Jeannie
Throughout the first season, it was made clear that Jeannie was originally a human who was turned into a genie by (as later revealed) the Blue Djinn, when she refused to marry him. Several members of her family, including her parents, are rather eccentric, but none are genies. Her mother described the family as "just peasants from the old country". The topic of Jeannie originally being human was restated in season two during the episode "How to be a Genie in 10 Easy Lessons." Jeannie did mention that she has a sister who is a genie, but the phrasing - "she was a genie when I left Baghdad" - does bring up the question of whether or not she too was born a genie. In the third season, this continuity was changed retroactively and it was assumed that Jeannie has always been a genie. All her relatives were then genies, including, by the fourth season, her mother (now also played by Barbara Eden). This may have been done to increase the similarity with Bewitched, or simply to increase the number of possible plotlines. Whatever the reason, this new concept was retained for the rest of the series. The 1985 TV-movie I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later reiterated most of Jeannie's first-season origin when Jeannie told her son Tony Jr. that she was trapped in her bottle by an evil djinn after she refused to marry him, but there was no specific statement about whether he turned her into a genie at that time, or if she had been born a genie.Disclamer
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