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I Dream of Jeannie Cast Barbara Eden as Jeannie
Larry
Hagman as Capt./Major Anthony Nelson
Bill Daily as Capt./Major Roger Healey
Hayden Rorke as Col. Alfred E. Bellows, M.D.
Emmaline Henry as
Amanda Bellows (1966-1970)
Vinton Haworth as General Winfield Schaeffer
(1969-1970)
Barton MacLane as General Martin Peterson (1965-1969)
Philip Ober as Gen. Wingard Stone (1965-1966)
Jeannie's dog - Gin-Gin
(also a genie)
I Dream of Jeannie Theme Song "I Dream of Jeannie" by Hugo
Montenegro, Buddy Kaye and Richard Weis
I Dream of Jeannie Tidbits Air Force Captain Anthony Nelson
(Larry Hagman) is stranded on the proverbial desert island in the South Pacific
after crash landing in his NASA spacecraft. What does he find on the beach? A
bottle with a genie in it! The genie, he calls, what else, Jeannie, tells him
that he is now her "master." Whereupon she promptly produces a rescue
helicopter for him. Okay, it's sexist and times have mercifully changed, but
this is TV in the Sixties.
Now Tony is the only man ever born who would
turn down a beautiful Barbara Eden clad in a harem outfit. But realizing how
difficult this would be, he frees her. However, Jeannie had other ideas and
sneaks back to Cocoa Beach, Florida with Tony.
Once Tony accepted
Jeannie's presence, he made her vow not to do magic or use her powers. (Yes,
just like Bewitched.) She tried to comply, but she
was always blinking Tony into and out of trouble.
Eventually, Tony's
friend Captain Roger Healey (Bill Daily) figures out about Jeannie. Courtesy of
Jeannie's blinking, Tony's and Roger's behavior is sometimes erratic, which
attracts the attention of the base shrink, Col. Alfred E. Bellows (Hayden
Rorke).
Although Tony was engaged in the first season to General Stone's
daughter, Melissa, Jeannie made quick work of her and she was gone. During the
first seasons, it is implied that Jeannie and Tony are just friends. Not that
there wasn't plenty of sexual tension! We all knew that Jeannie loved him and
on December 2,1969, she got her man. Tony and Jeannie got married in the
episode "The Wedding."
Jeannie had a twin sister, Jeannie II (also
Barbara Eden), who was the opposite of our Jeannie in that she had been married
47 times and was looking at Tony with very eager eyes. Jeannie II is always
trying to interfere with the relationship so she can make Tony
#48!
There were TV Movie sequels. "I Dream of Jeannie:15 Years Later" on
October 20, 1985 with Wayne Rogers as Tony (Larry Hagman was now J.R. Ewing)
and then "I Still Dream of Jeannie" on October 20 1991.
Passings Emmaline Henry died in 1979 of brain disease, and
Hayden Rorke died in 1987.
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I Dream of Jeannie Trivia
Barbara Eden's navel |
| You never saw Barbara Eden's navel in the original "I Dream
of Jeannie." Why? The network banned it. However, by "I Dream of Jeannie: 15
Years Later" standards had changed and now those waist high harem pants no
longer had to hide Jeannie's navel! |
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I Dream of Jeannie Trivia
Michael Ansara |
Barbara Eden's (then) real life husband, Michael Ansara, made
three appearances on I Dream of Jeannie. (Eden and Ansara were divorced in
1974.)
Happy Anniversary" 9/12/1966
as Blue Djinn
"Battle of
Waikiki" 1/2/1968
as King Kamehameha
My Sister the Home Wrecker"
12/9/1969 as Biff Jellico |
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I Dream of Jeannie Trivia
Jeannie's History |
| Jeannie was born in Bagdad, Iraq on April 1, 64 B.C. When she
was old enough, Blue Djinn, the most powerful of the genies, wanted to marry
her, but Jeannie rejected him. To punish her for the insult, he turned her into
a genie and confined her in a bottle which he put on an uninhabited island so
she would be lonely forever. |
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