So this meant Tony and Jeannie were sleeping together right?!

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...but I also know there HAD to be one good reason Tony allowed Jeannie to stay in his house, in her bottle.....or several............what do YOU think she did after she confined him to her bottle AFTER the end of "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had"?

[Artzilla]

I've been watching the Jeannie episodes one by one online, and am on Season 4 now. There is a very cute innuendo at the end of s4 e17, "Jeannie, the Governor's Wife," where after all the typical Jeannie created chaos has been resolved, she apologizes to Tony and asks what she can do to make it up to him. Tony snickers in a very sly way and says, "I'll think of something," and then puts his arms around her and gives Jeannie a prolonged kiss.


Roger then says, "Well, you know what they say about politics." (They make strange bedfellows.)

Nice scene for Jeannie/Tony fans, indeed!

[schnzchx]

Originally Posted by CAJeannieFan57

That was conjecture at best...what they did before they were married. Sidney Sheldon vows and declares that she slept in her bottle, Tony in his double bed. That's what was acceptable in the 1960s in TV. By the time IDOJ hit the airwaves in 1965, couples had JUST been allowed to be seen in the same bed. (Remember, in the late 50s and early 60s, Lucy and Desi, and Rob and Laura, were both married couples sleeping in twin beds. It was unacceptable to see even marrieds in the same bed.) It was pushing the limits just to have Jeannie trot into Tony's bedroom before they were married - and he ALWAYS grabbed a robe (or tried to).

Donna

Yeah, that cracks me up, because how much more does a robe cover up vs is jammies? Sometimes he was in boxers and T's, but even in his pj's he would grab a robe........or at least that's what I think I remember.
I never really took notice about the bottle vs the bed after they were married.
Did we ever see her in her bottle after they married? Or did he still try to be the master?
She never used the term "master" after they were married did she?

[MickeyMac]

It just so happens that both Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden were oppsed to the idea of Major Nelson and Jeannie getting married. They thought it would take away from the show. It must have because that was the last season.

[djinnitaur]

Originally Posted by MickeyMac

It just so happens that both Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden were oppsed to the idea of Major Nelson and Jeannie getting married. They thought it would take away from the show. It must have because that was the last season.

Maybe the actors were right, or maybe it was just that the writers didn't really try. Look at the quality of writing that we were given in the fifth season, even before the marriage. Too many lackluster and downright bad episodes. It's as if they were actively sabotaging the show.

There's no reason at all why a married Jeannie and Tony couldn't have worked. I don't buy that "jump the shark" crap because that's like saying a show (or a story) can only be one way and never evolve. Good writing would have saved the show and possibly gotten us a sixth season. We wouldn't be second-guessing whether the marriage did it in or not because it would have been a success instead. Everything hinges on the writing. Even if the actors don't believe in it, they still have to say their lines as written

[djinnitaur]

Here's an example of something that happened in an episode that leaves plenty to the imagination, and it happened in the first season!

At the end of the episode "The Yacht Murder Case" after Roger has left, Tony sits down on the couch, uncorks the bottle and Jeannie rises to the top, saying "I am ready!"

Tony replies, "Okay, Jeannie. Where do you want to go?" At that same moment, the phone rings and Tony turns to get it. However, Jeannie has other plans.

"Where we will not be interrupted!" she says, dropping back inside of her bottle and turning Tony into smoke, bringing him in with her.

The show fades at that point so we are left with the idea that Tony and Jeannie spend the full weekend in her bottle. My mind goes to the obvious, partly because with the episode over, there's nothing left to 'censor'. But also because talking will only go so far in a cozy little bottle and a sexy djinni to share it with

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...a scene showing Tony entering Jeannie's bottle (especially with her inside) was one of NBC's strict prohibitions they warned Sidney Sheldon about before the series began ["Tony must never be seen entering Jeannie's bottle"]. I'm quite certain the network informed him after the episode aired, "Don't you ever show a scene like that again!!!!". And, of course, he agreed- until the end of "Happy Anniversary", when they celebrate their first year together inside her bottle [under "extreme" circumstances]...yet we never see them sharing the same bottle until early in the fifth season (since they were engaged to be married, I suppose the network just "overlooked" it).

There were many "regulations" NBC forced upon Sidney, yet he gradually "ignored" them to the point where the network stopped objecting...like the occasional scene when Jeannie enters "Master's" bedroom while he's occupying it {the first time she did that in "Watch the Birdie", he sputters, "I thought I told you never to come in without knocking!!"}. By the time she floats in with his breakfast at the beginning of "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had", he's not objecting...and neither did NBC.

[djinnitaur]

Originally Posted by TV Knowledge Fan

I'm quite certain the network informed him after the episode aired, "Don't you ever show a scene like that again!!!!".

It doesn't matter how the network reacted here. This has to do with the story as presented to us and the fact that it has now been established that Tony and Jeannie share her bottle from time to time. It doesn't matter if the network doesn't allow it on any subsequent episodes, it's established with the viewers that more is going on between episodes than meets the eye

There were also times when Jeannie did things to Tony that are suggestive. For example, when she's floating on the towel over the patio. He demands she comes down there, while her reply is an almost seductive "Come up here!" and blinks him into his swimming trunks. Trunks, which most viewers know have nothing else on underneath. What about when Jeannie blinked him into nothing but a towel and locked outside at the end of "My Hero". Tony had to get back inside eventually, with or without that towel, and with or without Jeannie's help. Either way, that's all he's got on and Jeannie made it that way

You know, maybe Sidney was getting back at executives, or maybe it was just his own subconscious coming through, like many writers, and the scene worked so he left it alone. I'm always going to go with the story as it's presented. What goes on in the background after the fact is of no concern to how I see the whole story. Once it's been done, that it; it's now in the story forever.

So, back to the original question: were they sleeping together or had done so before they married? I think so, and long before the fifth season. Too many suggestive instances and downright overt examples to think otherwise. To me, only those that continue to think of the relationship between Tony and Jeannie in this kind of "purist" mentality will think otherwise. I'm going to go with reality, at least as presented to me and all its hints

[opus]

Never? Not even post marriage?

I Dream of Jeannie star Barbara Eden on why Jeannie and Tony were never intimate: 'She was an entity'