Series Description

I Dream of Jeannie was a 30 minute fantasy comedy series on NBC about an astronaut (Captain Tony Nelson) who landed his space capsule a little off course on an isolated island. He discovered a mysterious bottle on the beach and opened it, releasing a Genie. Of course, the one who releases a Genie from her bottle becomes the Genie's master! It's a never-ending challenge for Captain Nelson to keep his beautiful Genie's true identity a secret in 1960's Florida!

I Dream of Jeannie Cast

Barbara Eden .... Jeannie
Larry Hagman .... Captain/Major Anthony Nelson
Hayden Rorke .... Colonel (Doctor) Alfred E. Bellows
Bill Daily .... Captain/Major Roger Healey
Emmaline Henry .... Amanda Bellows
Barton MacLane .... General Martin Peterson
Philip Ober .... General Wingard Stone
Vinton Haworth .... General Winfield Schaeffer

I Dream of Jeannie Trivia

Jeannie's bottle was made from a Jim Beam liquor decanter which was simply painted with gold leaf.

Jeannie was born on April 1st of the year 64 B.C.

Several performers played themselves on I Dream of Jeannie. Some of them were Groucho Marx (You Bet Your Life), Sammy Davis Jr., Milton Berle, Don Ho, & Judy Carne and Arte Johnson of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Although they were both Astronauts, Anthony Nelson was in the Air Force and Roger Healey was in the Army.

Barbara Eden played dual roles (as Jeannie and as Jeannie's sister) in nine episodes.

Actor Michael Ansara (Barbara Eden's husband) guest-starred in three episodes and directed one.

Theme Song

Title: Jeannie

Written By: Hugo Montenegro

(Was never broadcast)

Jeannie, fresh as a daisy.
Just love how she obeys me,
Does things that just amaze me so.

She smiles, Presto the rain goes.
She blinks, up come the rainbows.
Cars stop, even the train goes slow.

When she goes by
She paints sunshine on every rafter,
Sprinkles the air with laughter,
We're close as a quarter after three.

There's no one like

Jeannie. I'll introduce her,
To you, but it's no use, sir,
Cause my Jeannie's in love with me.

Opening Narrative

(From Early Episodes:)

"Once upon a time in a mythical place called Cape Kennedy, an astronaut named Tony Nelson went up on a space mission. The missile went up but something went wrong and they had to bring it down. Captain Nelson landed on an island in the South Pacific where he found a bottle - at least it looked like a bottle - but it didn't act like a bottle because in it...was a genie. Oh not your average every day genie but a beautiful genie, who could grant any wish. Captain Nelson was so grateful, he set Jeannie free, only she didn't want to be free, You how it is when you've been cooped up in a bottle for two thousand years. She wanted to have fun and she wanted to have it with Captain Nelson. So she followed him back to Coco Beach, a mythical town in a mythical state called Florida and there in this house the girl in the bottle played spin the astronaut."