Box set: I Dream of Jeannie The Complete Seasons 1-5
I Dream Of Jeannie: Season 1
Sony Pictures (1965)
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/ Black And White / 537 mins
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Plot
I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970) centers on astronaut Tony Nelson who discovers a mysterious bottle that releases a genie named Jeannie. Jeannie is so happy to be free of her prison she promises to serve Capt. Nelson and grant him special favors.Cast
| Barbara Eden | Jeannie/Jeannie II (139 episodes, 1965-1970) | |
| Larry Hagman | Capt. / Maj. Anthony Nelson | |
| Hayden Rorke | Col. Alfred E. Bellows | |
| Bill Daily | Major Roger Healey (130 episodes, 1965-1970) | |
| Barton MacLane | General Peterson (35 episodes, 1965-1969) |
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| Producer | Herb Wallerstein | ||||
| Writer | Sidney Sheldon | ||||
| Cinematography | Fred Jackman Jr. | ||||
| Musician | Will Schaefer |
Episodes
Disc 01
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.Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Jeannie blinks Captain Nelson to ancient Persia, where he avenges Jeannie's honor against Ali, the Killer of Giants. Meanwhile, Jeannie visits her parents and happily announces that she has found the man she wishes to marry, her Master, Captain Anthony Nelson, a man who ""makes his living flying through space.""Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Tony is on a survival mission with Roger when Jeannie seems to have followed him. She then proceeds to help him in every way possible by giving him food, shelter, and finally transportation while Roger suffers in the hot, sweltering desert.Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Frank Waldman / Tom Waldman
General Stone is leaving the U.S. Air Force to accept an ambassadorship overseas. He offers Tony the opportunity to come along and be his Military Attache. General Stone's daughter, Melissa, who is also Tony's fiancee, urges Tony to accept the prestigious position and move up their wedding date.Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Tom Wadman / Frank Wadman
Jeannie joins the WAAF's in hopes of becoming Tony's secretary, but things dont turn out as planned.Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: William Davenport
Onboard a yacht for an important meeting, Tony is followed by Jeannie. With witnesses around Tony argues with Jeannie and tells her to go home. When she does dissappear, they think Tony has killed her (since she cant be found) and put him in jail.Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: David Braverman / Bob Marcus
At Cape Kennedy America's three man astronaut team is preparing to take an historical walk into outerspace. The team consists of Captain Tony Nelson, Captain Roger Healey and Lt. Geroge Conway. Captain Nelson as the head of the team will be the first American to step out into space. However, Dr. Bellows is concerned that Tony has been a bit jumpy and he orders him to appear at the base at 2:00 for some tests. Jeannie overhears of Tony's mission. Jeannie worries about his tether breaking and Tony spinning out into space. So she decides to sabotage Tony's tests, while hiding in Tony's jacket.Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Arnold Horwitt
Jeannie becomes jealous of Tony because he goes out to dinner with a famous movie star. Jeannie then wants to become a moviestar herself to get Tony's attention only she ends up coming to the conclusion that genies dont photograph when she is given a screen test and she is invisible in it.Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Harry Essex / Jerry Seelen
An 8-year-old boy, Custer, idolizes Tony. One day when making an unannounced visit, Custer sees Jeannie's magic at work. The little boy blabs almost immediately. Dr. Bellows learns about this and decides to use him to prove that the recent wierd goings-on with Tony have some explanation. Of course, Jeannie uses her magic to cause even more trouble.Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Irma Kalish / Ausin Kalish
Diane, an old girlfriend of Tony's, comes into town and invites him to pick up where they left off, making Jeannie jealous. Meanwhile, Tony's best friend, Roger Healey, who still doesn't know about Jeannie, ""bumps"" into her on the street and becomes immediately attracted to her, aggressively pursuing her for a date. Jeannie accepts, causing Tony to become worried and a little bit jealous about her very first mystery date. He decides to drag Diane all over town in search of Jeannie and her unidentified escort.Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Bob Fisher / Arthur Alsberg
