In this clip, Jeannie is tricked into going into her bottle by her wicked twin sister (both played by Barbra Eden in a dual role) and trapped there so she can assume Jeannie's identity and steal Major Nelson from her. Later, when Major Healey comes snooping around after returning from a forced trip aboard (also for snooping around) Jeannie II blinks herself so he'll believe that it's the true Jeannie gagged and tied to the bed.
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I Dream of Jeannie "U.F.Oh Jeannie !" *Decent Web Rip*
After a mishap with their experimental spacecraft leave Majors Melson and Healey crash-landed in the backwoods and captured by Hillbillies who believe they are Martians, Jeannie (played of course by Barbara Eden) makes a rescue attempt and promptly knocks herself unconscious by stepping on a rake. Jeannie is bound and strung up alongside the Majors. In the meantime, Daisy Lou (played by Lisa Gaye) has taken a shine to Major Healey and the boys use her newfound love to talk her into untying them - so they can quickly turn the tables on her leaving her hanging tied up and gagged with a big red bandanna. The guys haul the unconscious Jennie away.
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I Dream of Jeannie Trivia
Sidney Sheldon didn't originally want a blonde actress to play Jeannie (lest the show draw unfavorable comparisons to "Bewitched".
Jeannie's evil sister was officially known to NBC as "Jeannie II."
According to Barbara Eden, network executives and censors were unconcerned about her navel being seen until someone casually mentioned during the third season that it was occasionally visible when the waistband of her costume shifted. After that her navel was required to be covered.
In the episode "Mrs. Djinn Djinn" you can catch a peek of Barbara Eden (I)'s navel, which was still banned.
Barbara Eden was pregnant during the filming of season one. This was disguised by shooting her in close-up or with a copious veil covering her front.
The fancy antique bottle in which Jeannie called home was actually a decorative Jim Beam liquor decanter, which originally contained "Beam's Choice" Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The bottle had been decorated and painted with gold leaf by the show's art department.
Season one was filmed in black-and-white because NBC did not want to pay for the extra expense of filming it in color (The network did not believe the series would last beyond one season. According to Sidney Sheldon in his autobiography "The Other Side Of Me", he offered to pay the extra $400 an episode needed for color filming at the beginning of the series. Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams advised him, "Sidney, don't throw your money away.")
