Tony/Jeannie's House

[Mizzourah]

I've been watching Jeannie more often over the past few months. How many remodels did they do to the living/dining area? The original episode had the front door opening in the opposite direction, and after catching that change it seemed like the interior was constantly being updated. They did one episode about the mod artist being hired to remodel as a wedding gift for the Nelsons.

[Willbo]

I did not mind the remodel in season 5 but preferred the pre-remodel house better.

[MichaelKeith]

My favorite version is the season 1 style!

[MagentaSmoke]

I can't remember another sitcom that had so many set changes. Wall color, wood wall paneling, sofas, separating room structures, the patio, the dining room furniture, the kitchen must have changed the most, the bar flipped sides and then was eliminated. Only Tony's room stayed basically the same until they re-decorated and gave them new bedding.

After the show ended, Keith Partridge's bedroom was Tony's old upstairs study.

[tcr1701]

Originally Posted by MagentaSmoke

After the show ended, Keith Partridge's bedroom was Tony's old upstairs study.

Screen Gems never let a set go to waste.

[TV Guy]

Nope. That’s one of they reasons they were so profitable. They did those shows on a budget, and many of them have run a long, long time in syndication. The people who ran Screen Gems were very good businessmen.

[kentauros]

I just attributed all of the changes to Jeannie blinking the remodeling. Other than temporary changes within the stories, the sets changed without explanation. They could have incorporated those into episodes, and I would have liked to see that done. It certainly would have made more sense and given Dr. Bellows more headaches.

I know y'all just mean the sets by the studio, but Jeannie did quite a few large and small changes to the house over the seasons.

Temporary changes (there may be more I am forgetting):
Pilot (The Lady in the Bottle) - Living room to harem room and back again
The World's Greatest Lover - swing added over patio with nothing holding it up
There Goes the Best Jeannie I Ever Had - partial harem room (mostly just accents)
Jeannie or the Tiger - wrecks living room
Everybody's a Movie Star - mod-theme
My Son the Genie - Harem ten (which seemed to be staked to the floor and walls)
My Double Crossing Master - British accents and furnishings
Abdullah - upstairs study turned into a nursery
The Indispensable Jeannie - Roger makes the roof fall in, and Jeannie fixes it
Jeannie and the Top Secret Secret - moves the house to Niagara Falls
Invisible House for Sale - Dining hall in place of the patio (from right side set of folding doors), chef's kitchen, veranda and large backyard acreage (from middle-set of folding doors), billiards room in place of study, and all later made invisible
The Case of My Vanishing Master - wrecks kitchen and restores it
The Case of the Porcelain Puppy - garage turned into a pottery studio
Jeannie-Go-Round - wrecks living room (and probably more as they shake the house)
Blackmail Order Bride - exterior turned into a castle with a moat, jail-bars added and taken away
Jeannie and the Mad Home Wrecker - remodel by "artist", wrecked by Tony, restored by Jeannie, and remodeled to Spanish-style by Jeannie

Also, the house would be temporarily enlarged to accommodate all of the large animals or items she blinked to the house. Neither an elephant nor a sailboat can fit in your typical eight-foot ceiling room

[tcr1701]

And in "Jeannie Breaks the Bank" she would have had to remove the upstairs (if not the roof too) to fit a sail boat with the full sail extended to fit in the living room.

[kentauros]

Originally Posted by tcr1701

And in "Jeannie Breaks the Bank" she would have had to remove the upstairs (if not the roof too) to fit a sail boat with the full sail extended to fit in the living room.

Well, she's shown that she can enlarge the interior dimensions of the house without enlarging the outside (better than a TARDIS because she uses magic), so I always figured she just enlarged the inside of the living room. She would have had to do that when she blinked the elephant to his bedroom, too

I have to wonder if it was a similar power used at the beginning of Fly Me to the Moon when the breakfast tray went flying up and never came down. Did her magic move it into the expanded dimensions she used for enlarging rooms? Did it just fade from existence? Or did the ceiling turn into a 'dimensional space' (imagine how the Roadrunner could go into a painted-rock road-tunnel) and it disappeared that way?

It's too bad they couldn't do the kind of special effects which could realize such explanations back then. In a way, some could be done, such as when the two djinn (Fakrash and Tezra) in The Brass Bottle left Harold's loft by walking up the stairs and fading out as they went. But, that would probably have cost too much.

[tcr1701]

Originally Posted by kentauros

I have to wonder if it was a similar power used at the beginning of Fly Me to the Moon when the breakfast tray went flying up and never came down.

This scene is hilarious, BTW. Especially when the tray falls back down again at NASA when Tony pops in. And a great catch of the tray by Larry Hagman too.

[kentauros]

Originally Posted by tcr1701

This scene is hilarious, BTW. Especially when the tray falls back down again at NASA when Tony pops in. And a great catch of the tray by Larry Hagman too.

That's true, I forgot about the other half of that blink. And where was the tray the whole time? Because Jeannie sure seemed like she was going back to sleep after she blinked Tony to NASA...

[tcr1701]

Originally Posted by kentauros

That's true, I forgot about the other half of that blink. And where was the tray the whole time? Because Jeannie sure seemed like she was going back to sleep after she blinked Tony to NASA...

Looks like they edited in a blink sound effect when the tray disappeared even though she didn't blink. And again when it appeared at NASA.

https://youtu.be/zq7h7CLjhb0?t=28

[kentauros]

Originally Posted by tcr1701

Looks like they edited in a blink sound effect when the tray disappeared even though she didn't blink. And again when it appeared at NASA.

Yeah maybe she blinked it to him anyway, or it was a delayed blink as part of the original. Meaning, that she knew he needed his breakfast, and even though she had blinked the tray into nothing, it would return to him anyway, no matter where he was.