Product Description
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Short Synopsis: In the magical second season, Jeannie
takes on everything from weather patterns to an evil Blue Djinn
in order to conquer her Master's heart and prove they're the
perfect mismatch! Long Synopsis: Get ready for another magical
season with adorable Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and her master,
astronaut Captain Anthony “Tony” Nelson (Larry Hagman), as they
return to DVD for I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Second Season.
The fun continues in 31 fantastic episodes where every day is a
new adventure. From changing the weather to learning her birthday
and battling an evil Blue Djinn, there’s nothing Jeannie won’t do
to conquer her master’s heart and prove they’re a match made in
space! Join an illustrious roster of guest stars, including Paul
Lynde, Sammy Davis Jr., Dabney Coleman, and others, in this
classic TV favorite. The bottle is uncorked on another season of
everyone’s favorite genie!
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Jeannie (Barbara Eden) is even more fetching in color in
the second season of one of TV's most charming and endearing
fantasies. Jeannie's navel is still not ready for prime time, and
her live-in relationship with astronaut Tony Nelson (Larry
Hagman), the man who freed her from that bottle, is still
strictly platonic. But, like any wife, she is upset when Tony
forgets their one-year anniversary in the season opener. And when
Tony unwittingly frees the Blue Djinn, who originally imprisoned
Jeannie, it looks like he won't survive year two. Naturally,
being stuck in a bottle for 2,000 years, the vivacious and
playful Jeannie is more innocent and naive than her bew
counterpart, Samantha Stevens (
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well-intentioned magic complicates Tony's life in such episodes
as "My Master, the Rich Tycoon," "My Master, the Rainmaker" and
"My Master, the ." She transforms Tony into an operatic
virtuoso in "My Master, the Great Caruso," landing him in a
talent show, and leading to perhaps the most versatile
lip-syncing scene since the Stooges sang the sextet from Lucia in
Micro-Phonies. Jeannie blinks Tony back into the Old West in
"Fastest in the East," on Captain Kidd's ship in "My Master,
the Pirate," and back to Napoleon's court in "My Master,
Napoleon's Buddy." No wonder that in "There Goes the Best Genie I
Ever Had," he considers taking advantage of Hajii Day and sending
her back.
Not that there aren't advantages to having a genie around the
house. In one episode, she anticipates TiVo by freezing the
action on a televised football game while she and Tony go out. In
"The Greatest Invention in the World," she fulfills Tony's best
friend Roger's (Bill Daily) childhood wish to be the funniest man
in the world by turning him into the one and only Groucho Marx.
And when Tony is put in charge of providing entertainment for
General Peterson's anniversary party, Jeannie summons "The
Greatest Entertainer in the World," Sammy Davis Jr. (at his
konk-ch-konk best). The season's most captivating story arc
begins in the two-parter "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday," as
Tony and Roger resolve to determine Jeannie's birthday (the date
is finally revealed in "Caruso"). Through it all, poor base
psychiatrist Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) is constantly confounded,
Mrs. Kravitz-style, by the unexplained supernatural behavior to
which he is witness. I Dream of Jeannie is far from PC, but in
the realm of TV's guilty pleasures, it is master of its domain.
--Donald Liebenson