Talk:List of I Dream of Jeannie episodes

Episode List

Currently I am making an episode list for I dream of Jeannie like for Bewitched. I thought this would improve this article.Jdcrackers 21:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I copied a format from List of the 4400 episodes and like this format better. It handles summaries nicely. If others edit more before me, I'd like to consider the following line colors for the seasons: 1=808080 (gray, as it's B&W), 2=ff80ff (pink, Jeannie's color), 3=0000a0 (Air Force blue, Tony's uniform), 4=486409 (Army green, Roger's uniform), 5=7fffff (cyan, wedding bliss??) Andyross 20:57, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Something isnt right, be it the air times, or the order of the written scripts before production of them. An episode where Tony is angry about tolerating her making him a pirate before the episode where he becomes one. And Bellows talking about snowing only on Tony's house in July, before the episodes where it does. Other inconsistencies are topic or reocurring actors in other roles. Paul Lynde plays both IRS and movie director. Mrs.Bellows is of a previous psychic pair. King Kamehameha is also the Blue Djinn. Wasn't Jeannie suppose to lose all power if married? (or is the excuse only if it was a spell; while later it said even if not a spell, but Tony backed out because his future daughter would be a genie). Of the three Hawaii episodes (two consecutive), its logical that the Milton Burl con belonged after the intial trick genie claiming to go to the north pole. These days they hire people to watch for the inconistencies. 98.144.71.174 (talk) 15:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

The list order mainly comes from the original air order. They may not have always aired in the production or written order. It's not unusual for actors to appear in mulitple roles, or for different writers to ignore previous do's and don'ts. Andyross (talk) 18:11, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

You write "Mrs.Bellows is of a previous psychic pair. King Kamehameha is also the Blue Djinn." This is OK; I only want to add the actors. The Blue Djinn, appearing at least in episode 1 of season 2, and King Kamehameha are played by Michael Ansara, who was Barbara Eden's husband then. Emmaline Henry was on a black & white episode and then played the recurring character Mrs. Bellows in subsequent seasons.

Also, did you mean Milton Berle? Carlm0404 (talk) 18:07, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

TV movies on DVD?

Are the two 1985 and 1991 movies on the Series 5 DVD? Anorak2 (talk) 01:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Improperly sourced material

Different IPs (although I assume they are the same person) have repeatedly adding the following assertion: "Notable for informing us of when Jeannie's birthday is: July 1, 65BC." Putting aside the unencyclopedic style, the sources in support of the assertion are a fan website and IMDb. Several editors have reverted multiple times, explaining that neither source is considered reliable, but that doesn't stop the IPs. I'm going to revert one more time and invite any one of the IPs to comment here.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:28, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Trellis plant identification, Bewitched house.

In the ep "One of our bottles is missing", the trellis Maj. Nelson climbs to get into Dr. Bellows' house appears to be cannabis. Is there any info on whether it's actually pot or a similar shaped leaf, like Japanese Maple or other lookalike plant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.163.136.41 (talk) 03:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Change from General Peterson to General Schaeffer

Episode 98 "Dr. Bellows Goes Sane" has Genersl Peterson. Is that General Peterson's last appearance? (Barton MacLane died Jan. 1, 1969.) Next episode has General Schaeffer; 1st episode for him? Carlm0404 (talk) 18:13, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

I S5AND CORRECTED regarding last General Peterson appearance; someone else already noted that in episode 107. So it's not clear just when Schaeffer replaced Peterson as superior officer to Bellows and Nelson. Schaeffer could be considered to be in a different capacity in earlier episode(s) if the episode airing order got shuffled. Carlm0404 (talk) 18:35, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Plural Possessive

To the person who keeps reverting the edits for plural possessive of Bellows (which is Bellowses' , please, 1) stop editing anonymously, 2) see here: https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/apostrophes/apostrophes-with-names-ending-in-s-ch-or-z-2/

Interesting resource. This one totally contradicts it, which is how I was taught many times in school and by mother: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-happens-to-names-when-we-make-them-plural-or-possessive — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.86.221 (talk) 07:46, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Ok, first you're not responding according to the etiquette. When you respond in talk, you indent one level from the last response you're responding to. Second, you have missed the place in your own reference where plural possessives are discussed when dealing with names ending in "s." I quote:

"If you want to talk about something that belongs to more than one member of a family, you start with the plural form and add an apostrophe to show possession:

the Smiths' car

a party at the Fernandezes' house

the Daleys' driveway"

Note the example of "Fernandezes'". Singular is "Fernandez." Plural is "Fernandezes." Plural possessive is Fernandezes' which is analogous to Bellowses' . Do you see now?

Second: the edits you're making to my paragraph about what how we use "blink" in the text to refer to an act of magic on Jeannie's part are NOT IMPROVING it. Actually one of them was. Please leave the parentheses with complete sentence inside intact. That is the way you make a parenthetical note that is a new sentence, which is what I intended.

Finally: it is WP etiquette to not alter what someone else wrote unless it's incorrect or badly worded. My paragraph is neither. There will always be differences of opinion on minor wording changes, but the etiquette here is to leave it alone and let the writer have his/her own voice unless a change is really needed. Please get yourself educated on how to work in WP before going around editing other peoples' work. One more thing: just sign up for an account! Then we can see who is editing.

One last thing. It seems to me that at this point you're just changing little things to see if you can get away with it and whether I will try to revert it. Why else would you incorrectly remove a period from inside the parenthesis. Do you seriously want to have this battle? I don't understand what is motivating you to do this.Chafe66 (talk) 07:56, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

I simply looked at the first paragraph on my own resource, which states:

If a family name ends with an s or z, you can choose to use just the apostrophe (“the Williams’ dog”) or ’s (“the Williams’s dog”).

This would seem to bring it again to Bellows’s or Bellows’ house as I was taught. Maybe just learning differences due to region/age (I am 29 from NYC). In any event, I reworded it to avoid the whole damn thing. Wasn’t aware of WP etiquette - I frankly don’t know when I would bother to edit again as I don’t plan on spending several hours of my life on this place. Your history shows you have made hundreds of “improvements” to the IDOJ page so will give you that. Regardless, glad to find a bigger JEANNIE fan than myself here…if only we all could come together and find useful things about the show. 206.53.86.221 (talk) 08:13, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Yes I am a huge IDOJ fan, too much really. But look: in your reference you didn't look at plural possessives for cases where the name ends in "s" or in the example case "z." You are talking about names that end in "s." Not the PLURAL of names that end in "s." Do you see the differences? My reference actually agrees with yours on that. This is not debatable. Example name: "Jones." Singular possessive: Jones' or Jones's . Plural: the Joneses. Plural possessive: the Joneses' . I can't make it clearer than that. You're confusing names ending in "s" with the plural of names ending in "s."

on closer examination, your MW reference actually contradicts itself, but it does make the case clearer in the example I gave above (Fernandezes' )Chafe66 (talk) 08:17, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

This is getting tedious. But, I again point to the example I put - certainly THE Williams’ dog isn’t referring to a single name ending in “s” but rather multiple members of the Williams family. I also can’t make it clearer. Oh well…now am quite curious about where you are from and age based on how we were taught. We IDOJ all need to get together and do more constructive things, like finding that Christmas scene or some original ads/cast commercials or the non-syndicated edited prints of the 6 or so episodes that made it onto the DVDs. 206.53.86.221 (talk) 08:27, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

But I showed you where your own reference agrees with mine. Fernandezes' . Since Bellowses' is correct according to BOTH references, (even though yours actually contradicts itself), it should have been left as is, according to WP etiquette. Chafe66 (talk) 08:30, 4 August 2022 (UTC)