Stars: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Emmaline Henry, Barton MacLane, Woodrow Parfrey

Summary: When astronaut Captain Tony Nelson, stranded on a desert island, released the bubbly blond Jeannie from her bottle, a television classic was born. This set contains the entire 30 episodes of the first series of Sidney Sheldon's 1960s hit in brilliant remastered colour.

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Oh, the innocent days when the sexiest thing on television was Barbara Eden's hidden navel! In the classic 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, an astronaut stranded on a desert island discovered a bottle containing a genie--a shapely blond genie in scarves and diaphanous pantaloons. He sets her free, but she follows him back to Cocoa Beach, Florida, where her efforts to serve him only cause mischief and threaten his career in the space program. I Dream of Jeannie depicted the male fantasy of a beautiful but subservient girl--but this subservient girl was all-powerful and oddly willful in her attempts to serve. It all worked because of the leads: Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman went on to lengthy careers (later starring in Harper Valley PTA and Dallas, respectively), but arguably never matched the chemistry they had as Jeannie and Captain (soon to be Major) Tony Nelson. Jeannie, though naive and eager to please, always had Eden's intelligence and steely resolve lurking under her bubbly blonde surface, while Hagman projected a genuine decency that somehow made the potentially salacious situation seem innocent.

Still, the show would never have been more than a knockoff of the similar Bewitched (basically, the battle of the sexes with a magic twist) if Tony's secret hadn't been discovered mid-season by his best friend, fellow astronaut Roger (the wonderful Bill Daily). Unburdened by the need for decency, Roger could be the show's insatiable id, eager to use Jeannie for no end of self-serving purposes. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) served as the show's perpetually flabbergasted superego, constantly demanding a rational explanation for all the madcap events around him. All at once the show's storylines--which had previously been dominated by Jeannie's desire for marriage--could wander in any daffy direction the writers chose. The result was deeply silly and utterly charming. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Commentary, I DREAM OF JEANNIE Out Of Body featurette
Subtitles:	Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, German, Greek, Hindi, Norwegian, French, Italian, English, Arabic, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1965
Release Date:	October 6, 2008
Runtime:	749 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R P 3246
Keywords:	Dream, English, Comedy, General, Series, I, Complete, Jeannie
Genre:	Comedy