I Dream of Jeannie

TV sitcoms as a whole are one of the most favored and still very apparent aspects of television. These sitcoms are humorous half-hour long shows and has a tendency to be episodic, as well as proscenium, staged among a live audience, or pre-recorded, cinematic. A series like this has the ability to tie in the last episode with the first episode so the story is continued, thus the familiar five minutes re-caps displayed in the start of a show so first-time viewers can review over previous episodes. TV sitcoms are centralized around a theme where character development is seen but not as stressed as hour-long dramatic TV shows. Therefore, episodic things are concrete within an episode where characters usually do not age.

I Dream of Jeannie, the sixties classic TV sitcom arranges a half-hour long humorous style consisting of repeated similar events in action around a centralized theme. In this, astronaut Captain Tony Nelson always finds himself in risky and unpredictable situations ever since he becomes master to Jeannie, the once trapped in a bottle Djinn, who is also madly in love with him at first sight. As the master of Jeannie, in each episode he usually needs to keep from the discovery of her being a Djinn through wacky and comedic plots, by the sometimes help from devoted friend and colleague, Major Healey aware of Jeannie’s powers. Because of this, their Colonel Dr. Alfred Bellows, who often catches Jeannie’s powers in the making, is left dazed and confused, as well as being called delusional. If a viewer were to miss a few episodes the main idea wouldn’t be missed since the usual recap of previous episodes are recalled, re-enacted, ending with a happy ending structure.