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I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later
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I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later is a two-hour made-for-television reunion movie based on the popular 1965-70 series I Dream of Jeannie which aired on NBC on October 20, 1985 and produced by Columbia Pictures Television.
Barbara Eden re-created her world-famous role as the magical Jeannie. Also reprising their roles from the original series were Bill Daily as Tony's fellow astronaut and best friend Roger Healy, and Hayden Rorke as NASA psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows.
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I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later is a two-hour made-for-television reunion movie based on the popular 1965-70 series I Dream of Jeannie which aired on NBC on October 20, 1985 and produced by Columbia Pictures Television.
Barbara Eden re-created her world-famous role as the magical Jeannie. Also reprising their roles from the original series were Bill Daily as Tony's fellow astronaut and best friend Roger Healy, and Hayden Rorke as NASA psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows. Larry Hagman was unavailable to reprise his role as Tony Nelson reportedly because of a payment dispute and also because he was busy filming his CBS series Dallas at the time. Instead, he was replaced with Wayne Rogers, best known for his role as Trapper John McIntyre on the 1970s hit series M*A*S*H.
The film was directed by William Asher (who was also director of the 1960s show Bewitched) and the teleplay was written by Irma Kalish.
Synopsis
Jeannie has been a happily married housewife for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson and has a teenage son, T.J. When Tony is promoted to Colonel and is about to retire from the NASA space program, Jeannie decides to give him a celebration party in their backyard. However, Tony breaks his promise to Jeannie for one more space flight, this time with a female astronaut, Captain Nelly Hunt. Jeannie is furious, so she decides to separate from her husband temporarily to be a more independent modern woman. In the meantime, Jeannie's always-scheming evil sister, Jeannie II is determined to have Tony for herself and she teams up with Haji, the chief genie, to break up her sister's marriage. Jeannie II traps her sister in a bottle with a special stopper, that nobody but another genie could open. When T.J. comes home and hears his mother trapped in the bottle, he attempts to open the bottle, but after many times of blinking, like his mother does to invoke her powers, the stopper moves, which shows that T.J. also had inherited his mother's powers and is a genie. After blinking, and releasing his mother from her prison, the chief genie allows Jeannie to say farewell to Tony, and with T.J. moves on with her life. The final scene shows Jeannie and Tony passing each other on the street indicating that they will in fact find each other again.
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