In honor of one I Dream of Jeannie debuting September 18, 1965 and also with the passing of Bill Daily (Major Healy), I decided to post my top 10 favorite I Dream Of Jeannie episodes. There are so many good ones, but I narrowed them down to a few. Here, in no particular order, are my favorite ten episodes:
1. One of Our Hotels is Growing
When their hotel reservations get inexplicably cancelled, Jeannie blinks a 13th floor onto the hotel. I never knew until this episode that high-rise hotels do not have a Floor 13!
2. U-F-Oh Jeannie
Majors Nelson and Healey are testing a new aircraft that looks like a flying saucer when they crash-land in rural Florida and hillbillies think they are Martians!
3. Invisible House for Sale
Jeannie wants to move to an apartment so Tony won't have to spend all of his weekends doing chores, so she decides to sell the house. I loved seeing the shots of Hearst Castle in this one. Jeannie Uppington-Smythe!
4. See you in C-U-B-A
Jeannie blinks Tony's plane to Cuba. Farrah Fawcett made one of her first television appearances in this one.
5. My Master, the Rich Tycoon
Paul Lynde plays an internal revenuer. When he drops by the house to give Tony his IRS refund check, he insults Tony's taste. Jeannie takes umbrage and blinks up many priceless treasures.
6. The Wedding
Jeannie and Tony get married. This was one of the reasons the show lost viewers and thus got cancelled. The actress who plays Mrs. Bellows is hilarious.
7. How to Be a Genie in 10 Easy Lessons
Tony, fed up with Jeannie, gives her the book "A Thousand and One Arabian Nights" and tells her to read it to know how genies are supposed to act. He doesn't realize that it is a book on how genies are to torture their masters.
8. Meet My Master's Mother
Tony's mother comes to stay. Permanently, or until she can find him a nice girl to take care of him.
9. Jeannie to the Defense
Jeannie has to come to Tony's defense when he gets caught up in a hit-and-run scam in a small town.
10. Hurricane Jeannie
While Tony tries to talk two astronauts down during hurricane, Dr. Bellows discovers that Jeannie is a genie. This was the last episode filmed and the series wrapped up afterwards. This was meant to be the final episode in case the show was not renewed. The producers hadn't decided on another season yet, so it was made into a dream sequence in case they needed to continue the story. But it wasn't to be. :(
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