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September 18, 1965
- On September 18, 1965, a genie named Jeannie emerged from a wisp of smoke and landed into Captain Anthony Nelson's heart.
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- Barbara Eden still gets asked about her belly button. Nearly six decades after blinking her way to TV stardom, Barbara Eden looks back on her Jeannie days with great fondness.
- Eden was pregnant in the first 10 episodes. With the exception of the 1965 pilot, “The Lady in the Bottle,” Jeannie was covered up for the first 10 episodes of the series.
- There wasn't a theme song until season 2. The jaunty riff that will always be synonymous with I Dream of Jeannie (you're humming it now, aren't you?) didn’t first appear until the series’ second season, along with new in-color animated opening credits.
- Getting into the bottle required a lot of muscle. Although Jeannie made getting into her bottle look like magic, in reality, it required a bit of strength.
- Show History
- Cast
- Multi-Part Story Arcs
- Setting
- Factual Errors
- Theme Music
- Opening Sequence
- The Bottle
- Jeannie's Origin
- In Popular Culture
Original Run
The series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in response to the great success of rival network ABC's Bewitched series, which had debuted in 1964 as the second most watched program in the United States. Sheldon, inspired by the movie The Brass Bottle, which had starred Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, and Burl Ives as the jinn Fakrash, conceived of the idea for a beautiful female genie. Both I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched were Screen Gemsproductions. The show debuted at 8 pm, Saturday, 1...
Nielsen Ratings
1. Season 1 (1965–66): #27 (tie/21.8) 2. Season 2 (1966–67): Not in the Top 30 3. Season 3 (1967–68): Not in the Top 30 4. Season 4 (1968–69): #26 (20.7) 5. Season 5 (1969–70): Not in the Top 30
Syndication
When reruns debuted on New York's WPIX, Jeannie won its time period with a 13 rating and a 23 share of the audience. The series averaged a 14 share and 32 share of the audience when WTTG in Washington, D.C. began airing the series. It was the first off-network series to best network competition in the ratings: "The big switch no doubt representing the first time in rating history that indies (local stations) have knocked over the network stations in a primetime slot was promoted by WPIX's pre...
Main Characters
1. Barbara Eden as Jeannie 2. Larry Hagman as Captain/Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson 3. Bill Daily as Captain/Major Roger Healey 4. Hayden Rorke as Colonel Dr. Alfred Bellows
Recurring Characters
1. Emmaline Henry as Amanda Bellows(Seasons 2-5) 2. Philip Ober as Brig. Gen. Wingard Stone(episodes 1 and 4) 3. Barton MacLane as Major Gen. Martin Peterson(Seasons 1-4) 4. Vinton Hayworth as Major Gen. Winfield Schaeffer(Seasons 4-5) 5. Barbara Eden as Jeannie II, Jeannie's sister (Seasons 3-5) 6. Barbara Eden as Jeannie's mother(Season 4) 7. Florence Sundstrom as Jeannie's mother (Season 1: "My Hero?") 8. Lurene Tuttle as Jeannie's mother (Season 1: "What House Across the Street?") 9. Henr...
On several occasions, multi-part story arcs were created to serve as backgrounds for national contests. During the second season, in a story that is the focus of a two-part episode and a peripheral plot of two further episodes (the "Guess Jeannie's Birthday" contest began with the opening two-part episode on 14 November 1966, concluding with the na...
Although the series was set in and around Cape Kennedy, Florida, and Nelson lived at 1020 Palm Drive in nearby Cocoa Beach, locales in California were used in place of those in Florida. The exterior of the building where he and Healey had offices was actually the main building at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, north of...
NASA astronauts did not live in Florida at the time of the series. Since 1962, they lived and trained at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center) in Houston. Many of the exterior shots of Tony's home or other areas show mountains or hills in the background. The actual respective terrains of Florida and southeast Texas – whe...
The first season theme music was an instrumental jazz waltz written by Richard Wess. Eventually, Sidney Sheldon became dissatisfied with Wess' theme and musical score.Template:Citation needed From the second season on, it was replaced by a new theme entitled "Jeannie", composed by Hugo Montenegro with lyrics by Buddy Kaye. Episode 20 and 25 used a ...
The first few episodes after the pilot (episodes two through eight) used a non-animated, expository opening narrated by Paul Frees; the narration mentions that Nelson lived in "a mythical town" named Cocoa Beach in "a mythical state called Florida". The remaining episodes of that first season featured an animated sequence that was redone and expand...
Jeannie's famous bottle was not created for the show. The actual bottle was a special Christmas 1964 Jim Beamliquor decanter containing "Beam's Choice" bourbon whiskey. It was designed by Roy Krame...For years, it was said that Sidney Sheldon received one as a gift and thought it would be a perfect design for the series. Several people in the Screen Gems art department also take credit for find...Jeannie's bottle was left in its original dark, smoke-green color, with a painted gold leaf pattern (to make it look like an antique), during the first season. The plot description of the pilot epi...The first season bottle had a clear glass stopper that Tony took from a 1956 Old Grand-Dad Bourbon bottle in his home, as the original stopper was left behind on the beach where Tony found Jeannie....In the first season, it is made clear that Jeannie was originally a human who was turned into a genie by (as later revealed) the Blue Djinn when she refused to marry him (the term "Djinn" is synonymous with "genie"). Several members of Jeannie's family, including her parents, are rather eccentric, but none are genies. Her mother describes the famil...
Philadelphia punk rock band The Dead Milkmen have a song called "I Dream of Jesus", in which the singer's mother finds Jesus who is trapped inside a bottle. The song appears on the 1993 album Not R...The Big Time Rush episode "Big Time Songwriters" contains a scene where Erin Sanders is dressed like Barbara Eden while reading a script for a movie or television show called Teen Genie.Episode 15 of Season 6 of the supernatural TV series Charmedwas called "I Dream of Phoebe". In it, Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) is turned into a genie, and wears a pale blue version of Jeanie's...Indian Serial Jeannie Aur Jujuis based on this series.- 3 min
Paul Edward Lynde (/ l ɪ n d /; June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and game show panelist. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his closeted homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie and a regular "center square ...
Budget. $5 million [1] Box office. $70.7 million [2] Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck, with supporting roles from Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, Lyman Ward, and Charlie Sheen.
From September 18th, 1965 to September 7th, 1970 through 139 half hour episodes, the series depicts the wacky situations Jeannie gets her 'master' and his goofy best friend "Major Roger Healey" (Bill Daily) into, and out of. From showing Tony he truly did not love his first fiancée, to finally marrying him in 1970.
I Dream of Jeannie's original NBC run lasted from September 18, 1965 to May 26, 1970, after which the series demonstrated remarkable success in syndication, winning its time slots across the country and becoming the first non-network program ever to earn higher ratings than network fare in the same time slot.
Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex (now part of the London Borough of Harrow ), the eldest child of Stanley Dwight (1925–1991) and only child of Sheila Eileen (née Harris; 1925–2017). [32] [33] [34] He was raised in a council house in Pinner by his maternal grandparents.
