| Blackmail Order Bride | |
| Season Four, Episode 26 Number (#113) in series (139 episodes) | |
| Air date | 12 May 1969 |
| Production code | 4.26 |
| Written by | James Henerson |
| Directed by | Claudio Guzmán |
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| Episode chronology | |
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Blackmail Order Bride is the twenty-sixth episode of Season 4 of I Dream of Jeannie, and the 113th overall episode of the series. The episode, which was written by James Henerson and directed by Claudio Guzmán, first aired on NBC-TV on 12 May 1969.
Summary[]
Tony, Roger and the Commander of Apollo 15 have a ticker tape parade through New York. However at the press conference, Tony refuses to give information on his private life and so an unscrupulous reporter disguises himself as a plumber to try to get information and earn himself a Pulitzer Prize. When he fails, thanks to Jeannie's intervention, he sends Tony a fake wife and kids who burst into Dr. Bellows's office. Jeannie hears about Tony's "wife and family" and believing it to be true, goes to Reno, Persia, to get divorce papers as she doesn't want to be with him anymore. Later, Tony tricks the reporter into revealing that they're actually his own wife and kids. Jeannie blinks all three to Tony's home where the reporter's confronted by his wife and kids. In Dr. Bellows' office, the reporter says he has photographic evidence, but when he opens his briefcase, it's just custard, Jeannie having blinked whilst hiding in the pencil pots.