Episode
I Dream of Jeannie: The Indispensable Jeannie
Overview
To prepare for an upcoming mission, Dr. Bellows tests the compatibility of Tony and Roger for one week. If they get along, great; but if not, they'll be reassigned to different bases. Things don't go that well at first, but things go from bad to worse when Jeannie tries to help.
Details
- Series
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1968-11-25
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Indispensable Jeannie is Episode 8 in Season 4 of I Dream of Jeannie. It aired on 1968-11-25. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 7: The Strongest Man in the World
Jeannie's magic makes Tony not only the strongest man but also gets him into trouble at the gym.
Tony must compete in a boxing match against a burly Marine, who's the Armed Forces boxing champion.
Episode 9: Jeannie and the Top Secret Secret
It's been three years since Tony and Jeannie met, and boy has their relationship blossomed. He plans to celebrate their anniversary with a night on the town ... until Dr. Bellows calls, telling him to come to the office. It turns out Tony has been asked to hand-deliver a classified film to Washington, where high-ranking military officials are to view the film documenting NASA's latest projects. Tony (who has been ordered to be tight-lipped about the mission) tries to back out but can't; when he tells Jeannie about the change in plans and that he can't disclose what he's doing, Jeannie is certain she's being let down again and that Tony aims to meet another woman. Scheming to follow along, she blinks herself on the airplane (where Tony is seated next to a young woman) and, disguised as a stewardess, she causes trouble. Dr. Bellows (who is accompanying Tony on the trip as a ""stranger"") is clueless as to what's going on. Tony eventually has no choice but to take Jeannie aside and explain
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Episode 6: Djinn, Djinn, Go Home
A strange dog shows up on Tony's doorstep and immediately turns invisible starts attacking Tony.
Jeannie arrives and saves the day and informs Tony that it her dog Djinn Djinn, who she hasn't seen in 2000 years.
Episode 10: How to Marry an Astronaut
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Episode 5: Have You Heard the One About The Used Car Salesman?
After Jeannie crashes Tony's car, it's brought to a used car dealer to be repaired.
The dealer tries to cheat Jeannie by buying the damaged car from her, then making her buy it back at several times the price.
Episode 11: Dr. Bellows Goes Sane
Dr.Bellows has gathered what he believe's is a complete Dossier on Tony.He intends to present it to General Peterson.Tony knows that if General Peterson reads that Dossier,he Tony will be finished in the Space Program.So,he has Jeannie blink up a gust of wind to scatter Dr.Bellows papers so that they'd be lost.This would have worked except,shrewed Dr.Bellows had made copies earlier that he had already sent to General Peterson;which he is now reading in his office.
Episode 4: Abdullah
Jeannie does her brother a favor by babysitting his son, her nephew Abdullah.
However, the baby can't stop crying and the only one who can calm him down is Tony.
Episode 12: Jeannie The Guru
Tony picks up a teen age hitchhiker named Suzy who happens to be the daughter of his new neighbor, General Schaeffer. Schaeffer is a stickler for efficiency and hates all hippies, including Suzy's boyfriend Harold, a very spaced out one. Suzy, afraid of having her father see her in her hippy garb, hides out in Tony's house and winds up seeing Jeannie pop in. Suzy then blackmales Tony into hiding out Harold or else she will spill the beans about Jeannie.
Episode 3: Tomorrow Is Not Another Day
Its the 16th and no newspaper has arrived at the Nelson home.
Seeing Jeannie upset Roger suggest that she blinks in a newspaper.
She does, but being informed of the wrong date by Roger, gets the next day's paper.
Episode 13: The Case of My Vanishing Master (1)
NASA, suspecting a leak, sends Tony to a secret location to finish design work on a spacecraft while a lookalike substitutes for Tony at the base and at home where he discovers Jeannie.
Episode 2: Jeannie and the Wild Pipchicks
Jeannie gives Tony a mysterious candy from her mother called ""Pipchicks"".
When it is discovered that the Pipchicks make Tony stronger, Tony tries to keep them a secret, but soon enough Dr. Bellows eats one and finds out their potential.
Episode 14: The Case of My Vanishing Master (2)
Roger manages to arrive in time not only to stop the wedding, but he manages to convince Jeannie that the Tony she was about to manage was an impostor. Later, Tony comes home and is subjected to torture from Jeannie, who thinks that he is the impostor. Tony eventually convinces her that he is the real one and as he is about to go tell the impostor that the assignment is over when he finds out that the phony Tony is working as a double agent for a foreign power. Doctor Bellows and Roger then arrive and have a hard time trying to decide which one is the real Tony, until Jeannie causes the impostor's false teeth to fall out.