I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom television series, created by Sidney Sheldon that starred Barbara Eden as a sultry, 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. Produced by Screen Gems, the show originally aired for 139 episodes over five seasons, from September 18, 1965, to May 26, 1970, on NBC.
Not to be confused with I Dream of Jeanie (film) or I Dream of Genie.I Dream of Jeannie
- Richard Wess (season 1)
- Hugo Montenegro (seasons 2–5)
- Buddy Kaye (seasons 2–5)
"Jeannie"
- Hugo Montenegro
- Richard Wess
- Nelson Riddle
- Van Alexander
- Sonny Burke
United States
English
5
139 (30 episodes in black and white, also colorized, and 109 in color) (list of episodes)
Sidney Sheldon (1967–1970)
- Sidney Sheldon (1965–1967)
- Claudio Guzmán (1967–1970)
Lothrop Worth
William Martin
25 minutes
September 18, 1965 –
May 26, 1970
Home media[edit]
DVD/Blu-ray[edit]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all 5 seasons of I Dream of Jeannie on DVD in regions 1, 2 & 4 in individual season releases and complete series box sets (there were two different packaging versions for the complete series of 20 discs). The first season was made available in both the original black & white and colorized editions — only the colorized version was included in the complete series releases from Sony.
On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the R1 rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including I Dream of Jeannie.[23] They rereleased the first two seasons on DVD on April 1, 2014; Mill Creek released season one in its original black-and-white format only as they currently do not have the rights to Sony’s colorized version.[24] On October 6, 2015, Mill Creek Entertainment rereleased I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1, though it did not port over both of the special features found on the first season of the Sony releases.[25]
Mill Creek Entertainment released the entire series on Blu-ray, after several delays, on November 30, 2021. However, most consumers and reviewers complained that rather than true remastered HD, Mill Creek simply used an SD master upscaled to 1080i. The company has yet to admit this publicly to fans regardless of many inquires. Fortunately, the series streams in actual HD online, proving that such prints exist in the Sony vaults.
In Australia, a repackaged complete series collection was released on 23 November 2010. On November 4, 2015, a 50th anniversary edition of the complete series was released. On 6 July 2016, all five individual seasons were rereleased as well as another complete series collection, now distributed through Shock Entertainment.
Reunion films[edit]
Barbara Eden starred in two made-for-television reunion films which followed the further exploits of Jeannie and Tony in the successive years. Larry Hagman did not reprise his role as Tony Nelson in either film. Bill Daily returned as Roger Healey for both films, while Hayden Rorke made a brief appearance in the first film. In 1985, Wayne Rogers played the role of retiring Colonel Anthony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later. In 1991, I Still Dream of Jeannie was broadcast with Hagman's Dallas co-star Ken Kercheval essentially playing the role of Jeannie's "master". A third film was planned but never finalized.
Merchandise and other media[edit]
Games[edit]
In 1965 Milton Bradley Company published a tie-in board game.[31]
A series of I Dream of Jeannie video games released by Trendmasters for Microsoft Windows in 1995 and 1996.[32][33][34]
A slot machine game was introduced in 2015, available both in physical form and on Steam.[35]
Animated series[edit]
Hanna-Barbera Productions produced an animated series Jeannie. This animated series is completely separate from the Eden live-action series. Jeannie was originally broadcast from September 1973 to 1975, which featured Jeannie (voiced by Julie McWhirter) and genie-in-training Babu (voiced by former Three Stooges star Joe Besser) as the servants of Corey Anders, a high-school student and surfer (voiced by Mark Hamill).