(Pilot Episode)
Original Air Date: September 18, 1965
Directed By: Gene Nelson
Written By: Sidney Sheldon
Guest Cast:
Philip Ober as General Wingard Stone
Karen Sharpe as Melissa Stone
Baynes Barron as Commander
Joe Higgins as Second Garbage Man
Richard Reeves as First Garbage Man
Warren Kemmerling as Husband
Patricia Scott as Unknown
Don Dubbins as Lt. Pete Conway
After an emergency some were in the pacific with NASA’s failed Stardust rocket, astronaut Anthony Nelson stumbles upon a bottle, he opens the bottle and uncorks a beautiful blonde genie. Anthony tries to leave the genie behind after he is rescued, but he as unwittingly become her master. The genie known as Jeannie follows him home to Cocoa beach, Florida and Anthony finds her in his house with nothing on but one of his shirts. Anthony has to keep Jeannie existence a secret from his co-works and also his fiancee, Melissa
Did You Know?
This episode was filmed in December 1964 on California’s Zuma Beach, this beach can also been seen in early episodes of Gilligan’s Island
At the end credit Larry Hagman was credited for the role of Captain Anthony Wilson not Nelson
When Barbara Eden came out of her bottle she spoke Persian not Arabic.
In the scene at Tony’s house were Barbara Eden is to jump from the arm chair on Larry Hagman, Barbara Eden missed Larry Hagman’s laps and landed face down and cut her lip on Larry Hagman’s knee, Barbara was taken away for medical attention and return the next day to work with a swollen lip.
After production of the pilot episode Barbara Eden found out she was pregnant.
September 18 1965 was when the world first saw I dream of Jeannie at 8:00pm. Right after I dream of Jeannie was the first time the world got to meet Maxwell Smart and 99 of Get Smart. Both sitcoms turned out to be 60s icons and both finished at the same time in 1970. I dream of Jeannie had 139 episodes Get Smart made 138, “Missed it by that much”
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