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General Stone

Brigadier General Wingard Stone appears in two episodes of Seasons 1 of I Dream of Jeannie, the pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" and "Jeannie and the Marriage Caper". He was played by Philip Ober.

About General Stone[]

General Stone, who thinks highly of Tony, is fully expecting him to eventually marry his daughter Melissa, to whom he is engaged at the time he discovers Jeannie on an island in the Pacific. Like Dr. Bellows, he is completely unaware of Jeannie's identity and her powers as a genie. 

In "Jeannie and the Marriage Caper", when the General is offered a new civilian job as a European ambassador by the State Department, he offers Tony a prestigious civilian job in his new office in Washington, D.C. Jeannie breaks up Tony's engagement to Melissa. She and General Stone never appear again. This event reflects producer Sidney Sheldon's decision that the engagement depicted in the pilot episode would not be part of the series continuity; he realized the romantic triangle he created between Jeannie, "Master", and Melissa Stone wouldn't pan out in the long run.

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