I Still Dream of Jeannie

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I Still Dream of Jeannie
Directed by	Joseph Scanlan
Produced by	Joan Carson
Written by	April Kelly
Starring	Barbara Eden Christopher Bolton Bill Daily Al Waxman Ken Kercheval
Music by	Ken Harrison
Cinematography	Bert Dunk
Editing by	Stan Cole
Distributed by	NBC
Release date(s)	October 20, 1991
Running time	100 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later (1985)
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I Still Dream of Jeannie is the second and final two-hour made-for-television movie based on the 1965-1970 series I Dream of Jeannie which aired on NBC October 20, 1991 and produced by Columbia Pictures Television.

Barbara Eden and Bill Daily are the only two regular cast members of the original series to reprise their roles in this movie. Once again, Larry Hagman was unavailable to reprise his role of Tony Nelson since he had just completed a 13-year run on CBS' Dallas and was taking a vacation. Although the character Tony Nelson is mentioned throughout the film, he is not seen.

The film was directed by Joseph Scanlan and the teleplay was written by April Kelly.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Colonel Tony Nelson is on a top-secret space mission for NASA and Jeannie does not know of his whereabouts or when he'll be returning home to hear their son Anthony Jr.'s academic presentation speech. When Jeannie goes to NASA to question General Wescott about her husband's mission, he refuses to cooperate. To make matters worse, her jealous and mischievous sister Jeannie II reminds Sham-Ir (the chief genie) that since Tony has been away for a long time, Jeannie cannot remain in the plane of reality for more than 3 months without an earthly master. Sham-Ir gives Jeannie 14 days to either find her husband or a new master (a single male only) or else she must return to Mesopotamia forever. So Jeannie begins her desperate search for a temporary master which leads her to a singles bar and other misadventures.

[edit] Cast

Barbara Eden - Jeannie / Jeannie II
Christopher Bolton - Anthony Nelson Jr.
Bill Daily - Roger Healy
Al Waxman - General Wescott
Ken Kercheval - Mr. Simpson
Peter Breck - Sham-Ir

[edit] Notes

I Still Dream of Jeannie was filmed from July to August 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and exterior scenes were shot at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

In an interview about the movie, Barbara Eden said: "We tried to retain the spirit of the original. We wanted to stay as close as possible as to what was done before, because the show is not off the air. It's on all over the world. To change (Jeannie), I think, would be doing the audience a disservice".

This movie uses the same opening sequence and theme music from I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later (1985).

The magical sound effects from the original series are missing from this movie.

At the end of the movie, the in-joke is that Larry Hagman's (or J.R. Ewing's) arch-enemy from Dallas, Ken Kercheval (or Cliff Barnes), becomes Jeannie's new temporary master.