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The Worst Episodes of I Dream of Jeannie

Every episode of I Dream of Jeannie ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of I Dream of Jeannie!

While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted...
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Network:NBC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Djinn, Djinn, the Pied Piper" is the worst rated episode of "I Dream of Jeannie". It scored 5.8/10 based on 178 votes. Directed by Claudio Guzmán and written by James S. Henerson, it aired on 9/23/1969. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Jeannie Goes to Honolulu".

  • Djinn, Djinn, the Pied Piper
    5.8/10178 votes
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    #1 - Djinn, Djinn, the Pied Piper

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1969

    Djinn Djinn, the uniform hating dog, returns, wreaking havoc with General Schaeffer's dog.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • Jeannie Goes to Honolulu
    6.0/10218 votes
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    #2 - Jeannie Goes to Honolulu

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1967

    Tony and Roger Healey are sent to Hawaii on Air Force business, but to discourage Jeannie from coming along, they tell her that they are being sent to the North Pole. During their stay, Tony meets an Admiral's daughter, Eleanor, and they begin seeing each other. When Jeannie finds out, Tony tries to stifle her temper by lying his way out of it, saying that he and Roger are on a Top Secret Mission and one of his assignments is to protect Eleanor.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • Ride 'Em Astronaut
    6.0/10183 votes
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    #3 - Ride 'Em Astronaut

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1969

    When Jeannie becomes the 1,000,000th customer at the local supermarket, she wins several prizes including the right to become queen of the Cocoa Beach rodeo. Now Tony must enter the rodeo to keep an amorous cowboy from winning and staking his claim on Jeannie.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had
    6.1/10219 votes
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    #4 - There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1967

    Tony finds out that he can send Jeannie away forever because it's Haji's birthday. He weighs whether Jeannie is worth keeping despite all the trouble she is causing.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • The Battle of Waikiki
    6.2/10190 votes
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    #5 - The Battle of Waikiki

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1968

    Jeannie blinks the revered ancient Hawaiian, King Kamehameha, back to life and takes him on a tour of what the Hawaiian Islands now look like in 1967 (when the episode was actually filmed). He becomes disillusioned when he believes that the Hawaiian people have forgotten all about him and makes plans to re-capture the Islands in his name again.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: Martin Roth

  • My Master, the Pirate
    6.4/10220 votes
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    #6 - My Master, the Pirate

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1967

    Tony is sent back in time to defeat Captain Kidd who holds one of Tony's ancestors prisoner.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • The Mod Party
    6.5/10229 votes
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    #7 - The Mod Party

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/24/1967

    Roger invites Jeannie and Tony to his mod party but forgets that he and Tony have a special NASA meeting that night. So they give Dr. Bellows a phony excuse but things don't turn out as planned when he and his wife make a surprise visit at Roger's.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Peggy Chantler Dick, Douglas Dick

  • Abdullah
    6.5/10191 votes
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    #8 - Abdullah

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1968

    Jeannie does her brother a favor by babysitting his son, her nephew Abdullah. However, the baby can't stop crying and the only one who can calm him down is Tony.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Martin Roth

  • My Master, Napoleon's Buddy
    6.6/10221 votes
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    #9 - My Master, Napoleon's Buddy

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1967

    Tony wishes to be able to talk to Napoleon for just an hour, so Jeannie sends them back in time. But Napoleon thinks that Tony is a spy and he plans to kill him.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • My Master, the Ghostbreaker
    6.6/10200 votes
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    #10 - My Master, the Ghostbreaker

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1968

    Tony, Jeannie and Roger go to England to check out a mansion that Tony inherited. When they get there they find out the mansion is haunted.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • Is There a Doctor in the House?
    6.6/10157 votes
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    #11 - Is There a Doctor in the House?

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1969

    Tony's sudden sleeping sickness causes Jeannie to consult her mother for advice, not realizing that it was Jeannie's mother who caused it. Jeannie pleads with her mother to come back with her to Cocoa Beach so that she can cure Tony. After doing this, Mama lays her eyes on Dr. Bellows and it is love at first sight. She now starts making plans to make him her own Master.

    Director: Oscar Rudolph

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • Uncles a Go-Go
    6.6/10170 votes
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    #12 - Uncles a Go-Go

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1969

    It is figured out that in order for Jeannie to be married, one of her uncles must approve of the husband to be. Two uncles end up showing; Vasmir and Azmir; and causing a whole heap of trouble for Tony.

    Director: Russ Mayberry

    Writer: Ron Friedman

  • Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery
    6.7/10192 votes
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    #13 - Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1967

    When Tony has an important report to finish, he tells Jeannie to help someone else and she ends up helping bank robbers in a heist.

