What House Across the Street? is the fourteenth episode of the first season of I Dream of Jeannie. Co-written by Bob Fisher and Arthur Alsberg and directed by Theodore J. Flicker, it first aired 18 December 1965 on NBC.
Short Summary[]
Jeannie invites Roger to visit her home that she blinks one onto a nearby vacant lot and creates parents based upon characters she sees on TV.
Summary[]
Jeannie's mother visits, giving her advice. Jeannie is frustrated with Tony at his apparent feet-dragging in "popping the big marriage question." She has had a lunch date with Roger and tells Tony that he has offered to take her hand in marriage to make him jealous.
Roger doesn't know where she lives, and only meets with her on trips to the library! With her mother's help, Jeannie is to concoct a fake mother and father, and a fake residence.
When Jeannie is able to come up with the location to use as her parent's house, a vacant lot just across from Tony's home, it gets Tony into a real predicament. Dr. Bellows, who had been working with General Hadley in evaluating Tony and Roger's work in the NASA program, had just purchased with the intent of building a new home for he and his wife himself!
Jeannie also blinks up parents, which she drew from a TV commercial advertisements! When Tony later asks him if he met the two, Roger says it was like tuning into a commercial:
Jeannie's "Mom", Mrs. Prescott: "I've been looking forward to meeting you two for quite some time. When my daughter told me she was engaged, I said: 'Darling, blondes do have more fun.'
Jeannie's "Dad", Mr. Prescott: My wife used to be a ratty brunette. Is your hair streaked with dingy, unattractive gray? Mine was. But then I learned about Streakaway."
Goofs[]
- In the closing scene, when Roger is standing in Tony's office with his arm resting on the filing cabinet, his arm is near the back but in the next shot it's on top of the folder.
- When Roger is talking to Jeannie's "parents", his arms go from by his side to crossed and back again between shots.
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