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I Dream of Jeannie

American fantasy sitcom (1965–1970)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom television series created by Sidney Sheldon and starring Barbara Eden as a beautiful but guileless 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. Produced by Screen Gems, the show originally aired for 139 episodes over five seasons, from September 18, 1965, to May 26, 1970, on NBC.

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“I Dream of Jeannie” enters the record as american fantasy sitcom (1965–1970). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dream, Jeannie and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dream, Jeannie and American.
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“I Dream of Jeannie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dream, Jeannie and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Dream of Jeannie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.