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Major Anthony Nelson is a character in I Dream of Jeannie. He was played by Larry Hagman. In the 1985 NBC movie I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later, he was played by Wayne Rogers. Captain Tony Nelson, United States Air Force, is an astronaut and a jet pilot for NASA.
In actuality, the home of Major Nelson (also used as the Anderson house in Father Knows Best, and then the home of Mr. Wilson in Dennis the Menace) was filmed at the Warner Bros. Ranch, in Burbank (on Blondie Street). Many exteriors were filmed at this facility.
He was the only astronaut to fly all major US spacecraft -- the X-15, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Nelson's first flight was Mercury MA-10. The long-duration mission almost ended in tragedy when the capsule landed far off-course on September 18, 1965 on a remote Pacific Island.
I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series 1965–1970) Larry Hagman as Major Anthony Nelson, Captain Anthony Nelson, Rodney Pomfret, Captain Anthony Wilson, Geoffrey Tiffin-Smythe.
Aug 9, 2020 · In these chaotic circumstances, Major Anthony Nelson would lose his calm to a point that was understandable for a man whose life was overtaken by a Jeannie. But sometimes the situations weren't actually all that bad and Tony just needed to take a breather.
Permanent House Guest: Directed by Hal Cooper. With Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Hayden Rorke, Bill Daily. After Doctor Bellows cannot prove that Major Nelson had an elephant in his house, he moves in to catch him in the act.
Tony Nelson is a very unusual astronaut in that he goes into space in a Mercury capsule, a Gemini capsule, an Apollo capsule and in the TV movie follow up in the space shuttle. No real astronaut has ever flown on all four spacecraft.
