I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is a fantasy American comedytelevision series. The series was originally aired on NBC from september 1965 to may 1970 with a total of 139 episodes.The first 30 episodes were in black and white, the rest in color.

The title is a pun on Genie (a Jinn - spirit in the bottle). The series revolves around a female Jinn who has to fulfill the wishes of her master.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == In the pilot episode ends up astronaut Captain Tony Nelson of the u.s. Air Force on a desert island after his space capsule is different from the planned route. It finds here a strange bottle. When he opens the bottle, comes a female djinn (spirit) named Jeannie from. Tony is shocked at first, but soon realizes that he can do with this advantage are Jinn. Initially he may not understand her, until he calls they speak English. He also wishes to be saved from the island.
 * 2 Cast
 * 2.1 Fixed characters
 * 2.2 Characters
 * 2.3 guest appearances
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 origin of Jeannie
 * 3.3 Story lines
 * 3.4 Music
 * 4 spin-offs
 * 5 external link

Jeannie, trapped 2000 years has been sitting in the bottle, is in love with Tony. She makes sure that he is with his girlfriend, the daughter of a general, and then try him for her win. Tony keeps Jeannie initially, as much as possible in her bottle, but finally admitted that she gets a life for themselves. However, her life revolves mainly to him. Her crush combined with the fact that Tony is her master, making sure they are trying to keep Tony always satisfied. They indiscriminately use her magic, which leads to many unexpected situations in which Tony often great difficulty need to do to keep Jeannie's existence hidden. Tony draws especially the attention of the psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows, which time and time again trying to prove that Tony hiding something.

Later in the series Tony's colleague Roger Healey discovered the existence of Jeannie, and tries to use her powers a few times for his own purposes. Despite this, he respects Tony's status as Jeannie's master.

In the third season shows Jeannie a sister (also named Jeannie), Tony tries to win for itself a few times. At the beginning of the fifth season is Jeannie by her uncle Sully called to be Queen of the land of her familie'Basenji. This wants Tony marries Jeannie so as to uphold the honour of Basenji. He would also like to that Tony the Ambassador of a hostile country, Kasja, thereby killing. Tony refuses to kill someone and want to first know nothing of a marriage, but then realizes how much he Jeannie is going to keep. The two marry and Tony is finally ready to propose to anyone Jeannie. Just the fact that she has magical powers remains a secret between them. ==Cast[ Edit] == ===Fixed characters[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Guest Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The show was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in response to the great success of the Bewitchedseries, which debuted in 1964. Sheldon ordered the series inspired by the movie The Brass Bottle, starringTony Randall, Barbara Eden, and Burl Ives. Both I Dream of Jeannie as Bewitched were Screen Gems productions.
 * Jeannie — Barbara Eden
 * Captain/Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson — Larry Hagman
 * Captain/Major Roger Healey — Bill Daily
 * Dr. Alfred Bellows — Hayden Rorke
 * Amanda Bellows (Dr. Bellows ' wife) (1966-1970) — Emmaline Henry
 * Gen. Wingard Stone (1965)- Philip Ober
 * Gen. Martin Peterson (1965 – 1969) — Barton MacLane
 * Gen. Winfield Schaeffer (1969–1970) — Vinton Hayworth
 * Jeannie's sister — Barbara Eden
 * Jeannie's mother — Barbara Eden (fourth season)
 * Haji- Abraham Sofaer

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When casting started, could find that the role of Jeannie Sheldon no actress could play the way he had in mind. He had in any case intended to take no blonde actress, because the character than too much would look like the blonde witch from Bewitched. After many failed auditions he contacted with Barbara Eden's agent.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The costume for Jeannie was created by costume designer Gwen Wakeling. The producers were told that Jeannie's navel never visible in connection herewith, and that had to be made clear that Jeannie in her bottle slept because they lived with an unmarried man. During the first 11 episodes was pregnant, so she wore Eden Barbera veils to hide her belly. Furthermore, as much as possible, only her upper body shown in the scenes.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When NBC in 1965 began its most programs to broadcast in color, I Dream of Jeannie was one of the few shows that remained in black and white. Because of the special photographic effects that were used to Jeannie's magic show. When the second season began, however, was the technique enough improved to the Visual effects also in color filming.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jeannie's bottle was not created specifically for the show. The bottle was created by Roy Kramer for the Wheaton Bottle Company. How many different bottles used in the series there are no one knows, but it is estimated six to eight.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sidney Sheldon was not going to let Tony and Jeannie to ever marry. NBC threatened to discontinue the series after four seasons, however, as this did not happen, despite protests of Sheldon and the cast. Therefore the marriage place in season five. In spite of this, the series was discontinued after season five anyway. ===Origin of Jeannie<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The origin of Jeannie was adjusted a few times in the series. In the first season was told that she ever was a man, but in a Jinni was changed by the blue Djinn when she refused to marry him. In the second season, this origin also held.

<p lang="en" len="131" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Later in the series, especially when Jeannie's family members began to do their entrance, it was mentioned that Jeannie as Jinn is born. ===Story Lines<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series contained some long story lines of several episodes, often as part of a contest. For example, during the second season, a double episode aired that turned to Jeannie's birthday. At the end of the first episode became the viewers asked if they could guess Jeannie's birthday. In the episode followed the correct answer on it. In the third season, a story of four episodes aired, in which Jeannie bottle accidentally in a vault and the viewers were allowed to try to guess what the number combination was. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title song of the first season was an instrumental jazz song written by Richard Wess. In the second season it was replaced by a song entitled "Jeannie", composed by Hugo Montenegro with lyrics by Buddy Kaye.

<p lang="en" len="180" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The third and fourth season of the series contain an instrumental composed by Hugo Montenegro, which especially if background music was used during outdoor scenes. ==Spin-offs<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Hanna-Barbera Productions from september 1973 to 1975 produced an animated series entitled Jeannie. Provides Jeannie under to another Jinn, Babu.
 * There were two reunion movies made about the series. I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later (1985) and I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991). Hagman did not want to take part in the first film, so was the role of Tony played by Wayne Rogers.
 * Rumors that a feature film based on the series will come arise for years round in Hollywood. Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Amanda Bynes, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Paris Hilton, Keira Knightley, Valeria Mazza,Parminder Nagra, Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Elfman, Lindsay Lohan, and Lisa Kudrow are all designated as possible actress to the role of Jeannie a movie.
 * References to the series are in numerous films and television series can be found.