this was such a great episode it should have been the series final,its the one where bellows,and healy get stranded at the nelsons house during a storm if you havent seen it i dont want to give it away but it should have been the series final im thinking it was intended to be but wasnt the last one aired.check it out if you havent seen it great fun lots of laughs.

I enjoyed this episode also. I agree that it should have been the final episode.

Actually, it was SUPPOSED to be the final episode. Unfortunately, things got aired out of order. It had something to do with the April 1970 problem with Apollo 13 -- the show was pre-empted for coverage of the problem in space, and things were messed up after that. Source: Steve Cox's book DREAMING OF JEANNIE, I believe.

"Hurricane Jeannie", filmed in January 1970, was intended to be the final first-run episode of the series, on April 28, 1970. However, because of pre-emptions the previous two weeks (one, due to the aborted "Apollo 13" mission), the episodes that were scheduled- "One Jeannie Beats Four Of A Kind" [originally intended for broadcast on April 21, 1970] was postponed until May 19th, and '"My Master, the Chili King" [April 14, 1970] was presented as the last "first-run" episode on May 26th. I know this, because I've read two different newspaper TV schedules listing those intended broadcasts {one of them was the NEW YORK TIMES}.

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Interesting, but I submit that for the purposes of the OP it doesn't matter. Even if 'Hurricane Jeannie' had aired last in the season as intended it still wouldn't be a finale as long as the exposure of Jeannie's true nature to Dr. Bellows was revealed to be only Tony's dream.

Interesting, but I submit that for the purposes of the OP it doesn't matter. Even if 'Hurricane Jeannie' had aired last in the season as intended it still wouldn't be a finale as long as the exposure of Jeannie's true nature to Dr. Bellows was revealed to be only Tony's dream.

I agree, since it turned out to be just a dream it doesn't really put a final on it, instead it's basically business as usual. Maybe NBC wasn't sure yet if the show would be cancelled, so they made this a dream episode instead of Dr. Bellows actually finding out the truth in case they wanted to continue for a 6th season.

"Hurricane Jeannie", filmed in January 1970, was intended to be the final first-run episode of the series, on April 28, 1970. However, because of pre-emptions the previous two weeks (one, due to the aborted "Apollo 13" mission), the episodes that were scheduled- "One Jeannie Beats Four Of A Kind" [originally intended for broadcast on April 21, 1970] was postponed until May 19th, and '"My Master, the Chili King" [April 14, 1970] was presented as the last "first-run" episode on May 26th. I know this, because I've read two different newspaper TV schedules listing those intended broadcasts {one of them was the NEW YORK TIMES}.

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Unfortunately, because of these preemptions, Vinton Hayworth (Gen. Schaeffer), who died May 21, 1970, never got to see his last IDoJ appearance.