hagman
Captain Roger Healey Bill
Daily
Doctor Alfred Bellows Hayden
Rorke
General Wingard Stone Philip Ober (19651966)
Melissa Stone Karen Sharpe (1965-1966)
General Martin Peterson Barton MacLane (1965-1969)
Amanda Bellows Emmaline Henry
General Winfield Schaeffer Vinton Hayworth (1969-1970)
Guest Stars:
Leutant Pete Conway Don Dubbins
Garbage Man #1 Richard
Reeves
Garbage Man #2 Joe
Higgins
Wife Patricia
Scott
Commander Baynes
Barron
Husband Warren
Kemmerling
When the rocket launch for a space mission goes awry, its
astronaut, Captain Anthony Nelson, finds himself stranded on a desert island.
There, he finds a beautiful antique bottle lying there on the sand. When Tony
opens the bottle, he is shocked to find a beautiful, 2,000-year-old genie named
Jeannie, who is now calling him her new Master and willing to grant him
anything he wishes.
The Cast of I Dream of Jeannie
Writer of I Dream of Jeannie Sidney Sheldon
Directed by: Gene Nelson
Writer: Sidney
Sheldon
101 Things to Know about I
Dream of Jeannie
1. A professor was brought to the set from UCLA to tutor
Barbara Eden in the foreign language of Farsi.
2. The foreign language professor who tutored Barbara Eden
was utilized for Barbara’s first scenes on the island where Jeannie and the
bottle were located by Anthony.
3. The writer and creator of I Dream of Jeannie was Sidney Sheldon.
4. Jeannie’s harem costume was lined with silk so viewers
would not be unable to see her legs through the thin fabric.
5. Like Elizabeth Montgomery who starred as Samantha
Stephens on Bewitched, Barbara Eden also known as Jeannie (Nelson), found out
she was pregnant when NBC bought the pilot episode.
6. (Barbara Eden) Jeannie was not allowed to show her belly
button throughout the entire duration of I Dream of Jeannie.
7. Barbara Eden in real life has a pet dog by the name of
Djinn.
8. Jeannie had a twin sister by the name of Jeannie that was
Barbara Eden wearing a long dark brown wig.
9. Jeannie II often wore a blue genie outfit to
differentiate between good genie/ Jeannie I and naughty genie/Jeannie II.
10. NBC aired episode #
, “The Lady In the Bottle” only once. Viewers didn’t have an opportunity
to view it again until the episode appeared in syndication.
11. Syndication occurred for local American television
stations in the Fall of 1970.
12. It is revealed that Jeannie was transformed into a genie
by the powerful Blue Djinn.
13. Origins for Jeannie II’s powers are unknown or weren’t
revealed during I Dream of Jeannie.
14. Sidney Sheldon, in the summer of 1964, dreamed up the
concept which later became known as I Dream of Jeannie.
15. Roger Healey, was Tony Nelson’s best friend, fellow
astronaut, and only confident concerning knowing of Jeannie’s existence.