    Director: Larry Hagman

    Writer: Seaman Jacobs, James S. Henerson, Fred S. Fox

  • Djinn, Djinn, Go Home
    6.7/10174 votes
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    #14 - Djinn, Djinn, Go Home

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1968

    A strange dog shows up on Tony's doorstep and immediately turns invisible starts attacking Tony. Jeannie arrives and saves the day and informs Tony that it her dog Djinn Djinn, who she hasn't seen in 2000 years.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut
    6.7/10169 votes
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    #15 - Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/17/1969

    Jeannie's Sister returns once again to make trouble for both Tony,and her sister,when finding out that if Tony's weight is notup to the average Astranauts requirements,then he will be washed out of the Space Program.So she set's out to first convince General Schaffer,and Dr Bellows that Tony is unstable mentally,and emotionally.And,then to have his physical changed to enormous to assure that he gets thrown out;to have the entire incident blamed on Jeannie.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • Jeannie and the Secret Weapon
    6.7/10169 votes
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    #16 - Jeannie and the Secret Weapon

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 4/14/1969

    Jeannie turns a top secret project into a scale model, and this model ends up getting into the hands of an amateur toy inventor.

    Director: Leo Garen

    Writer: Larry Markes

  • Djinn and Water
    6.8/10275 votes
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    #17 - Djinn and Water

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1965

    One of Jeannie's great grandfathers is summoned back by Jeannie in hopes of aiding Tony in making fresh water out of salt water.

    Director: Gene Nelson

    Writer: Mary C. McCall, Jr.

  • The Incredible Shrinking Master
    6.8/10202 votes
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    #18 - The Incredible Shrinking Master

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1967

    Jeannie accidentally shrinks Tony just as a house cat inadvertently sneaks into the house.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Sidney Sheldon

  • My Son, the Genie
    6.8/10190 votes
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    #19 - My Son, the Genie

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1967

    Jeannie has been assigned to become the training instructor of a new genie.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: Bill Richmond

  • Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie? (3)
    6.8/10171 votes
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    #20 - Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie? (3)

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1968

    Jeannie's sister drop's by for a visit,and having not found Jeannie anywhere,enters Tony's bedroom alone,and unprotected.Roger arrive's,and overhearing him say that Jeannie is locked inside the safe,she decide's to snag Tony for herself.She arranges for Tony,and another Airforce officer to switch travel order's so that Tony will go to the Middle East,and the other officer to go take Tony's place.Tony tell's Jeannie that he'll be going away for afew day's,and that she should not worry,because Roger will take of her.Jeannie's Sister seeing an opportunity,disguisis her voice like Jeannie's,and tell's Tony that while he is in Baghdad,he should contact Hadji,the master of all the Jeannie's;he can free her.Having heard that Tony leave's for the Middle East,but he get's to the Place he believe's is the tent of Hadji,he realises it is Jeannie's sister's master's palace.She imprison's Tony in a bird's cage.While back at Nasa Roger having been informed of Tony's arrival in Bagdad,he tell's Jeann

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • U-F-Oh Jeannie
    6.8/10207 votes
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    #21 - U-F-Oh Jeannie

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1968

    While Tony and Roger testing a top secret flying saucer like craft for NASA, Jeannie pops on board and her extra weight causes them to go off course. The two land in the middle of hillbilly country and are mistaken for Martians by a family who plans on turning them in for a reward.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: Martin Roth

  • How to Marry an Astronaut
    6.8/10171 votes
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    #22 - How to Marry an Astronaut

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1968

    Jeannie's sister provides Jeannie lessons in the art of catching a husband. Her quarry: Roger!

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • Jeannie The Guru
    6.8/10200 votes
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    #23 - Jeannie The Guru

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1968

    Tony picks up a teen age hitchhiker named Suzy who happens to be the daughter of his new neighbor, General Schaeffer. Schaeffer is a stickler for efficiency and hates all hippies, including Suzy's boyfriend Harold, a very spaced out one. Suzy, afraid of having her father see her in her hippy garb, hides out in Tony's house and winds up seeing Jeannie pop in. Suzy then blackmales Tony into hiding out Harold or else she will spill the beans about Jeannie.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • The Case of the Porcelain Puppy
    6.8/10179 votes
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    #24 - The Case of the Porcelain Puppy

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1969

    Jeannie; reading a genie's magazine; has found a new spell that turns ordinary objects into porcelain. this causes Dr. Bellows and his wife to think Tony is a real artist and Tony then asks jeannie to blink up amateur works of art in his garage. Things go wrong when Djinn Djinn the dog shows up and Jeannie accidentally turns him into porcelain and now she has to find a counter spell or risk losing her dog.

    Director: Claudio Guzmán

    Writer: James S. Henerson

  • The Mad Home Wrecker
    6.8/10181 votes
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    #25 - The Mad Home Wrecker

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1969

    The Bellows' give Tony and Jeannie an early wedding present; a grotesque looking piece of artwork. That's not all, they and others chip in to hire a redecorator to redecorate their home. As it turns out, the redecorator has no taste and Jeannie ends up redecorating their home in the blink of an eye.

    Director: Hal Cooper

    Writer: Howard Ostroff