Friday, May 02, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: Djinn and Water (1965) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Tony is at home working on an experiment on water desalination; Jeannie starts disturbing him; she wants to ride a motor car; he asks her to leave him alone; she mentions that her great-grandfather had a formula for water desalination; she summons him; the guy is a bit of a crook and a thief -- he pockets several objects in Tony's house. Jeannie goes out and gets in Tony's car and starts driving crazily; she is invisible while doing it; Dr. Bellows is passing by and sees Tony chasing his own car, with no one visible at the wheel; then Tony demands that Jeannie stop the car and it does; Dr. Bellows surmises Tony is testing a new kind of remote control. Jeannie goes back in time to ancient Egypt to fetch the main ingredient of her great-grandfather's formula; it's a seed. The formula works, but it turns out that the plant which produces that seed is extinct since the year 1 A.D.


Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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