Roger Healey is in love and is still searching for his missing Dream Girl, Jeannie, complete with an engagement ring in tow. Meanwhile, he and Tony are ordered by their superiors to escort and entertain two Russian cosmonauts who are visiting the Base, one of them being a good-looking female cosmonaut who has an immediate attraction to Tony. In a jealous huff, Jeannie sneaks along on the men's assignment by hiding herself (in her bottle) inside of Roger's overcoat pocket. The female Russian cosmonaut expresses a real interest in the antique bottle and Roger gives it to her as a gift of friendship. Once Tony realizes what has happened, he makes every effort to get Jeannie back, but not before the Russian cosmonaut discovers that she now possesses a genuine genie in a bottle.Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Bob Fisher / Arthur Alsberg
Jeannie continues to bring up the idea of marriage to Tony, who still refuses to marry her. She asks her mother for advice and together they come up with a plan to make Tony jealous: accept Roger Healey's marriage proposal. To make her background look legitimate, Jeannie blinks a fine house onto a vacant lot across the street from Tony's house, along with a set of phony, rich parents.Director: Theidire Flicker
Writer: Bob Fisher / Arthur Alsberg
Jeannie blinks up another Tony that by which is more romantic and worships the ground Jeannie walks on.Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Arnold Horwitt
When it is discovered that it is the day of the ramda, Jeannie says that Tony and her must make a trip to Mecca and cite the sacred words or else Jeannie will lose her powers forever and go into limbo.Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Writer: Tom Adair / James Allardice
Roger finally discovers the truth about Jeannie and takes control of the bottle without Tony's permission. He then uses Jeannie for his own greedy purposes.Director: E.W. Swackhamer / William Davenport
Writer: Sidney Sheldon / Teleplay by Sidney Sheldon
Roger has run Jeannie ragged with his whims. But angering Tony (because he exhauses Jeannie) is the least of his concerns. Seems one night he's kept Dr. Bellows' niece out on a hot date until the wee morning hours, making his superior officer really upset.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Charles Tannen
Tony has to go on a three-week trip to Rome (which involves an ocean cruise to Europe) for business. Jeannie begs her master to let her come along, but Tony knows she'll only be in the way and orders her to stay home. Jeannie (certain that not only will danger befall Tony, but he'll meet and marry a beautiful woman he meets on the cruise) tries every trick to change Tony's plans. When the captain catches on (rather quickly, mind you), he decides to let her come along ... under the following condition: That she can come in her human form only if she can legally obtain a passport without using her magic. Of course, she can't get the needed passport, but doesn't find this out until she nearly gets another woman in serious trouble.Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Martin Ragaway
When Tony mentions to Jeannie that his childhood dream was to become a surgeon, she blinks him right into the operating room where Roger is to have his appendix removed. Dr. Bellows notices that the ""new"" doctor (which he suspects is Tony) is somewhat strange, and eventually summons General Peterson to the operating room to bring up charges on Tony for medical inpersonation. However, as always, things do not turn out the way Dr. Bellows thought they would, as Jeannie blinked Tony from the operating room and replaced him with a doctor from ancient Carthage. Dr. Bellows is left to ponder how this happened to him... again.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Tony, frustrated over Jeannie's constant use of magic to help around the house, makes her swear not to help him out anymore under any circumstances. Jeannie agrees, but it's bad timing. Seconds later, Red Chinese spies visit the Nelson home asking for Tony. They kidnap him at gunpoint, and if Jeannie uses her gifts to rescue Tony, she'll lose him as a master. Tony, meanwhile, is being held at shacks along the shoreline, where the criminals aim to make him reveal classified secrets through torture. A beautiful Chinese woman is also in on the scheme Jeannie manages to spy on the spies, reporting back to Roger (who in turn, reports to Dr. Bellows, who reports to Gen. Peterson). After several back-and-forths, Jeannie finally learns that the spies intend to kill Tony by making him drink poisoned tea. Roger convinces Jeannie to temporarily let him be his master, so she can skirt the rules and rescue Tony in time.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Following Tony and Roger's promotion to major, the general sends them to Reno, Nevada to relax a few days before going to a base there. Meanwhile, all thats on Roger's mind is gambling in the casinos. Although Tony says Jeannie can't go, Roger's greed gets the better of him and he sneaks Jeannie into his bag in hopes of increasing his odds in the casino.Director: Claudio Guzman
