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I Dream of Jeannie - The Lady in the Bottle
episode 1.1
USA 1965
produced by Sidney Sheldon for Sidney Sheldon Productions, Screen Gems/NBC
directed by Gene Nelson
starring Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Karen Sharpe, Hayden Rorke, Philip Ober, Baynes Barron, Joe Higgins, Richard Reeves, Warren J. Kemmerling, Patricia Scott, Don Dubbins, Bill Daily, Jack Klugman
written and created by Sidney Sheldon, music by Richard Wess
TV-series I Dream of Jeannie
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman) is NASA's top astronaut, but on his latest
mission, his rocket fails to reach orbit and crashlands somewhere in the
Pacific. He manages to save himself and make it onto a desert island
though, but for a rescue team to find him would be like finding a needle
in a haystack ... but Tony finds a magic bottle, and when he opens and
rubs it, voilà, a genie (Barbara Eden) - conveniently named Jeannie. She
wishes a rescue team to his aid, and he sets her free in return ... but
Jeanny has for whatever reason grown attached to Tony, so she chooses to
hide in her bottle and to hide her bottle in Tony's stuff to be taken with
him back to the USA - where she experiences unexpected competition from
Tony's fiancée Melissa (Karen Sharpe). Tony meanwhile is busy convincing
NASA psychiatrist Doctor Bellows (Hayden Rorke) that his mind is working
as properly as it should despite the traumatic experience - which is not
that easy thanks to his newly-found magic girlfriend ... Judging
from the pure synopsis of this first episode of I Dream of Jeannie,
the series sounds as silly and childish as can be - which is true only to
the point that children actually tend to like the series, too. However, it
also works with a more grown-up audience as while the story might be
childish as can be, the humour is not and the situations are played out as
intelligently as possible. And while blonde Barbara Eden might not exactly
come across as an Arabian genie, she fills her role greatly in a
tongue-in-cheek way, and there's great chemistry between her and male lead
Larry Hagman (at his comic best). Still the series might not be exactly a
work of art ... but screw that, it's sitcom entertainment from the 1960's
at its best!
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