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Tony goes to drop off a few papers to General Peterson when he gives a try at a few swings of golf. He of course is horrible and cant even hit the ball, but at a second try Jeannie makes him hit it farther than most pro's. The General then realizes Tony's ""potential"" and makes him his partner in a championship game against 2 guys of the Navy. He refuses Jeannie's help at first, but later on in the match he realizes he cant do it by himself and Jeannie comes to the rescue.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
When Dr. Bellows makes a stop at Tony's house, he sees an elephant in Tony's bedroom. He then calls General Peterson and when they both go over there they see nothing and of course Bellows is made a fool yet again. Realizing this, the ever suspicious Dr. Bellows moves in with Tony in hopes of actually catching him in the act.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Tony is skeptical about a fortune teller roger has been seeing in the apartment next to his and goes to investigate. Once he thinks he has the fortune teller figured out, he goes to a sayance where 2 people from the neighborhood join in and as a surprise Dr. Bellows as well. Jeannie then shows up and is creating all the effects the phony teller is doing and in the end the fortune teller even begins to believe her own hype. This then leads Tony to believe she is really a phony and the others as well.Director: Claudio Guzman
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
For NASA charity auction, Tony paints a copy of Rembrandt's famous 1658 self portrait. He uses his own signature to denote it was a copy and not the authentic article. Jeannie sees her master's work and decides he's quite a painter. Unbenownst to Tony, however, she blinks the original article (that was hanging in the Louvre in Paris) in place of the faux painting. Two art experts buy the painting for $300,000, and that's where the real problems start. Seems they're suspicious about the painting Tony had donated, since the Rembrant self-portrait bears quite a resemblance to the real thing! Of course, Tony is unable to explain what he believes happened, and Dr. Bellows gives him 24 hours to come up with a plausable explanation or face felony theft, forgery and grand larceny charges. While Dr. Bellows invites a world-renowned art expert to inspect the Rembrant painting, Tony demands that Jeannie fix the mess her mischief got him into. Jeannie decides to pose as the elderly art expert, whoDirector: Claudio Guzman
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
While on a trip to the museum, Jeannie spots a pair of antique slippers that she believes belonged to her over 2000 years past. She blinks them out of the glass case and on to her feet and Tony is left in trouble.Director: Sidney Sheldon / Robert Kaufman
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
When its discovered a princess is coming to Cocoa Beach to visit NASA, Tony is chosen to escort her for 3 days. At the same time, Jeannie sees a picture of her and realizes that she is from a royal family that once cheated her family 3000 years past and Jeannie has taken an oath to kill her. Tony; trying to save the princess from harm; sends Jeannie on a quest (that will ultimately take her 3 days to complete)to get him various things that take even a genie quite a bit of time to accomplish. This plan unfortunately does not work and Jeannie shows up ahead of schedule and meets with the princess. In the end, things work out good because Jeannie and the princess have agreed the feud was childish and thus they dropped the whole thing.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
When Dr. Bellows spots Tony floating in his chair in his living room, he has no choice but to explain it by saying he is an amateur magician and that was one of his tricks. Dr. Bellows then insists that Tony put on a magic show at NASA to prove his claim.Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Tony suffers amnesia from a vase falling on his head, and, seeing Jeannie, instantly falls in love with her. He declares his love and insists they get married. Jeannie, confused but excited, is ready to go through with it, despite Roger's objections. Jeannie prepares for her wedding, only to be diappointed in the end...Director: Hal Cooper
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
Edition Details
| Series | I Dream of Jeannie |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Screen Ratio | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Layers | Single Side, Dual Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 1 |
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